Poker players be like
Posted Jul 18, 2023, 9:19 PM UTC
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fuck a subscription but this was funny
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I don't subscribe either but it's funny how the value of money changes when they're chips
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Because chips aren't money. Chips, by definition, are ... chips ...
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By that logic money isn't money either, it's currency, paper, electronic balance transfers
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Cash is a specific form of money. There are multiple ways in which money is traded, stored and distributed, cash being one of them.
You're confused, chips are a token redeemable at a specific location only, assuming the venue is prepared to honour the redemption of chips for monetary value.
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can i have all your gold? itās just an element
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Theyāre not money but theyāre a direct representation of money so itās just pointless and pedantic to draw the distinction.
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No it isn't
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Can I have all your paper
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I managed to get a $7 annual subscription somehow.
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What country?
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In the US. They were advertising some $100 annual plan or something, but instead of taking that, I googled it, found some link on Reddit, and ended up on a page that let me sign up for $7 for the year. Can't remember the steps, and haven't been able to find the page since. I'm guessing it was a mistake, but this was a couple of months ago, and it's working smoothly.
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Teach me how.
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Why do you think casinos started using chips instead of money? It's a physiological condition that separates the value when it is a chip vs cash and makes you gamble more.
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Also the fact that everyone walking around with stacks of cash is a huge security risk
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They're still walking around with huge stacks of cash
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I mean the 10$ chip you invest to make it more. The 10$ poker go subscription doesnāt pay you out more after time
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But it pays u utility in form of entertainment
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The straddle has a -EV though
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Tell me when it's my button and PokerGo puts in the UTG straddle.
Give action, get action.
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El Jefe, we get your point, but still fuck off.
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This made me chuckle. Still would never buy a subscription
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Limon had an interesting point on twitter that people who watch streams aren't the casuals. This reminds me of a debate at a poker table where someone was trying to explain Robbi cheating to another player who then drunkenly shouted back: "I DON'T WATCH POKER, I **PLAY** POKER!"
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Ain't a single guy at my local game that has any idea who any of these folks are or the controversies and stuff. And I'll be honest, I love that. I brought it up a few months ago and got the blank stares and a comment similar to "I don't watch that shit"
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Must suck being a poor that also plays poker
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Some of us actually win
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We all win and lose donāt be ashamed
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I win 53% of the time!
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"A poor"? Lol
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I can straddle once but not be forced to straddle again next month
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You can cancel a subscription
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You guys are canceling subscriptions??
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Yes itās wild. I have this thing on my phone called CALENDAR which allows me to keep track of all this subscription bs
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I literally never subscribe for anything without immediately cancelling it. Itās just buying a month, if I like it Iāll resubscribe
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I do this too, because if I didn't I would forget about it for 6 months!
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Idk man after ājust one roundā of straddles it seems like they never end
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Every time a round of straddles is proposed, thereās always one guy that wonāt. Always one guy.
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There's typically more than one guy but after someone speaks up they keep quiet since they don't want to rock the boat.
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Fuck the boat. Iāll gladly be the only one not straddling if it tilts the boat.
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Sorry
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That or bomb pots
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You realize thereās an unsubscribe button, right?
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Congrats my guy. My life is far too hectic to be worrying about cancel dates. And unsubscribing always gotta make me verify my password which I can never rememberā¦ then I gotta resend a password link but forget which fake email account I used. Then my bank overdrafts my account cuz I forgot about my 37 different subscriptions
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You can unsubscribe the same day you buy a month. Donāt recommend you get it if itās causing overdrafts but this isnāt too complicated
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Jesus Christ you are retarded
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I mean.. it's actually true
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$10 straddle can win me money
$15 pokergo subscription goes to waste 29 of 31 days I pay for it.
FUCK POKERGO. ESPN WAS FREE
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How does one get ESPN for free?
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The same way you can say reddit, Facebook, etc are free. It's included in something you already pay for.
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Lots of people donāt pay for cable
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If I wanted to, I could have watched at a bar before....
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I heard reddit subscription was the reason my toothpaste got more expensive.
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His parents paid for it.
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You GUYS are paranoidš¤£
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$10 straddle is gambling. Poker go subscription is watching gambling. I would never pay anything to watch someone smoke weed, but Iāll spend $100 on an oz that Iāll smoke in a week.
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True, but does watching somebody smoke weed give you insight into smoking weed? Would watching somebody smoke weed be entertaining?
Just saying itās a bad comparison,
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Letās be real.
Your $10 straddle gets torched 99% of the time.
If you actually watched the shows on PokerGO, you would be a better player.
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99%? Lol
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The game I go to is 1/3/5 with an optional straddle up to $25. I never straddle, why? The $5 is already a fucking straddle.
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Thatās a 3 blind game then. They exist. But I donāt get why your game just doesnāt play 2/5? š¤·š»āāļø
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Well, 1/3/5 is an extra $2. Plus the $3 blind is usually guaranteed to at least call the extra $2 for cheap action, making it $11. Not to say that it often gets to that point.
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No honestly I would throw them a few bucks if it was worth it for me, but it's not. For me, personally, in my humble opinion, I have no problem watching or reading about it after the fact. The hands don't change, and the pretend drama where they wait forever to deal the board is dumb. If there's a hand of interest, it's easy to go back and just watch it.
When it comes to broadcasting, people seem to equate poker in their minds with other sports. I get it, and I'm not saying it's different for the players, but for the broadcasters, it doesn't matter as much. They need to realize that the WSOP is less like the Super Bowl and more like the NFL draft. No one is going to pay unless they are already interested in poker. It's literally (yes literally literally) that simple.
