I quit my job today to be a professional poker player...

Monger! I've seen some familiar, but long-lost faces around this weekend!

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Monger wrote:

dlowan wrote:
Monger wrote:
There's no question I'm envious of Craven's new career / lifestyle.

What's the attraction, Monger?

I can see the freedom and non nine to five as a huge attraction, but what else?

The things you said are already pretty big, but there's also other stuff like the potential for huge reward, and the novelty. I assume novelty is the main reason chicks dig outlaw biker musicians.

But the novelty wouldn't last.

We dig outlaw biker musicians because you get fresh air and good drugs, by the way.

THEIR novelty wears off pretty quickly, though.

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I went to the site and looked around but no one appeared to be there. I had a lot of money too.

Oh well.

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I don't usually play there Gus, but I'm ready when you are!

Download it already, Roberta, and post if you have difficulty.

Monger; I think you ran into slow players or a slow dealer.

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I see it all as a wave, or waves. I think the phenomena will phase out. But then, I guess Craven gets that.

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OCCOM BILL wrote:

Download it already, Roberta, and post if you have difficulty.

I'm working myself up to it, Bill. The last time I tried downloading something, the little sign said it would take four hours. After an hour, it still said it would take four hours. I stopped the download. I'll give this a shot when I don't need the computer for a fair stretch of time.

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OCCOM BILL wrote:

I can't seem to find the table.

On PokerRoom you can use the Pokah tab to get to the search engine. Select 'Player' from the pulldown options and then enter the name of the player you are looking for. It will return the status (and table location) of the player. For instance, I just checked both CdK and OBill. Found both of you listed as currently offline. If you'd been logged in, it would have let me select your table.

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JPB wrote:

OCCOM BILL wrote:
I can't seem to find the table.

On PokerRoom you can use the Pokah tab to get to the search engine. Select 'Player' from the pulldown options and then enter the name of the player you are looking for. It will return the status (and table location) of the player. For instance, I just checked both CdK and OBill. Found both of you listed as currently offline. If you'd been logged in, it would have let me select your table.

I used that, and it found Craven, sure enough, but it provided no path to the table. I next exhaustively searched first for a table by the appropriate name, then through all tables matching the description. No luck. Sad

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Are you online now?

I found you listed as OCCUMBILL1, and offline. Last login May 29, is that right?

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Hold on a sec... I'll load it.

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I see you at Tamale and Kaolack... just as I saw Craven... but their is no link provided to get there. I'll now try to find those tables.

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I'm on two different tables. Both medium NL 25/25 10 player max

Kaolack and tamale

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stepwise it's no-limit (play) then Medium, then scroll down to the NL 10 player tables, then they're sorted by the number of players at the table.

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Those steps are not even available. Maybe I need to try the other version of software.

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Roberta wrote:

OCCOM BILL wrote:

Download it already, Roberta, and post if you have difficulty.

I'm working myself up to it, Bill. The last time I tried downloading something, the little sign said it would take four hours. After an hour, it still said it would take four hours. I stopped the download. I'll give this a shot when I don't need the computer for a fair stretch of time.

Er...Boida.....can't you use the computer when you are downloading?

I know it can get slower, but it ought to be ok to use?

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Gotta run, Bill.

Actually the first step isn't NL(play), it's Hold-em (play), then medium and so on...

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Also, at the very top there's a choice between Cash Games and Tournaments. Pick Cash Games.

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I tried the Java version, and still see neither of those tables in the long list. Confused

It appears to be the same list as the downloaded version, but I'm still retarded.

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OCCOM BILL wrote:

Monger; I think you ran into slow players or a slow dealer.

You might be right. Or my superhero-like prowess at estimating time might just be waning. 25 to 30 hands an hour is probably more realistic.

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Monger wrote:

The one time I've been to the Borgata in Atlantic City, they had at least 20 1/2/no-limit tables. With free drinks, etc., I can't image the casino made enough money off of that to pay anything more than overhead. Probably they're hoping to eventually draw the players to higher stakes tables.

The casino (and the dealers) make gobs of money. A 1-2 table should be doing over $100 an hour in rake and the dealers should average over $30 an hour in tips.

dlowan wrote:

I can see the freedom and non nine to five as a huge attraction, but what else?

Most players I run into who find out what I do say I'm "living the dream" and for most I think it has a lot to do with being able to do something for a living that they enjoy (people who play poker tend to like to do so an awful lot) doing for entertainment.

What they don't usually understand is that doing it for work makes it work. Poker is boring as hell to me most days and I'd rather not play. The appeal is in that I can go anywhere I want and make a living. It's just a means to an end and the end for me is freedom.

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