Poker Badgers, let's do this (noobs without addictive personalities welcome).
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Is this on tonight?"Plus he wore shorts like a total cunt" - Bob
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No -
So, while looking for another thread I happened across this one. It started off interesting particularly with the promise of coaching for N00bs. In fairness, I've skipped the earlier resources to plough through the thread but it seems to have descended into veterans trying to arrange games?
Anyway, I have very little experience, mostly on Texas Hold 'Em for Xbox 360. Never played a cash game. Would be interested in dipping a toe and may try the free tables advised earlier in the thread. I would be more interested in the mathematical side of things and would be wary of getting sucked in when reading people so I guess I'm on SG's side to an extent.
It's coming towards the end of the academic year so that's my priority at the mo but from mid-May on I could well be interested in allowing your collective hands mould me into an online poker millionaire. Or just follow my "progress".
In the interim, is it possible to "sit in" on a game if yous get one going? Could be interesting to watch a few hands. Is it NL Hold Em you play? I must research the differences.[quote=Skerret]Unless someone very obviously insults your loved ones with intent, take nothing here seriously.[/quote] -
We play NL holdem, and I don't think there would be any issue sitting in. You'd just have to join the zoom and go to the site. Pretty easy. -
You should join in on games, it’s the best way to learn, and buy ins are set low enough that it’ll still be cheaper to get some cans in and lose your initial stake once or twice in an evening than it would be to spend a night in the pub. -
Yeah play to learn, small stakes. I learned playing a fiver in a pub circuit. Two years later I was cleaning up Vs drunk Canadian tourists in Vegas. If the people you learn with value playing well irrespective of stakes, it's good practice. Just don't play for big stakes, rn you're a fish.Don't wank. Zinc in your sperms
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When's the next game likely to happen?[quote=Skerret]Unless someone very obviously insults your loved ones with intent, take nothing here seriously.[/quote]
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NL just means no limit, not some Dutch variant?[quote=Skerret]Unless someone very obviously insults your loved ones with intent, take nothing here seriously.[/quote]
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Yeah when is the next game?
Easter won't work for me p'snally, with the kids and such. Maybe the 23rd April? -
Yes, final assignment is due 19th before study period so that sounds like a good date for a brief distraction.[quote=Skerret]Unless someone very obviously insults your loved ones with intent, take nothing here seriously.[/quote]
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Just looked at 888 and I see they do a refer a friend thing:
https://www.888poker.com/poker-promotions/invite-a-friend/iaf.htm
Anyone do this or will I just sign up?[quote=Skerret]Unless someone very obviously insults your loved ones with intent, take nothing here seriously.[/quote] -
Signed up and downloaded the app. There's a lot going on in it!
What's the story with tickets? They seem to still require buy-in. Is it just to make them seem exclusive?
Some of the freeroll games require tickets too?
The casino section won't be visited again, feels a bit creepy. Particularly the livestream roulette!![quote=Skerret]Unless someone very obviously insults your loved ones with intent, take nothing here seriously.[/quote] -
Never realised games could go on so long but then I found Blast which seemed like a quick way to play, even won my first game! Never seen any prize other than 2/3 of the buy-in. Its a nonsense game though, if there's no clear winner it becomes a luck of the draw, everyone all-in affair until a winner is found by chance. Is there any way to play poker online that doesn't either feel rigged or take forever? The longer a game goes on, the more bored I get and I start doing stupid moves.[quote=Skerret]Unless someone very obviously insults your loved ones with intent, take nothing here seriously.[/quote]
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I don't trust online poker sites RNGs. They all reward fishing implausibly. Wish I knew stats and has enough data to properly dig into it.
Real life tourneys, or pokernow.club with mates, is the only place in willing to invest these days. -
RNGs are solid. They're regularly audited and would be out of business in a month if anything funny was going on."Plus he wore shorts like a total cunt" - Bob
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Are they regularly audited? I couldn't find evidence of this when I last looked. Certainly not trustworthy independent audit.
See eg https://www.change.org/p/british-government-carry-out-a-full-audit-of-online-poker-sites too, which suggests I'm not alone. Whenever I part there's a bad smell about a lot of the hands. I remain dubious. -
What are RNGs?
888 is leaving a sour taste all round. Didn't receive a sign up bonus, they give dubious excuses like one per house/IP address etc. Why not just confirm the individual? Didn't get their matching offer for first deposit because it only works if you know about the promo code! Now it seems there's just a war of attrition to find a game that appears fair![quote=Skerret]Unless someone very obviously insults your loved ones with intent, take nothing here seriously.[/quote] -
Random number generators.
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Random Number Generators. i.e. is it really a fair deal, or are there shenanigans to either encourage more betting (and hence more cash for the house), e.g. encouraging fishing etc., or even worse the occasional accusation of e.g. execs having "superuser" positions where they can see what's happening in the game while playing (e.g. https://www.pokerlistings.com/gaming-associates-asked-to-audit-absolute-poker-19408)
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Human brain clearly very good at remembering extraordinary things which may bias things a bit, but my experience of online (and I used to use a stat tool which used hand data exports to track what was going on) seemed to suggest a higher level of success for people with A/crap or K/crap betting crazy then getting that A or K on the river than would happen normally
This may well be sour grapes though -
You can request hand histories for entire tournaments and run it through software to check."Plus he wore shorts like a total cunt" - Bob
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Heads up poker seems to be where it's at. Games are pretty quick and seems to be more about psychology than probability. You can almost read the other players confidence in their hand and play to that more than the strength of your own hand.[quote=Skerret]Unless someone very obviously insults your loved ones with intent, take nothing here seriously.[/quote]
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If you want to learn to play poker in a group, don’t focus on heads up, it won’t help you much. It is mostly about psychology, and particularly about stack size. Most of the time neither player will have anything approaching a hand and the larger stack can just bully the smaller one. Personally, I don’t enjoy it nearly as much as a larger group where the psychology aspect is still fundamental, but there are additional layers on top.
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Funkstain wrote:Yeah when is the next game?
Easter won't work for me p'snally, with the kids and such. Maybe the 23rd April?
23rd works for me I think -
This is on right
I’ve already asked for permission and have the bubbles on ice
Don’t let me down again -
How long do these games go on? I've bounced off 888 because poker seems to be a war of attrition rather than a game of skill.[quote=Skerret]Unless someone very obviously insults your loved ones with intent, take nothing here seriously.[/quote]
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