Texas Hold 'em

One of my favorites, but only when everyone has to buy in for the same amount, opposed to a minimum buy-in but no max. I have played in a few of those poker rooms where you can buy in for whatever you want as long as it's over say 100 dollars. There's always some dick that buys in for like 1K and just bullies the table.

Back around 2002-2004 there were cash games all over the apartments by LSU and houses all over off campus. Fun times.

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Back around 2002-2004 there were cash games all over the apartments by LSU and houses all over off campus. Fun times.

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Was awesome.

Everyone was playing poker around campus.

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There's always some dick that buys in for like 1K and just bullies the table.

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This is why I love tournaments better, although I often play better with cash games.

I've won by fleecing some of the chip bullies, but I've also experienced breathtaking losses at the river.

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or lost to a moron.

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How come everyone that gets beat says they lost to some moron. Doesn't that make you the moron?

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How come everyone that gets beat says they lost to some moron. Doesn't that make you the moron?

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Yep. On occasion, I am the moron. I don't always read the table, the cards, or my opponent well enough.

Sometimes, it's just an idiot who defies the odds and falls into incredible luck.

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When I learn how to post pictures on here, I'll post one of the card protector he passed on to me. Do you play in br? Would be nice to meet up for a tourney

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I'd love to see the card protector when you have a chance.

Unfortunately, I live near Denver. My dad is still near NOLA, though, and he promised to play the next time that I visit. I will let you know. Sounds like fun.

Used to play all the time during the boom. Now, I play 1/yr at the Beau Rivage when we go on our group golf trip. Most years, I won enough to pay for the trip, but it's getting harder. I lost a few hundred this year. Was talking to a regular and he said the oil field being bad has made it a lot harder as all the guys who would go for the weekend and stumble out of coast after a few drinks are scarcer. He said when he first started playing, there were 5 sharks and 50 suckers every weekend. Now it's 50 sharks and 5 suckers.

I'm much better at cash games than tournaments. Knowing that I can't rebuy makes me play too tight and I get blinded to death. My best night ever was winning $5000 at the Bellagio in a 2/5 cash game.

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Now it's 50 sharks and 5 suckers

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I think this is part of the reason I have become bored with the game. I find tighter and tighter tables these days then years ago. More people actually know the game than they used to. Larger pots are harder to come by. Omaha is better and if you can get into a half and half game with a bunch of people who are really there to play omaha then the hold em hands are a lot more fun.

But I play much more black jack now and have such a better time than I do at poker.

ETA: Plus poker players in general are dicks. Smug as shite when it comes to the game. They cannot wait for the dealer or a player to screw up so they can drop some knowledge on the table. Most of the time its inaccurate. And they can't take losing. Beat them on a pot and its eye rolls, and low mumbling shite talking to the player next to them. "He played that?....did you see that? I had bla bla bla..... he fricking played that garbage to a raise.... fricking donkey" No how about you got outplayed/unlucky because the game is not about who gets dealt the best starting hand? Sorry, but you all know the types i'm talking about.