{"id":80,"date":"2003-06-03T22:59:47","date_gmt":"2003-06-04T04:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2003-06-03T22:59:47","modified_gmt":"2003-06-04T04:59:47","slug":"online-poker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Online Poker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first time Brian tried online poker he didn&#8217;t like it. He said he didn&#8217;t have a clue what he was doing. So we decided to sit together and play as one person. Actually, he played and I was his advisor. He&#8217;d ask me, &#8220;Do I call, fold, raise?&#8221; It made me feel good, being the beginner that I am, to be able to show someone how to play (it&#8217;s not like he had much of a choice, we&#8217;re the only two people living here). I&#8217;d give him silly suggestions like, wait at least five to ten seconds before you raise or don&#8217;t raise too much money or too quickly so they don&#8217;t think you have a really good hand and they&#8217;ll stay in.. Or don&#8217;t think about it too long before you call because they&#8217;ll know you have a crappier hand than they do.. Or if this guy (someone who we&#8217;ve observed never bluffs) bets high just fold because he probably has a really good hand. It&#8217;s silly but you can kind of tell what type of hand they have based on the way they play and react. As for me, I&#8217;m just glad that it&#8217;s online and not in person because even though I can control how quickly or slowly I click on the button I&#8217;m not able to control my many facial expressions that, for sure, give me away. <img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" alt=\" my poker faces \" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/1.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" alt=\" my poker faces \" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/2.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" alt=\" my poker faces \" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/3.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" alt=\" my poker faces \" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/4.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" alt=\" my poker faces \" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/5.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" alt=\" my poker faces \" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/6.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" alt=\" my poker faces \" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/7.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" alt=\" my poker faces \" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/8.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" alt=\" my poker faces \" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/9.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" alt=\" my poker faces \" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/10.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" alt=\" my poker faces \" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/11.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" alt=\" my poker faces \" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/12.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" alt=\" my poker faces \" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/13.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" alt=\" my poker faces \" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/14.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" alt=\" my poker faces \" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/15.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" alt=\" my poker faces \" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/16.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" alt=\" my poker faces \" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/17.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" alt=\" my poker faces \" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/18.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" alt=\" my poker faces \" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/19.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time Brian tried online poker he didn&#8217;t like it. He said he didn&#8217;t have a clue what he was doing. So we decided to sit together and play as one person. Actually, he played and I was his advisor. He&#8217;d ask me, &#8220;Do I call, fold, raise?&#8221; It made me feel good, being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}