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Hey all! I used to post here but never really had much poker success. I did really enjoy the goon series of poker however, did pretty well in those. Used to play a lot of cake poker, now I sometimes play on global poker.
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Would mahjong (riichi) content be welcome here? It's also a gambling game that blends skill with chance.
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Jan 11, 2021 17:39
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Raenir Salazar posted:Would mahjong (riichi) content be welcome here? It's also a gambling game that blends skill with chance. im not a mod but gently caress yea do it
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Jan 11, 2021 17:40
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I'm a table games dealer (blackjack + variants, poker variants like pai-gow/UTH/three card poker, roulette, and craps) and can't imagine doing anything else for a living. If people are interested in asking/talking about stuff related to games like that I could talk about dealer minutae all day
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Jan 11, 2021 17:41
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Murmur Twin posted:I'm a table games dealer (blackjack + variants, poker variants like pai-gow/UTH/three card poker, roulette, and craps) and can't imagine doing anything else for a living. If people are interested in asking/talking about stuff related to games like that I could talk about dealer minutae all day p sure we had a casino employees megathread
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Jan 11, 2021 17:43
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Raenir Salazar posted:Would mahjong (riichi) content be welcome here? It's also a gambling game that blends skill with chance. There's a Mahjong thread in TG, and aldantefax already asked me (in the tg chat thread) if I should move it to PitR. I'm going to leave it open to the goons in that thread, but: you could totally just make a new Mahjong thread here, perhaps it would be more focused on the gambling aspects? 100% it's allowed and encouraged to talk about any and all games that have or still traditionally involve betting, in PitR.
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Jan 11, 2021 17:55
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I've never really gambled in any way so it's unlikely I'll hang around very long but I think it's pretty cool to see this forum return after all this time. I definitely remembered the subforum name even while it was gone as one of the funnier ones. Anyone remember what caused it to get closed originally?
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Jan 11, 2021 18:22
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Glad to see this place return, online poker permanently changed the way I see probabilities and handle adversity even if I never made a living out of it.
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Jan 11, 2021 18:48
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Hi After my pro days were over, I worked at Cake Poker and PokerStars (agreeing to work there 2 weeks before Black Friday was fun btw) and was in the industry until early 2018. These days I bet on politics, crypto, and shitposts. what's up
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Jan 11, 2021 19:51
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Cheers to PitR reborn! I'm bad at poker and liked to read the old forum.
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Jan 11, 2021 20:34
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I think there was a Las Vegas thread before, that could be good
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Jan 11, 2021 20:53
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I think the old PITR got closed about 2 days after I first noticed it. Was the old one hidden from public view, should this one be hidden?
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Jan 11, 2021 20:57
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Raenir Salazar posted:Would mahjong (riichi) content be welcome here? It's also a gambling game that blends skill with chance. I'm an ik who plays a shitton of riichi (mjsoul, not for money) and yes absolutely. If you want to make a general thread for traditional games with gambling, or a mahjong specific one, whatever you like. The former would, in my opinion, include things like how amazing backgammon becomes when the doubling cube is used.
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Jan 11, 2021 21:11
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tao of lmao posted:Someone get jcarver on the phone Former goon Steve "MrTimCaum" O'Dwyer is 11th in the poker all time money list with live earnings of $30,475,250.
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Jan 11, 2021 21:45
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Since this is the old forum re-opened, anyone with archives can review those old threads from when this forum was closed. Just set the date at the bottom right of your screen to 2012. A few of those threads were moved to TG (and died there) but most of them remain in place. this was the official announcement (requires archives). Beyond what's in that first post, what I have gathered is that the subforum was closed out of a general admin impetus at that time to cut some fat from the forums, mostly on the basis that it had low traffic but also subsequent to some level of concern (the particulars I'm not familiar with) about some goons sponsoring each other or staking or maybe a misunderstanding of what cake was or whatever. Maybe. That last bit is hearsay, I haven't actually seen posts about it. Posting traffic had declined precipitously after the so-called infamous Black Friday, when the FBI raided major sites and the feds decided to crack down on online poker. Practically overnight, millions of US poker players found they couldn't fund/withdraw from online poker using their bank, credit card, paypal, etc. and that was sufficient to kill their interest. If you read that above thread, lots of posters thought that traffic was going to return, and there were some signals that legalization was coming too. We know now, 8 years later, that the situation was not fully resolved and it remains a state-by-state question as to how easy it is to play poker online. SA has a different set of admins and mods now, we're going to be proactive about avoiding any potential problems with goons staking or transacting directly on the forums, and we're less concerned about what "low traffic" means for a subforum or whether that's a killer for it. We also want to fold in sports betting/gambling in general, which should hopefully give the forum slightly wider appeal than it had before. I say "we," because I was afforded the opportunity to have some input and there appeared to be a consensus, but I'm not speaking for the admins and other mods here really, this is more of my own assessment. I feel pretty good about the outcome right now and I think PitR can expect to be treated fairly.
