The Glade 4.0

Online Poker was made illegal in the USA on April 15th, 2011.



...but check this out!

https://betco.in/





This looks like it could be fun.


Currently I'm learning about how to play Texas Hold 'Em....fun game. I've been playing with a free play-money account at pokerstars.net


First table I checked out, I sat and watched for a few minutes. One player had about 13000 chips, and there were two other players with a few thousand chips each... I kinda got to see a rhythm to their playing so I bought into the table with only 300 chips.....lost it all...but I learned a lot about their current style they were playing in that short time. I bought back in with 200 chips, and won about 30 hands consistently by betting 10x what the usual bets had been before....I was only betting on really great hands, though.

I was able to win about 3000 chips through all of this...

Then suddenly, his play style changed, and more people sat down at the table, and it got hard to keep up. With the relatively low amount of money I had relative to the size of their bets (this was no limit hold 'em, and the calls / raises got to be in the 300-800 chip range) I made some stupid decisions. I should have sat out while this ridiculousness was happening and cashed out of that table, but I decided to just keep betting. Wrong choice. Poker is way harder with more than 4 people at the table betting lots of $.


Anyone else into online poker or just texas hold'em in general?





EDIT: man, this bitcoin poker site isn't too popular...only 1 hold'em table with 2 players...

it's really too bad the US made gambling illegal :/

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Ron Paul 2012

Yes, I play poker. I'm still debating whether to cash out from 'stars or leave it for a bit and see if the climate changes.

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Bitcoin has to become more user-friendly before it can become popular. This is across everything, from understanding how they work, a much better client, secure websites that are easy to use, converting money easily, and so on. Right now it's too 'hackerish'. It will take several months at least, possibly much longer. I don't think distributed currencies like Bitcoin are ever going away though. Gambling could be a big selling point. moonco.in is one I like because it supports Namecoins as well, although I haven't been there for a while. I haven't been active in anything Bitcoin-related for a couple months now, although I still have a bunch.

After cashing out, I have about 4 bitcoins and I started mining again.


I just recently started playing online poker and it's fun as hell...I would love to eventually be able to play for real money.


Seems like Bitcoin or something similar would solve this problem as long as you are able to exchange it for fiat and vice versa.

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Ron Paul 2012

Poker really is a lot of fun. I used to play it with my friends back in high school (just $5-$10 buyins). I'm not very interested in it right now but could see myself playing in the future. Bitcoin could solve this problem if exchanging became easier, like you said.

Well I hope Bitcoin poker takes off, it's something I'm really interested in. I might play a few games this weekend just to see how betco.in works.

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Ron Paul 2012

I tried it out!


It works great.


Very fun. The interface isn't as smooth or as polished as PokerStars, but it's very functional and I can play with real money.

http://betco.in

Check it out!


My name on there is nev420.

You get 100 chips per bitcoin... I started with a deposit of 1 bitcoin, and I'm up to 193 chips!

Only problem, it's hard to find games. I'm sitting at an empty table right now waiting for someone to join.

https://betco.in/tables

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Ron Paul 2012