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Re: Poker

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 10:36 pm
by FactualFrank
DustyBawls wrote:Not learned a single thing reading this thread. You're all rubbish.
Apart from me - I agree!

Re: Poker

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 10:39 pm
by DustyBawls
FactualFrank wrote:Apart from me - I agree!
Well youve talked the most sense and I know you were good back in 2007 so yeah. I wouldnt be worried about playing against anybody on here if I were you.

Re: Poker

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 10:41 pm
by Hibsclaret
Reckon westmids and IT might quite like to play FF if he’s pushing sets on the flop.... :o

Re: Poker

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 10:44 pm
by FactualFrank
Hibsclaret wrote:Reckon westmids and IT might quite like to play FF if he’s pushing sets on the flop.... :o
Blimey - you really don't like me, do you?

I know I'm a good player and more than happy to play anybody on this thread. More than happy.

But what would happen is myself and westmids would have a laugh, regardless.

Re: Poker

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 10:52 pm
by DustyBawls
Hibsclaret wrote:Reckon westmids and IT might quite like to play FF if he’s pushing sets on the flop.... :o
Have you bin drinking?

Re: Poker

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 10:53 pm
by taio
As has been said by others in the past FF and DB (the latter account created when the former account was temporarily banned) are the same person which makes this thread really funny.

Re: Poker

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 10:54 pm
by Hibsclaret
FactualFrank wrote:Blimey - you really don't like me, do you?

I know I'm a good player and more than happy to play anybody on this thread. More than happy.

But what would happen is myself and westmids would have a laugh, regardless.
Que. why would I not like anyone I have never met. You seem great....

Re: Poker

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 10:56 pm
by FactualFrank
Hibsclaret wrote:Que. why would I not like anyone I have never met. You seem great....
Cool. As you're new to poker, we'll have to meet at a game sometime.

By the way - the thread was created to invite Burnley fans to have some bants and play poker. You're aware of that, yeah?

Re: Poker

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:00 pm
by DustyBawls
WSOP watching online but they show the card under the table

Re: Poker

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:05 pm
by Swizzlestick
DustyBawls wrote:Well youve talked the most sense and I know you were good back in 2007 so yeah. I wouldnt be worried about playing against anybody on here if I were you.
Are you...talking to yourself?

Re: Poker

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:21 pm
by burnleymik
Used to grind Pokerstars, Microgaming and FullTilt back in the hayday, mainly 6-max cash and some full-ring. Poker used to pay for most of our holidays and Xmas's. Then regulation started setting in and some of the best countries, with the most fish, were ring-fenced. The casual Americans were always good for making money off and in my experience so were the French.

Eventually it became an ever-increasingly difficult grind, finding edges was very difficult, with everyone hunting the tables with the 'fish'.

Played some tourneys and did okay, but never took down any really big scores.

Not really played in a few years now. I do miss it every now and then and think about re-installing pokerstars, but then never do.

Re: Poker

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:24 pm
by DustyBawls
Am I still allowed to post? I'm thinking crime. It wasn't me it was Frank!

Re: Poker

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:29 pm
by Damo
:lol:

Re: Poker

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:36 pm
by FactualFrank
burnleymik wrote:Used to grind Pokerstars, Microgaming and FullTilt back in the hayday, mainly 6-max cash and some full-ring. Poker used to pay for most of our holidays and Xmas's. Then regulation started setting in and some of the best countries, with the most fish, were ring-fenced. The casual Americans were always good for making money off and in my experience so were the French.

Eventually it became an ever-increasingly difficult grind, finding edges was very difficult, with everyone hunting the tables with the 'fish'.

Played some tourneys and did okay, but never took down any really big scores.

Not really played in a few years now. I do miss it every now and then and think about re-installing pokerstars, but then never do.
You'll always come across people as thick as a duck pluckers wick (see thread), but if you treat it as a laugh, it's a great social game.

Thinking of getting back involved?

Re: Poker

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:41 pm
by burnleymik
Just downloaded Stars, gonna stick £20 and play a few fun sit n go's :)

Re: Poker

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:52 pm
by FactualFrank
burnleymik wrote:Just downloaded Stars, gonna stick £20 and play a few fun sit n go's :)
Good luck pal. Bump the post and let me know you get on.

