Quoted: Man I hate Texas Holdem I've been watching poker after dark... It's pretty entertaining... but I still have no idea what blinds are or the button...

I can't tell if you're being serious, but I'll take a shot anyway.

The "button" is simply the dealer position which, since it gives you an advantage, is passed clockwise around the table after each hand (ie. one hand I'm on the button, the next hand the guy on my left is on the button and so on).

It's the position that is last to act in the round of betting after the flop, so that's why it gives a player an advantage.

The blinds are simply an anti that is money put into the pot by the first two players to the left of the button. You'll hear games refered to as $5/$10 or $100/$200 or whatever.

That's small blind / big blind, small blind being the first position to the left of the button, and the big blind being the 2nd position to the left of the dealer.

For the $5/$10 game, the small blind puts $5 into the pot before the cards are dealt and the big blind puts $10 into the pot before the cards are dealt.

The position to the left of the big blind is first to act (under the gun) when the cards are first dealt and the betting begins.


I just re-read all that and I bet you know less about it now than when you first started reading my post.

Try this  

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Phil Hellmuth does I so fucking hate Phil. I would end up in jail if I was at his table in a tourney and was on the receiving end of one of his rants. As I would end up monkey stomping the shit out of him. he is annoying as hell but you can't deny he is one hell of a tourney player, perhaps the best ever.. i play online a bit, usually deposit 50 build it to 250-300 or so, then withdraw the money and buy myself a new toy. do this about every other month or so. The real money i make is live games, either home games, charity tourneys, or downtown at the casino. not talking tens of thousands, but a couple to several grand a year. just some extra hobby money.

I would have to say Stu Ungar holds that crown.

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I usually do $35-50buyin tourneys at the casino. Next year, I'm doing a $1000 or $1500 buyin at the WSOP in Vegas however.  The $1000 tourney going on right now had 775 entrants in 2007 and the winner cashed $655,000.  The smallest cash was $8000, so you made 8x your money back if you cashed in the top 75. If I somehow cash and I cash over $11k, I'm definitely buying into the Main Event. Yeah, but that was a re-buy tourney. You should be ready to dump 5-6K in that tourney. Daniel Negreanu holds the un-official record for 47 rebuys in that tourney in 2006. He came to the table with 50K this year but only re bought 9 times. Phil Ivey had 100 1k chips sitting on the table next to his tourney chip stack. Not worried, I've done rebuys before although obviously not on the scale of the WSOP.  There was 775 players and 18xx rebuys.   If anything, I'll get into a no-rebuy $1500 table with 2500-3500 entrants.  Less beginning cash, only like $1800 for the first few cash spots but the winner got $850k. Yeah, that's the best bet for low buy-ins. I plan on maybe playing the last $1500 NLHE event this year. Also, The Venetian holds their Deep-Stack Extravaganza during the series with buy-ins starting at $340 with a damn good structure.

These and the Binions Mina WSOP tourneys are what I'm going to go play this year during the WSOP.

Those Venetian and Caesars tourneys have GREAT structure.

Quoted: I had a thread up about this a couple of weeks ago. Didnt get too much of a response but I like poker. I play ever now and again online and am looking at getting a good set of chips in the near future so that i can run my own game. These are the chips. link

Sweet ass zombie chips!11!11!!!!!

Quoted: Quoted: I had a thread up about this a couple of weeks ago. Didnt get too much of a response but I like poker. I play ever now and again online and am looking at getting a good set of chips in the near future so that i can run my own game. These are the chips. link Sweet ass zombie chips!11!11!!!!!

yeah thats what i think too. They are just expensive as all hell. I am saving up for a set of them... might even see if people here are interested in some of them when I order. Possible group buy if there is enough interest.

Quoted: Quoted: I would rather punch Moneymaker or Jamie Gold.  Ultra-douches who won only by getting lucky.  Neither have talent or skill and a part of me giggles each and every time they lose because they fucking suck.  Both are one-time wonders and shows that the internet can make a player out of anyone these days. i disagree with you WRT moneymaker--the guy is a solid cardplayer from everything i've seen.  he caught a ton of cards in his main event win, but he played those cards very well, maximizing value and minimizing exposure. jamie gold, OTOH, was a 1-shot wonder.  after watching his win, i hypothesized that he won off of pure salesmanship.  players listened to him talk, and made their decisions based on what he was selling.  my prediction was that the way to beat gold was to make him a consumer of information instead of a purveyor:  to ge him to listen instead of talk. sure enough, in the last main event, the guy who crushed him multiple times and wound up busting him out did all the talking, and made gold make the decision based upon the information he heard. gold has been soundly schooled on HSP (he was a joke for the cash game players), and couldn't cut it against a marginal table at the WSOP.  ultimately, he is an extremely good salesman, but his poker skills are suspect. that said, he won the $12million, and i didn't.  so until i enter the WSOP and win, he's still better than me.

No offense but you need to watch more MM poker then.  The guy is a facade.  He continually does shitty in Poker after Dark as well as other small tournaments other than the WSOP.  
Anyone and everyone I know who is somewhat into poker and has seen MM play outside of his 2003 ME win says the exact same thing.  He's a sham and got hella lucky.  Course, Hellmuth once said, "If I could choose between being good and being lucky, I'd choose luck."  Because even the best players can play the best hands they are given and still get sucked out.

Gold was easy to play off.  He said the exactly opposite of what he had EVERY time in the 2006 WSOP Main Event and the 2007 ME.  He is a master of using Reverse Psychology but not a master *at* it.  

Quoted: No offense but you need to watch more MM poker then.  The guy is a facade.  He continually does shitty in Poker after Dark as well as other small tournaments other than the WSOP.

no offense taken--i'll be the first to admit that i haven't seen too much of his play.  

i catch PAD one in a while, but i very much prefer high stakes poker.  if nothing else, the entertainment value is much higher--gabe's rants are comedy gold.  i do so love the cash guys licking their chops when a big tourney guy takes a seat.  watching gold get schooled was amusing.