Poker
Sure, depending on when it is I'm in. Let's be sure to plan far enough ahead so that everyone can get money into Pokerstars to play with. I don't really play anymore, but I'll get some money in there for a DTMan game.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
Good point about pokerstars.TPRJones wrote:Sure, depending on when it is I'm in. Let's be sure to plan far enough ahead so that everyone can get money into Pokerstars to play with. I don't really play anymore, but I'll get some money in there for a DTMan game.
Is there anywhere to play for free? Then we can just paypal the $ in or something?
(Or, maybe paypal it to someone to be the "banker" who then splits it according to winnings?)
I dont really want pokerstars to have any of my $.
It's not me, it's someone else.
Sure, if somewhere will let us do a private free play game that has a good interface, we could just do that. Then we can either do winner-take-all, or just have the winner send the 2nd their share.
Whatever we do, lets fire up some voice chat system so we can properly talk shit during the game.
Whatever we do, lets fire up some voice chat system so we can properly talk shit during the game.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
Steam has a good voice system we have used. The main benefit being most of us already have Steam.TPRJones wrote:Sure, if somewhere will let us do a private free play game that has a good interface, we could just do that. Then we can either do winner-take-all, or just have the winner send the 2nd their share.
Whatever we do, lets fire up some voice chat system so we can properly talk shit during the game.
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Yahoo has free games. don't know if we can make it private though. Doing the free play could be more fun in the sense that we could do a 10 to 1 kind of thing so our pots can be bigger. In other words, everyone starts with $1000 in fake money and we all put up $10.
And honestly, I'd rather keep it in the $10 range. Ya, I know you'd rather take my $20, but, I don't want to give you that much. If I'm going to spend $20 to play a game, it won't be one in which I just hand you guys $20.
We could also do a free play thing where we all start with the same amount of money, then play whenever, against whoever. After two weeks, who ever has the most money claims the paypal prize. We use to do something like that with the stock market. We'd all invest and after 2 weeks, whoever had the most money won. This way, as I learn, I may have a chance to catch up and be competative. Otherwise, I'm out in 10-20 minutes and I didn't learn anything and I don't want to play any more cause losing sucks.
And honestly, I'd rather keep it in the $10 range. Ya, I know you'd rather take my $20, but, I don't want to give you that much. If I'm going to spend $20 to play a game, it won't be one in which I just hand you guys $20.
We could also do a free play thing where we all start with the same amount of money, then play whenever, against whoever. After two weeks, who ever has the most money claims the paypal prize. We use to do something like that with the stock market. We'd all invest and after 2 weeks, whoever had the most money won. This way, as I learn, I may have a chance to catch up and be competative. Otherwise, I'm out in 10-20 minutes and I didn't learn anything and I don't want to play any more cause losing sucks.
I'd play.
Two players...
Three players...
Four players...
Five players...
Six players...
No. The regulation was snuck into a Homeland Security bill and prevents the use of credit cards to pay online gambling. It's a regulation against banks, not people. Plus there is no enforcement of the law, and last month they voted to extend their lack of enforcement for another year.
People deposit with eCheck or gift cards (which are not credit cards), and groups are lobbying that poker is not gambling, but a game of skill. (It's defined as a game of skill in CA, so there are poker rooms there)
Seventh player?
In comparison, the final table coverage you see on TV (World Poker Tour) has 6 players. The more the merrier in my opinion though.
I don't see play money sites like Yahoo or Facebook or even the play money games on PokerStars and Full Tilt to be viable options though. You simply cannot hold private games.
I see two options.
1) I give you each $1.10 on PokerStars. You can either pay me back on PayPal or whatever, or keep it as a gift. Then we play a game.
2) Cakedaddy wanted to keep it in the $10 range, and wanted to learn over a longer period than one game, so we could play a series of 4 or 5 $1+$.10 games with a Paypal side pot (keeping the total to $10).
#1 & #2 ranked players would get a piece of the side pot.
I'd transfer each of you $4.40 (if 4 games) or $5.50 (5 games) on PokerStars (I'd want to be reimbursed if we did this). Then we have a PayPal side pot ($5.60 or $4.50) in which the best overall gets the lions share.
