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I got shoved a few times at a poker room in Reno because I beat the guy a few times. To be fair I egged him on by making fun of him being bald after like 45 minutes of him talking poo poo. The room was pretty dead though so I was glad the casino just gave him a stern talking to and sent him back to keep playing. Won a few grand from him lol.
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# ¿ Dec 10, 2019 04:38 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 12:40 |
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From movies I’ve seen, throwing chips down on the craps table seems like a hell of a time.. hope I get to try that some day.
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# ¿ Dec 10, 2019 05:06 |
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What ever happened to bar poker where you buy a drink and get to play tournaments for like a $50 drink gift cert? That was a good time, then like 3-4 years ago all of the bar poker events vanished.
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# ¿ Dec 10, 2019 05:49 |
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Has anybody here ever gambled on one of those river boat casinos
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# ¿ Dec 11, 2019 03:39 |
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Coolguye posted:yeah, wasn't impressed. For some reason I’ve always been under the impression that they’re somewhat higher stakes games usually is that true? I don’t think I’d really enjoy myself on one either, do they do that to skirt some sort of casino laws in certain areas or just for novelty?
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# ¿ Dec 11, 2019 03:43 |
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The boat being on the water until the operators decide to head back to shore is a pretty great way to keep people spending when they might’ve otherwise wise left
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# ¿ Dec 11, 2019 04:13 |
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jase1 posted:I have all types of gambling stories you name it I have most likely gambled on it. I can regurgitate a few from my older threads I just have lovely memory due to a lot of years of hard partying so I might forget a few details. Most of my crazier stories are from a hustling pool but now I don't play as much and mostly gamble with a bookie and play poker. I do play a weekly mahjong game late on the weekends after they close and that's more fun than anything I gamble on. I totally forgot about your pool threads. You should make another one.
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# ¿ Dec 11, 2019 23:22 |
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Can the dealer make it spin any other boy bands? Say New Kids on the Block?
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# ¿ Dec 12, 2019 03:21 |
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Summer of 2018 I was out of work and paid my bills with online poker, it was extremely loving stressful but it somehow worked out because I’d quit if I won or lost a certain amount in a night. My state only has 1/2 as the max live holdem stakes which is very hard to beat long term with the rake, but the few times a year I go it’s the same regs at the tables and I always wonder if they just have a bankroll set aside, or if they’re out every day trying to make it work as an income. Poker bums seem sad to me so I imagine working somewhere and seeing the same old lady pumping the slots every day is pretty loving depressing.
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# ¿ Dec 12, 2019 05:15 |
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Blistex posted:Had a friend who was an online poker fiend, but not some sort of amazing shark, just statistically better than 90% of your average schlubs who have played it for more than a week and less than a year. He's sign up for a site, play and make money, then when he got sent up too many levels to where he was playing 99% sharks, he's start another account at another site and start over. It would take him a week or two to level up enough to get to the point where he was not longer making easy/reliable money. He signed up his girlfriend, his parents, and even found a few sites where the determining factor was the credit card and not the name/address. He finally ran out of sites to play, and gave up, only coming out of retirement when he'd hear about a new site starting up. I don’t know about that last paragraph. People used to online play(in my experience) usually stick to 3-5bb opening bets and about 3/4 pot later in the hand until they get the feel of the table, which I guess ends up being small at some tables. In my experience live players bet way bigger than you’d see online. But yeah during the time I was grinding for my income I’d only play Thursday through Saturday nights lol, a whole lot of drunk people playing 2/5 going for big scores. I usually was able to withdraw about $1k every Monday with a big enough bankroll left over to play more 2/5 the next weekend. I also am not sure why you’d be starting new accounts, the site I play on doesn’t have any sort of like, ELO or anything so you’re always with the same player base. Your friends whole story doesn’t make any sense to me but who knows.
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# ¿ Dec 12, 2019 22:15 |
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:Gambling addicts don't usually physically freak out too much from my experience (two years as hotel/casino security). They will sometimes ask to be "self excluded" after losing huge but it's like they have lost all emotions usually. Yeah they just get sad but aren’t gonna go wild, don’t wanna get kicked out, the ATM is only a few feet away.
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# ¿ Dec 12, 2019 22:55 |
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I think on these very message boards I saw someone say there is nothing more boring than stories about being high, gambling, and one other thing I can’t recall and that rings pretty true. But people like jase have genuinely entertaining stories imo, for the most part nobody loving cares about how you only missed 1 number on a big scratcher or whatever.
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# ¿ Dec 13, 2019 02:49 |
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Shumagorath posted:Based on your retelling of the card game robbery I think you have exactly the right personality for betting on MMA and probably fighting it. Most people get too emotional and do stuff like bet on Mark Coleman well into his 40's and having to piss clean. How does it work if a fighter wins or loses and then gets caught with dirty piss? Are wins deducted from the winners/reimbursed to losers?
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# ¿ Dec 13, 2019 02:51 |
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Shumagorath posted:One time I thought I saw the McDonald's Monopoly Boardwalk sticker buried in urinal ice, and decided that the shot at a million dollars wasn't worth it being another Park Place and having to live with myself. This is definitely interesting but yeah I was wondering what happens to the people gambling on a match. I agree the most reasonable answer is “get hosed idiots” to everyone, especially if they’re betting with a real life bookie.
