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I'm an avid poker player. I mostly play pot-limit omaha but I'm perhaps best at No Limit Hold 'em tournaments.
I won a tournament last weekend winning $322 after a buy-in of $4. I love the game of poker b/c in many ways it works like life. People with the best hands don't always win, one must outthink one's opponent, and there's always an element of luck.
Are there any other poker players out there? If so, where do you play and at what stakes?
I am an avid poker player myself. I am a No Limit Hold'em player.
I used to play on
Full Tilt Poker until UIGEA happened now I play
CARBON and
BOVADA. Play chips ONLY.
Before UIGEA took effect I'd done something stupid with a part of my Gma's life insurance money when she passed away. She had a 50 grand insurance policy with the sole beneficiary being me. And when she passed away it was given to me but I was not old enough to in the time I had to wait till I was 18 her insurance policy had garnered $10,000 in savings interest. Then as soon as I had turned 18 I decided to stop playing play chips on Full Tilt and I stupidly wasted away that interest before I stopped and realized what I had done.
Then I heard what Chris "Jesus" Ferguson did ( before all hell broke loose with UIGEA) and I try to do what he did, and I did do what he did right before it was shut down.
I had played at Full Tilt until about a month before Full Tilt was "shut down." up until that point I had over 88,000,000 in play chips, and $21,873.23 in "real money." That $21,000 was Won on Full Tilt Poker's Double Deuce: bring $20 + $2 and a dream, and then play it on their anniversary week where they double all the prizes. Then finish in second place and then bargain with the first-place winner to just quit after four hours of back and forth playing to take what we would actually win right then and there instead of losing and he accepted.
That win had gotten me $21,124.76( to his $34,280.23.) + $120.87(in Ring Games[Tables])( that was the total minus the $22 to get into the tournament.) + a $624.11 win at the weekly $10,000 guarantee with 1000 person payout. And finally a measly $3.76 bought with my Full Tilt Poker points. And this was all in the span of one week to really lucky finishes after it took me 1 1/2 years to get to that point.
Right now, I wish the RE
PUGLICANS would get off their you know what's and realize the gold mine that online poker is. If they put the same tax that they have on brick and mortar casinos to online poker rooms/casino that would be an increase of $100 million in taxes/revenue. That's 10 times more than what they would get out of taxing pot.
Also, here's something that they could do with the tax money take that tax money from online poker rooms and use it to help students with student loans. Because the sad side of the story is that with the same money that they pay the oil companies with each year they could help 115 million "possible" students through grade school to the first degree that somebody could get in college.
Sorry for going off in a tangent there.
Maybe with the lawsuit that has happened I can get some of the money back.
But I shall wait for the United States government to okay online poker and I will try to repeat the process.
Because right now on Bovada poker I have 62,539 play chips, and on Carbon poker I have 252,940 play chips.
And I only play either of them once maybe twice a week. But I played on Full Tilt Poker at least every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Also I play poker on Facebook.
