Does anyone remember when poker exploded on TV in the mid 2000's? It was on every channel and half of my friends picked it up and swore they would be professional poker players. Even ESPN decided it was a sport and started televising it.
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I remember it. I remember when Battlebots was pushed hard at the beginning of the 2000's and everyone loved it. Then it went away and was simply replaced by the next big popular thing, which I think was UFC and Poker.
Battlebots is still on and last season was fricking amazing. my god. you can skip the qualifying episodes and go to the finals bracket if you want some amazing underdog stories.
battlebots was ruined by it's dumb overprotective rules. They need to bring it back and stream it in the desert or something so they don't have to cuck the robots for muh safety.
Jaime from Mythbusters created a robot so devastating it was banned after a few trial runs.
It was on TV though for 2-3 years, that's when it got mega popular and then died off. Same shit happened with that show, where they pitted historical groups/fighters against another. Blew up for 2-3 seasons and vanished, just getting replaced by the next flavor of the year.
they made a nice change last season which is that the only way you will get counted out is if you are totally immobile. No more "controlled movement". If you are moving in any way, even a circle, the fight continues.
Is there a reason five card stud got replaced with this texas hold em homosexualry?
Yeah five card stud is boring and gay
Easier to run big tables with Texas Hold Em. It's been the game of poker tournaments since the first world series.
this b***h literally got away with cheating by paying off her accuser lmao
Why didn't they just do a veganal rectal exam to make sure she wasn't wearing a vibrator?
Correct me if I"m wrong but isn't cheating kind of considered par for the course so long as you pay it back if you get caught?
no tyrone you're still in trouble if you steal and give it back later when you're caught
You take any edge you can get
I saw the og video and it was waay tamer that this b***h says. the girl even laughed and it was just a funny moment
>Well he is Hispanic so he probably carries a knife
based constanza
I never followed up on this. Was it confirmed she cheated?
The only way she ever would have made that play is if she knew 100% what the opponent had. She called a huge bet with nothing.
Is it possible because she's an idiot it was dumb luck?
Isnt that just calling a bluff? Jack high is not terrible in heads up play
calling a bluff or fluke, the only actual salient information to take away from this incident is the guy she was up against is a coping moron, the 'only lost cause opponent is playing WRONG' type
anyone who has played 3 or more hands with someone can tell if they are playing 'right' or 'wrong' and should play accordingly, more skilled players can straight up playa ccordingly to each individual rather than broad catagories
someone posted it earlier but this guy just thinks he's way better than he actually is
yeah but its ok because she took him into the backroom and sucked him off with those big old bogged dick sucking lips
Garrett is a gay israelite and lost fair and square. He got butthurt that he lost and his simp fans went apeshit on her but in the end she didn’t cheat at all. If you support this homosexual you’re an npc.
nope you’re the simp
booba
i've seen this meme a hundred times and no one ever explains exactly what happens that constitutes "cheating"?
No, I've never watched the video and I have no idea what happens. Is she hiding cards or chips between her jugs?
>spoon feed me, daddy
Yes.
No. The dude just had his bluff called by a new player and he and his fans melted down. Who knows how much of a newbie she really even was, she might’ve watched hours of him and other players playing to learn their body language and call bluffs. But long story short he bet high on a shit hand and she didn’t fall for it.
The angry guy is a mid level player who thinks he is better than he is. The woman is a genuine moron when it comes to poker meaning she wasn't playing the "way" you are supposed to play and played a really dumb hand. Everyone accused her of cheating when in reality she was a dumb woman making a dumb woman play.
That's why that guy is a shit player because he never considered she would do something moronic and in reality should ignore her rather than challenge her.
This Street Fighter match is the video game equivalence of what happened at that table
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I am 100% convinced either Nick or Ryan had it out for Garrett for a long time. After they established Hustler as a big name in the community by using Garrett as the main draw to the show and having him on as the first podcast guest for Nick's show, they found the perfect opportunity to release him. They knew a way of how to get rid of him and exactly how he was going to react and there would be no good way out for him. It is literally the Montreal Screwjob of Poker. Everyone loved him. He drew in more than 50% of the viewership. Everyone knows this b***h never calls in this spot. Then the damage control interview directly after the "incident" where Nick/Ryan totally coached her on what to say to preserve their false integrity and to establish the lie that they have repeated to this day was so incredibly telling. Love him or hate him, Hustler absolutely got rid of him for personal reasons.
Also, in order to pull this off, the b***h either had a vibrator that would vibrate to signal that "she is good" or received a signal from someone that was also in on it that "this is the hand". They have card readers on the table so it is entirely possible that someone on the inside gave her a signal that she was good in that spot to call. I'm not really convinced the dealer was in on this unless the deck for this hand was stacked in some way.
So was she playing 4D chess or what?
she was playing poker moron
WE GOT WEIGHTS IN FISH
I love how butthurt this israelite homosexual was. Outplayed by a bimbo.
I caught the poker bug around 2008-2009. Lots of millennials were coming of age right on the cusp of global financial crisis with economy in the gutter and no job prospects. There was a poker room called fullsomethingpoker (not FullTilt) and I racked up 300 bucks playing freerolls and then it suddenly closed without paying anyone a cent. Recently I've been watching big live tournaments on Twitch (WSOP Europe, Triton before that) and I kinda want to get back into it.
>"she cheated!!!!"