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Jan 11, 2021 21:50
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Hello, old friends. I miss the Goon Series of Poker tournaments so much.
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Jan 11, 2021 22:49
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Lid posted:Former goon Steve "MrTimCaum" O'Dwyer is 11th in the poker all time money list with live earnings of $30,475,250. If only I could have bought a lifetime stake in that guy instead of just that one WSOP.
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Jan 11, 2021 23:01
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You would have gone through some tough times, Steve is high on the absolutely deserves whatever he wins list also because he ran bad for years before finally hitting any. Live MTT life is brutal.
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Jan 11, 2021 23:19
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Is this where horse racing chat goes? Derby trail season is right around the corner...
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Jan 11, 2021 23:21
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Youth Decay posted:Is this where horse racing chat goes? Derby trail season is right around the corner... If you make a horse racing thread, please use the phrase "Mr. Trifecta Memorial" somewhere in it. I don't know if he's dead, but he deserves to be mentioned.
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Jan 11, 2021 23:24
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and yeah the answer is yes, emphatically yes make a horse racing thread
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Jan 11, 2021 23:35
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Leperflesh posted:and yeah the answer is yes, emphatically yes make a horse racing thread
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Jan 11, 2021 23:49
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Murmur Twin posted:I'm a table games dealer (blackjack + variants, poker variants like pai-gow/UTH/three card poker, roulette, and craps) and can't imagine doing anything else for a living. If people are interested in asking/talking about stuff related to games like that I could talk about dealer minutae all day Yes! Because I love craps, my wife only likes Black jack and neither of us are good at the other games. And I hate other craps players because they’re loud and annoying. Also why do you ask that I color up when I’m ready to leave and when should I ask because it’s a madhouse almost all the time. How do I be better at making your life less hard when you’re dealing with drunk people?
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Jan 12, 2021 02:24
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Edward Mass posted:If you make a horse racing thread, please use the phrase "Mr. Trifecta Memorial" somewhere in it. I don't know if he's dead, but he deserves to be mentioned. nevar4get https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3533368
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Jan 12, 2021 02:43
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Do you guys remember the time that a guy started a thread called like "Ask me about being a professional horse handicapper" and then it turned out he just bet based on what he had a good feeling about and that he wouldn't even say for sure that he was even up money lifetime? That wasn't the same guy was it?
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Jan 12, 2021 02:49
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Hi again everyone. I'm the guy who is simultaneously glad and also kicking myself I never got into poker seriously back in the early 2000s. I've got some pretty fond memories of loving around on Stars with a bunch of you (and losing a big pot to JCarver's quads  )My poker activity these days is limited to an annual superbowl winner take all SnG with friends and $1 Spin and Gos when I remember poker exists once every 2 months. It's kind of sad. If this renews my interest maybe I'll dip back in to stars or party or whatever is good. odiv fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Jan 12, 2021 |
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Jan 12, 2021 03:10
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Stefan Prodan posted:You would have gone through some tough times, Steve is high on the absolutely deserves whatever he wins list also because he ran bad for years before finally hitting any. Live MTT life is brutal. Eh. I bet I've made a final table in like 1 out of every 20 live MTTs. I dont know why people say its brutal.
