Poker pressies who got what

nicnicnic

I've got a pair suited spade socks on at the moment and also got a This guy type poker belt which I cant see myself wearing anytime soon

zuutroy

Shockingly I got nothing poker related!...Though I'm rather chuffed with a day of driving Lamborghini's and Ferraris!

badbeatcentral

Got some cufflinks that have 4 aces on them, now i have to buy a shirt to wear with them ,

Also got a Wireless Logitech VX mouse, http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/notebook_products/mice/devices/165&cl=us,en

RoadSweeper

Quad 7's vs a nit!

RasTa

They where warned 3 years ago when I got the socks, boxers and t-shirt combo.

NickyOD

I got this rather sweet SONY DSLR camera with additional zoom lens.

Obviously I've been a much better boy than most of you this year. [/brag]

DeVore

My parents bought me a set of chips in an aluminium carry case....


awww, bless.

DeV.

Heisenberg.

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cooker3

My brother got me Tiger Woods 2008 and also "Texas hold-em poker - Win Online" I am sure I will learn lots

careca

Got a book from my sister that I hadn't seen called Dead Mans Hands. Thought it might be good until I read the foreword and it talked about "Johnny Moneymaker". :rolleyes:

Flushdraw

Just the one poker pressie this year. Board game called crosshand poker. Its a type of poker, meets crosswords. meets scrabble type game.

No poker chip sets though, wahooooo!

rag2gar

Flushdraw wrote: »

Just the one poker pressie this year. Board game called crosshand poker. Its a type of poker, meets crosswords. meets scrabble

Wow that games sounds AMAZING. I reckon I could be world champion at that

Zab

DeVore wrote: »

aluminium carry case....


awww, bless.

Actually I got two of them. You know, to go with the other two that are hanging around somewhere. One of them still has a €40 price sticker on it. The waste is killing me.

Theresalwaysone

I gots a few books, big deal, Ace on the river and Sklanskys Book for advanced No limit holdem.

Think the last one is a bit ahead of me.

Also, ipod touch....they are the $hit.

Flushdraw

rag2gar wrote: »

Wow that games sounds AMAZING. I reckon I could be world champion at that

LOL course you would Gary .. ..might try and get some practice in and bring it to Connies with me.....almost a change from poker

ArmaniJeanss

I asked my niece to get me the Stu Ungar book (there was a 2nd hand copy in her local bookshop).

So she gave me the book, and then started explaining to me and the whole family the difference between Texas HoldEm and DrawPoker, about 'share-cards in the middle' etc.

Later that night the whole family watched Maverick and she explained that 'poker isn't really played like that anymore'.

Then at the end of that film she pointed out that the 9s as well as the As would have been good enough for the hero.

She is TEN.

BrokenArrows

Didnt get anything poker related but got some books, psp games and the best present ever, a George Foreman grill. I also helped myself to the sitting room tv as the parents got a 40inch lcd.

Mr. Flibble

Got me a big ass screen. Completely necessary in this day and age for online poker

YULETIRED

I got two christmas dinners , as I have an 'eat all' reputation to protect....(dusty bin I'm called)..
I got enough after shaves to start my own 'pee and spray sink' in some Dublin Emporiums toilets. (need ghetto blaster)
I got a Sandra Bullock calander 1998......god bless Ebay and my discerning sister, .......I'm on March at the moment..(literally)
DVDS , ACDC in concert, Led Zepplin in concert and a set of d'aggio strings...poor quality :-(
A jumper with retarded reindeers on it, if you see me wearing it please humour me , then call the police and have me escorted back to the Dundrum mental asylum.
An overwrapped item of jewelery, it took me bleedin ages to open it and found a medallion of some descript inside (with no accompanying chest wig). I may be a groovy kind of guy, but I'm not a medallion wearer. (btw I was watching the partridge family over the christmas ->:eek: )
The only thing poker related I got was a miniture deck of cards which fell from a cracker from my victorious opponent..I was awarded the spoils..:)

My christmas cracker 'heads up' record was as dismal as ever.:mad:

Crackers pulled = 23
Victories = ZERO

Crackers are rigged in favour of the puny armed. ( a long held suspicion of mine)

