Poker

I have been playing a weekly to semi-weekly game of Texas Hold'em with a rotating group of friends now for about five years.  I believe we started on New Year's Day 2004 with just five of us in someone's living room.  Only one of us (not me) had really had much experience playing hold'em at a casino while the rest of us just watched on on TV and occasionally called it out in the semi-weekly dealer's choice game we had been playing for years before that.

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 Poker is a game of chance (wait im not finished), yes skill is required but no matter how much skill you have you can
not just make that king magicly come up on the river to make your gutshot straight draw. With that said I love taking chances, there is nothing better than sitting down at a table with eight other people wondering the whole time who will get the cards tonight.

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I was watching ESPN's 2008 World Series of Poker final table preview show on election night and they showed where the final table will be played. It will not be in the Rio card room, or even a

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from our discussion.

One of them, who claimed that he rocked the $5/10 and $10/20 tables on both Poker Stars and Full Tilt Poker and was just winding down a 36 hour session by donking it up at $2/5 live (some other online pros I talk to know him and verified that this claim is true), argued that the poker training sites, such as deucescrackes or cardrunners, are actually making poker more profitable for him. This goes against all conventional wisdom, as most pros can be heard complaining about how poker is "drying up" and the edges are becoming much smaller due to the hyper aggression taught by such training sites. The more people who sign up for and learn from these sites, the fewer there are in the ocean and the more sharks there are fighting to feed off of them.

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The Daytona Beach Kennel Club and Poker Room recently built a brand new structure just down the road from the old one.  Gone is the old school track and seedy poker room.  The new and improved complex now sits at the intersection of I-95 and I-4 and features more tables, a cleaner card room, a much nicer dog track, more simulcast screens and a considerably nicer bar and dining area.

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Poker, specifically No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em, is a craze that is currently sweeping the nation.  With the constant television coverage of the World Series of Poker and its rise in popularity, everyone and their mother has suddenly become a poker player.  Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu and Doyle Brunson are becoming household names. 

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Poker, specifically No Limit Texas Hold 'Em, is a craze that is currently sweeping the nation. With the constant television coverage of the World Series of Poker and its rise in popularity, everyone and their mother has suddenly become a poker player. Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu and Doyle Brunson are becoming household names.

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