Last time i played was about a week ago with some friends. but that's more for social value than money. the sad part is that when i had 27o, i CALLED that i was going to flop a full house as i folded. turns out i would've flopped 2 pair and turned a full house :(

and i would've gotten paid for that hand too, because 2 others had big hands.


oh well, that random kind of stuff doesn't change the fact that 27o isn't very good :lol:

i was playing in the team canada tourny on pokerstars the other day, i was short stacked, got pocket ace's, moved all in. i got called by one guy, he had 83 then flopped 2 more 8's:shakehead: and i hit nothing on the turn or river

that is brutal. flopping trips against aces...

Oh well, some guy called me all-in when I was short stacked with 59 at my last casino trip. The good news is that my AQ held up.

i was just down in Florida and the resort I was staying at had a free NL Hold 'Em game every tuesday night. The prize was only gift certificates, but I played two games (one table, 9 players) and won the second game.

played some no limit hold 'em with some of my friend's friends the other night.

within 2 hours, 1 person had: a full house, a full house that turned into quads, a flopped straight flush, pocket aces twice.

when I play online I prefer bodog. Just a better looking table in my opinion.

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:thumbsup: HI there, Im new here & just looking around. Love to play poker & Love my family. Im been married for 29 yrs. Have 3 boys 33,29,27. Have 4 grand children 3-grils, 12,6,& 10mo & 1 boy 7 yrs old. Wile im introducing my self ware are the pokers threds?Thank You

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I won $50,000 playing a quarter poker machine at an Indian Casino.
Thrill of a lifetime.
It was 100 play quarter machine, and I was playing the max, I was dealt 4 aces, with a 2, and was going to hold the aces and discard the 2, because I thought I should go for something higher like a king or such,(from my kitchen penny ante poker days) but the guy next to me said to keep the 2, so, I did. As soon as I clicked play, it went Bling! and I had 100 hands with 4 aces and a kicker. The machine said "call attendant" and the guy next to me said he thought it was $5000. I had gotten up to go look for an attendant, and the guy said, "come see what you won" the machine was flashing $50,000.
They took me in the back room, (after about 4 hours) and gave me 5 stacks of $10,000 ...soooo exciting!

I got my first Royal Flush (in real poker anyway) the last time I played.
I was short stacked, got dealt A J spades. Three of us are in for the flop.
Flop comes up with a Jack of Hearts, 10 spades, and something else small I forget. I make a small raise, both call me. Next the King of Spades hits on the turn. Checks around to me. I decided to go all in and try to push out the other two and take the pot.
First guy calls, second folds. He had pocket Tens. Then the Queen of Spades hits on the river. Beautiful.
It left him extremely short-stacked, and I ended up winning the whole thing because of doubling up there.

I won my 25th home game a couple of weeks ago. I even autographed a card to commemorate the big win, and offered it up on ebay. No one bid. Maybe my 50th will bring more interest someday, but I doubt it :)

Anyone still play online ? I usually 6-table a mix of NL10 / NL25 on Partypoker. If anyone is interested we should get some discussion going.

Cheers,

Shoe

I play a lot online, mostly small stakes but this tourney win a few weeks ago was very memorable:

> Dealing Hole Cards(9s 9c )
> budala called for 8,000
> Jadedfox went all-in for 496,544
> budala went all-in for 321,456
> Extra chips returned to Jadedfox, 175,088
> Dealing the Flop(10c 5d 5s )
> Dealing the Turn(Qd )
> Dealing the River(10s )
> Jadedfox wins 674,912 with Two Pair, Tens over Nines
> budala has left the tournament in 2nd place, winning $1,657.50
> Jadedfox has left the tournament in 1st place, winning $2,550

:)

--jaded

I play No limit hold em in weekly games with friends and online for free chips. I just came back from playing with a group of 6. Out of 3 games played, I finished first once and second another time. It should have been two first place finishes, but the guy got lucky (Pushed all in when short stacked in heads up with Q3 and I called with A8, queen hit on turn and I lost that hand. On the very next hand, while still short stacked, he pushed all in with pocket 2's, and I called with pocket 4's. He hit a 2 on the turn, giving him trips, and I lost that hand too).

Can anyone recommend some good articles on strategy? I saw the link to the forum but I'm not really interested in wading through thousands of posts.

Cross-Over, the guy's on a roll and you go all in with him on 4's?

:frown:

I'd be uber-cautious about going all in with pocket 4's, heads up.

me - playing on pkr.com for the last few weeks.

You may be confused, but I had two good reads on him and called his All In bet with the better hand both times. He was short stacked, the Big Blind was over 10% of the total chips in play, and I realized he was going to be aggressive with face cards and small pairs. Simply put, I had my money in with the best hand, and he got lucky. No where in my description did I insinuate he was "on a roll".

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I'm not a huge poker player, but I thought some might be interested in a little game coming out from an indie company called telltale. It's a poker game where you get to play with Sam (of Sam & Max fame), Strongbad (of Homestarrunner), the Heavy (of Team Fortress 2), and Tycho (of Penny Arcade). It's only a couple bucks, and I imagine it'll be a lot of silly fun.

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