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thanks Alkatraz,good advice, I drink Labatt 50, and your right, the drinking stops now, I really want to improve my game

This site will help with chip count and all that, plus a very good review of any chip type you can think of:http://www.homepokertourney.com/copy the linkThis forum is good if you need many opinions about poker chips:http://www.texasholdem-poker.com/forum/php...wforum.php?f=35Hope this helps

Which NJ are you talking about? The ceramic or the clay? The clay look really nice and have gotten exceptional reviews, and they are incredibly expensive (like $700 American for 500 chips). The ceramic are great with that neat skull graphic but they feel a bit strange; they have like a cross-hatching on the surface which gives the illusion of stickiness with the chips; I still find the feel of these a bit strange to get used to, they are also quiet expensive at $350 to $400 American for 500 chips. I wish I could afford the clay NJs but I'm just not that good at poker so I got the standard 11.5

I'm 2 for 3 in sit and go tourneys at poker stars.com. That's right, my play chip stack grows by the hour; keep a heads up anytime you see User4 playing, 'cause I'm comin' for ya! :shock:

Personaly, I wish they'd at least get rid of the glasses, when you try to read someone, the first most natural thing to look at is the eyes. It's probobly the hardest part to control to. I agree, I think the glasses take away a lot of the skill it takes poker players to be the unreadable proffesionals they are. I don't know, seeing as it's such a psychological game, you'd think that players who can read such things would be rewarded for their talent...and then there's online poker....

Daniel (or anybody),I play small tournaments with friends quiet frequently for small amounts and lately I've noticed that my friends are getting better at calling me on good or bad hands. My problem is that I can't shake my adrenaline whenever I peek at those hole cards. No matter what I do, I get nervous whenever I'm going in to make a move (bluffing or calling or slowplaying or whatever) and when I get nervous I overthink everything and my physical tells start to surface. I counter this, as the game goes on, with beer but that of course eventually screws up my game completely and "I'm all in