Any freekickers play poker online? win much/anything?
started playing last night and found it quite addictive. wasn’t playing for real money but i reckon it’s only a matter of time before i become a recluse and start spending my weekly drink allowance on it
I started playing a bit on paddy power a while back. Got bored of it to be honest, much prefer playing games against real people (though not in any of those tournament things - think that would intimidate me too much).
Offline poker related question. Anyone know where I can get a deck of proper cards in Dublin city centre?
What’s a proper deck?
I lived with a dude in Dublin one time for a short while who played every evening. He would have 5 to 8 games on the go at one time. Remember chatting to him one day and he was considering quitting his job to play full time as he had won over 800 the prior evening and his usual take was about 200 an evening, he was making more from playing poker in the evenings than from his job in insurance… Dunno what happened him.
Not a shit a deck.
They are proper plastic coated cards. Much more solid than a deck you’d pick up in a regular shop.
They retail for about €7 or €8 a deck, don’t know anywhere in the city that does them.
Online is your best bet really.
Reception of this place sells them apparently Julio.
Nice one carry that’s only round the corner from work so I’ll check it out
They are the ones they’d use in casinos and tournaments, easier to shuffle deal etc, don’t fold and bend as easily either
every second lad you talk to who plays it seems to be considering going fulltime…is it that easy to make money at it ?? seriously doubt it…They also claim its not the same as gambling and go mad when you mention the luck element…i don´t know as i´ve never really played it…
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every second lad you talk to who plays it seems to be considering going fulltime…is it that easy to make money at it ?? seriously doubt it…They also claim its not the same as gambling and go mad when you mention the luck element…i don´t know as i´ve never really played it…[/quote]
For every 10 that go pro, roughly 9 will fail & be back as a paye worker or equivalent in the space of a few months.
Are player numbers still growing? I thought it had kinda plateaued a few years ago and a lot of the soft money was gone?
What kinda numbers are the weekly tournaments around Dublin getting?
I haven’t played in yonks.
thought as much…i´d say there´s handy money to be made down the Fitzwilliam the saturday nite/sunday morning after a big rugby international etc… with lads falling in hammered thinkin they´re the big dawg…a lad who walked in sober and knew how to play could make a few bob…(assuming all parties get past head doorman and Dublin legend Smokey Joe Mcnally) :strokechin:
That’s pretty much what Mac’s buddies do. Spend their Saturday nights waiting like sharks to savage some poor drunk who wanders into the casino.
A lad I used to work with used to head into the casino in Limerick around 12 or 1 and sip away on a pint or two and clean up against the lads who were shitfaced-used to walk away with a couple hundred euros most weeks or so he used to tell me. I wouldn’t know much about it-I think poker is for the devil.