Roost Air Lounge => General Discussion => Topic started by: Plthijnx on August 12, 2006, 11:23:27 PM
Title: online poker
Post by: Plthijnx on August 12, 2006, 11:23:27 PM
i was curious, who else here is dumb enough, besides me, to play party poker? i've been doing alright the last couple of days on a 5/10 table going up as much as a couple hundred bucks to as of now, a few dollars. and DARN IT! i just went out on a tournament, as i type this up, where i went all-in with QK and a K on the board and lost out to a flush that was caught on the river.....grrrrr. anyway...who else plays?
Title: Re: online poker
Post by: happylanding on August 13, 2006, 08:56:43 AM
I never tried online, but had some little experience at casinos (specially playing American roulette). I went 4 times and never ever after. that last evening I had changed fiches for 200 $ and at my very first try at the roulette I heavily put the half on a number. I got paid 36 times...and wasn't smart enough to understand that the evening should have ended, briefly losing all the starting and gained capital :( . While studying at university in Switzerland, on the contrary, I started every morning during some months buying newspaper, croissant, coffee and a "scratch & win" game called "tribolo", not a big expense, but quite expensive on a long term, even if it looks, at first, like buying a small cup of coffee extra everyday. the only time I had won something (the only time!), I lost the card. that day, also, was my last day playing money :( there is a byword saying that you're lucky or at gambling or in love. I'm not really sure that it really applies! :) :)
Title: Re: online poker
Post by: Ted_Stryker on August 14, 2006, 09:08:08 PM
I will do the freebie ones, but I never do any of the ones you have to pay for. It's way too easy to get ripped off by some unscrupulous website that is either out to get your credit card info, or to simply rig the games so you can't win. Those that are honest are still subject to the same odds rules, which means I'd much rather take my chances in a real casino if I'm going to pony up some hard earned cash. At least there I know the gaming commission is keeping an eye on them.
;D
Title: Re: online poker
Post by: tundra_flier on August 14, 2006, 09:49:38 PM
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not a big expense, but quite expensive on a long term, even if it looks, at first, like buying a small cup of coffee extra everyday.
I'd rather have the extra cup of coffee. ;D Now, if you'll excuse me, the blood level in my caffine stream is getting too high... ;)
Phil
Title: Re: online poker
Post by: Callisto on August 15, 2006, 01:18:07 AM
where i went all-in with QK and a K on the board and lost out to a flush that was caught on the river.....grrrrr. anyway...who else plays?
DAMN FLUSHES!!! I would have played the same way! I don't play online, if its free I don't play well... no money no risk... and I refuse to give my cc info for the same reasons as T_S gave.
But a few buddies get together about once a month and play... $30 max for the night. We aren't hard core... it's mainly a reason to drink and friends dont let friends bet drunk... so no one is "cleaned" out.
Happy... you actually put chips on a number and won?!? WOW :o That should have screamed LEAVE NOW!!! ;D
Title: Re: online poker
Post by: happylanding on August 15, 2006, 05:39:09 AM
Happy... you actually put chips on a number and won?!? WOW :o That should have screamed LEAVE NOW!!! ;D
Yes. I won on a number, neither a selection. and it was my real first bet that evening. I just had had time to enter into the casino, get cleared with ID, change money in chips, sit down to the roulette table, give a glance during 10 minutes, and bet. then I used the other two hours to lose everything, sure to win again! :P :-\ And from that day on, I swore I would never put again a foot into a casino....
Title: Re: online poker
Post by: cotejy on August 18, 2006, 08:18:50 PM
I do play online poker but just really small amount. First time, I put 10$ and went to 80 after 3 hours. Cashed out and got a check in 3 days. After, I placed another 10 and I play with this since a few months going up and down.
When playing with friends, I put a little more but online, I'm just scared that something happend in the middle of an important hand. Can you imagine, you have an excellent hand and the other guy go all in, you have already put a lot on this hand, you know your hand is better, your turn. Just when you want to hit call, BOOM, screen go dark (electric power failure). SPAARK, it this YOU?
As for using a credit card online, this is not something I'm scared of. Yeah, some websites can use this info but this is the same as a waiter in a restaurant talking your card for 5 minutes. Or hotel taking a reservation on the phone,...
