Forum: Home Poker
11-30-2005, 01:28 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 119
Re: Anyone Have These Chips?
I've been using the 1" inlay version, custom labeled, for some time now. Love them. Slightly slick but not unbearable, good sound and weight.
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Forum: One-table Tournaments
08-01-2005, 03:32 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 37
AKs Hand
$5 SNG on UB. Early on, heres the action. Am I ahead here? my move?
Ultimate Bet No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (9 handed) converter...
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Forum: Home Poker
07-25-2005, 11:34 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 80
Re: Home game bubble strategy
Good tournament strategy with a SS all-in and two players calling can entail 'checking it down' it is the best interest of both players to eliminate the SS. Good players know this and don't verbalize...
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Forum: Home Poker
07-15-2005, 02:38 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 152
Re: Chip labels
It IS a major hassle...I've done it twice, 1000 chips each time. But for the price to have some custom chips it's not such a big deal. A few hours of labeling while you're watching the TV. If you're...
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Forum: Home Poker
07-15-2005, 02:34 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 129
Re: does cutting prevent cheating?
Another common but more difficult method is to crimp the bottom card of the arranged deck prior to offering it to be cut. When the deck is cut, the crooked dealer locates the original bottom...
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Forum: Home Poker
07-14-2005, 03:24 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 84
Re: Looking for games around the Houston area.
try Houston Poker Online (http://www.houstonpokeronline.com) or Poker Campus (http://www.pokercampus.com) the former is a newer site which has many the same members of the latter. ONLY legal games...
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Forum: Home Poker
06-15-2005, 04:27 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 148
Re: Tipping the Dealer in a Home Cash Game
So what if it's not the 'house' taking the tips? Not trying to work around the law or anything, but often at cash games, a player will bust and offer to deal. Often times, this player is not the...
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Forum: One-table Tournaments
05-25-2005, 11:02 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 37
Scared of this River?
Early, no reads, had villian on flush or straight draw. River concerns me, perhaps he hit his straight? Not likely as this would indicate limping with AK.
This is a $10+1 at pokerroom
Comments...
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Forum: One-table Tournaments
05-25-2005, 08:27 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 47
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Forum: Home Poker
05-24-2005, 11:19 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 85
Re: Chip Label Feedback
I like the second one. I think, however, you don't need the denom 4 times. Just pick a spot and put it there. Also the font seems a bit inconsistant, perhaps that is by design (the word ROOM the...
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Forum: One-table Tournaments
05-20-2005, 11:32 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 51
Re: Should you use a small stack to gamble?
Are you 4 tabling or such? In these cases often times I'll just start up another tourney (since I only 1 or 2 table anyways) and play the short stack tourney as a 'bonus'..
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Forum: One-table Tournaments
05-19-2005, 12:13 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 46
Re: Table talking...BS?
I believe standard tourney rules are a bit stricter in this regard... [ QUOTE ]
What are you guys saying, is it not allowed to say that you have hand xx when you're still in the hand? When I play...
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Forum: Home Poker
05-02-2005, 12:05 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 127
Re: kickback for the host
Some of the more etiquette minded players at my games do throw some money back my way 'if they are in the money', but also perhaps this is because I usually deal the whole game mayself, while playing...
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Forum: Home Poker
04-29-2005, 10:53 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 87
Re: Dealer Error!
Well, the immature burn card isn't shuffled back in, only the immature turn. With the method in Robert's Rules, this way at the very least the river card is the same as it would've been without the...
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Forum: Home Poker
04-28-2005, 02:11 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 162
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Forum: One-table Tournaments
03-30-2005, 03:33 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 47
Re: Teaching the wife..
Well, the wife already plays everytime I do, so now it's just a matter of making her want to improve her game.
She doesn't drink during poker, however, when we go out to bars, etc, she's drinking...
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Forum: One-table Tournaments
03-30-2005, 01:44 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 47
Re: Teaching the wife..
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Well for online play:
Beating the 10+1 on Party (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=602767&page=&view=&sb=5&o=)
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Thanks, I printed that out...
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Forum: One-table Tournaments
03-30-2005, 01:43 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 47
Re: Teaching the wife..
well, she's generally a pretty tight player, although I think she tends to overvalue cards such as ATo, KJo, etc, especially OOP. At the same time, she can't understand limping with low-mid PP for...
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Forum: One-table Tournaments
03-30-2005, 01:10 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 47
Teaching the wife..
The wife loves to play poker just as much as I do, mostly we play online SNG or 1-2 table tourneys when we host or go to others' games. The unfortunate part is she refuses to listen to advice from me...
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Forum: Home Poker
03-29-2005, 03:31 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 112
Re: Labels
I did 100% art on my labels and had Jason print the first set. While I felt it was worth it, for my second set I wanted to use Vinyl labels and it was more cost effective for me to buy the stock and...
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Forum: Home Poker
03-22-2005, 10:44 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 189
Re: 9G Vegas Chips
And here I thought I was the only one peeling labels off chips to apply my own...Luckily only 50 for now, until I add on to my set..
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Forum: Home Poker
03-22-2005, 02:58 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 90
Re: Poker Laws
http://www.gambling-law-us.com/
In summary, Texas home games are legal so long as:
(1) the gambling occurred in a private place;
(2) no person received any economic benefit other than...
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Forum: Home Poker
03-22-2005, 01:38 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 111
Re: Exposed Turn Card Ruling
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it's in robert's rules (print them out from homepokertourney.com for next time) but here it is:
Leave the burn burnt, put the turn back in the stub and shuffle the stub (riffle, riffle,...
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Forum: Home Poker
03-22-2005, 01:05 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 189
Re: 9G Vegas Chips
I have the 9G blanks of which you speak. I preferred them over the nexgens which I sampled as well. Yes, they are lighter, and the nexgens are a bit cheaper, but I couldn't stand to have 'LAS VEGAS'...
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Forum: One-table Tournaments
02-28-2005, 02:47 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 132
Re: what do you guys use to keep track of SNG\'s?
Perhaps check out pokercharts.com. They are moving to a subscription based service, so I opted to move to my own MySQL database to serve the same purpose, but they had the opponents option you...
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