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Lucky you!
There's a whole bunch of places where you can play "low to medium" stakes Cash & Tourneys, but it depends what you mean by "low to medium".
I could name 20 Vegas rooms where you'd be OK, but I'd jut say......
1) Ceasars & The Venetian are excellent, & for lower stakes, Planet Holywood is OK, as is Binions, which is not on the Strip, but Downtown.
2) Avoid The Rio.
As a guide to the variety of poker available in Vegas, there is a superb website called "AllVegasPoker" (Link might be non-compliant, so just add ".com" to the end of that). All the Rooms are listed on the left hand column on their Home Page, & there is a "Tournamnts" Tab at the top.
When you get to Vegas, pick up a copy of "Poker Player" (it's a freebie newspaper jobbie) which is free in most cardrooms out there, & they have a splendid "where to play what" section, too.
Enjoy. To play poker 24/7, Vegas is the the absolute nuts.
Nearly 2 stone gone now! I'm extremely lucky with my health, not a single day off work through sickness in almost 50 years - beat that! And I've never eaten fruit or green vegetables. Though right now, it's a close run thing, I feel pretty rough today. Still, when the going gets tough.......
It will ONLY continue until the end of March.
But worry not. It is going to be replaced by something better. And bigger.
Thanks TK thats really helpful im staying at the Luxor really lookin forward to it neva been before but im sure i'll be wantin to go back again!!! R u goin to the SPT in glasgow in may??? qualified back in feb really lookin forward to that to neva been to one before.
cheers neil
It was nice to meet you at Luton and I thoroughly enjoyed my 1st live casino experience and hope to qualify for other legs now and no matter what go to DTD in September.
Have you any idea yet if and when there will be a TV special or report on it on 865?
Cheers,
Alan
Yes, I will be at the Glasgow SPT in May, & this time I won't be rushing away to do any Live Shows, as I had to at Luton.
So you'll have to suffer me on the PA alllllllllll day. You run so bad.
I guarantee, you will enjoy the Glasgow SPT AND Vegas.
Crikey, that's the longest "simple question" I've ever seen!
Anyway, I'll give it a go. There were actually several qustions in there, but three main ones.
1) Some of the advice that the Analysts give does not work at the small blind levels.
Well this is a matter of degrees. At the lower levels, it's true to say that Players do that dreadful thing - "CALL" a lot more, & they don't let go if they hit any part of a flop. As a general rule, the players who play at the higher levels don't do this, because, as a default, calling is bad, Raising or Passing is good. Along with an understanding of Position, it's the most important part of understanding poker. Calling is bad, Passing is good, allied to "you can bet or shove with air, but you need a hand to call".
And that advice holds good at ALL Levels over the long-term. Get the basics right, & though I can't promise you will make money, I can promise that you will not lose any. The basics are the same at whatever Levels we play poker. Stick to good basic fundamentals, & you'll be OK.
2) There should be special Tables for "learners", rookies or newbies.
Well there are "free-play" Tables, but once you've mastered the basic play, hand values etc, they don't help too much.
"Learner-Only" Tables? Impossible to police. How do you stop an experienced player sitting at them, & why should they stop them? Poker is a "free" game, all of us are entitled to play at any Level we wish, there are no barriers to entry except money.
But the best & quickest way to learn is to play with GOOD players, who, when we begin, take all our money. That hurts our pockets, & hurts our ego, & if that does not teach us to play better, nothing will.
If I were King for a day (sorry, Radiohead), &, say, you were a newbie, I'd ask a good player - a really good player - to sit at a Table with you, & you could & would learn from him or her.
So no, I don't buy into that I'm afraid.
3) Tourneys, "shoving when we are down to 10xBB".
Every poker tuition book will tell you that. Every poker training video will tell you that. Most Sky Poker Analysts will say that. All "new skool" players will tell you that.
But a few "old skool" players will not - they wll say that we can wait a good bit longer. And we CAN, if we know how to play a micro-stack optimally, to sense the right spots to pay the rent. Which, as it happens, I can, & I'm pretty cute at playing a short-stack. (I need to be, because I'm not a natural chip-getter & I'm risk-averse).
So yes, if you are comfy with a short-stack, wait longer, & I won't argue with that at all. You will get a lot of minor cashes, & very few wins that way, but you will play poker for free. However, most players, blind to bankroll preservation, only "play to win". I have no argument with that, I'm sure it's right. But I prefer longevity, & to keep nicking minor cashes here & there, & thus that enables me to keep playing poker as long as I want into the future, as I'll never go busto. None of us - not you, not me, not 99.9% of all poker players, will get rich playing poker, we may as well face that. But we can have a great time at no cost, a free hobby. So if I pay a tenner to play a Comp, or £1,000, I want to occupy my seat, enjoy the thrilll & the ride, as long as possible. But that's a minority position, & few will agree. Your money bud, so feel free to wait longer if you can handle a micro-stack well, & I won't argue.
