I searched for a thread on poker, I found one but it turned into a discussion about "the dirty" So I thought it would be ok to make a new thread to be strictly about poker. If it's not you can close it and neg rep me but i thought it was a good idea.

I just started playing poker with a few of my brothers friends. They are all juniors and seniors and really into poker. I told them I would play just for fun and they let me hoping it would be easy money. Of course I had no idea what I was doing so I asked some dumb questions that they still make fun of me for. But towards the middle of the game I started to get good. They guys were going out fast and it was down to me and a guy who is so serious about poker he was almost in tears when I was winning. At about 2 in the morning I finally beat him winning about 25 bucks. Now they don't let me play because they don't want to lose to a freshman girl.

So the question is... what are your poker stories?

About the only Hold 'Em stories I have are of me losing money. Not particularly worthwhile.

I love poker.

Poker in the rear licker in the front.

No really, I love the game of poker.

Texas hold-em is fun but 7 card is my favorite... None of this wild shit. Just straight poker.

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I'm an avid hold 'em player. Me and my friends have at least one game a weekend. I've won these past two weekends in a row. \m/

I consider myself pretty good, not great, but good.

Bob Fontaine is known for playing Texas Hold 'em, but who needs cards?

I love to play Hold'em, although I'm not exactly good at it. My only real story is...
I recently turned 19, and my friends threw a small party for me. They wanted to play Hold'em but since we didn't have any cash on us we played it as a drinking game instead. The deal was that whoever won got to pick one of the losers to drink a shot. Well, I'm not very good, so I hardly ever won, and they all thought since I was legal now I should be the one who drinks. Needless to say, by the end of the night, I couldn't see the cards.
Anywho, that's my story.

Hold 'em is fun, but I much prefer 7 card Stud. I feel there's less luck involved.

With Hold 'Em, you can be an idiot and go all-in with 3 and 6 against someone with a pair of kings, and then win if the community cards go your way. (That happened to me earlier today on pokerstars.com - I was heads-up against that guy in a 27 player tournament, we were about even and he goes all-in, so i decided to take a chance with my double kings - the flop turned out to be 2, 4, 5 - ticked me off. I ended up 2nd in the tournament though, which is still pretty good .) (Oh, and a few hands before that, the same guy won a huge pot and got another player out of the tournament with a full house - 2, 2, 2, 4, 4 - he had 2 and 4 when he called the all-in bet .) I'm not saying Hold 'Em takes no skill - in fact all poker games are 99% skill - but in Hold 'Em you can do everything right but have bad luck on 1 hand and lose eveyrthing; in other words, way too much can be at stake on a single hand, and single hands are more about luck than anything else.

Ooookay, that turned into a giant rant about Hold 'em >_<

Meh. Oooooh, another hand that really ticked me off in Hold 'Em! (also happened today) At the end of another tournament, I had A J, and both got paired in the flop - so I bet big and got called. The other person (not the same person as above) had Q and some low card. Then 10 and K come up on the turn and the river and I lose. That tournament I got 7th out of 45th.

lololololol.. sorry this game makes me laugh. I really don't understand it that much, but my brother and his friends get it, and their 10. lol.

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I love playing this game though I am not very good at it.
Any tips on how to improve?

To keep playing is the best way to improve.

Also, being passive won't win you pots. Aggression is key.

Doyle Brunson's "Super System" is like the bible of hold em books. One of my co-workers recently started playing and he bought it. He won $400 his first game and $200 in his second. He said the book helped him immensely.