i play lots of hands at 100nl and felt i had an edge

grinded play monet for years and learned my technique

I call Francophonic rubbish.

I agree with the OP and I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is by playing HU for rolls with my play money roll vs anyone's real money roll.

haha ^

please quit skirting the question. At this point I am sure you will lie about the total..... but HOW MANY hands at 100NL (real) cash have you played?

It would be totally awesome of you to post your HEM/PT chart showing your cash results. Without proof... your claim is rather hard to believe.

They should move up to the play money stakes where their raises are respected.

Pretty quality troll thread.

I remember playing some play money poker app like 7 years ago, obviously didn't have a clue about poker or what I was doing. Thought it was legit.

Skip forward to today, I downloaded the same app and gave it a try.

Oh my lord it is literally the most atrocious garbage I have ever seen in my life. 90VPIP, 2PFR, non-existent aggression of any kind, just call,call,call or fold all the time, jam only the nuts.

Quick example: A few limpers, I open AQJ9ds, entire (9 handed) table calls. Flop pair+nfd. Barrel all 3 streets and win 3 entire stacks+ OTR w/ nut flush against 6 & T high flushes and a backdoored straight lmao.

Actually tempted to buy some chips on PS to test the hypothesis that "high-stakes" play money players have half a clue. My intuition tells me it'll be overall bad and probably far under the skill I'd accredit to even microstakes cash recs.

How many is "lots"?

I beat the online version of Cepheus, the GTO HU LHE bot from the U of Alberta team. At the time I hadn't played LHE in 10 years or any poker at all in 5. Do you guys think people who used to play poker but don't any more are better than GTO?

How many hands?

^

I could beat Phil Ivey himself a good day. Not to mention somebody of the nosebleed play money wizards.

And I could eat a poker robot for breakfast.

The op can't be serious... This must be a troll

Im pretty sweet at guitar hero.... So obviously i'm better then the above average guitar player... What a joke this thread is

This reminds me of Michael Richards who in the beginning of Seinfeld thought that the key for playing Kramer was to play him as if he's behind, until he discovered that the key was to play him as if he thinks he's one step ahead of everyone else.

Nice. I grinded play Renoir.

I got started playing poker back in 2013 on the FT play money tables. Within the first two months, I made it to the play money nosebleeds with like 10BI for KOTH(king of the hill deep HU), and around 40BI for the highest running 6 max tables before losing it all at KOTH.

My recollection about the level of play there is hazy because I was brand new to poker and because it was a long time ago, but I do remember playing with Berry Johnston (lol), and some other decent US players (and random ft pros) playing there out of boredom.

I recall the atmosphere at the nosebleed play money stakes being at least somewhat serious, and it seemed like most were making a decent effort to play well. This makes sense, since this was before you could officially buy chips from the site and so there was a black market where you could sell play money chips for a pretty penny. (The bulk sale rates had the nosebleeds being like nl25, and KOTH being nl100 IIRC) I should also mention that the games at the time were rakeless.

In retrospect I must have sunrun to even get there that quickly. I remember thinking 6-8BI was enough to sit the next stake up, haha

Could some of the KOTH matches have been at a similar level of quality as a typical nl100 HU match of the time? Sure. But even with black market rates, I'm sure the games ran much softer than their equivalent stakes. I don't know anything about the current play money black market, but I don't see a reason why it would be much more difficult today under normal assumptions.

That being said, I suggest OP put his money where his mouth is and play me at nl100.

you learned me something.

play money right now is alot of us only choice. i would gladly love to get in a game with liberte, gold, moneymaker,bellande, and a few other supposed big name pros. if we could play within my bankroll. a billionaire, or even a multi millionaire, can play impressive looking stakes on tv,when in actuality they look at a 1k-2k game like i look at play money, so come on down to an average players level and see how great you are doe

^ you don't move down to be great you move up. That's what makes them Great is the fact that they already paid their dues in order to get there...

I can play most of Eruption on a guitar but lost to my niece in Guitar Hero because I couldn't play Runnin with the Devil... the antithesis to your analogy.

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Interesting find Geezer. In before play money Supernova Elite status.

I have grinded a ton of Wii tennis (with very good results), I think I might be ready for Wimbledon next year.

Play money players are better than cash game players

And, as a group, small stakes players are better than high stakes players

Phil Ivey and Chip Reese always liked to play for the big bucks because they were afraid of these players

At the Bellagio they have a special room where the big money players hide and hope the play money and low limit players do not see them