The last few days I've been watching poker games like crazy on youtube. Tony G, Phil Helmuth, Negreanu, all the other big classic players, plus the. celebrity games with actors and various members of the society Learning so much about sizing bets, reading hands, calling bluffs, and bluffing believably. One part of the gameplay I'm yet to fully understand is calculating the likelihood of wins, and the 'outs' one might have. The other important part of the poker experience is the 'vibe' between the players... some wont stop speaking, some would rather not listen, others hide their eyes and mouths like anything. I think there's a lot more to the game than 'reading' one's opponents., though media makes it the biggest deal of the game as it is the easiest and funniest to portray.
Too much watching, that may be possible even, but that's a part of the fun. I'd be down to spend 50-100 bucks every weekend on a couple of bay-ins if that meant I could meet my old poker gang-make one actually- in Seattle. Maybe there's a poker group that I should look out for?
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