Poker Orifice
FoolsTilt
Platinum Level
You don't seem to understand what I'm trying to convey re: play chip poker is not 'poker'. Of course it's the game of poker with the same basic rules but when money is not staked, the game is MUCH different..... so much so that in the playchip game you really MISS out on soooooo much of the game. It has nothing to do with bravado (or chest pumping manly-man stuff)... SIGH...
I had zero knowledge of your poker background &/or how you got to Cardschat. The snark remarks was geared towards "how would you know... you've never actually played 'real poker' "
Have you played chess? How about checkers?
Real poker vs. play chips is akin to chess vs. checkers.
One doesn't need to wager much to see how the game changes. 2nl plays much different than 25nl (as far as the regulars who play.... the fish play poorly no matter what level although they do tend to have much different tendencies). Some suggest that the highest stakes of play chip poker is much like 2c/5c poker. How could one be bothered to find this out? (plus I HIGHLY doubt it even comes close to 5nl... even 5nl has loads of regulars in it from Ukraine & Russia)
Perhaps to discover what I'm trying to convey you could give it a go? I'm certain you'd be able to express it much more eloquently than what I'm attempting to do (kinda like I communicate like checkers... where you communicate like 'chess').
fwiw Chess isn't checkers & it never will be. It's a game. It's played on the same board! There's Kings in both.
I learned to play poker at the age of 4 or 5. I played often. My mother loved the game.
By the time I was 10yrs. old, I played regularly with a group of guys. Sometimes I would arrive home late for dinner which would result in getting sent to my room for the night with no dinner But I didn't care because up in my room I'd be pulling out a roll of bills and counting them out on my bed (I was never late on days I'd lost $'s as I felt obligated to stay & continue to play if I was up a significant sum). Some nights it was hundreds of dollars. (48 yrs. ago where $350 would equate to $2,000 in buying power in 2021). There were many times I went without dinner as I would play regularly.
By grade 8 & 9 we'd play at one of our friends' home whose his father frequented Las Vegas regularly. They had a room set up in their house for poker & a craps table... their garage was much like a pawn shop
. I played there often but it was a tough game & I'd typically be losing. I also played in a few other games at some local pool halls & a couple years later at some after hours nightclubs downtown in Toronto.I took a few years away from poker but picked it up again in my early-mid-20's, playing in games for large sums (playing $1,000 or more a hand wasn't uncommon). One evening I lost a particularly large sum of money & decided not to play again & chose not to for 20yrs.
The poker boom was happening... it was televised regularly where I resided, with fulltiltpoker, partypoker and AbsolutePoker running tv ads. constantly. I watched 'PokerAfterDark' religiously.
My partner began playing some games on Pogo with her mother. She wanted me to join them. I said I'd give it a go on her account. I saw 'poker' and told her to get that one running for me. She thought it was a stupid game "why would anyone ever play that?" Within a few hours I'd run her tokens up to amounts far beyond what she'd won in weeks while playing in other games. Two weeks later I was opening a 'Moneybookers' account to to facilitate depositing & withdrawing $$'s to Fulltilt & pokerstars. Between the 2 sites I deposited $325, setting this amount as my one time deposit in which to play games with. I set myself a limit of max. $3 sng/MTT & 25nl cashgame. The first game I played on Fulltilt was a $1 MTT. I placed 2nd of ~1,000 entrants & won $114.00 Within 6mos. I was playing at 25 different sites... 6mos. later she was playing $500 sng's on Fulltilt but I rarely played anything over $100 online unless I'd satty'd into it. What I enjoyed was the challenge of the game. Chasing the money wasn't the draw for me.... even though building bankrolls was what kept score for me. I discovered many private games on offer (& there were MANY... sometimes on a weekend there'd be upwards of 30-40 mtt's per day, $2 to $10 buyins with from $25 to $1,000+ added to the prize pools). Aside from the great value they offered you also got to play against much of the same competitors (typically ~50 to 100 entrants). This is when I discovered Cardschat (they held a lot of $ buyin tourneys with $$'s added to the prizepool on a number of different sites). I hadn't gotten 'addicted' to the money/gambling (ie. Fred Flinstone "Bet Bet BET!!!") but I did get addicted to the game of poker (I'm certain I read over 50 poker books in 2008 alone).
