Good luck today

Love this thread for no good reason, was funking for some random win, wp sir

Interesting company I had never heard of before today "bigger than ebay and amazon combined"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibaba_Group

Captain:Daniel Negreanu

2013 ITM More than 5 times: John Hennigan

Brits: Chris Moorman

WSOP POTY Top 10s 2012-13:Daniel Negreanu

High Stakes: Ben Lamb

Ladies:Vanessa Selbst

Eurozoners: Yevgeniy Timoshenko

WildCard 1: JC Tran

Wild Card 2: David (Bakes) Baker

in for £25, please pm bank details

In for £25, bank details please

Will this be gg for TN1?

V nice congrats

How many of the people who post here/play regularly fell in love with poker despite consistently losing in their games regardless of how they were treated at the tables?  Going to be pretty low I'd guess.

The way I see it is as a cycle everyone who plays goes through:

1.You get introduced to poker through TV/friends/random event

2a. You win money/have a positive "experience" go to step 4

2b. You lose money/have a bad "experience" go to step 3

3. Stop playing

4. Keep playing, eat sleep dream poker.  Its fun, your amazing and going to win massive chunks of cash.

5. Read, discuss and learn that you aren't actually that good, study more, play a more "correct" probably less splashy fun style, experience variance etc and either continue to play and thrive or realise the game is actually a bit more boring than you thought and stop.

Online, all sites now have 1000s of regs across all of the "beginner" buy in levels hoovering up the new players money, timing down as they play 20 tables, not chatting or interacting at all with other players etc etc and basically creating a negative experience.

Local live games of all levels are now deepstacked to start putting new players at a bigger disadvantage and as numbers have reduced the regs/recs ratios again mean its harder still to fluke that early win.

So the biggest problem in the cycle now is that 2a is becoming so much rarer as the general standard at all levels is so much higher and keeps increasing.

How do you fix this?

In and dragged a few other mug punters along.

Best of luck with it, really like the site and concept.

Done. Good luck

FFS so sick. GG James.

Not really going to be remembered for being poker related but its catchy enough and short for lazy typers so should do the job.

glgl

Enjoy, stayed in same hotel about 5 years ago.  Casino was bizarre and was fixated by crisp US$$$ notes.  These was abs zero poker there at that time.

Wow thanks DTD

I will be donating to DTD charity tomorrow if we all did ...gives a bit back and says thank you !

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