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Originally Posted by entirecircus
It feels like this thread was started as a trolling attempt, really.
i leaned that way but real world experience tells me this is why the game still thrives
can't tell you how many people I've seen who crushed their jv basketball teammates in bus ride poker games step into the casino for the first time and just get absolutely curb stomped because they were playing meaningless stakes against people with no interest in playing well who were just trying to pass the time and didn't understand folding is good
likewise, you get a lot of people who play a bit of play money poker on an app on their phone or on facebook and again do well and expect real money poker to be the exact same game as 50% of the table goes all in every hand preflop play money variety
there's a big prison by one of the places i play at a bunch and the absolute worst players who show up with $100 and last about 15 minutes are the guys who learned to play in prison, just got out and miss playing poker and just are not prepared for the pain of a poker game with competent players involved
sometimes i actually consider committing a crime just to access those juicy prison games