# Poker players, please adjudicate this discussion
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-players-please-adjudicate-this-discussion/198656
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 30, 2003, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-players-please-adjudicate-this-discussion/198656 "2003-08-30T17:00:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-players-please-adjudicate-this-discussion/198656/41 "2003-09-05T04:43:41Z")
Glad you guys liked the writing.
I haven’t written a book, but I have published a number of articles for _Poker Digest_ magazine, and I have an open offer from a publishing company to publish a book if I put together enough material. So it’s on my ‘to do’ list. Maybe I’ll just go and copy all the essays I wrote in this thread!
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### Author:  [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-players-please-adjudicate-this-discussion/198656/42 "2003-09-05T15:51:48Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Rooves \*
> \*\*Sam, you’re hired as our Doper Texas Holdem consultant. Thanks for taking the time to learn us.
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> Mhendo, I stopped by a table you were at today to say hi. You weren’t paying attention so I went on my way.
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> I just started today to play raise/fold which I think is pretty cool because it seems less dangerous that N/L but more exciting than the low limit games.
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> Anybody have any thoughts on the r/f game? \*\*
Sorry i missed you. Sometimes, if the table chat is silly, or if there isn’t any, i just turn off the chat window, so maybe i wasn’t follwing the chat when you came to say hi. I’ll be more attentive in future.
**Sam** , thanks for all the advice. I certaniyl think you’re right about that website being too loose in its recommendatins; in fact, they admit the very same thing on the site! Plenty of people on the freeroll tables play even looser, however–i guess that’s what happens when losing doesn’t cost you anything.
**Giraffe** , i’m sure you’re exactly right about freeroll games being completely different from money games. I haven’t played any real money games yet, mainly because i don’t have any money to bet right now. I play the freeroll games for fun, and also to practice my discipline. It’s hard folding ten or twelve hands in a row, but i find that if i can force myself not to call with marginal hands, then i end up winning more.
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### Author:  [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-players-please-adjudicate-this-discussion/198656/43 "2003-09-10T03:04:29Z")
I thought this thread was great enough to deserve a bump. I play mostly 2/4 Hold 'Em at Party, along with some tournaments. (Mostly the $10+1, but I got brave and played a $30+3 the other night and won it!) My goal (aside from becoming a stronger player overall) has been to win enough to make a trip to Vegas early next year and bankroll some low-limit action , and I’m almost there!
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> Dangit Frostillicus you had my hopes up but I can’t stand forums where you have to keep on clicking to read threads. Damnit everyone should be like th SDMB.
Once you register at 2+2, you can set it up to read just like the SDMB.
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> Are there any sites where you can play for small amounts of money?
I know that UltimateBet has .25/.50 tables (as well as .01/.02, but I can’t really count that). Some others might have cheaper games.
Dr. J
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