Packing for Vegas (3 Viewers)

Finally going to play some poker!
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Pictures of stacks at Venetian ALWAYS make me pine so hard for poker.
 
v1pe said:
Pictures of stacks at Venetian ALWAYS make me pine so hard for poker.
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Always makes me grumble though, as Sheldon Adelson (CEO of Las Vegas Sands/Venetian) If you can't play online poker in the US, Adelson is 100% the reason that banning online poker was put into the port security (yes, an anti-terrorism) bill. He spent billions to make sure poker players had to go brick and mortar casinos, which is his buisness.

Love laws the make America less free, just to make the rich, richer - then play at the Venetian.

It is a nice room though. Poker manager there has his ducks in a row.
 
Poker Zombie said:
Always makes me grumble though, as Sheldon Adelson (CEO of Las Vegas Sands/Venetian) If you can't play online poker in the US, Adelson is 100% the reason that banning online poker was put into the port security (yes, an anti-terrorism) bill. He spent billions to make sure poker players had to go brick and mortar casinos, which is his buisness.

Love laws the make America less free, just to make the rich, richer - then play at the Venetian.

It is a nice room though. Poker manager there has his ducks in a row.
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Ironically, I think the opposite is true. IMO online and live poker spur each other on. Most players cross pollinate to some degree. Some people will start online and switch to live or vice versa.

Especially for younger people I think it is easier for them to start online and avoid the intimidation of a live poker room. We may forget but live poker is very intimidating to new players. It is easy for people to learn the game for a small deposit of 20 or 50 bucks from the comfort of their home. Then once they know how to play they will make the leap to play live for larger amounts of money.

If the fear was that all the live rooms would be empty as everyone would be playing online that is just way off base. Live poker if anything saw a huge boost from the online scene.
 
Ugh. I should have stayed in bed.

Dealt :tc::td:, villain raised to 10, I reraised to 25. Villain calls.

Flop comes :ts::3c::7s: Villain bets 100. I shove for 125 more, he snap calls with :as::js:

Turn hits his flush :ks:

Blank river :2c: breaks me.
 
Not mad about the hand, couldn’t have played it any better. Oh well. Time to get some breakfast!
 
Lemonzest said:
Ironically, I think the opposite is true. IMO online and live poker spur each other on. Most players cross pollinate to some degree. Some people will start online and switch to live or vice versa.

Especially for younger people I think it is easier for them to start online and avoid the intimidation of a live poker room. We may forget but live poker is very intimidating to new players. It is easy for people to learn the game for a small deposit of 20 or 50 bucks from the comfort of their home. Then once they know how to play they will make the leap to play live for larger amounts of money.

If the fear was that all the live rooms would be empty as everyone would be playing online that is just way off base. Live poker if anything saw a huge boost from the online scene.
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I agree that A+B are good for each other. My reintroduction to poker came during the online boom.

That does not change the fact that Adelson has been extremely vocal (and financial) in shutting it down on Black Friday, and trying to ban it again on a federal level (as some states now allow it).
 
Poker Zombie said:
I agree that A+B are good for each other. My reintroduction to poker came during the online boom.

That does not change the fact that Adelson has been extremely vocal (and financial) in shutting it down on Black Friday, and trying to ban it again on a federal level (as some states now allow it).
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For sure not defending him in any way. I was just pointing out how bad his logic is. If he was trying to make legal changes to protect his business then I think he had it backwards.
 
Jonesey07 said:
Not mad about the hand, couldn’t have played it any better. Oh well. Time to get some breakfast!
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Liz and I have had the same discussion. Play perfect, and sometimes you lose. Drunks and river-rats need to win sometimes too, and that sometimes comes at the expense of the good-guys.

Just remember, some lucky sap had trip 10s in 3 card poker yesterday, and got paid well :whistle: :whistling:
 
Lemonzest said:
Ironically, I think the opposite is true. IMO online and live poker spur each other on. Most players cross pollinate to some degree. Some people will start online and switch to live or vice versa.

Especially for younger people I think it is easier for them to start online and avoid the intimidation of a live poker room. We may forget but live poker is very intimidating to new players. It is easy for people to learn the game for a small deposit of 20 or 50 bucks from the comfort of their home. Then once they know how to play they will make the leap to play live for larger amounts of money.

If the fear was that all the live rooms would be empty as everyone would be playing online that is just way off base. Live poker if anything saw a huge boost from the online scene.
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I always forget that SA owns the property. It only sparks the want (nay the NEED) to play for me because it's the room I've played in most in Vegas. Only been able to play there and at Harrah's. Mostly because that's where I've stayed (once for a convention that was there and once using hotel points).
 

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