Hiding your premier event behind a paywall is reserved for events that make more money for the event than the broadcast. Boxing matches etc. No one gives a shit enough about the months long conclusion to the WSOP where the "main event" is less buyin than many other tournaments.
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You can get money back from poker you can NEVER get money back from PokƩmon lol
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*$3000 on a Holographic Charizard * <drake yes meme >
- $15 on PokerGO * <drake no meme>
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I always say to my magic the gathering friends poker is like mtg except it costs way less but the card art isnāt as good
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I sold my childhood collection for thousands over the pandemic, arguably a way better roi than my poker career
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Mannn, if I could lay hands on my pokemon card collection lol. I had an original, holographic Charizard card. No idea where that binder ended up.
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Actually the original base set charizard isn't worth what you think it is, unless it is in pristine condition. Not many kids had the ones with the 1st edition stamps that are so valuable.
Now... if you happened to keep collecting AFTER pokemon TCG died into 2002, you may have a small fortune.
Legendary collection reverse holos, ereaders, and gold stars can command a huge price.
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I feel like if you actually sold a collection you would have a more exact figure rather than just "thousands".
If I sold a car I wouldn't say I sold it for thousands, I would say I sold it for $7.3K.
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I sold hundreds of cards individually for varying values, not a binder full sold in one go. I had 12 birthday pikachus go for ~$200 each. I had 3 charizards sell for around the same. Each card sold for a different amount because I used eBay. Also, I donāt care what you think internet stranger
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Ended up buying the subscription just to watch the main event. After the main was over I started watching some of the main event classics from the 80s to the early 2000s (which you can watch on YouTube without a subscription) and made me miss the old ESPN coverage. Glad Norman Chad is still around with his banter and Maria Ho does a great job but other than watching WSOP I personally donāt think itās worth it. Cancelled it already and most likely will not purchase again for next year.
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I hate the generic modern poker vibe that Pokergo and every other cookie cutter poker tournament put on.
Give me the old WSOP with the Texas/Western theme. I can still hear the WSOP theme song in my head. I can still remember the stories, the characters, etc. I miss the personality.
Pokergo sucks so much ass. It's so generic and forgettable. I literally don't give a crap about anything that's happened there in the last few years. Watching the million dollar games at Hustler was 100x more entertaining than anything WSOP offered. Those hands between Dwan and Polk, Wesley, and Hank will live in my poker memory forever.
What will I remember about this main event? Some LAG got hot for a while and made it kinda deep before imploding? Some guy missed a hand because he was chatting to the rail? What do we know about the backstory of anyone at the final table?
WSOP used to go to people's homes and film backstories, interview friends/family, and make me actually feel invested in one of the players. This year was the biggest WSOP ME and it just sucked.
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This needs many upvotes. Old broadcasts without all the percentages... only thing the old ones missed was not having stack counts there, but it was still far more entertaining. Most importantly, it was consumable by average Joe. It drew in people that weren't already into poker. Nick Rigby was an inevitable bust, basically Jachtmann but more "of the people look", but he was fantastic for the old school wsop viewer. Mixing it up, getting in there... what they now call street poker or exploitative. If it had been on ESPN, Rigby would have been an even bigger fan favorite. Watching people try to follow charts they think they know and "play good poker" is boring. We need more Rigby, less Torelli and Aguilera to loosen people up and stop the tanking every hand.
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My favorite main event coverage year was 2012. Something about it was just so good for a watcher. Lots of drama, lots of characters, lots of great players with the best player winning on the FT. Fast forward a few years and ESPN was focusing on that pro and Rec player squabbling for hours. I think his name was Curtis Rystadt? Something changed with how the main event was presented on TV around that time and it hasnāt really gone back.
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That was actually 2014 with Rystadt and Kyle Keronen who sadly passed away from cancer later on. But yes I found those 2 pretty hilarious to listen to and it was quite nice that they went from hating on each other to begrudgingly respecting each other by the end of the day.
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I still think PokerGo should be free. Also, all the weed I buy should be free as well. Just make it ad-supported so we can grow the cannabis industry.
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I throw a $20 and ask the table whoās got the $10 haha
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Me and the fellas immediately to my right and left thought it would be fun to straddle. We did for 3 hours. Figured it was costing an 25-30 extra big blinds x 2 per hour. When I left, The guy to the right bought in 5 times and The guy to my left bought in 3 or 4 times. I ended up with $24 profit lol. It forced me to defend my straddle in creative ways a few times, which is great for learning, but I wouldn't recommend it normally unless you're trying to create an image or really there for fuckery haha.
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Lose ten dollars straddling or win a bigger than average potā¦ Throw ten dollars into a fire pit and listen to PokerGO commentators and have a horrible experience with delays and stuttersā¦ hmm, I would rather make it 20 straddling.
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LOLOL. You know straddles that arenāt mandatory are big time -EV right? Youāre literally torching money if the rest of the table doesnāt do it.
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Lebron still uses spotify free
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I purchased the 15$ month subscription and watched lots of events and even went deep into the vault and watched the HSP seasons 1,2, and 3, was well worth the money spent. Bunch of salty ass people on here
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I have PokerGo+ which gets routinely interrupted with the same Maria Ho commercial every 5 mins.
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Forget the straddle I'm raising that bitch 10bb
So 20 cents?
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