Online poker sites do so much money with the rake from tables, they have no interest in using your credit card info.
Title: Re: online poker
Post by: Ted_Stryker on August 18, 2006, 09:07:27 PM
I do play online poker but just really small amount. First time, I put 10$ and went to 80 after 3 hours. Cashed out and got a check in 3 days. After, I placed another 10 and I play with this since a few months going up and down.
When playing with friends, I put a little more but online, I'm just scared that something happend in the middle of an important hand. Can you imagine, you have an excellent hand and the other guy go all in, you have already put a lot on this hand, you know your hand is better, your turn. Just when you want to hit call, BOOM, screen go dark (electric power failure). SPAARK, it this YOU?
As for using a credit card online, this is not something I'm scared of. Yeah, some websites can use this info but this is the same as a waiter in a restaurant talking your card for 5 minutes. Or hotel taking a reservation on the phone,...
Online poker sites do so much money with the rake from tables, they have no interest in using your credit card info.
I guess I should clarify as to the danger of the online gambling sites and credit card info. If you are dealing with a big name casino, the danger is smaller as they will have better protection in place, but with the unknowns, the danger is two-fold. One, they can misuse your credit card info directly if they are unscrupulous. Or, and this is even more dangerous, if they have inadequate security and are storing your credit card info on a vulnerable server connected to, or accessible via the Internet, your information could be stolen by a hacker. That is the higher risk, in fact, because there are tons of hackers out there ready to pounce. I'm not saying it's definitely going to happen, just that it can, and has happened in the past, so I'm gun shy about that sort of thing.
If you are curious as to how I know about such things, well, my actual profession is that of Software Engineer. Feel free to visit my website for a link to the book I co-authored and co-edited with a Professor from Webster University here in town. The book is on Cyber Forensic Analysis. Basically how to investigate computer based crimes.
http://www.cyber-forensic-analysis.com
Yes... my real name is Robert Greenfield :)
Title: Re: online poker
Post by: Callisto on August 21, 2006, 06:13:29 AM
I know big name sites are ligit... but if I don't know them, they don't get my CC# Ive been shopping on line forever, and I've never gotten burned. I have fraud coverage with my bank... but shady companies still exist, so it's still smart to be cautious.
Title: Re: online poker
Post by: SteepTurn on August 21, 2006, 10:30:12 AM
...if poker, then Strip-.... ;D Happy? When do you have time ;)
Title: Re: online poker
Post by: Ted_Stryker on August 21, 2006, 03:54:12 PM
I know big name sites are ligit... but if I don't know them, they don't get my CC# Ive been shopping on line forever, and I've never gotten burned. I have fraud coverage with my bank... but shady companies still exist, so it's still smart to be cautious.
Heheh ... yeah... I know.... maybe I'll do a legal name change one day ;D ;D
Title: Re: online poker
Post by: happylanding on August 24, 2006, 09:27:24 PM
If you are curious as to how I know about such things, well, my actual profession is that of Software Engineer. Feel free to visit my website for a link to the book I co-authored and co-edited with a Professor from Webster University here in town. The book is on Cyber Forensic Analysis. Basically how to investigate computer based crimes.
http://www.cyber-forensic-analysis.com
Yes... my real name is Robert Greenfield :)
Sure as hell it's an interesting work. I started my academic career studing forensic sciences, but I left as soon as I had to run out of a course (principles of forensic science) since I had to vomit. the prof was holding a course on the subject of determination of death time/period. he had already explained things as rigor and livor mortis and was passing to much more disgusting things as showing pics of dead bodies and the kind of insects that develops inside after putrefaction, so that we should have learnt how to determine the time of the death from this kind of thing. it was enough to tell myself "you go for something less exciting....".
Title: Re: online poker
Post by: Plthijnx on August 24, 2006, 10:07:13 PM
yeah, there's no way i'd be able to do forensics. shoot, my dad was a surgeon and wanted me to follow in his footsteps. after watching him do an apendectomy, i was like "no thanks!"
