Might as well make this the Pats thread

I'm a huge Pats fan too (oh god, something in common with Truth, perhaps????!!_) but I haven't been keeping up too much with all the recent training camp news. I'm really excited about the new wide receivers, especially Wes Welker since he was always a pain in the ass when we played down in Miami. Don't know too much about Stallworth.

My biggest worry is Asante Samuel. He better sign a fucking contract sometime soon. I don't want to see him miss out on even one regular season game. He's an interception machine.

I enjoy watching Poker, but  I dunno if you can really consider it a sport, you know?

Martial arts because you can use it for health, self defense, and so many other things.  Plus it's not like Basketball where there is game with all the same rules, there are different types of martial arts you can pick one that best suits you are you can do lots of different ones.  Also it just looks cool to watch!


Also because:

I think that has to do with it being less about organized play and more about individualistic effort.

My favourite sport is easily badminton. It's easy to pick up and you don't need a lot of training before you can really play (tennis) but you can still always improve and get better at it. Badminton is also great exersice and requires a lot of tactics and mind games (because you can't really hit the ball that hard (tennis)).

in 100 years, august 2007 is going to be more significant for being justin upton's major league debut than it will be for anything barry bonds does

Sup. So its time for another progress topic to see how everyone is doing. This time I will update this post with everyone's progress. So to start us of...

DogSoldier
I have been making very good progress. So far I have lost almost 6KG! I changed one of my routines around and added plenty of boiled potatoes, celery and pasta into my diet. This has worked like magic and I am pleased with my progress so far.  I strictly only drink water now, with the odd glass of cabbage juice! Very nice and hasn't done me no harm so far.

 

Sorry, I cannot agree. No limit is a game about CALCULATED agressiveness, not about random betting. A new player just does not know how to read betting patterns enough to go exploring with 5/6 offsuit. You're going to lose a LOT of dead money that way.

this is right. if you want to learn poker, get an online account (i like pokerstars), and put 30 bucks in it or something. there is no point in playing online poker for free. players don't play like they do when money is on the line, and the experience is generally worthless unless you are in it for the sheer mechanics.

then i suggest you play sit and go tournaments, where you pool an entry fee (such as 1.20 or 3.40 or whatever) against 6+ opponents, with the winner and second (and potentially third) place "moneying". These tournaments last a good while, you get your entertainment for your buck, and with smart play, you can make alot of money. Listen to truth. Don't play random betting to confuse people. At a larger table, like hold 'em generally is, your hand is up against 5 or more others. Overhwhelmingly the odds are someone has a strong hand, so your bluffs are going to bite you in the ass unless you have a very developed set of reading players.

Stick with J10+, suited connectors. Raise/reraise on high pairs or AK or something strong.

Once you get the feel of the game, you can try applying some more intermediate stuff... like pot odds, playing position well, etc.

Oh, and once you get down to 3 at a table or heads up, you are gunna want to pay more aggresively. Raise on the button if you have any high card. Fold if they reraise and you don't have the cards. Most likely you'll win your fair share of blinds. When the table number starts dwindling, keep in mind that poker awards aggresive play.

Last bit - you are gunna lose. More frustratingly, you are gunna lose to complete luck draws. This can hurt. But don't let it get to you. Its a game of odds. It'll come back to you if you stick with it.

edit: for what its worth, i'm pretty new to poker - been playing maybe 4 months now. i learned alot. i lost alot. i won it all back. and more. I'm up about 150 from my initial deposit, so even for beginners, you can turn it around if you stick with it and try to figure out the game. People who play online are pretty terrible, on average. There are plenty of fish waiting to be caught.

man, i just never bluff. i only do it when i'm short stacked =_=

man, i just never bluff. i only do it when i'm short stacked =_=

agreed. im a fan of the shortstacked all-in.

kinda related but worth mentioning - one of the dumbest things i find bad players do is catch an early break in chip lead, then start playing EVERYTHING. calling with garbage hoping to hit the flop. Value your chips. Don't tell yourself, "What if?" after every flop. When you fold em, forget about em.

Other then that, wrestling.

More like soap opera

Bullfighting.

There's something so beautiful about it. Man, draped in the finest materials versus the beast, that foul uncivilized dirty bull. I think there is something symbolic about man wearing out his animalistic nature in his childhood, spearing it and bleeding it in his adolescence, and letting it wither and die in his adulthood.

I guess it's also the individualistic nature of it. He's not competing against other people, he's competing against the bull and himself. It's the culmination of the greatest parts of every sport imaginable, the raw athleticism and beauty of gymnastic and dance based sports, the raw brutality of wrestling and other bloodsports, and the individualism of martial artistry.

Bullfighting is mans greatest achievement in terms of sport development by any measure.

agreed. im a fan of the shortstacked all-in.

kinda related but worth mentioning - one of the dumbest things i find bad players do is catch an early break in chip lead, then start playing EVERYTHING. calling with garbage hoping to hit the flop. Value your chips. Don't tell yourself, "What if?" after every flop. When you fold em, forget about em.

I'm going to slightly disagree here. If you have a large chiplead (Say like, something really large like 60-100 times the big blind) then you can really start getting creative with bad hands. It all depends on your play style I guess. I generally play very tightly (depending on the blinds) until either A: we're 3-4 handed (depending on tourney size maybe even the final table if i have a good stack) B: I have a dominating chiplead. Once I get alot of money I do like to bully people as I find that "bad" players will get pressured off winning two pairs and such.