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    Inside Underground ny poker 2 plus 2 bbv

    Really interesting thread about underground poker in nyc in poker beats brags and Variance.

    Playing online poker yesterday player named Shmecki Shmeki sat at my table. Knew immediately he was up to no good. First hand I get ace suited diamond and I complete my flush on the turn. Off course you know the board will pair and it does. Shmeki sure enough shoves the river and I insta called, he had 55 with no 5 on the board. I shmeki shmekied him good.

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    Take it easy old man.

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    there are some good documentaries about the ny ug poker scene on youtube.

    what fascinated me most was the rake they cough up. like honestly tell me youre a gambling addict without telling me youre a gambling addict.

     
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    Quote Originally Posted by OSA View Post
    Take it easy old man.
    Did you get your permit to feed the homeless?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sonatine View Post
    there are some good documentaries about the ny ug poker scene on youtube.

    what fascinated me most was the rake they cough up. like honestly tell me youre a gambling addict without telling me youre a gambling addict.
    Rake in those underground games is awful -- pretty much everywhere.

    I went to one circa 2007 in Los Angeles, at the urging of a friend who kept telling me the games were "way better than Commerce". I had previously resisted, telling him that it felt foolish to go to an underground game which could be robbed, cheated, raided, etc, when I have Commerce and other big rooms in the same area.

    However, after he kept ranting about how bad the players were, I decided to give it a shot. He wasn't kidding about the fish. I sat at 5/10 NL, and the players were, on the whole, the worst I had ever seen at 5/10.

    They had pretty girls dealing, wearing low cut shirts. They had other chicks walking around with trays of snacks. There were complimentary drinks, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic.

    Sounds like heaven, right?

    Then I won a pot for like $400 and they dropped a green $25 chip. I asked, "Wait a minute, did you just rake $25 out of this pot?" The dealer said that, yes, the rake was 10% up to $25. Somehow I had played for like 90 minutes and hadn't noticed. This was maybe the second sizable pot I had won, so I guess I missed it the first time. Anyway, I was pretty shocked... but not shocked.

    At my blind, I racked up, cashed out my small profit, and went to Commerce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sonatine View Post
    there are some good documentaries about the ny ug poker scene on youtube.

    what fascinated me most was the rake they cough up. like honestly tell me youre a gambling addict without telling me youre a gambling addict.
    The rake in underground games here in Upstate NY is also ridiculous, and largely unbeatable for anything meaningful, except when whales are at the tables.

    The people really making the money in the underground poker scene are the folks running the games.

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    related:

    "Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky

    "America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs

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