Title: Re: online poker
Post by: Ted_Stryker on August 24, 2006, 10:14:09 PM
If you are curious as to how I know about such things, well, my actual profession is that of Software Engineer. Feel free to visit my website for a link to the book I co-authored and co-edited with a Professor from Webster University here in town. The book is on Cyber Forensic Analysis. Basically how to investigate computer based crimes.
http://www.cyber-forensic-analysis.com
Yes... my real name is Robert Greenfield :)
Sure as hell it's an interesting work. I started my academic career studing forensic sciences, but I left as soon as I had to run out of a course (principles of forensic science) since I had to vomit. the prof was holding a course on the subject of determination of death time/period. he had already explained things as rigor and livor mortis and was passing to much more disgusting things as showing pics of dead bodies and the kind of insects that develops inside after putrefaction, so that we should have learnt how to determine the time of the death from this kind of thing. it was enough to tell myself "you go for something less exciting....".
Fortunately, computer disection is a bit less grotesque than with biologicals. Of course, as computers progress into the chemical, and maybe, one day, biocybernetics, well... that may change. I've had the "pleasure" (I use that term here very sarcastically) of attending a number of post-mortems. I started out wanting to be a physician, so I got in on a number of operations, which was great! Then there was the flip side of the coin where you deal with the ones that don't make it. All I can say is that, while you can get used to the odors, no amount of Vicks Vapo-Rub or other such tricks actually works to cover up those things. Visually I can handle most things.... but ... well... let's not go there. Suffice to say that morgues are kept cold in the autopsy and storage areas for very good reason.
I'm glad computers don't have biological components. :)
Title: Re: online poker
Post by: fireflyr on August 25, 2006, 02:41:46 AM
yeah, there's no way i'd be able to do forensics. shoot, my dad was a surgeon and wanted me to follow in his footsteps. after watching him do an apendectomy, i was like "no thanks!"
In earlier times my dad was a mortician---I understand "no thanks" :P :P
Title: Re: online poker
Post by: Plthijnx on August 25, 2006, 04:54:28 AM
ohhohhohh! no doubt you have me beet on that one Jim! i can only imagine, and then try to forget just as fast, what you must've seen!! :o :o :o
Title: Re: online poker
Post by: fireflyr on August 26, 2006, 03:44:08 PM
ohhohhohh! no doubt you have me beet on that one Jim! i can only imagine, and then try to forget just as fast, what you must've seen!! :o :o :o
Actually never saw anything other than the "folks in a box", just knew I wouldn't want to do it! When I was little, we lived on the upper floor of Broadfoot Funeral Home in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and I can remember wondering why there people sleeping in a box downstairs ??? As far as your experiences with seeing an operation, I can understand that, my wife is a surgical assistant and I get grossed out watching videos of joint replacement surgery---I almost pass out watching the skin cut :P
Title: Re: online poker
Post by: fireflyr on August 26, 2006, 05:32:03 PM
Which brings to mind the old question----Why is it that whenever a surgeon and an undertaker pass each other, they wink? ??? ;D
Title: Re: online poker
Post by: happylanding on August 26, 2006, 07:33:56 PM
ohhohhohh! no doubt you have me beet on that one Jim! i can only imagine, and then try to forget just as fast, what you must've seen!! :o :o :o
Actually never saw anything other than the "folks in a box", just knew I wouldn't want to do it! When I was little, we lived on the upper floor of Broadfoot Funeral Home in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and I can remember wondering why there people sleeping in a box downstairs ??? As far as your experiences with seeing an operation, I can understand that, my wife is a surgical assistant and I get grossed out watching videos of joint replacement surgery---I almost pass out watching the skin cut :P
Ohmygod! that brings back all the strange ideas you have about world when a child!! You wanna laugh? I never ever ventured on the lower floor of the house by myself alone at evenings, since I was convinced that in a small room there, Dracula was sleeping. I had to go to the movie and watch Blade to find the courage - at 22?!?? - to do it! What a shame!
Title: Re: online poker
Post by: Plthijnx on August 26, 2006, 07:47:50 PM
Which brings to mind the old question----Why is it that whenever a surgeon and an undertaker pass each other, they wink? ??? ;D
I'm not sure I'd like to know! But everybody ever discovered why, when opening a box of medicines, you always open on the side where the instruction leaflet is?!?!? ??? ???
Title: Re: online poker
Post by: Plthijnx on August 28, 2006, 05:43:02 AM
champagn, beer or everclear, raise your drink and have a cheer! ;D
Title: Re: online poker
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