Finally, you constantly refer to players "smashing" you, & hopefully one day you "thrashing" them. It's not a war, & it's not personal, it's a bit more subtle than "thrashing & smashing". Personally, I'd suggest you look at it in a slightly less confrontial way, & a bit more stealth. Stealth is good, guile is good, subtlety is good, out-thinking villain is good. "Smashing & thrashing" is looking at it the wrong way. It's just a game, but using brain not brawn, thought not thrash, will improve your game overnight by 50%.
Hope that answers your questions, & listen up - you be careful on that sickle, right?
But post-flop, they have all manner of way of describing their hand - wraps", "full wraps", "blockers & a fd", "17 outers" "locks", "nuts with extensions", "double nut-draws", (nut str8 & flush draws), "no-good nuts" (flopped nuts with no extensions) etc.
It's a game where the better players do OK because they think deep about it, & as it's Pot-Limit, the NLH shove-monkeys find themselves at a severe disadvantage.
if its not possible dont worry. Sorry if i came accross a bit well u know. I typed that early before i was properly awake. I am a very quiet placid man who can not spell 4 .... n i never swear after my tablets take effect.
aside from fogetting to take to take my tablets a lot i meant to say never give out my real name, especially on tv. O n did u remember the wrestler.
Maybe it had a piece of someone else in the photo, who may object, I don't know. Sky are very correct & proper in these matters.
Sky-Rich will spot your Post tomorrow & I'm sure he'll comment as he sees appropriate.
Well I've spent most of today getting caught up on here, nearly there now, but I'm PTP tonight, so the few remaining will have to wait until tomorrow.
I've not touched the PM pile though, so I'll get onto them tomorrow, as well.
Have a good evening, whatever your plans.
I side-stepped that one to buy a little time, to be honest!
Some "legals" are being dealt with right now, expect some news very soon.
It'll be all over the site when - sorry, if - it launches. But best not to count chickens until everything is legally tickity-boo. I will explain this more in due course.
Chris
PS It might be because you can see part of MY arm! lol
Hi Pod1,
Sorry about the confusion on this one.
could you upload the picture again? (preferably today before 5.30pm) and i'll pick it up personally.
if it is indeed unsuitable i will let you know exactly why... and if it isn't - i'll approve it.
Thank you!
Rich
Well not "automatically", from the Sky Poker software, no.
You could, of course, track your stack, & do a "home-made" Manhatten very easily though, simply by using standard Windows software - in effect, it's just a Bar Chart, or a "stepped graph", which is bog-standard stuff to create.
No good asking me how to do that, but I'm 100% sure many of our regulars could talk you through how to do that step by step.
There are not really any short cuts to learning poker properly, you have to do the apprenticeship if you want to play the game well technically, & if you do that, you'll enjoy many years of free poker, a terific hobby at no cost.
A few tips.....
1) Play within your bankroll.
2) Read the Strategy sections on this & other Poker Forums.
3) Don't be afaid to ask questions on tihs Forum if you are uinsure about any poker-related matter. Nobody is going to diss you here.
4) Try to work out what suits you better - Cash, or Tourneys - then concentrate on that. Not many can do both even adequately, few, very few, can do both well. Learn one or the other first. You are MUCH more likely to win playing Cash, as opposed to Tourneys, but if your skillset is Tourneys, fine, focus on that, & you'll be OK. Remember, almost ANYONE can or should be able to make steady profit at cash. It's tougher, but arguably much more fun, to play Tourneys.
5) Understand that beats are part & parcel of poker. Peeps who moan about bad beats simply don't understand, or enjoy, the game. It's standard stuff, like penalties in football, it happens. And remember, no proper poker player ever, anywhere, wants to hear bad-beat stories - they are all the same. The clue is when you see the eyes glaze over! Be a little stoic as to Bad-Beats, shrug your shoulders & move on. How we handle bad-beats is a clue to our character, our mettle, our backbone.
Sorry I can't be much more help, but if you have a specific question, I or others would be happy to try & help further.
It's just bog-standard "variance", which is poker-speak for luck.
If you ever start to suspect that one Site or another is "fairer" to you, then you will be kidding yourself.
Some players talk about the Sky Poker river, or the Laddies river, or the Stars river, but alll they do is make themselves look doo-lally.
The truth is, if you somehow think one site favours you over another, you will get all screwed up in your mind, & it's probably best to go with the flow, & not play on the site that "screws you".
The oddity is that how could anyone even think that one site deals you better or worse cards than another site - how would that actually work???!!!
I hope you run good, wherever you play.
It would be a grim day for Sky Poker Community if he ever joined us. "Grim" being the operative word.....
The software that creates a Manhatten to go up on the Live TV Shows is bespoke to the Studio I think, but I imagine they just create it via simple software which is available to anyone, it's standard Windows graph stuff.
I'll ask the Techie-Bod-Bloke-Chappie when I see him next, & let you know what he says.
I am deffo gonna come to Dublin one weekend, we'll put the word out amongst the Dublin Sky Poker regulars, I'll bring some freebies & stuff, & we'll have a mini SPT. The ideal venue would be The Sporting Emporium, & I'm sure we could get 3 or 4 "private" Tables organised, & have a good couple of days fun poker.
I'll check the Diary & see what I can organise, but we will do it.