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# ¿ Dec 13, 2019 03:03 |
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Shumagorath posted:Regular online gaming has problems with smurfing so it doesn't surprise me that services with actual money have it way worse. The only reason to smurf would be to throw people using poker HUDs off so they can’t track your play style. Otherwise you can select your tables and even follow the fish around table to table. Bovada is the only site I know of where you can’t choose tables anymore.
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# ¿ Dec 13, 2019 03:25 |
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I’ve no clue how to play Craps so this and more stories please
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# ¿ Dec 13, 2019 11:42 |
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Earth Table posted:Also I would appreciate any gambling movies yall would recommend. This is a weird post to me because I just watched Rounders last night. Nice to see Edward norton(has he been in any recent movies?) but yeah, silly movie.
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# ¿ Dec 14, 2019 01:34 |
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E: yeah above poster is correct. Not gonna contribute to a derail.
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# ¿ Dec 14, 2019 01:41 |
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Grem posted:I made some cash on a weird side job so I had like $300 to blow, decided to go to Blackhawk in Colorado and lasted a long loving time with that money, like, almost a year. All playing craps. It's all gone now but it was fun. I don’t know much but people in service gigs are usually friends with people in similar jobs. All my bartender/restaurant friends date other bartenders/servers it is kinda strange. Also I know a guy who deals at that casino
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# ¿ Dec 14, 2019 17:42 |
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Pekinduck posted:The prizes being junk? Its not just the arcade being cheap, its actually what makes the whole affair legally not gambling. States have an exemption carved out that allows prizes for game playing if the prize has a very low monetary value. Here's Florida's: Lol that’s hilarious. My states laws must be somewhat different because my friend won a bike at the arcade when we were kids
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# ¿ Dec 16, 2019 17:17 |
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drat sitting at 2/5 with only $200 is a risky fuckin move lol, glad it worked out for you in such a funny way tho.
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# ¿ Dec 17, 2019 07:14 |
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I dropped like two racks of chips once on the hard tiled floor of the food area it was super embarrassing lol. I got to a table and everyone’s like “oh its the guy who spilled all of his chips” making me look like a total noob idiot
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# ¿ Dec 17, 2019 07:23 |
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BrigadierSensible posted:Sorry, I don't play much poker. Haha no you’re definitely right, having that sort of image is usually a good thing, i was just embarrassed 😩
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# ¿ Dec 17, 2019 12:09 |
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There’s a poker thread in the traditional games sub forum
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# ¿ Dec 17, 2019 12:30 |
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Did anybody else see that ridiculous parlay from a couple months ago where somebody bet on every NFL game that week and was correct on all with only the Monday night game to go? Online sports books are shady but the person stood to win a TON on like a $2 bet, I don’t remember exactly how much but pretty sure it was 6 figures. If it were a real casino that guaranteed a payout I would have hedged that bet like crazy and put everything I could on the opposite team of the original bet. The person wound up losing on the MNF game lol.
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# ¿ Dec 17, 2019 16:33 |
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My goodness that’s ripe for degenerates
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# ¿ Dec 17, 2019 17:06 |
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Anybody got some baccarat stories or knowledge? Couple poker pros have recently been caught “edge sorting” and losing millions because the casinos caught em I believe. I’ve never played the game myself but I have been told by a ton of people that it’s like the most swingy game out there. Just imagine running up like 20 million and then losing a lawsuit to the casino lol. I don’t really know how edge sorting works besides spotting misprints on the cards, honestly doesn’t seem like it should be disallowed since the house is using the decks but that’s just me
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# ¿ Jan 5, 2020 21:17 |
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Oswald Kesselpot posted:Th casinos were pretty stupid there. Phil Ivey took a known edge sorter into the casino, and then before he would gamble big money he demanded that specific decks be used, and then asked the dealers to display the cards in a very specific manner so the backs were visible. What exactly did they expect was going to happen? I didn’t know he had an accomplice, but yeah lol. Anyway I believe he lost when he tried to take them to court for his winnings so apparently a casino gently caress up is on the player?
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# ¿ Jan 5, 2020 21:49 |
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The Dregs posted:This thread inspired me to go looking for more weird degenerate gambler stuff. r/gambling provides some gems. Lol I have a cracked phone screen, took forever to figure out what the hell the point of that picture was
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# ¿ Jan 6, 2020 19:36 |
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JAMOOOL posted:if he does this then they don't have an edge right? Lol. At least he won the prop bet in the end
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# ¿ Jan 6, 2020 22:26 |
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Techno Remix posted:I’m not a big gambler but these stories make me sad we don’t get any of the fun games up here in MN. It’s slots, video poker, regular poker, and blackjack pretty much exclusively. I might have see some video roulette machines at Mystic but I haven’t been in a few years. We got horse racing though, which is always a guilty pleasure of mine. For $2 you get real invested in any one horse, and I’ve won a few long shot bets that put a few bucks in my pocket. It’d just be nice to go somewhere close for real roulette or craps, or a sportsbook or something. Yeah our options are real limited up here. They have some weird style baccarat up at running aces but I think it’s some simplified version. I didn’t get a chance to gently caress around with craps or roulette when I was in Vegas for work. Just spent all my free time at the poker tables but I kinda wish I had just for some dumb fun lol.
