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Oswald Kesselpot
Jan 14, 2008

HONK HONK HONK
That was a great lay down, I'm sure influenced by Polk's knowledge of Helmuth (and Helmuth talking like a fool), but I’m not so sure it was the correct play in the long run. I cant imagine that the money you save when you are right in these situations makes up for the money you lose when you end up folding the winner. Sets, 2 pair, maybe a broken draw, the same hand, or even just a flat out bluff are all at least possible, and I think it’s more likely that the villain has one of those as him having the 1 hand that beats you.

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Oswald Kesselpot
Jan 14, 2008

HONK HONK HONK

Tetramin posted:

Jesus fuckin 20% is insane. What about IRL gambling like horse racing or poo poo even Live poker in states where online is illegal? Is it still that high?
In Pennsylvania casinos pay 16% of live poker and table games earnings to state and local taxes, and I think 54% of slot earnings. I think those are the same for online gambling as well. Or at least in 2018 thats what the numbers were, they could have changed them since then.

Oswald Kesselpot
Jan 14, 2008

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PIZZA.BAT posted:

Hold ‘em 1/3 at the Pittsburgh Three Rivers Casino. I think I’m gonna try going once every other week to see how I do
I play there all the time, and I was there Wednesday night. To think, two goons in that close proximity in the wild and we didn’t even smell each other.

I wouldn’t put much stock in players knowing dealers names or vice versa, I know them all and you would not be unhappy to have me on your left. Since that’s the only really viable poker room in Pittsburgh (the meadows was always bad but now that all of their poker dealers walked out, that room is just pure trash), so most folks play their. Consider, only maybe 10 or 20% of players are profitable over the long haul (and most of them probably 4BB/hr or less) and like half of that room is regs at any given time, that means a lot of regs are going to be negative earners.

There are a few players that are disgruntled in general, but usually tables have 4 or 5 people that are enjoying themselves, and most of the dealers are fun also. If I ever find myself at a table with a group of disagreeable folks I’ll usually make an effort to play right and increase the odds of padding my stats a bit for the times I’m just down there having fun.

And there are quite a few OMC's that play occasionally; they don’t spread the 3/6 or 4/8 limit games anymore, and if they were to do so they are no longer eligible for most of the promotions so they wouldn’t get full anyway, so several of those players have migrated to play 1/3 instead.

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