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PokerStars 5 Card Draw Question

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  1. jashanno jashanno is offline

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    Feb 13th, 2007 (2/13/2007 12:45pm)

    Has anyone noticed that a large % of players that are playing 5 Card Draw on pokerstars have Kiev as the city that they are from?

    I googled it and it is the capital of Ukraine. Would this be suspicious to you? Would you leave if you were playing someone from Kiev heads up and then someone else joined the game that was from there as well?

    Something just seems fishy to me about this. Or maybe there is just a lot of 5cd players there.

    Thoughts?
  2. boozhwaa boozhwaa is offline

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    Feb 13th, 2007 (2/13/2007 12:48pm) in reply to jashanno

    Much more likely explanation: Kiev is the capital city of a country. Therefore, it has a lot of people and businesses. Places like that are good places to put casinos. Those casinos likely offer 5 card draw. Lots of people+casinos that offer 5 card draw=lots of 5 card draw players.
  3. Lyan Lyan is offline

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    Feb 13th, 2007 (2/13/2007 12:48pm) in reply to jashanno

    "i googled it and it is the capital of Ukraine"

    Priceless !
  4. SpankyHamm SpankyHamm is offline

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    Feb 13th, 2007 (2/13/2007 12:49pm) in reply to jashanno

    Like Omaha is a preferred game of European players, perhaps Russians like 5 card draw. Or maybe ESPN Russia shows 5 card draw tournaments all the time and all of the donkskies are signing up and playing this game because they see it on TV all the time.
     
  5. T-Rev T-Rev is offline

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    Feb 13th, 2007 (2/13/2007 12:51pm) in reply to jashanno

    lol @ not knowing where Kiev was...and honestly do you think you can be a winning 5cd player online with no physical tells?
  6. BrooDogg BrooDogg is offline

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    Feb 13th, 2007 (2/13/2007 12:54pm) in reply to SpankyHamm

    5 card draw's a game where you can beat the table if you're good regardless of how many friends are teaming up on you. IMO
     
  7. boozhwaa boozhwaa is offline

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    Feb 13th, 2007 (2/13/2007 12:55pm) in reply to T-Rev

    Yes
  8. BrooDogg BrooDogg is offline

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    Feb 13th, 2007 (2/13/2007 1:06pm) in reply to boozhwaa

    5CD was the only game I played for the first two years I played poker Online. I made a living off it. It's fun, and very beatable.

    I'm at 30/60, 15/30, and 10/20 now if anyone wants a challange.
     
  9. CFH101 CFH101 is offline

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    Feb 13th, 2007 (2/13/2007 1:13pm) in reply to BrooDogg

    lol @ donkskies ..... classic
  10. jashanno jashanno is offline

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    Feb 13th, 2007 (2/13/2007 1:25pm) in reply to CFH101

    Everyone already knew that Kiev was the capital of the Ukraine? I must be an idiot then. Haha.
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    Feb 13th, 2007 (2/13/2007 1:26pm) in reply to SpankyHamm

    yea, 5 card draw is (at least was) the "standard" poker game there. Hold'em (NL/L) and PLO are becoming more popular these days though.

    LOL @ donskies!!! nh, gg!
  12. buchiYAYO buchiYAYO is offline

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    Feb 13th, 2007 (2/13/2007 2:06pm) in reply to jashanno

    PM sashtakeyomoney about the favourite games of the ruskies as he is one and I also believe he may be involved in the trafficking of missiles to third world countrys (and gay russian man love)
  13. sashtakeyomoney sashtakeyomoney is offline

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    Feb 13th, 2007 (2/13/2007 2:20pm) in reply to buchiYAYO

    we play russian roulette mostly. whos game?

    ive been to kiev, its an awesome fuckin city, and yes 5 card draw is a very popular game in the mother land
  14. buchiYAYO buchiYAYO is offline

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    Feb 13th, 2007 (2/13/2007 2:22pm) in reply to sashtakeyomoney

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,251691,00.html as I suspected
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    Feb 13th, 2007 (2/13/2007 2:23pm) in reply to jashanno

    ok guys the reason for this is that in ukraine they havent heard from pokerstars up to 2 months ago all players from ukraine was playing at 24hpoker and celebpoker thats 2 european sites so after the news came to ukraine they all moved to stars i hade a conversacion with a couple of them kiev guys and to the other question its a easy beatable game 5cd got to know what ya doing if you want to beat it like any other game and ahhh its not fishy they all independed players at different limits and i have been often with 2 or 3 of them at any of my tables and havent noticed any collusion theyplay also heads up eachother so i dont think thats anything to worry about
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    Feb 13th, 2007 (2/13/2007 2:28pm) in reply to sashtakeyomoney

    "5 card draw's a game where you can beat the table if you're good regardless of how many friends are teaming up on you. IMO"

    Maybe, Maybe not. I think it depends on the team.
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