Online Poker Vs Live Poker
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In general, what is the skill level like at casino hold’em tournaments?
i use to play poker online a lot and won a couple hundred bucks playing no limit .25/.50 on party poker, ive never played a live game at a casino before but was thinking about giving it a try for a $25+5 tourney, max 100 players top 5 get paid if less than 50 top 10 if more than 50 enter. think i have a shot at winning some money? or are there are a lot of very good players at the casino? how is the skill in casino games vs online, better about the same or worse? i know live games play differently.
I have played online and won some big low buy-in tournaments($5 buy-in 900 players). I have also played quite a few home tourney with positive results.
Finally took a trip to Tunica, MS last year. I played in 2 tournaments and finished in the money in both. Ended up breaking even with what my wife lost in slots…lol.
The trick to playing in a live tourney for the first time is to not look like you are playing in your first live tourney.
First thing is make sure you have the casino’s frequent players card before you even walk into the poker room. In most poker rooms there is a floor person behind a counter. Walk up to that person and say “I want to register for the X o’clock tournament”, and place your card on the counter. The floor person will punch you into the computer, take your money, and give you your receipt/seat assignment. Bring a magazine or look for one in the poker room, most have free copies of Bluff or something similar. Look for the empty tables, they will be where the tourney will be played. If it is close to tourney time they will probably have a dealer sitting at each table and the starting chips in front of each seat. Each table will have a # on it near the dealer, find your table and look for your seat. Seat #1 is to the dealers left and contimue clockwise around the table with seat #10 on the dealers right. When you sit down show your receipt to the dealer.
Here is something I picked up somewhere on the net:
If you’re posting a blind, folding, calling a bet, betting, or raising, you’ll have to be familiar with the rules to avoid confusion. Casino texas hold’em tables sometimes have an oval-shaped line painted onto the felt, about ten inches or so from the edge of the table, all the way around. Any chips or folded cards have to go past that line. So, if you decide to fold your hand—preflop or otherwise—simply push your hole cards face-down across the line in front of you. The dealer will then know that this is a fold, and he or she will be able to reach your cards, regardless of where you’re sitting at the table. Similiarly, if you decide to bet, call a bet, or raise, your chips have to cross the line.
It goes without saying that you should always wait your turn before acting, as your decision may affect the decisions of others. If, for example, you fold preflop before you’re supposed to, then everyone who hasn’t acted yet to your right will know that there is one less player to worry about to their left, and they may change their strategy based on that. While this doesn’t effect you, because you folded, it may unfairly affect the players to your left, while unfairly helping the players to your right.
Another thing to keep in mind is that if you decide to raise (or re-raise), you either have to put the correct amount of chips across the line in one single motion, or you have to say ‘raise’. If you don’t say ‘raise’, and you want to raise a $100 bet to $200, and you put $175 out by accident, it will be considered a call, and you’ll be forced to take your $75 back. You can’t reach back, and add another chip—this would be ruled to be a string bet, and string bets aren’t allowed in casinos. However, if you say the word ‘raise’, this rule does not apply. This is why it’s safest to always announce your intention to raise. Furthermore, if you intend to raise a $100 bet to $200, and you push a single $500 chip across the line without saying raise, it will be consider a call, and you’ll be given $300 in chips back as change. One big chip is considered a call, unless you say otherwise. Like the situation with the dealer sweeping active cards into the muck, accidents result in sometimes unfortunate but always consistent rulings. These accidents can be easily prevented, though, by using a
chip as a marker for your hole cards and by announcing your intention to raise (and I like to state the amount of the raise).
Also, never talk about a hand while it’s in play. If you’re out of the hand, stay quiet. For example, if the board is 9JQ8, don’t say ‘wow I bet someone’s glad they have a ten’. Also, if you’re in a hand, don’t say things like ‘I’d fold if I were you, I have pocket aces’. It’s bad form, and in some cases, it’s against the rules. It’s best to never show your cards to anyone, at all, unless you’ve made it to the end of a hand and it’s time to flip them over, for all to see.
Let’s say you win a pot. The betting is finished, you flip over your hole cards, and you have the best hand. It’s a great feeling, but you’ll have to resist the urge to reach out into the middle of the table and gather up your new chips. The dealer will push them to you.
On the river, if you just call someone else’s bet, make them show first.
As far as the skill level’s of the other players…. You will have a mix no matter where you are.
Good Luck
Daniel Negranu on Phil Galfond and Live vs Online WSOP 2008
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