Anyone play poker??

I still play free poker.
Not on tilt place though. I play it on coral for free and also on 888.com that site is really good for free poker and free roulette.

I have not played for real money in a while.
I started with playing black jack. my first day I creditted £10 in my account and I was up to about £480 after two hours then I lost a bit and banked £350 or thereabouts. Then it was onto poker, I lost a bit as I was just starting so I decided to start playing practice games for free until I mastered it. I have won quite a bit as well as lost a bit but all in I would say I am still up.

I stopped playing for real money when I saw a program on tv showing how people could cheat online by the use of a program that worked out the percentages straight away of what chance they had of winning. It made it no point in playing as playing against a computer would be quite hard. It turns a game into a game of luck instead of skill.

Texas hold em is a superb game and very addictive. I sometimes play on facebook too but mostly I am addicted to scramble and scrabble on that, as well as my virtual farm FARMVILLE. yes I am very sad.

Ken

I used to get together with several high school buddies for a monthly game. I'm with Zurf, 5 card stud, draw, 7 card stud, in all variations, a little acey-duecey, but 5 card draw, jacks or better open, trips to win was always my favorite. I've never played on-line, and Texas hold-em - not for me.

It was always a great time, not many folks have a group of friends they've known for 25+ years and still get together on a regular basis. The games are in Raleigh (NC) and the 2 hour drive led me to frequent them less often. The last game I went to was about 6 months ago, it's about time to plan the next one.

Poker? 'Hardly even know her.............    ( sorry 'bout that)

Thanks for the invite Guitarpix, maybe I'll try my hand at a hand or two.

Peace and Guitars,
SouthPaw41L

Poker is gambling of sorts, but there's a great deal of skill involved.  Good people win frequently.  The great-uncle I mentioned before made a career of it.  In the early days of Vegas - so he wasn't just playing tin horns.  He was playing other professional gamblers.  Highly skilled game.  Now slots are a gamble!!!  They're a losing game for nearly every one, but every once in a while there's a winner.  There's no skill involved at all.  Just put in your money and watch it go away.  Slots players are gambling that they can be that one winner from out of thousands of players.  In poker, it's fairly easy to tell within a few hands if you're at the right table or whether you're playing with folks who don't know the game, or whether you're totally outclassed.  In either of the latter cases, cash in and go home.  An inexperienced table will cost you hands by making dumb plays.  At an outclassed table, your seed money will be gone in an hour or less, I don't care how much it was.  Unless it's Texas Hold'Em because then you've already put your money in the bank and you don't get it back if you leave so you can't benefit by quitting and you can't lose any more unless you buy into a new game.  But if you want to learn poker, you have to lose some money sitting at the outclassed table to have your skills challenged and stretched.  It's like tennis - play with someone a little bit better than you are from time to time to improve your game.  In poker, consider the losses to be the cost of a lesson. 

- Zurf