Do You Play Online Poker?

[nausea]

i have recently just started playing poker online. it's great fun.

does any of you also play? and how are you doing?

i'm playing at very low limit texas holdem. i'm doing ok, make about $20 a day and i play for about 2-3 hours a day. but soon i will be moving up to $1-2 tables.

[ChrisN]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6002298/

Careful...

[nausea]

yeah well thats' a bit worrying. although i think it would be pretty stupid to have a bot at micro-limit poker.

[KRP]

I used to all the time, but mainly just with friends. Eventually however, gambling - and losing - lost its edge.

[Rog]

Players in independant communication are more of a concern than bots!

[ChrisN]

Players in independant communication are more of a concern than bots!

Not really. The problem with bots is that they can play hundreds of tables at a time, and "learn" from what happens. Human players can't track many games at a time, so you're less likely to encounter dodgy ones. Plus, whats stopping someone having more than one bot playing the same table, and having them communicate?

[Rog]

Well, I would hazard a guess that communicating players are approximately ONE BILLION times more commonplace than bots!

[ChrisN]

Well, I would hazard a guess that communicating players are approximately ONE BILLION times more commonplace than bots!

You'd be wrong.

[Rog]

Well, I play a lot of online casino games and am involved in a few separate casino gaming communities and I haven't ever seen a working bot to play a game against the casino (ie a game with a fixed, perfect strategy for every eventuality) let alone play against humans. I would be surprised if there are any bots successfully making money against human players on any large scale.

On the other hand, there are many forums and irc channels where people meet specifically to join the same poker room tables and cheat.

Maybe I'm wrong.

[Darragh]

My brother plays it a frightening amount, but I frankly don't see the point in playing it online. You can't even see the people you're playing against, for fuck's sake!

[Commander Jameson]

I play a lot on PokerRoom. You can have play money and real money accounts. There are lots of different poker games to play (including Texas Hold'em), tournaments, private tables, etc. The tables have a little chat thing in the corner, if you like that sort of thing.

I usually go on the 10-20 USD no-limit tables. Start off with 800 USD. Been doing well recently and usually get anything from 2-5000 USD back per night.

I have heard of groups of players all on one table all in the same room comparing hands to fleece other players, but never seen it. I wouldn't be surprised though. Still, it's only play money.

CJ