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Ok just for a bit of fun cus I'm on a break.

But WTF I come to DTD these days and I don't know many people at all. There was a time I pretty much knew everyone in the local poker scene, but I look around nowadays and I don't know who the fk 80% of people are there and they are basically all under 30.

Another 15% are regs that I nod and say hello to, and a small few i actually have a chat to.

So are us old fish just being gradually being made busto and weeded out of the game by the new young crew? Fk, I don't necessarily think of myself as that old even  :D

Banter away lads and lasses....  :P

Yes, there was a time when the young players were regarded as the value and being an 'internet player' was used by the old timers as an insult. Now i've had to change my name, and being on a table of internet kids puts the fear of bejezus up me!

Half the problem is following the conversations, dont they teach proper english at school any more?

No innit   ;angel;

My problem is that I still feel as though I'm in my twenties, but the youngsters must look at me and think I could be their dad.

Makes me feel particularly old when they put Absolute 80s radio on, and half the table has never heard the songs that are playing...

wow seriously old ppl itt so far :P

Shush child.

Was funny winding PeeJay up though asking when he's going out to Vegas...

FYP  ;D

Once my kids reach poker playing age I might just give up

to excel in poker you need to spend alot of time studying and devoting yourself to the game.

older (30-50) people dont have the luxury of having as much spare time. younger people are often students etc and have more time to devote and dont have families who get angry if they don't go to bed till 3am.

Yes. This is 100% true

The guys I really admire are the ones that get the balance right, they still have a desire to improve and obviously have good negotiating tekkers at home. They still find the time even though they have mouths to feed and are married.

I had a similar situation the other night to Kinboshi. When discussing Denmarks chances of winning the euros some kid opposite me who looked no more than 9 years old kindly told me that they won it 1992. I told him I watched it and remember it well. He said he hadn't been born yet.! Sigh.....

The other day at deeteedee, a couple of the 'kids' playing at the table had no idea that Alan Hansen was a defender or that he played for Liverpool!

Are your kids 26?

When at DTD last night a transvision vamp song came on and I said ahhh cool song. All the kids surrounding me on the table just gave me this blank stare as if to say 'transvision who?'  ;D

Can't figure out when we stopped being the cool ones and they reached a double digit age.  It's all a blur.

Were not the cool ones? (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/CrazedBrickist/huh.png)  ;D

So how come I'm better than you met? 

Seriously though,  I think there are always those that just have the inner talent.  Can't see Phil Ivey spending too much time wondering what his 4 bet range should be to utg+1 slow deliberate push, followed by bleached blonde click raise splashed the chips in.  He just knows his 67 suited is plenty to make both fold. 

I'd guess someone like Sam Trickett just has very good instincts and hasnt spent half a lifetime studying either.  I don't really know him but he seems that way from what I have seen. 

True words up the thread.  I recognised more people not long after I first started than I do now. 

sigh - I remember where I was when England won the World Cup

Poker was a much more enjoyable game with an older crowd. So much entertainment from crazy characters. You'd get some mad Greek chip shop owner stand up and start banging the table in rage, somebody else would crack a joke about his wife, everybody would fall about laughing and onto the next hand. Now the kids play their hands in super slow motion like a robot, all actions very deliberate and very slowwww, if you ask them a question they stare at the felt in silence. Then next hand is dealt and everybody returns to their ipad screens in silence. Too much staring too much silence from the average kid imo. Think it's part of the act to convince themselves of their 'talent'.

Well I'm one of the I-pad crew, that is partly because of some peoples incessant desire to dissect every fricking hand after it has been played, I would honestly prefer the silence if I had the choice!

Makes me lol actually cos they stare in silence and move slowwwww, then dissect the hand and give everybody all the info about what they were thinking. If the social side of live poker goes missing better to stay home and play online imo.

Couldnt agree more as this happens often

Obviously not in my twenties anymore , one thing that does makes me laugh is the disdain you are sometimes met with by certain younger players, when you dont play your cards in the same way as their poker ideology.

For example ......They 3 bet  so you put them all in ."That wasnt in the script" they think and their troubled face tells the story of how they were expecting to get a 5 bet through. So after ten minutes of theatre and stare downs they eventually fold whilst mumbling some profanity.

Dont get me wrong... there are really great young poker players out there, that have taught me a lot and of course not all act like zombies ,but I would say this  "There is certainly more than one way to skin a poker cat "

Good Luck to The " Older "  players      :)

To be fair you get that from older players as well - in particular they seem to get upset when you call them with any two cards in the big blind when they've just shoved their 3xBB stack in.  :D

True True   :)

Saw a cracking tweet:

@GarryGates: New @WSOP rule:  If you're under 24, your betting motion must be executed as slow as physically possible w/ a paralyzed look on your face.

:D

Golden  :)

Being one of the young guns myself ...............

Sigh

I Probably fall into the Jason Herbert category of age deluded!

Mid life crisis kid :) Just started wearing my kegs half way down my arse too.

Thats because you cant pull them up over your arse   :)

hm disagree with Ivey comments, if you ask any old school pro who works on their game the hardest they will all say Ivey.

Lol

Correct me if Im wrong, but the lions share of the big prizes at dtd seems to end up in older players pockets.

