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

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were you playing a $1 triple up sng or something?

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It was a play money tournament.

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but I'm sure we've ran across one another at some point.

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i'm pretty easy to spot/remember, considering i only wear 2 outfits to play

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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.

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If they're playing shite cards, you don't need top notch cards to beat them.

If you understand probabilities, if you get the money in with the better hand, over the long run, you'll win money.

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We are fake money here.

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Ohhhhhh.

To hell with that.

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the issue with live PLO here is the PLO game is insanely massive. way too big to frick around in unless your roll is $100k+

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sat down at a PLO game once while I was waiting for a 2/5 NLHE seat to open up. very first hand, it was around $1500 to see the flop. I noped the frick out of there

I miss the days of being able to walk into multiple bars and jump into a cash game. I spent most of my college nights playing pot limit cash games. I worked to get money to play poker, and paid my bills with poker winnings. That was some easy pickings back then, when poker was super popular and everybody watched it on tv and thought they could play. It was nothing to throw up $30 to enter a cash game and walking away from the table with $500.

I wanted to be a dealer back then, because those bastards were walking away with $1,000 a night for dealing cards.

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If they're playing shite cards, you don't need top notch cards to beat them.

If you understand probabilities, if you get the money in with the better hand, over the long run, you'll win money.

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You 2 whiners need to drink in the above and learn to live by its truth.

If you feel you should always get what "you deserve" then poker isnt for you.
If you can't deal with a temporary swing in negative variance aka bad luck then poker isnt for you.

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If you understand probabilities, if you get the money in with the better hand, over the long run, you'll win money.

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there is a counter to this

you always have to get your "big cards" in equally-sized pots

if you consistently take down 10 BBs with AA but then lose 100 BBs with AA to a set, you are going to lose in the long-term if you can't learn to minimize the losses and maximize your big hands. there is nothing more profitable in live poker than entitlement tilt. value betting (over-betting, if possible) when you know a guy has KK or AA and will call out of spite (esp if they want to tell the table how unlucky they are) is the most profitable thing you can do in poker

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What do you have, a sponsor deal?

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no it's just cold and i don't want to wear a proper jacket at a casino, so i have a light jacket and a hoodie (the hoodie is new i used to only wear the jacket)

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there is a counter to this

you always have to get your "big cards" in equally-sized pots

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Right.

Without getting into specifics, my overriding point still stands. If you know you're playing donks and you're not winning over a representative sample size, you are in deed one of them.

I'm about as average as you can get in poker. Played for years and with all the 1000s of hands i've probably played, i'm probably eerily close to breaking even. But I understand my flaws are my flaws, all that didn't happen because I'm better than average, but just had a run of bad luck over 1000s of hands.