Any serious poker players in here?

[Turf1600]

I've been playing for many years but am now getting pretty serious. Just curious to see how many players are out there and what level of play they're at...

[Chachi]

im sure you mean actual poker, not online. i love the game, and whenever i have time to kill i usually hop on pokerstars. ive won many times playing with friends for mini tourneys... dont have the funds to really play. r3v poker party?

[jrobie79]

I play regularly, almost every weekend I head down to foxwoods and play for half the day, tried online poker, I get too bored and make stupid plays

[Turf1600]

Online poker sucks. Basically I play every wednesday, friday and saturday night. Wednesday is typically a $50 buy in cash game. Fridays vary - this weekend I won a 40 person $60 buy in tournament. Then I lost most of my profit at a $1-$2 cash game on saturday. Still a little up on the weekend but nothing like I was saturday morning.

[Jonny Cash]

Best thing is to just keep it "fun".

Ive been playing a pretty long time. I played at Foxwoods at least once a week 5 or so years back. Won pretty big and lost pretty bad. Now I literally live 5 minutes from 10 different casino's and I try to stay clear. Not sure what you consider serious, I knew alot of people over the years who make a living gambling, and did alright for themselves. That said, some of the most dishonest, crooked, unstable people Ive ever known. Go ahead and start gambling sports, see how nasty things really get.

[Turf1600]

Best thing is to just keep it "fun".

Ive been playing a pretty long time. I played at Foxwoods at least once a week 5 or so years back. Won pretty big and lost pretty bad. Now I literally live 5 minutes from 10 different casino's and I try to stay clear. Not sure what you consider serious, I knew alot of people over the years who make a living gambling, and did alright for themselves. That said, some of the most dishonest, crooked, unstable people Ive ever known. Go ahead and start gambling sports, see how nasty things really get.

No thanks on sports gambling. I'm not typically a gambler. I hate slots, blackjack, racing, ect. I just love poker. I'm a great tournament player and a mediocre cash game player - but I'm getting better.

[BrewCity11]

I tried my hand at it for a few months like 4-5 years ago. Casino was ok, but mostly cash games, ie, boring.

Online was a hit or miss. One month i'd be up 3-4k, and the next month i was down 3-4k. I had to give it all up. Was working full time, school full time, so coming home and playing online for 5+ hours everynight started to take its toll.

Last i played was a $100 buyin tourney in vegas. Took 2nd. Believe it or not, if you dont keep playing, you do get rusty.

Just a disclaimer, be a responsible gambler. Sometimes you don't know what you've gotten yourself into. Don't dig yourself deeper if you lose alot. Know when to draw the line.

[TexasTerp]

I used to play online and casino Hold'em back in undergrad, my buddy and I basically paid our way through college with it. I normally sat at 15-30 blinds when I was playing my best but I got in over my head and tried playing 25-50 games, lost everything I made and quit playing (think Rounders except I wasn't in some basement playing John Malkovich with three stacks of high society, lol). I miss it though, played in 3 WSOP qualifiers, made 1 event. My buddy has played in 5 Main events, made the money twice. Now he runs a tutoring company and makes tons of money so he doesn't play anymore. Every so often when we're back in Houston we get a friendly game going. When I went to Vegas in October and December I just stuck to Blackjack and Craps, stayed away from the poker table, but those $100 buy-in tourneys were really tempting.

Just a disclaimer, be a responsible gambler. Sometimes you don't know what you've gotten yourself into. Don't dig yourself deeper if you lose alot. Know when to draw the line.

+100000, I no longer play poker because of poor decisions.

[Turf1600]

I'm pretty responsible. If I go on tilt I stop for a week or so and read poker books. I made a bad decision to re buy into a cash game the other night though.

[Matt-B]

i play on pokerstars.net


with my friend greg, he has won 500$ there but we play cash games among are friends

where we buy in for 20$ and winnger gets 100$

[Mossman]

poker was my life for a couple years, mostly online but at least 2 days a week live. It was mostly while working but I did get laid off and played poker "for a living" for about 3-4 months. I had something like 14 straight losing days and I took what little was left of my bankroll and it's been just for fun since then. I never played too big, I've always been extra cautious with my bankroll and never really took big shots unless splitting it with a friend who's play I trusted. Usually I 6 tabled 1-2nl or 22/33 turbo sngs. I really enjoyed the poker culture and learning and talking to people about it, analysing stats and stuff like that but it got to the point that winning no longer made me happy and losing depressed/angered me so I had to quit. I haven't played a hand of poker since I went to AC about 2 months ago and I don't miss it or even think about it until I happen to be near a casino and I have extra scratch and free time...life without poker is less interesting but also less nerve racking

[Mossman]

also if by some chance you don't know about it twoplustwo is the place to learn, and watch out for home games unless they really are home games with just friends who know each other and no strangers ever present, cuz when they get robbed you don't wanna be there. I've been lucky enough to never have a gun to my head over $300 I'd be happy to fork over but lots of friends haven't been so lucky.