KevIRL

YULETIRED wrote: »

I got two christmas dinners , as I have an 'eat all' reputation to protect....(dusty bin I'm called)..
I got enough after shaves to start my own 'pee and spray sink' in some Dublin Emporiums toilets. (need ghetto blaster)
I got a Sandra Bullock calander 1998......god bless Ebay and my discerning sister, .......I'm on March at the moment..(literally)
DVDS , ACDC in concert, Led Zepplin in concert and a set of d'aggio strings...poor quality :-(
A jumper with retarded reindeers on it, if you see me wearing it please humour me , then call the police and have me escorted back to the Dundrum mental asylum.
An overwrapped item of jewelery, it took me bleedin ages to open it and found a medallion of some descript inside (with no accompanying chest wig). I may be a groovy kind of guy, but I'm not a medallion wearer. (btw I was watching the partridge family over the christmas ->:eek: )
The only thing poker related I got was a miniture deck of cards which fell from a cracker from my victorious opponent..I was awarded the spoils..:)

My christmas cracker 'heads up' record was as dismal as ever.:mad:

Crackers pulled = 23
Victories = ZERO

Crackers are rigged in favour of the puny armed. ( a long held suspicion of mine)

LOL

Tres gut post right there.

ROCKMAN

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

I asked my niece to get me the Stu Ungar book (there was a 2nd hand copy in her local bookshop).

So she gave me the book, and then started explaining to me and the whole family the difference between Texas HoldEm and DrawPoker, about 'share-cards in the middle' etc.

Later that night the whole family watched Maverick and she explained that 'poker isn't really played like that anymore'.

Then at the end of that film she pointed out that the 9s as well as the As would have been good enough for the hero.

She is TEN.

GET A % NOW

Lafortezza

Matt Matros "The making of a poker player."
He's a pretty boring guy. He plays limit and final tabled some 10k event. That's about it.

Tar.Aldarion

I got several poker books including 'The Poker Player's Bible'.
They are handy for other types of poker that I don't know so well though. A lotof it is crap stuff though.

Got poker underwear.
Got poker socks.
Got a poker board game. It's like scrabble except you make poker hands instead of words...deadly.
Got a poker tshirt. It has a club on the back. On the front it has 'jackpot gambling...' then a flop of two aces and a third card that has two hands praying with the caption 'keep praying'. Then the 'jackpot gambling...' line is finished with 'it's only a problem if you are losing'.
Pretty good tshirt imo.
No more poker pressents.

We too watched maverick, while we were playing poker. Three of my brothers play poker and so does my mother and father(for longer than I have been alive). It's been one hell of a FO Christmas. Nonstop. The amount of hand and odds discussions... :P

My parents bought me a set of chips in an aluminium carry case....


awww, bless.

DeV.

Cute.

shoutman

I got nothing but poker related abuse oer christmas At least I got no chip sets

Glowingmind

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

I got several poker books including 'The Poker Player's Bible'.
They are handy for other types of poker that I don't know so well though. A lotof it is crap stuff though.

Is that the one that comes like a sort of ring bound thing?

Icarus152

My girlfriends dog bought me a pair of slippers after he chewed the last pair.They have chips and roulette wheels on them.I dont play roulette but am still pleased enough.He's just a dog after all.

Tar.Aldarion

Glowingmind wrote: »

Is that the one that comes like a sort of ring bound thing?

Yup.

thechamp87

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

I asked my niece to get me the Stu Ungar book (there was a 2nd hand copy in her local bookshop).

So she gave me the book, and then started explaining to me and the whole family the difference between Texas HoldEm and DrawPoker, about 'share-cards in the middle' etc.

Later that night the whole family watched Maverick and she explained that 'poker isn't really played like that anymore'.

Then at the end of that film she pointed out that the 9s as well as the As would have been good enough for the hero.

She is TEN.

get her online immediately.

Ste05

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

I got several poker books including 'The Poker Player's Bible'.

