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AllinLife
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09-05-2004, 03:12 AM
Post subject: how did you guys find out about ftr?
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Flush
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 530
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funny how I don't remember how I did ..
feels like finding 10$ I never had from my own pocket lol.
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FyrFytr998
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Full House
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Milford,Ct.
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Just like I find about everything else on the net. I'm just looking around researching different topics.
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sl0wfaller
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 12
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Found it by trying to find a poker site my job didn't block 8-)
Chris
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pokerfanatic
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: 6max limit tables
Posts: 1,968
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I found it though Eric and 21ace.com, I happen to have said in one of my posts there I played poker a lot and he told me to check out the boards here...
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“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” ~ James Dean ~
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robe43
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Straight
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: USA
Posts: 158
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through google while screwing off at work
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JJgoneMAD
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Straight
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: NJ
Posts: 143
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Originally Posted by FyrFytr998
Just like I find about everything else on the net. I'm just looking around researching different topics.
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Same here. I think it was google though in the end. I was researching poker strategies using many search engines and it must have been google which led me to FTR. It turned out alright for me :P
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mike4066
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 1,943
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It was so long ago i can hardly remember.
it was either through 21ace.com or google.
I can't remember if it was 21ace.com first then FTR or the other way around...
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Toasty
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: England UK
Posts: 1,522
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From Google too, it's also one of the very few sites not blocked from work. I'm not sure why maybe it's because there nothing directly relates it to poker "flopturnriver".
[b]Whatever it is you guys should make sure this doesn't change as it gives you a distint adv over other sites!
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Poker is all about the long long long long long long long term . . .
Barney's back . . . back again . . .
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EddieBoy
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Straight
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Corona California
Posts: 125
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I think it was from a link from another 'learn texas hold 'em site' or something like that...
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Yeahhhh mannnnnn
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dutchfan
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 77
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Originally Posted by pokerfanatic01
I found it though Eric and 21ace.com, I happen to have said in one of my posts there I played poker a lot and he told me to check out the boards here...
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And I found out by pokerfanatic 
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johnnyawe
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Full House
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: San Francisco
Posts: 1,064
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I was on google trying to find out whether it was correct or not to call a bet when you have a flush draw, and I landed on one of Tyson's essays, I think the pot odds one.
As you can see, I was as green as they come when I landed on FTR. I had never heard the phrase "pot odds" before. I had just put $50 into party poker a few days before and I was playing the 0.50/1.00 limit tables, just going on "instinct". I had no clue about any poker theory whatsoever, but I knew some theory must have existed and I wanted to learn about it. FTR basically taught me everything I know.
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BoondockSaint
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Indiana
Posts: 1,844
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I had no clue about any poker theory whatsoever, but I knew some theory must have existed and I wanted to learn about it. FTR basically taught me everything I know.
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Basically same here. All I knew was what I learned from watching the world series of poker, rounders, and the world poker tour.
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Av8tor009
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 37
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fyrfyter
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Online Tournament Wins: 11
PokerStars: 5
City Lights: 2
PokerWorld: 3
Panther Poker : 1
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michael1123
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Rochester Hills, MI
Posts: 1,720
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Originally Posted by TheNatural
I was on google trying to find out whether it was correct or not to call a bet when you have a flush draw, and I landed on one of Tyson's essays, I think the pot odds one.
As you can see, I was as green as they come when I landed on FTR. I had never heard the phrase "pot odds" before. I had just put $50 into party poker a few days before and I was playing the 0.50/1.00 limit tables, just going on "instinct". I had no clue about any poker theory whatsoever, but I knew some theory must have existed and I wanted to learn about it. FTR basically taught me everything I know. |
Pretty similar for me. Back just after I begun playing limit on Pacific (which is all they had back then), I was searching on google for the odds of one hand beating another hand or something and ran across Tyson's essays on pot odds and outs and all that stuff and was blown away. I was completely clueless about that type of stuff as well. I also learned that there are some starting hands that you may want to fold. ... The tempting Q2o may not actually be the monster it appears to be.
FTR also talked me into switching to NL with its limit vs. NL essay.
I didn't even realize they had a message board until a long time later, though.
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thnl
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: alaska usa
Posts: 46
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it was the only site not blocked by the military. THANK YOU ftr
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jmrogers7
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Full House
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 1,112
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Via www.lowlimitholdem.com
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"The urge to gamble is so universal and it's practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil." - Heywood Broun
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Jes_Gru
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Straight
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 209
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From http://www.learn-texas-holdem.com/te...ldem-links.htm
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fishstick
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Full House
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Carlsbad, CA
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i was browsing www.thongwarehouse.com and there was a link. 
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i hate what i have become to escape what i hated being...
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I found this site from that Google thing that they do on this Internet thing.
And what the hell is this white box thing that I can see my writing on?
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Legendash
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Full House
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Crypto 6max 100NL
Posts: 611
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Google, i believe my search was texas holdem strategy and i ended up on the main page, it was quite a while ago though.
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dbs
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: sweden,stockholm
Posts: 23
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same here ftr was one of the few poker sites not blocked out at my jobb now the basterds have found it and blocked it out, damn i hate the it marshalls at work
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Poker is life everything else is just details
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drmcboy
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DrButtInski
Administrator
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 9,602
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http://www.homepokertourney.com/
I could only get to the front page of FTR at work... but there are ways around that! 
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Tenny
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3-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 87
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Pokerportal.com has a link to this site and I found it there.
