re: Are there any good sites to play poker online?

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i focus on live cash b/c it's much softer

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L'Auberge during the weekend

let me just add that i you go play online today, you're going to lose

online is filled with bots and professionals and maybe 5% are casual regs. it's not like back in the mid-00s when it was 75% casual/rec players and 25% knew what was going on. you're going to be put to the test and will be forced to make a bunch of loose calls over and over or you will be exploited to death

I play at betonline. Cash games are really good. I normally only play PLO. Tourneys are rigged.

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I normally only play PLO

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i play very small stakes PLO to learn the game. that's about all i do online

i'm going to donk some money off in MTTs b/c i have a big, live tournament this weekend and i haven't played a tournament in forever. gotta get muscle memory in and shed the cash game life

PLO is a wasteland of filth, treachery, and gambling (all things i hate)

but it fascinates me for some reason

Thanks for the recommendations. Just played and won my first tournament in ignition.

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heir idiocy will come back to haunt them sooner or later. variance is also a big part of the game.

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problem is, i never get the cards to take their cash.

I end up with 2 5 off suit, and these morons give their cash to everyone but me. I sit there and beg for anything over 7 3 off suit.

So while they get lucky and crack my AA's with their 9 10 off suit, i can't even get cards resembling a 9 10, to even take their cash. But guy next to me is getting face face and lining his pocket.

Had a guy like that at the casino locally. He was pushing on garbage, but i couldn't do shite, even when i got to see a flop, i missed badly. But finally after 2 hours of petering along, i began to get cards i could make moves on, and i cleaned him out.

Sometimes you just can't get the cards. No reason to donate because some arse is playing like a moron.

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You can't play 10% of your hands then complain about the blinds getting the best of you. Blinds go quickly online

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I'm just talking about how I played specifically on this site. I can raise in a late position every time and it does no good because it gets called every time. That's fine, but then a trash flop comes out and a large continuation bet gets called again. Then a large portion of your chip stack is gone if you don't get really lucky and win the hand.

So, I adjusted to try to wait out a hand where I should dominate and try to take advantage of their generous calling. That often ends up in bad beats. It's much better to play when people aren't calling a large bet with low pair just to see it to the river.

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problem is, i never get the cards to take their cash.

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Stop!!


If your luck is that bad(it is not) then why bother playing at all?

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Had a guy like that at the casino locally. He was pushing on garbage, but i couldn't do shite, even when i got to see a flop, i missed badly. But finally after 2 hours of petering along, i began to get cards i could make moves on, and i cleaned him out.

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So what's the issue?

Exactly. But their are idiots here who will say you suck because you don't beat this. Anybody can take out the dummies when you catch the cards, but it takes catching them. It takes pretty much playing only top notch cards to have the chance to take them out. So, you sit and let the blinds eat you up while you wait for the opportunity.