>too moronic to know poker rules
this is what incels actually believe
Bond playing Texas Hold 'Em is ridiculous and exists only because texas hold 'em was a thing for a couple of years
what did he originally play? baccarat or that dices stuff?
Chemin de fer which was the predecessor to modern punto banco baccarat
I miss it a lot. I love to watch people play poker. Super fun.
>swore they would be professional poker players
I see men trashing women all the time for being trend followers but literally every guy I knew brought stupid glasses and would practice their poker face at lunch because they thought they would be a professional one day.
kek i did that in highschool, also tried to learn card counting with my friends
Yeah and it was all thanks to one man.
Was he afraid that everyone else would back out if he raised a little bit?
yes. always play the board and not your hand. blank out everyone's hand and only look at the flop and it is ten ten six. most people who call the blinds have face cards so this flop would be useless unless you have something that hit like a ten, a six, or maybe a seven-eight (not crazy someone would go in on this). i'm not sure what the positioning was but damon is listed second so may also have been big blind and limped in with a check preflop. he basically has to hope a face card hits on the turn/river and call and then value bet the river. honestly he probably isn't making much from this hand unless someone makes a boneheaded bet or if, say, a queen hits and he goes all in bluffing that he hit an under pair.
nah, memeing chuddie, it was thanks to these guys
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ferguson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Lederer
the event that started poker boom was Chris Moneymaker winning the WSOP main event
Was his last name really Moneymaker or was that some bullshit he changed? That seems too convenient.
my friends and i started playing texas holdem in high school after we watched rounders which was in 1998 before any of these guys were known
There's a history of online poker documentary and literally some average joe came in and beat all the pro players, won millions and poker exploded then unregulated online poker became huge and college bros were just making thousands by playing online. Looked real fun. Now Poker is just mixing with algorithms and it's not as "backroomy" and fun like it use to be
Yep.
I used to make thousands of dollars blacked out drunk at 2 am when i would get home from the bars and play online poker in 2008-2011
Man those were the fricking days.
Same. Used to get thousand dollar checks once or twice a month when I was a NEET. PokerStars, Full Tilt n pacific poker were my sites.
wow. What amazing luck! Two homosexual liars on the same thread! If anyone but the poker sites and casinos made money off poker, you would not be allowed to play it there. Only way to make money off poker is private games with no rake.
>2008-2011
correct me if Im wrong, but I want to call your story bullshit
didn't the DoJ frick over all the poker sites with the physical nexus clause in 2009? or was it 10?
i know by '11 most sites were bust so you couldn't be still making bank by then, most people then went back to physical tournies or just grind whatchamacallits (i forgot the term so sue me) that isnt tourny, but isnt an open table (its where you just buy in, and whoever is the last at the table just gets the table buyins)
i literally quit in 2010 so thats why all this escaped my head sorry
April 15 2011 was when the DOJ shut them down.
I still watch a lot of poker content but mostly the Brad Owen vlogs and poker from The Lodge. From what I understand is that most recreational players are either really rich and dumb or poorer and better educated and it's mostly pro on pro action that is fun to watch.
yea i always found the obsession with poker odd, but at some point i realized the people obsessed with it were just degenerate gamblers who saw poker as a get rich quick scheme
tbf it was if you were decent at it. kind of like the crypto boom or the gold rush
>degenerate gamblers
>posts about different types of degenerate gamblers
jesus h christ
are you lost buddy? or did you learn the word "degenerate" today?
How do I cope with liking to play poker, but also hating gambling types?
take all their money
i like playing no stakes or even offline single player poker games. the game is just fun
its fun to play with friends don't worry about the weirdos
That's my issue too. I enjoy playing at the local casino but hate all the gays who are always there. It's a great feeling to take $200 off one of them in a big pot as they seethe when realizing they never had a chance in the hand.
I remember it really blew up when celebrities started playing it and they were on the shows. The book and movie Molly's Game covers that. Rick Solomon and Tobey Maguire are legit poker players. Though Tobey Maguire might actually be a full blown sociopath.
any good poker movies?
rounders is like the most talked about, its good
High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story (2003) is my favorite
Casino Royale son
>liar liar, pants on fire, your nose is longer than a telephone wire
Also, that one scene from Ocean's Eleven (but the movie's whole aesthetic is poker/casino).
>Does anyone remember when poker exploded on TV in the mid 2000's?
Yes I remember when REAL POKER DIED. Texas Hold ‘Em makes good tv I guess but it’s not real poker (5 card stud or draw) and now nobody knows what poker is. I remember sitting in the theater watching in utter disbelief as James Bond played Texas Hold Em in Casino Royale, knowing society had finally collapsed.
Matt Damon helped start the tv poker craze and hole card cams put it over the top. Ironic, since Damon has the worst poker face in the world.
J Tilly has the best tell ever and players will sometimes let her win small pots just to keep her at the table. when she flops a hand, her breasts start heaving and her breathing increases. Everyone at the table just looks at each other in disbelief.
For me, it was Tony G.
I hated seeing poker on TV. I thought it was incredibly boring and during the Christmas break, that's all the sports channels here would air for a few years.
vanessa rousso
banked $3.5 million between 2205-2011 and then went on big brother and got 3rd place
Im outraged that online poker got killed, but gacha bullshit from your phones and everything-as-a-service is around
Reminder Texas holdum ruined poker.
Poker is ment to be played of many rounds of fairly fast hands where you can bluff and real play several times.
Slow roll Texas holdum is a casino game fronting as a poker game.