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-It seemed like a good idea at the time-
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Aceofone
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Flush
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 497
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I got here through google, I was trying to learn poker strategies for my home games because I figured an edge would make some money for me... That and I thought there was more to the game than I was taught, for instance the poker sage at our home games: "You shouldn't have folded your A6os because the ace will bail you out of trouble most of the time."
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Xianti
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Administrator
Administrator
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: facebook.com/xianti
Posts: 5,289
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Originally Posted by Aceofone
for instance the poker sage at our home games: "You shouldn't have folded your A6os because the ace will bail you out of trouble most of the time."
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Hahahhahahahah!!
Oh, good grief. It's a good thing you found us before you learned everything from that guy.
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Monkfish
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 6
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Hello all, I only found this place a couple of days ago. Very impressed so far.
I found it from a link on a site that I found on a link from another forum.
The first forum was thehendonmob.com but the one from that is quite funny.
Check out 72off.cjb.net {URL edited so it's not a hot link - Xianti}
Some very sound advice can be found here. 8-)
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call_me_CHEF
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 38
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I was informed about this site from Ripptyde while playing in a $10sng on Stars last night. Seems like a good site so far.
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-Put 'em in your mouth and suck 'em
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fishstick
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Full House
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Carlsbad, CA
Posts: 1,405
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Originally Posted by call_me_CHEF
I was informed about this site from Ripptyde while playing in a $10sng on Stars last night. Seems like a good site so far.
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don't believe most of what rippy tells you, but he was right about ftr.
welcome!
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i hate what i have become to escape what i hated being...
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call_me_CHEF
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 38
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thanks fish---
the quote took me a couple seconds.....but I got it.
"there, there......now we can be friends again"
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-Put 'em in your mouth and suck 'em
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Xianti
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Administrator
Administrator
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: facebook.com/xianti
Posts: 5,289
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Originally Posted by Monkfish
Check out 72off.cjb.net
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Do you know PokerEye, Monkfish?
I only ask because I see a similar pattern here. Your very first post here is promoting that site... same thing PokerEye did.
And both of your posts originate from a UK IP address.
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call_me_CHEF
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 38
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Thanks for the kind words Ripp.
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-Put 'em in your mouth and suck 'em
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BankItDrew
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Losing Prop Bets
Posts: 2,789
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Originally Posted by robe43
through google while screwing off at work
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d0zer
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Moderator
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 2,521
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reading the 'poker strategy' section as a total n00b lead me to the forums...
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will641
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: getting my swell on
Posts: 1,610
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through ISF and massimo.
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Cash Rules Everything Around Me.
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bigspenda73
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Straight Flush
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Pwnsylvania
Posts: 7,546
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fucking google
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Hawk
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Flush
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 367
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fucking bumps
...and fucking google for me too
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WildBobAA
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: lol i dunno
Posts: 1,811
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gabe told me about it
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grnydrowave2
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Full House
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Showin' mah Pokemans
Posts: 651
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I used The Google.
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<SrslySirius> Hal Lubarsky, my nemesis.
<SaltLick> are you seriously losing to a blind guy
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nutsinho
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: flattin ur 4bets, makin u tilt
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underminedsk
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My bankroll is the amount of money I would spend or lose before I got a job. It is calculated by adding my net worth to whatever I can borrow.
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kmind
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Straight Flush
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Not Giving In
Posts: 4,240
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Originally Posted by pokerfanatic
I found it though pokerfanatic and 21ace.com, I happen to have said in one of my posts there I played poker a lot and he told me to check out the boards here...
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Galapogos
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: The Loser's Lounge
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I found it through www.lowlimitholdem.com, which I thought was the best poker site yet (I'd only been looking into strategy for a week though) and then FTR blew me away. I didn't even realize there were NL games online at the time. I thought it was all limit and was disappointed I couldn't be as cool as Matt Damon.
Also, I love bumped threads that Rippy posted in at some point. Because his posts contain nothing but people reply to whatever he originally said. So it looks like he's the site's R2D2 or Kenny.
Rippy: ******
Rippy: ******
Some Guy: Why thank you Rippy, how kind of you.
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Originally Posted by sauce123
I don't get why you insist on stacking off with like jack high all the time.
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I Googled 'poker' i think, in like 2004.
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frosst
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Straight
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: count-n mah monies stewie-style
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google
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Deanglow
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: lol
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google poker strategy ftw
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swiggidy
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Waiting in the shadows ...
Posts: 3,777
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I remember this thread, but it was just before I signed on. Crazy (at least to me)...
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Ragnar4
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Full House
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Billings, Montana
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SUPEROLDTHREADBUMPAMENTS lol
Funny story how I found this site: I wrote an email to John Vorhaus after reading one of his Killer Poker books, asking if he'd ever considered being a mentor, as I really enjoyed his books and learned a lot from what he wrote.
He dropped me a letter back saying that he couldn't mentor anyone, but thanks for asking, and I should check out 2+2 or Flopturnriver.com
yes, you guys got love from John Vorhaus.
and I still haven't found a damn mentor. I joined the day he sent me that e-mail because 2+2 forum boards give me aneurisms, and siezures, and bloody feces.
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The older I get, the more I start wondering; Just what in the hell is going on here? 
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phantom_lord
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Flush
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Dublin
Posts: 349
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from irisheyes.
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silu73
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Full House
Join Date: May 2006
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 1,009
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I was a regular poster on Pokertips.org which was mainly a site of micro and low limit grinders. When I asked for a good HH converter they referred me to FTR and I have never posted on Pokertips again.
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