4-Games: 7 x $5.60 = $39.20. 1st place would get $25.00 and 2nd best would get $14.20.
5-Games: 7 x $4.50 = $31.50. 1st place gets $20 and 2nd gets $11.50.
Private $1.10 tables with 7 players pay:
1st $3.50
2nd $2.10
3rd $1.40
(This is an incredibly flat pay scale, paying 43% of the field)
Then we'd just need a fair way to calculate who is best overall. Standard would give 1st place finishes significantly more points than 2nd or 3rd place finishes. To make it easy we could just consider whoever wins the most $ to be the winner?
Let me know.
TheCatt wrote:So that means if we want to play a DTMan tourney we could for cheap? I'm down. I dont play a lot, but I've always wanted to play a DTMAn tourney.
Two players...
Leisher wrote:Ditto.
Three players...
Troy wrote:Poker? I barely know her!!
I bet this joke was done 10 pages ago.
Anyway, I'm game.
Four players...
Cakedaddy wrote:I'd be in as long as you all promise to let me play at least 5 hands before you take all my money.
Five players...
TPRJones wrote:Sure, depending on when it is I'm in. Let's be sure to plan far enough ahead so that everyone can get money into Pokerstars to play with. I don't really play anymore, but I'll get some money in there for a DTMan game.
Six players...
GORDON wrote:And congress is trying to decide whether or not to go after peeps who use online gambling sites?
No. The regulation was snuck into a Homeland Security bill and prevents the use of credit cards to pay online gambling. It's a regulation against banks, not people. Plus there is no enforcement of the law, and last month they voted to extend their lack of enforcement for another year.
People deposit with eCheck or gift cards (which are not credit cards), and groups are lobbying that poker is not gambling, but a game of skill. (It's defined as a game of skill in CA, so there are poker rooms there)
Seventh player?
In comparison, the final table coverage you see on TV (World Poker Tour) has 6 players. The more the merrier in my opinion though.
I don't see play money sites like Yahoo or Facebook or even the play money games on PokerStars and Full Tilt to be viable options though. You simply cannot hold private games.
I see two options.
1) I give you each $1.10 on PokerStars. You can either pay me back on PayPal or whatever, or keep it as a gift. Then we play a game.
2) Cakedaddy wanted to keep it in the $10 range, and wanted to learn over a longer period than one game, so we could play a series of 4 or 5 $1+$.10 games with a Paypal side pot (keeping the total to $10).
#1 & #2 ranked players would get a piece of the side pot.
I'd transfer each of you $4.40 (if 4 games) or $5.50 (5 games) on PokerStars (I'd want to be reimbursed if we did this). Then we have a PayPal side pot ($5.60 or $4.50) in which the best overall gets the lions share.
4-Games: 7 x $5.60 = $39.20. 1st place would get $25.00 and 2nd best would get $14.20.
5-Games: 7 x $4.50 = $31.50. 1st place gets $20 and 2nd gets $11.50.
Private $1.10 tables with 7 players pay:
1st $3.50
2nd $2.10
3rd $1.40
(This is an incredibly flat pay scale, paying 43% of the field)
Then we'd just need a fair way to calculate who is best overall. Standard would give 1st place finishes significantly more points than 2nd or 3rd place finishes. To make it easy we could just consider whoever wins the most $ to be the winner?
Let me know.
The Feds made a big movement to close online poker.GORDON wrote:And congress is trying to decide whether or not to go after peeps who use online gambling sites?
Check out Pokerstars.com or FullTiltPoker.com or UltimateBet.com or AbsolutePoker.com
Basically, the domains for the major poker sites have been seized. The poker sites are still allowing non-American players to play, but if you get on as an American you can't do anything involving real money.
Poker players are torn at what to do. These companies are not U.S. based, so the Fed's can't get their money. But if you cash out they have to go through a processor and those funds can be seized.
There are dozens of smaller poker sites that were not seized, and still allow American players.
I'm just sitting back and waiting to see what happens. I figure the several thousand I have on the sites are gone for good. Oh well. I only played for fun anyway.