A thread to talk about poker

[SunMo]

douche staley...awesome

[Eagles_Legendz]

Won a 70 person tournament on the Royal Caribbean cruise I was on last week.  Got a free cruise for 2 and $1,000 entrance to a 25 person 25k tourney Dec. 2nd.

[phattymatty]

awesome.  congrats.

[rjs246]

Yeah dude, that's farging outstanding.

[Eagles_Legendz]

Thanks guys.  Was pretty sweet.  I play a lot online, but have never won a 'real' tournament in person.  Hopefully I'll have  better news after Dec 2nd.   

[phattymatty]

good luck man.  only 25 people for 25K?  thats some great odds.  and since you didn't pay anything to get in you can play more aggressively than you would if you paid a large buy-in.  did everyone else pay to get in?  if so, use that to your advantage, you have nothing to lose, they do.

anyway, i kinda got out of poker for a while, because most of my poker buddies are now married and/or out of town, but have been back into it lately.  playing in AC more often and trying to get some local games going.

for anyone who plays bodog, every night at 9:40 they have a $1000 freeroll.  it's kind of a pain because the max players is 5000, and it takes a while, but first gets $250 and after all the idiots go all-in right away the play is pretty good towards the end.

[Munson]

I havn't played on Bodog since they stopped letting me put money in through my account. How would I get the winnings out if I won somethin in a freeroll there?

[phattymatty]

bodog was one of the ones that never really changed.  i think it changed for a week but now you can fund your account just like the old days.  they just use some kind of different bank, probably offshore i guess.

[Munson]

bodog was one of the ones that never really changed.  i think it changed for a week but now you can fund your account just like the old days.  they just use some kind of different bank, probably offshore i guess.

Really? nice.

This time I'm going to be smart and actually take the goddamn money out when I'm up big. I put in 10, got it up to like 235, and then back down to like 64 before I finally took it out.

[Munson]

Alright I'm tryin to figure this shtein out...what's this instant check account details check number thing?

[Father Demon]

This thread sure was deep.

Wondering why you aren't winning more in on-line poker? 
Here's the tutorial you need.

[Father Demon]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26563848/

Allegations that cheaters manipulated the software powering a leading Internet poker site so they could see their opponents' hole cards have triggered a $75 million claim against a Canadian company, msnbc.com has learned.
The alleged subterfuge on UltimateBet.com — one of the 10 top poker sites — is the biggest known case of fraud targeting an Internet gambling site and its customers, according to the company that owns the site. It is similar to a case of cheating that occurred last year on UltimateBet's sister site, AbsolutePoker.com, but this time the thieves ran the scheme for far longer — at least from January 2005 to January 2008, it said.
Word of the $75 million U.S. claim ($80 million Canadian) — the first indication of the scope of the alleged cheating — emerged this week when msnbc.com contacted a court-appointed liquidator overseeing the voluntary dismemberment of Excapsa Software Inc. of Toronto, which formerly owned and licensed the poker software to UltimateBet and other gambling sites. The claim was filed by Blast-Off Ltd. of Malta, a private company that currently has an ownership interest in Ultimate Bet.

Wow.  If I could figure something like that out, I could stop looking for a job.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Ha.  That's where I used to play.

[phattymatty]

you're probably like the only one.

[phattymatty]

not sure if anyone has heard about this, but last week a judge in SC ruled that poker is a game of skill and is not gambling.  i guess it came after a big home poker was raided or something. 

regardless, it's a huge step in making poker houses legal.