Life In 19x19

Hsiang wrote:There is a new twist in Poker: the Duplicate Poker.

Thanks for the explanation, I was wondering how it worked.

I have to say, it doesn't sound very fun to me, but then I am not a very good poker player. I imagine it would show the difference between good and poor players much better/more rapidly than regular poker does.

There was a site offering duplicate poker online, but it went bust a couple of years ago.

Hsiang wrote:

hyperpape wrote:It sounds like a good game, but resetting the chips removes a lot of room for strategy in pot limit or no limit play.

Yes, indeed. But you must have that feature to ensure the "duplicate" nature of the game. For example, if at one table a player drops out after losing all his chips, the next hand is no longer duplicated on all tables!

You can fix this with no-limit play of course, but there are other consequences. For example, if the chips are counted cumulatively, a player who just lost a big hand will have a hard time recover from it. You could limit that and only count X number of hands together; that would be a different game. Or you could count the chips won and lost in each hand separately, then you might as well reset the chips after each hand. ^^

Do the players have equal number of chips when the hand is dealt? I think it would be more interesting, if they had unequal chip stacks.

Is there a poker program where u can learn poker with and that shows you your mistakes? I don't wanna learn Poker online since beginners usually are ripped and it seems the whole Poker business is only about getting new "flesh" to rip.

Pippen wrote:Is there a poker program where u can learn poker with and that shows you your mistakes? I don't wanna learn Poker online since beginners usually are ripped and it seems the whole Poker business is only about getting new "flesh" to rip.

I don't think there are any programs that will show your mistakes (several reasons for that). However, online poker sites do offer games with play money. Of course, these games have (almost) nothing to do with real money games, so as a learning tool they are next to useless.

In addition to playing real money games with very small stakes, there are some other options
- teaching sites with videos
- using a teacher (usually you record a session and get comments from your teacher, or the teacher watches your play and comments it; so this requires playing with real money too)
- books

Unfortunately, only about 10% of players are winning players in the long run, and the games are nowadays much tighter than during the poker boom.

Also, remember that in order to be a winning player, you need also other skills than how to play (bankroll management being perhaps the most important)

Interesting article
https://www.thecasinodb.com/blog/go-mas ... poker-pros
"Why do Go masters love poker and poker professionals love Go?"

BobC wrote:A major difference is the money.

I know this is an anathma to many players here but the "monetization" of go is very poor. There is little commercial sense around a game that lends itself to gambling. Although I think Magicwand has experience of gambling on go- I'd be interested to hear his point of view.

I thought bangneki hustlers could make a decent amount of money in countries with larger player bases?

BobC wrote:

zazen5 wrote: Poker is a close in interest listening to women talk about female topics

No.no no. This is an awful thing to say... No game is that bad...

It's so great to see male nerds are the same wherever I go.