Variance mate hehe

Well obviously since 90% of the field are over 30.

Occasionaly one of em goes on the run of their life and wins a monte Carlo. :)
I love to be sat chewing the fat at the tables with the older generation but the young lads just make the actual game so much more interesting. But you are right tho, before Craig's win last night the only Brit who I heard had actually "took owt down" was Tikay

Older is over 30? FML
Not sure 90% are over 30, although it's probably close on the £300+ tournaments from my observations

Be interesting to see the stats on this  - say in age brackets <25, 26-40, 41-60, 60+
% of entrants
% of FTs
% of prize pool won

Is this right Alex. I have no idea but would have guessed at 50% max

Sigh at 26-40. Surely we can go 26-34 then 35-44.

I love the diversity of characters in poker. You get to meet and play against all nationalities, ages, genders and persuasions and yet the all love the game alike. Long may it continue

Can tell u work in HR lol

They are all under 30 when they start the comp, but because it takes them so long to push their chips forward over the line they're all over 30 by the time the comp finishes.

WP Kin.

I was old when I started playing poker 7 years or so ago. Now I'm considerably older, def over 30  :o The game is unrecognisable from when I first played in a casino. It's still great at all levels. Earlier this year playing in the UKIPT for over a mill prize money and tomorrow a team game amongst friends for peanuts. Love the game.

Lol. That annoying way they look at you when you three bet. They look at you for a minute and their grubby hand creeps out from holding their crotch and takes their raise back and that glint in their eyes when they 4 bet. Thank god everyone in this thread (except Alex obv) only ever 3 bets with AA .

I agree with everyone that most young players play in a tilting manner - too slow, too antisocial etc.

I'd argue that I'm not in either category, same with Mitch, Simon Deadman and lots of DTD regs.

If I was in a confrontational mood, I'd say that young people take more time over their decisions because they're thinking about lots of different factors (to do with the hand, not what their mum is going to make them for tea tonight). I instantly label ppl that "snap" do things as fish because it shows they're not considering other options which makes their range so much easier to assign / narrow.

Maybe you should take more time to consider other options

Lol. Most people are talking tongue in cheek Alex. We are just having a bit of old fashion shooting the breeze til your lot come along and ruin it.

Is Simon deadmans $2500k event a wsop event or at a casino? I think all the old duffers agree that he is an excellent player

Well my "lot" were getting a battering by you lot and no-one was here to defend us so I did the honours.

Its at the venetian Jason. And its not 2500k.

@Fraser, it's perfectly valid to make a read based on that, to not change it based on further information (making a good play/fold/call or whatever it might be) would be foolish however. This is the age-old debate about labelling people based on nationalities/age etc.

Yeah sorry $2500 buy in. Good luck for him.

We would actually prefer it if you did not come here defending yourself as you and your lot are usually right. Just leave us to talk bollocks to our hearts content and think we know everything :)

We don't come over to pha telling you stuff like "if you lost the hand you must have played it wrong", "you got it in good, what more can you do" or " there is no such thing as a bad fold, there are only bad calls".

Now get off to balling in Vegas whilst we all figure out where we are gonna get our next bankroll from :)

That's precisely why I started this thread lol.

Yeah. I have noticed a sudden surge in old folks wanting to go and play at Dtd tonight. There is a direct correlation between that and team eureka being in Vegas. Soon as Dtd realise that them set of tossers are directly responsible for all the over lay and ban everyone of em the better. It's common knowledge that they all just sit in the cash games passing bags of sand between themselves and then sharing back out again once in the car park. Then once there is a comp on they go and ruin in it for us by taking the winnings too.

Up the age restriction at Dtd to at least 35 I say. And you can only play with your own money. It's far too easy to go playing aggressive and spunking off somebody else's money than your own. They don't realise they are taking the food out of my kids mouths everytime they crack my aces or bum my kings with Ax claiming its std.  Wankers the whole lot of em :)

I'll tell you something else for nothing, wait a minute. Why the hell do we say that? "I 'll tell you something for nothing", it's not like in anyone of my nearly 8000 posts in 18 months any fecker has actually gone " here you are Herbie. Fecking quality post. Have a quid off me". Fml I am ranting on and actually forgot what I was gonna say now.  Sod them lot wait till that get to our age start getting Alzheimer's and stinking of pee

OK I'm out, sorry guys, as you were...

lol quality

Yeah where's my quid :)

I gave mine to Tricket's girlfriend to pass on to you ages ago...

Lol don't be like that mate. We appreciate you on blonde but if you can find anymore young Christians send em to this thread :)

couldn't agree more, see loads of young kids who think they all have to sit there and take 10minutes over every hand to look good, it's a fucking game, get on with it!

agreed, half these guys must time out a lot online

lol,
very good

Seriously. Transvision who?

Your the wrong age the other way to know about them  :P

You missed out, if you missed out on Wendy James:

(http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc43/kinboshi/TransvisionVampwendyjames.jpg)

Sigh... and LOL.

And there was me thinking the irony was lost !   :)

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Position on @Doc_Sands in this 2500! Eagerly awaiting to play a 15 minute 3 bet pot!