Play chip poker is not like 'real' poker as you lose out on so much of the game although clearly I don't know how to describe it clearly.
Why don't you give it a try & find out? Perhaps it's because you don't trust online poker??(if I'm not mistaken I believe you're of the belief that the rng is rigged in some manner & if that's actually the case than I can see why you would never consider to play 'poker'. That is another topic that I suck at explaining and only wish I could quote some other members who have written some fantastic stuff here on CC in the past (ie. dmorris68))
fwiw, I didn't know that DS3 was a female. It never entered my mind. I'm guessing you assumed otherwise...
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jesusali1
Rock Star
Silver Level
it is a joke, of course not, poker has a degree of gambling that would be very bad for a child or teenager who is getting to know the world, obviously you learn part of poker in statistics, in an indirect way, this is because statistics is part of everything not only of poker, for this reason and without touching the religious aspect.
filippfilm
Rock Star
Bronze Level
A very interesting question ... I think I could take poker as an additional subject at school at the request of the students themselves. As a development of logical and mathematical thinking
Pokerpoet2
Legend
Loyaler
I wouldn't like Poker to be taught in school's especially with younger students, it is a Parents responsibility to decide when a form of gambling is introduced into a child's development, and at what age.
Sure they should be taught the dangers of Gambling, and the dangers of Smoking, Drinking or taking Drug's but to have it as part of the Syllabus in that you are teaching them how to Play! then definitely not!
Wether it is for real money or play chip's Poker is Poker!and I don't see any difference in it, Sure it has a different playing style, but you have to start somewhere, and I started playing for play chips many years ago and still do occasionally.
Holdem has many different playing styles, you have to adjust to the many different formats of the game, you cannot play Limit Holdem the same way as playing No Limit, it just isn't the same style, Likewise you cannot play real money games the same as playing for play chips, but whichever game you choose, Poker is Poker! Real Cash or Not!
A good player will adapt and change his playing style depending on what stage the game is in, and which type of game he is playing, and that is what makes a good Poker player Great!
When the fun Stops, STOP!
Sure they should be taught the dangers of Gambling, and the dangers of Smoking, Drinking or taking Drug's but to have it as part of the Syllabus in that you are teaching them how to Play! then definitely not!
Wether it is for real money or play chip's Poker is Poker!and I don't see any difference in it, Sure it has a different playing style, but you have to start somewhere, and I started playing for play chips many years ago and still do occasionally.
Holdem has many different playing styles, you have to adjust to the many different formats of the game, you cannot play Limit Holdem the same way as playing No Limit, it just isn't the same style, Likewise you cannot play real money games the same as playing for play chips, but whichever game you choose, Poker is Poker! Real Cash or Not!
A good player will adapt and change his playing style depending on what stage the game is in, and which type of game he is playing, and that is what makes a good Poker player Great!
When the fun Stops, STOP!
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Gabyenilo
Rising Star
Bronze Level
moderation game poker
The game poker is so important for probality play real the mathematic and have one straight psicologic, in my opinion has play in university because listening others play with exemple lady and chess. Has been more people the worth everybody ettary, the exercise the mind, has benefic play young y no vices when fathers monitoring, no problem future. Amazing the game, in the time more pearson interesting this game because cause adrenaline.
The game poker is so important for probality play real the mathematic and have one straight psicologic, in my opinion has play in university because listening others play with exemple lady and chess. Has been more people the worth everybody ettary, the exercise the mind, has benefic play young y no vices when fathers monitoring, no problem future. Amazing the game, in the time more pearson interesting this game because cause adrenaline.
