Article in Cincinnati's paper

[Jackal22]

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Want to learn how to play poker? Here are some resources to get you started:

? Read any book by David Sklansky, and Hold 'Em Poker if you want to learn the game that's all the rage, suggests national poker champ Rick Steiner of North Avondale.

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http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/03/08/tem_tem1a.html

[daryn]

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"There's a sport to it, trying to tell when people are bluffing and when they're not," Scheidler says.

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i love this. why is it that non-poker players (and even some clowns who do play) think that bluffing is a huuuuge element of the game?

[Jim Kuhn]

I agree. There are several people I work with that are all of a sudden interested in Poker. They want to know two things: 1) how do you pick up all of those tells 2) will you teach me poker chip tricks for between hands.

[Jim Kuhn]

Sorry to be way out in right field but is Dutch Boyd related to Sam Boyd?

[pretender2k]

I had a classic statement at work tonight. I was talking to a couple of blackjack players and the subject of poker came up. When it came out that I play poker almost everyday online, the lady said "Doesn't that get kind of expensive?"

What was that line in Rounders about people thinking that poker was gambling. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

I didn't bother telling them the story about how I have been LUCKY enough to turn a $100 buy-in into $1000 buy grinding away day after day for 8 months. I don't think they would understand.

[pretender2k]

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Watch any of the TV shows: the World Poker Tour, 9 p.m. Wednesdays on the Travel Channel; Celebrity Poker Showdown on Bravo (in reruns, check listings); The 2003 World Series of Poker on ESPN (in reruns, check listings).

• Rent a movie. Try 1965's The Cincinnati Kid, starring Steve McQueen; 1994's Maverick, starring Mel Gibson; 1998's Rounders, starring Matt Damon; or 2000's Luckytown, starring Kirsten Dunst.


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Now there is some classic how to play poker advice. I think I'll start telling people that's how I got good enough to pull down 1BB/ 100 hands. No really it didn't have anything to do with the dozen books I read or analyzing all the mistakes I made grinding out 100 - 200 hands a day. I attribute all my success to WPT. Heck I usually take a nap during WPT so I am ready to play when all those that watched it are ready to use their newly learned tricks.

[MicroBob]

interesting article from my original home area.

the Caesar's Indiana card-room that they referenced is actually in Louisville about 1:30-2:00 from Cincy.

Lawrenceburg, Ind has the Argosy Casino about 20-30 mins from Cincy (depending on where in Cincy you are coming from) but they have no poker room.

consequently...i suspect the home-game scene in a non-poker-room town like Cincy is pretty good.
I want to play in that private game by the way.