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Jan 12, 2021 05:53
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Lote posted:Eh. I bet I've made a final table in like 1 out of every 20 live MTTs. I dont know why people say its brutal. yeah fair enough I think my sunday record was similar, I dunno what all these dudes are whining about
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Jan 12, 2021 06:08
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Stefan Prodan posted:yeah fair enough I think my sunday record was similar, I dunno what all these dudes are whining about Hah! I didn't know we were doing introductions! When old PITR was around I got into grinding super turbos on full tilt and just rakeback pro'd it up for a couple years there sitting on almost every table that opened. I can still see sngwiz in my sleep. I wanted to be the first guy to get the car with full tilt points on FTP, and was pretty close to it when it shut down. But the feds never gave me anything for all those points, although I did finally get my roll back. Also *still* upset about the timing of that shutdown because I *swear* I had just worked out a major hole in my game (tried to get too "unexploitable/gto" as I just piled on more and more volume, ended up not calling enough and shoving too light, especially against other regs). I'll never know for sure, cus FTP was the only site for that game! I saw faarcyde doing a well on 2+2 a ways back and he basically said "yah, people weren't calling enough". Goddamnit. 1% difference in ROI would have been a lot. Definitely got disenchanted with poker after that, although I do still play when I go to vegas. The limits are about to be raised here in colorado so we won't have that weird 100 max bet game anymore, will have to see if more people are playing and if they can get any 2-5 going finally. I do have a lot of experience playing blackjack, I made a thread about that. Also have a good chunk on predictit that I've grown over the years. But I moved most of my high stakes betting to selling options now..... Baddog fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Jan 12, 2021 |
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Jan 12, 2021 09:10
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Baddog posted:Hah! Do you think trading of that nature is possible to be profitable at as like a home trader? It seems to be wildly split on that opinion wise and I tried to get into trading several times but never got past paper trading because I could never really be sure I was +EV at all
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Jan 12, 2021 09:17
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I cant imagine doing the poker grind anymore. Im just too old too slow and too tired all the time. In conclusion i should be playing razz.
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Jan 12, 2021 09:25
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Yeah. I have too many responsibilities to be able to grind. It’s just on poker vacations now. The mtt sats at the WSOP will always be soft. Worst play I’ve seen aside from play money
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Jan 12, 2021 11:08
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Fun memory- the only time I made a Sunday Million final table was when I was physically in Vegas with goons sweating me IRL and yelling at me
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Jan 12, 2021 13:34
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Lid posted:I cant imagine doing the poker grind anymore. Im just too old too slow and too tired all the time. In conclusion i should be playing razz. I started with razz, but yeah that checks out
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Jan 12, 2021 13:42
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Hello. I only lurked PITR back in the day but I loved it. I’m the pool goon who had ask/tell me threads that were pretty popular. Now a days I only play poker and do really bad at gambling on sports. I use to bet MMA a lot too. If I need to pad my bankroll I will find a couple of pool games to setup but in general I don’t shoot pool as much as I use too. Mostly just live private poker games and sports betting.
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Jan 12, 2021 14:14
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Yes! I am so happy this forum is back. I've been watching Bill Fillmaff videos on repeat all these years trying to hold on to the glory.
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Jan 12, 2021 14:23
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What up, I don't gamble but I have been in the casino business for almost a decade! I get paid like poo poo and hate meth addicts. Any other goon casino workers? Wanna talk about how insane slots players can be? Wanna swap wild stories? Last night I had an obscenely drunk man tell me how cool quaaludes are for like an hour (slow night. Actually they've all been slow nights since covid).
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Jan 12, 2021 15:14
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This is a bit of a surprise. Black Friday pretty much coincided with the birth of my first kid and I haven't played really at all since then, outside of the occasional night at a casino. Good to see all of you degens back in one place, though.
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Jan 12, 2021 17:55
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Stefan Prodan posted:Do you think trading of that nature is possible to be profitable at as like a home trader? For the longest time I believed there was no edge at all unless you had inside info. Starting to think that options markets are slow to fully react, especially in less liquid equities. And people overvalue risk reduction. We know that's human nature from playing so much poker, seems like it might be relevant in derivatives as well. My sample size is way too small of course.
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Jan 12, 2021 20:30
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This is really cool that it's back, and seeing some of these names again. Poker was a big part of my 20s and it's all thanks to PITR and IRC. My first real roll came from running deep in the GSOP rebuy. I haven't played much at all since Black Friday, but I did take down a live $100 rebuy charity tournament somewhat recently. I do sometimes wonder about getting back into online to fill some downtime while working from home, but I'm also bad at poker these days and don't have the grind in me.
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