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Originally Posted by AlanBostick
True fact: My first inkling that public casino poker was winnable came when I was a first-year physics grad student at Caltech and one of my classmates regaled me with stories of heading to LV on weekends to beat mid-stakes games there.
(Unbeknownst to me at the time, undergrad Huck Seed was sneaking away to Gardena to play five-card draw. This was before the California hold'em explosion.)
forum is a lot less nitty than it used to be, "true fact" would have been insta-called out back in the day
ETA: when i was playing 5-10 and occasional 10-20 stud at foxwoods in early 90's there were dozens of stud tables and one 3-6 table of freaks playing some weird game where everyone gets 2 cards and then there was a "flop" of community cards that was allegedly popular out west
Last edited by shuinthehouse; 06-20-2018 at 11:15 PM.
Reason: nostalgia