Becoming addicted to online poker

scaeagles · 08-01-2005, 07:15 PM

I've recently started playing online poker....it's a damn good thing I don't live in Vegas.

Only started playing two days ago, and I stayed up until 2am (had to get up at 5am) playing. Played in my first tourney today and won. It's all play money, so that takes a bit of the realism out of it, but in the tournaments, when winning the tourney is the goal, there is a little more realism because in non-tournament play, some players just bet anything because it's not real money.

Anyone else play?

Motorboat Cruiser · 08-01-2005, 08:09 PM

My roommate used to play a lot. Like you, he did extremely well in the free play. Not so well in "real money" mode. It definitely gets more difficult.

Personally though, if I'm going to play poker, I want to see the faces of the people I'm playing with. Just a personal preference.

scaeagles · 08-01-2005, 08:12 PM

I don't think i'd play for real money online - too much of a need to read your opponents.

Prudence · 08-02-2005, 09:23 AM

My husband is obsessed with the online poker. Actually, with poker in general. If I'm watching teevee and leave for even a moment to visit the facilities I come back to poker. Because there is always poker on teevee somewhere.

scaeagles · 08-02-2005, 09:26 AM

Well, Prudence, I see in your pic there that the Queen of Hearts is walking all over him.....is this a psychological thing? Was he burned in some poker hand by a Queen of Hearts on the turn or the river?

Prudence · 08-02-2005, 09:37 AM

Ha! (And she was teaching me to do the same!)

Alas, I know not whether he is successful or otherwise at his poker endeavors. When I go upstairs and he's playing online he acts like he's been caught watching a live stripper cam and acts all antsy until I leave.

08-01-2005, 07:15 PM	#1
scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	Becoming addicted to online poker I've recently started playing online poker....it's a damn good thing I don't live in Vegas. Only started playing two days ago, and I stayed up until 2am (had to get up at 5am) playing. Played in my first tourney today and won. It's all play money, so that takes a bit of the realism out of it, but in the tournaments, when winning the tourney is the goal, there is a little more realism because in non-tournament play, some players just bet anything because it's not real money. Anyone else play?
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Motorboat Cruiser Cruiser of Motorboats Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: So Cal Posts: 3,665	My roommate used to play a lot. Like you, he did extremely well in the free play. Not so well in "real money" mode. It definitely gets more difficult. Personally though, if I'm going to play poker, I want to see the faces of the people I'm playing with. Just a personal preference.
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08-01-2005, 08:12 PM	#3
scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	I don't think i'd play for real money online - too much of a need to read your opponents.
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08-02-2005, 09:23 AM	#4
Prudence Beelzeboobs, Esq. Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Gavel - I haz it Posts: 6,287	My husband is obsessed with the online poker. Actually, with poker in general. If I'm watching teevee and leave for even a moment to visit the facilities I come back to poker. Because there is always poker on teevee somewhere. __________________ traguna macoities tracorum satis de
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08-02-2005, 09:26 AM	#5
scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	Well, Prudence, I see in your pic there that the Queen of Hearts is walking all over him.....is this a psychological thing? Was he burned in some poker hand by a Queen of Hearts on the turn or the river?
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08-02-2005, 09:37 AM	#6
Prudence Beelzeboobs, Esq. Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Gavel - I haz it Posts: 6,287	Ha! (And she was teaching me to do the same!) Alas, I know not whether he is successful or otherwise at his poker endeavors. When I go upstairs and he's playing online he acts like he's been caught watching a live stripper cam and acts all antsy until I leave. __________________ traguna macoities tracorum satis de
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