LOL, I got that last year... after several warnings to everyone not to get me anything Poker related the message finally got through and I had my first Christmas with no Poker related crap at all in years. Woohoo \o/

roryc

Icarus152 wrote: »

My girlfriends dog bought me a pair of slippers after he chewed the last pair.They have chips and roulette wheels on them.I dont play roulette but am still pleased enough.He's just a dog after all.

Snap Got pair of them too.

GF also got me a parachute jump... sh*tting it...

phantom_lord

I got another chip set to add to the collection.

semibluff

chip set? dont they know that live poker sucks???

i got a book called the hustle, not soley poker, if at all - havnt really touched it yet. anybody read it, it worth a go??

Tar.Aldarion

Ste05 wrote: »

LOL, I got that last year... after several warnings to everyone not to get me anything Poker related the message finally got through and I had my first Christmas with no Poker related crap at all in years. Woohoo \o/

Do you read it every night too, and keep it close to your heart?

Flushdraw

semibluff wrote: »

chip set? dont they know that live poker sucks???

i got a book called the hustle, not soley poker, if at all - havnt really touched it yet. anybody read it, it worth a go??

Are you sure it wasnt Hustler ;);)

semibluff

the hustlers by douglas thompson.

your after gettin me up off the couch, for only the second time today, and i missed 2 minutes of happy feet becoz of it!










And even better, its only after typing all of this, and re-reading this that i realised what ya meant! turning brain off again . . . i love xmas

Ste05

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Do you read it every night too, and keep it close to your heart?

LOL, I don't think I even opened it... :rolleyes:

cooker3

roryc wrote: »

GF also got me a parachute jump... sh*tting it...

Trust me, you will love it. It's an amazing experience
I would do it again in a heartbeat.

....btw my birthday is 28th of next month so anyone wants to get me a present now you know

Wreck

roryc wrote: »

GF also got me a parachute jump... sh*tting it...

Give me a parachute jump over salsa classes anyday. Its bringing me out in a cold seat just thinking about it.

Only poker related gift I got was an eletronic card shuffler...its the thought that counts I suppose

Tar.Aldarion

Ste05 wrote: »

LOL, I don't think I even opened it... :rolleyes:

I admit I have only looked at the pictures.

AdMMM

I was given "Phil Helmuth Presents: Read' Em and Reap" and some book about card tricks.

ArmaniJeanss

thechamp87 wrote: »

get her online immediately.

I always saw myself as a 'bad-influence' uncle who would revel in bringing my sisters' kids drinking and gambling before it was strictly legal, but a 10-year-old talking about poker has stunned me.

As it turns out her and her mates are clearly playing HoldEm at some level (from what I can make out its for sweets and marbles rather for direct money).

And i'm 95% certain she has played online at some stage as well, as she had a bizarre knowledge of online gambling, (when I discussed my new monitor she asked me could it play 4 tables)

I'm fairly sure I was doing 10p Yankees and playing DrawPoker at that age myself, so I shouldn't moralise too much.

A strange Christmas !!!

bigslick

only got one poker related present his christmas, Ghosts at the Table by Des Wilson. Only read the first chapter so far, but seems like a real good read.

AdMMM

And i'm 95% certain she has played online at some stage as well, as she had a bizarre knowledge of online gambling, (when I discussed my new monitor she asked me could it play 4 tables)

What an odd thing to say! I'd expect to hear something along the lines of "does it makes you win more monies?".

Mr.Plough

a blowie.

Icarus152

Mr.Plough wrote: »

a blowie.

I hope he was gentle with you.

RedJoker

Elements of Poker by Tommy Angelo. Amazon are still delivering it and I'm really looking forward to it.

Theresalwaysone

RedJoker wrote: »

Elements of Poker by Tommy Angelo. Amazon are still delivering it and I'm really looking forward to it.

Ordered it too. Looks real good.

jayteecork

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

I asked my niece to get me the Stu Ungar book (there was a 2nd hand copy in her local bookshop).

So she gave me the book, and then started explaining to me and the whole family the difference between Texas HoldEm and DrawPoker, about 'share-cards in the middle' etc.

Later that night the whole family watched Maverick and she explained that 'poker isn't really played like that anymore'.

Then at the end of that film she pointed out that the 9s as well as the As would have been good enough for the hero.

She is TEN.

Great Book.