Re: Poker

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 12:01 am
by taio
Swizzlestick wrote:Are you...talking to yourself?
It's hilarious reading the exchange between FF and DB knowing they are the same person i.e. mucacho. It really is desperate stuff using a second account to (self) praise what he is saying using his primary account. It's late now but when I have a spare minute I'm sure it will be easy to find other examples of DB backing up FF :lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: Poker

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 12:44 am
by FactualFrank
taio wrote:It's hilarious reading the exchange between FF and DB knowing they are the same person i.e. mucacho. It really is desperate stuff using a second account to (self) praise what he is saying using his primary account. It's late now but when I have a spare minute I'm sure it will be easy to find other examples of DB backing up FF :lol: :lol: :lol:
Do you not think it's more desperate saying things online that you'd be scared to say offline?

Re: Poker

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 12:48 am
by taio
FactualFrank wrote:Do you not think it's more desperate saying things online that you'd be scared to say offline?
:lol: :lol: :lol:

It gets better every time you post.

By the way:
DustyBawls wrote:Spot on.

Edit: That was in reply to Frank's post.

Re: Poker

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 1:13 am
by FactualFrank
taio wrote::lol: :lol: :lol:
Stop trolling a thread about a game you don't know the rules to. Way above your station young man.

Re: Poker

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 7:42 am
by Swizzlestick
You don’t either by the sounds of it.

Re: Poker

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 9:17 am
by Devils_Advocate
FF sounds one of those girls at a football match who's learnt the offside rule, some basic tactics and info about all the players. On the surface they sound like they know what they are talking about but after about 5 mins you can tell they are clueless really and are just regurgitating facts and cliché's

Re: Poker

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 9:29 am
by Imploding Turtle
Devils_Advocate wrote:FF sounds one of those girls at a football match who's learnt the offside rule, some basic tactics and info about all the players. On the surface they sound like they know what they are talking about but after about 5 mins you can tell they are clueless really and are just regurgitating facts and cliché's
There's a word for that; dilettante.

Re: Poker

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 12:35 pm
by Hibsclaret
Devils_Advocate wrote:FF sounds one of those girls at a football match who's learnt the offside rule, some basic tactics and info about all the players. On the surface they sound like they know what they are talking about but after about 5 mins you can tell they are clueless really and are just regurgitating facts and cliché's
Not sure it took quite 5 mins...

Re: Poker

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 12:42 pm
by Tall Paul
But Frank finishes in the top 3 of 9/10 man SnGs over 80% of the time.

With stats like that he's clearly the greatest player that's ever lived.

Re: Poker

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 12:58 pm
by Damo
Tall Paul wrote:But Frank finishes in the top 3 of 9/10 man SnGs over 80% of the time.

With stats like that he's clearly the greatest player that's ever lived.
Yeah but most of the other players are his other profiles

Re: Poker

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 1:22 pm
by burnleymik
DO they still run the clubs on pokerstars? Maybe set one up for a friendly weekly game? Seems a few people can play...

Re: Poker

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 1:43 pm
by SammyBoy
FactualFrank wrote:I meant on the table. When it comes down to heads-up, an awful lot depends on luck - you play the hands, unless you see the tells. I stand by what I said, and win a lot. But everybody is different and play different ways.
Would have to disagree, in heads up the actual hands lose a lot of their significance and you're almost entirely playing the man (or woman) not the cards.

Re: Poker

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 1:46 pm
by claretrobo1
A mate at college taught me poker last year. Taught me the basic rules, then self taught myself strategy by watching YouTube clips of Negreanu etc. You’ll never master the game, it’s experience that helps you improve and just playing a lot of hands. It’s a great social game. I went round a mates house with six of us and just had a laugh one evening whilst playing. Good stuff

Re: Poker

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 1:48 pm
by Tall Paul
burnleymik wrote:DO they still run the clubs on pokerstars? Maybe set one up for a friendly weekly game? Seems a few people can play...
I stopped playing much on Pokerstars when they sneakily increased the rake on low stakes tournaments a year or two ago.

Re: Poker

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 2:14 pm
by SammyBoy
I played a lot for about 5 years, regular home games with mates and countless hours online, I'd say I probably broke even overall. I eventually got bored of the constant grind and tried different hobbies so it's been at least 2 years since I've played a hand, but I would like to take it up again. I think in future I'd just play recreationally at the casino or down the pub as online is very difficult to beat, gone are the days when you could turn up knowing a little bit and have an edge.