Do you get bored playing live poker?

[George2Loose]

i just think poker in notts is not as fun as it was 4-5 years ago.we had some great nights back then and it never felt boring

hope your well mate been ages since i last saw you 

weird, cos there were so many dousches too but i loved it. so fun back then

Think it's to do with skill level too tho. Better you get less time you have for people going "I folded 84 there...." etc etc. Sad really

[Woodsey]

i just think poker in notts is not as fun as it was 4-5 years ago.we had some great nights back then and it never felt boring

hope your well mate been ages since i last saw you 

weird, cos there were so many dousches too but i loved it. so fun back then

Even the douches had a certain comedy caricature value about them back then. There were some proper comedy degens too then like taffy etc.

[GreekStein]

i just think poker in notts is not as fun as it was 4-5 years ago.we had some great nights back then and it never felt boring

hope your well mate been ages since i last saw you 

weird, cos there were so many dousches too but i loved it. so fun back then

Even the douches had a certain comedy caricature value about them back then. There were some proper comedy degens too then like taffy etc.

I remember Taffy getting a 3 month ban for lighting up and smoking about 3 days into the smoking ban. He just sat there and refused to move or put out his roll up like it was Gala's decision to introduce a nationwide ban

[Karabiner]

i just think poker in notts is not as fun as it was 4-5 years ago.we had some great nights back then and it never felt boring

hope your well mate been ages since i last saw you 

weird, cos there were so many dousches too but i loved it. so fun back then

Even the douches had a certain comedy caricature value about them back then. There were some proper comedy degens too then like taffy etc.

My favourite Taffy story is when he was going on as per usual about how well-hung he was and little Hanif voiced his opinion that he had more to offer in that department than Taffy did. Taffy said therer was absolutely no chance of that being possible.

I asked Taffy whether he was referring to length or girth. Quick as a flash he replied "weight".

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i just think poker in notts is not as fun as it was 4-5 years ago.we had some great nights back then and it never felt boring

hope your well mate been ages since i last saw you 

weird, cos there were so many dousches too but i loved it. so fun back then

Even the douches had a certain comedy caricature value about them back then. There were some proper comedy degens too then like taffy etc.

My favourite Taffy story is when he was going on as per usual about how well-hung he was and little Hanif voiced his opinion that he had more to offer in that department than Taffy did. Taffy said therer was absolutely no chance of that being possible.

I asked Taffy whether he was referring to length or girth. Quick as a flash he replied "weight".

Haha. Total class.

[Acidmouse]

Live Poker in Leeds is ridic and boring. Everyone seems to have watched a bit of poker on TV and wants to spend 2mins making every decision, its so slow. Add to the fact randoms at every table wants to shit talk in £10 freezouts no wonder the Leeds poker scene is summed up by GalaBlobs place of work.

[SuuPRlim]

Live Poker in Leeds is ridic and boring. Everyone seems to have watched a bit of poker on TV and wants to spend 2mins making every decision, its so slow. Add to the fact randoms at every table wants to shit talk in £10 freezouts no wonder the Leeds poker scene is summed up by GalaBlobs place of work.

yup. I sometimes go to the tournaments at gala, I sit there, dont talk about poker, make nice conversation and am really nice and pleasant and get treated awfully and shouted at.

when bigger cash games run its way more fun, should try naps out the game is really banter over there

[smashedagain]

i loved all the old regs playing in leeds brady n manchester. some super fun nights

[hombre32]

I could play live cash poker for days! Just wish I had the time!

[SuuPRlim]

My fave live sessions are the super DEGEN ones that go on for 16/17 hours.

Several times in leeds we start playing at 9pm, play till 4/5am then change to dealers choice and play 4/5 handed then at 8am when naps shuts move to gala and play there till 2/3pm. Sicknessss 

[BulldozerD]

Live Poker in Leeds is ridic and boring. Everyone seems to have watched a bit of poker on TV and wants to spend 2mins making every decision, its so slow. Add to the fact randoms at every table wants to shit talk in £10 freezouts no wonder the Leeds poker scene is summed up by GalaBlobs place of work.

Yeah this, dont think I have played in Leeds for over a year now (apart from one short trip to Alea)

[blonde17]

Its quite odd. I am happy to travel for over a day to get to Las Vegas and sit playing for 12 hours plus a day all the days I'm there but I just can't be arsed to go to any of the 3 cardrooms in my own City at the moment.

Perhaps mst Vegs card rooms have it right ie customer service games etc and MOST British card rooms don`t ?

[Karabiner]

Its quite odd. I am happy to travel for over a day to get to Las Vegas and sit playing for 12 hours plus a day all the days I'm there but I just can't be arsed to go to any of the 3 cardrooms in my own City at the moment.

Perhaps mst Vegs card rooms have it right ie customer service games etc and MOST British card rooms don`t ?

Loads of soft games at the lower end($1/2) and a $4 cap on the rake are fairly attractive too...

[SuuPRlim]

Its quite odd. I am happy to travel for over a day to get to Las Vegas and sit playing for 12 hours plus a day all the days I'm there but I just can't be arsed to go to any of the 3 cardrooms in my own City at the moment.

Perhaps mst Vegs card rooms have it right ie customer service games etc and MOST British card rooms don`t ?

I think the main problem in a lot of british card rooms is that people with no interest/knowledge of poker are in charge a lot of the time, I know in some leeds casino the staff running the poker are often just pitt/management staff and they really don't care. They always saying they wanna get X game and Y game but they don't give the staff they have with the enthusiasm to make it happen enough of a chance imo

Whenever I go into a certain casino 7/10 times we get big games running and its so easy they just need to get a couple of enthusiastic guys to run and organise it and all games will be better, better spread of games, better atmosphere, better rulings and so on.

I think Vegas do it better cos they have more resources to throw at it.

[Rod]

Just read this thread.

Right now I am so bored with live poker it is silly. I am about to stop playing it and just play online which seems far more enjoyable and basically takes up no time (as it is just time you would have been basically doing nothing anyway).

I like what goes on around poker, the people and the banter etc but actually sitting at the table, I have no interest at all. It's so slow and people take forever to make easy decisions and then make ridiculous plays and try to justify them as though they were right. Then you have to sit there and be all nice about it. It's not like you can just turn chat off :-)

One of the biggest tournaments I played this year I was doing quite well, went on a break and sat talking to some people at the bar and when I went back to the table felt like I was missing something so made some silly plays got knocked out and could not have cared less (was actually quite pleased).

If anybody does have any tips on making live poker more interesting as well as the ones here then I would like to know them as I really want to keep playing because I do enjoy what goes on around poker but the game itself is, at the moment, the most boring thing I can imagine (when taken seriously).