At 07:36 04/03/2004 -0500, Ike Porter wrote: > > > When you get into higher limits where the good players live, or no-limit > > > poker, or tournament poker, then you need additional skills. > > > > Places *I* sure won't be found. > >Don't say that quite so quickly...I've seen no limit games with a buy in >as low as $50, and tournaments that start at $35. With entries so low, you >can go in and play a solid game and clean up from a bunch of >yahoos...meanin no disrespect to any yahoos on the list of course ;) The guy who won last year's big Texas Hold 'em tournament, Chris Moneymaker, had never played in a live tournament before in his life, in fact, had won his $10,000 entry playing poker on the Internet. He got lucky: very, very lucky, in fact, went "all in" and got dealt a winning card more than once. -- Regards, Pete pgranzeau at cox.net