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# ¿ Jan 7, 2020 19:09 |
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Techno Remix posted:For all my fun of betting on the horses I’ve never actually been up to Running Aces, it’s all been at Canterbury. Canterbury’s poker room is nice. The last time my buddies and I went there we got one of the low stakes tables with a bunch of fat old drunk guys and they were awesome. Then some guy in shades came in and started dropping huge bets every pot to bully people off. Killed the buzz. Yeah Canterbury is nice too. Honestly they are like exactly the same but aces has better food. I’ve tried to wrap my head around betting the horsies but that kind of gambling just makes no sense to me and I haven’t cared to learn lmao. It was fun to put $10 on a pretty much random horse and hoot and holler during the race to collect my $15 payout lol.
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# ¿ Jan 7, 2020 23:28 |
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Heated gamer moment
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# ¿ Jan 11, 2020 20:41 |
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Please don’t start discussing the ethics of gambling. We know it’s a scourge. This is the thread for stories. Edit: Bar gambling is fun. My first time playing live poker was a bar tournament, which I won. Got a $50 drink certificate written on a piece of receipt paper and me and my friends got a lotta shots that night. Sadly they got shut down because the entry fee was “buy one drink to play”. I still haven’t been able to find any other bar poker around here My experienced friend kept coming to check my stack and would whisper “shove or fold” when I was under like 20bbs lol. It worked out. Tetramin fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Jan 13, 2020 |
# ¿ Jan 13, 2020 23:47 |
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jase1 posted:First, let me clarify a few things. I’ve read a thread or two of yours, and you say your uncle bankrolled you to get started, but I gotta ask do you come from money or did you have some sort of cushion? I lived off playing poker for like 8 months and it was the most stressful time of my life, but I might do it if I had a whole lot of money.
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# ¿ Jan 13, 2020 23:58 |
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jase1 posted:Long story short is. Parents booted me when I was officially 18, they are terrible people and have proven over and over again they want no part of my life. They reappeared when I went through my bladder cancer scare a few years ago but proved once again they were pieces of poo poo. My uncle bankrolled me to start once I was on my own he taught me how to save money and also keep a bankroll and stuff for emergencies. When I got a bit older I worked for a small auto finance company. I had saved over 200k from shooting pool and just had it sitting in a money market account from and I bought the finance company from the owner looking to retire. After a few years I sold it to a New York company for over 7 figures and I retired at 40 and moved to Florida. Then in 2018 after almost drinking myself to death (I’m basically a functioning alcoholic) and the cancer scare I took out a sizable bank loan and bought a small marina and restaurant. That’s cool thank you for sharing. Seems like a smart approach to gambling if you’re good. I was hanging by the skin of my teeth playing 2/5 for months(had a reasonable roll, but was taking everything above that as a paycheck). I wasn’t good enough to move up to 5/10, at the time it sucked but it was fun only “working” Thur-sat just wrecking drunk people.
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# ¿ Jan 14, 2020 02:15 |
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I am not much of a writer so I’ll just say my best poker room story was in Reno. Guy(bald) was getting pissed about the dude to my right taking his $5 pots. The guy on my right just kept slicking back his full head of hair at him until baldy jumped the table to try and fight. Casino security escorted baldy away until bringing him back like 10 minutes later when the guy immediately resumed taunting him lol. He tried to fight again, got escorted away along with his bully, they both came back after 5 minutes to keep gambling. That was in the poker room at silver lodge or something like that, there was 2 tables going max that I saw even on a Saturday. They probably couldn’t afford to just chuck people out. This was a Friday On Saturday a guy took $100 from me and bought me a massage. During that I doubled up off him, then I doubled up again 2 more times from him in an hour or two Tetramin fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Jan 14, 2020 |
# ¿ Jan 14, 2020 08:08 |
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Anybody interested in live poker but hasn’t played much or is nervous about casinos should trawl through like meetup.com for local home games with low stakes. Like JAMOOL posted, my local group does .25/.50 with a $40 max buyin but the host provides cigars and scotch. It’s a fun rear end time, and the stakes are small enough to keep sharks away. Not to say the pots don’t get pretty big once everyone’s just having a good time
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# ¿ Jan 15, 2020 03:46 |
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I do not think I’d like being on any psychedelic type drug stringer than weed in a casino
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# ¿ Jan 19, 2020 06:22 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 12:40 |
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He said he’s somehow able to go around to bars and shoot for drinks with somebody, but then it turns out the opponent has a huge bankroll and escalates bets? I’ve hung with a couple pool players and that has been what I’ve seen too but it usually tops out around $100. I’m sure there’s some high rollers willing to gamble big in my area and I just don’t know where they’re at.
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# ¿ Jan 19, 2020 08:40 |