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anyone else play? i'm far too impatient ever to be a good player |
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I have played before............ easy to lose money, and I've found that some people are real standouts and will beat me all the time....... good fun with mates though. |
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gambling is pretty big in austalia is it not? with all those "pokies" etc :) |
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yeah, the "pokies" are a curse...... one of the guys I work with has a $30000 overdraft maxed out because of his addiction...... dosn't gamble on anything else, just the machines....... and the pubs offer all sorts of cheap meal and drink deals to get the people in.... the government has become somewhat dependant on the income they receive from them, so they're not gowing away anythime soon...... it's a tax on the stupid |
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pubs have pokies aswell? here there's a limit of a 30p stake / £50 win on fruit machines in pubs and i think something like £100 on other licenced premises. |
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it's gaining popularity here in the states recently. probably because of all the tv coverage of tournaments. it's fun, but i'm not very good at all. i do enjoy seeing the games on tv on occasion. |
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Where I live, only the pubs have machines.... they are limited in numbers 20 or so in each pub, and I don't think any more machines in total are being released...... it's been amazing to see how the pubs with machines have been able to grow and develop in the past 10 years or so since machines were legalised... they've all been redeveloped ....... it's killed the live music scene aswell, 'cause pubs don't need to attract people with bands etc anymore. |
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oh yeah, i think the uk is planning to model it's new gambling laws on ours...... suckers! |
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yeah, all my friends and their friends play it now (most likely due to TV, as r40f says) but it's still a damn good time |
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20 pokies in 1 pub?!? that will never happen here, i can assure you of that. liberal england? nay chance :) |
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<--------- '88 old maid champion |
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ah yes, a great year, 1988... |
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I know, some of my first memories are from that year. |
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i've tried at pokerstarts latley. up from 50 to 200 now, but it sucks. i'm going to quit. |
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i was old enough to get married! ;) |
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holdempoker.com |
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so you're not an old maid then :D |
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young at heart :) |
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most pubs have 2/3 fruities in them max? gambling is for mugs, though i have got lucky a few times. i have a mate: "how much did you win?" "jackpot" "how much did you put in?" "£2" "bullshit!" (more like £30) |
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coupled with the 99 other times when they didn't tell you they'd lost |
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i don't gamble. mainly because i lose a lot. |
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i play a hell of a lot of poker. i've been playing almost 15 years now so my game is pretty good. i play at a weekly game that has been going on for about 8 years or so, so most of the regulars there are also very good. it's kinda like a poker dojo really! |
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