A month after black friday, we have gotten our funds from pokerstars and still have 2 frozen sites.
The US government can capatilize hard on the $ capable to be made from online poker.
Right now is the best time to have your voice heard,
write your state congressman or president, or both.
Please, write how the shutdown of online poker has affected your life. How important is it for Americans, the economy, and what the US can do with the taxed funds to get out of the national deficit.
Its still legal to play online too guys - Hero's great atm :-)
Its one month in,
Lets get back rollin online boys n girls;
I hope you guys take this seriously,
Hero Poker is very nice for the time being, and potentially the long run, but we need more places to play, with peace of mind and knowing the legality is 100% in tact;
Thanks for your time,
Please write to them,
Ryan Neilly - NeillyAA
Hey guys, I've been playin around on Hero Poker and Black Chip Poker (Both on the same Network) and the games are very good. The software is good and I hear we may be having some great updates in the near future. (crosses fingers)
Be smart with your funds in the beginning, although everything seems safe 27 days after the DOJ owned us Americans.
Deposit your base bankroll for your limit - every $400-$1k+ you win cash out, keeping the same br online. This way if something were to possibly happen, atleast your profits will be coming to you.
It is still legal to play poker online, just not the depositing etc.
Playing over 12 tables can be very tilting on the software (while making one decision, another hand may fold/check unintentionally because no auto-timebank), I reccomend 1-12 tabling for anyone that plays 1-24 tables on the regular.
It's just pennies, but this is just fucking bullshit. I should not lose almost every fucking game. I can actually win pots in cash games, but any SnG or MTT? Fuck no, it's the law I should only fucking lose. I'm so fucking close to calling it quits.
Hey guys,
I'm back to poker but I haven't decided what kind of games should I grind.
Back when I played I was mainly a MTT player who also grinded 50/100 NL, but now I don't have the long strechs of time avaliable to play MTT's anymore, so its either SnG's ou Cash games.
Never played HU games.
I want to make money!
I guess its about time I write a blog entry at liquidpoker.net
It would be nice to start with basic info: who am I? I guess a lot of people will just recognize my name from the forum, especially Im way more active lately at lp.net, but still
Im an ex high stakes player ( I guess I could write a little detailed story in the next blog posts ) that risen from 50$ no deposit bonus to nl1000 in 1,5 year, and then dropped poker completely.
That brings us to the second part: I've been working for lp.net for quite some time already ( over 3,5 years ), first being a newsposter on tlpoker.pl, then running the site in general.
From March I am officially working as a manager for liquidpoker.net I hope the site will feel more active with every month, and we will be able to provide you guys with more and more quality material.
But back to blog! Ladies and Gentleman, today I present you: LiquidSnow 2011 trip report!
Under this secret code-name is nothing more then an awesome trip, where part of the liquidpoker.net staff was invited. We decided to meet-up in French Alps for skiing to get along together, and actually know who you are working with
Our house was located in the city Les Menuires, in the area of Les 3 Valles ( 3 Valleys ), which is the biggest skiing/snowboarding resort in the world.
There was quite a few people expected to come, so we rented a 14 person house with 7 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms over 3 floors ( plus sauna, giant kitchen and some other cool stuff ). In the end it was only 4 of us, and since the house was prepaid, we didn't change the location. Lets be honest, there was no way to whine about the conditions of stay, it was just way too good
Who attended ( I will use nicknames instead of names later on, so you can recognize us easier later on the forum ):
Liquid`Meat ( Joy )
Raidern ( Antoniel )
Pindarots ( Jeroen )
me/Defrag ( Sebastian )
Few photos from the mentioned house:
Raidern arrived in Europe way earlier ( he's from Brasil ), and traveled to France together with Meat and Pindarots, since they both are from Netherlands. They picked me up on the way to Les Menuires from Lyon airport and lp.net team was complete . After quite a smooth ride we arrived at our place a little after 18:00 on Saturday, done some shopping, ate something, unpacked and done formal stuff ( got ski-passes, paid for house etc. ) and then we hit the beds being so tired ( especially Meat and Pindarots, who were driving for whole day ).
I'm not gonna describe every day in detail since our schedule looked pretty familiar:
~8:00 get up/ eat
~8:45 pack up, hit the slopes :D
~16-17:30 get back to home, hit sauna, eat something, play some games together , get some drinks etc and hit the bed
For first three days it was quite cloudy and the snow was raining pretty heavily, so it was quite hard to ride, especially after 15:00 since there was a lot of moguls and the visibility was sometimes worse then 3 meters ( which forced us few times to ski right next to the poles showing end of slopes ).
Skiing was going quite well for the first two days: Raidern took some lessons on the first or second day, since he never skied before in his life ( he never actually saw real snow in his life before ;D ), Pindarots skis really well, Meat snowboards very good as well, and Im not gonna judge my own skill, thou I was expecting it to be way worse after a 3 year break due to torn Menicus and ACL's on my left knee which resulted in 3 surgeries in the last 2 years :D
Unfortunately, Pindarots had a really nasty accident on the third day I think: in the begging of the day ( we were hitting the slopes as early as they opened,so they were really icy ) he crashed, looked really badly, we took quite a short break, then he skied down ( from the top, so like a 20-30 minute of skiing ) and took a break for the rest of the day. Why did I point out that he still went down? Because when he later visited the doctor it turned out that his whole muscle was torn! Talk about high pain tolerance. Really unlucky, since he was grounded for the rest of the trip.
For the second part of the trip we had pretty much perfect weather condition ( almost zero snowing during ski time and perfect visibility with really nice sun ), and we moved to the better area of Les 3 Valles as well, which was Val Thorens. Val Thorens is just 10 minutes away by car from Les Menuires, we had ski passes for the whole area so we didn't have to pay extra, and the made conditions were sooooooooo much better. In the end, we stayed there till the end of our trip
We were also switching sun screens like crazy, going from 10 to 20, then to 30 or even higher, and still getting faces burned pretty badly. Just look at the photo:
( left to right: Liquid`Meat, Pindarots, Defrag, Raidern )
Second photo, where it shows better how badly my face was burned in the spoiler tag: + Show Spoiler +
My very own first crash came on the third day, in familiar fashion to Pindarots, where I started to carve and one of the skis slid down on ice before catching the edge. I fell right on my chest and face, leaning my head backwards, which made my chest absorb majority of impact before hitting the ice with my chin. Feeling of not being able to breath for at least 15-20s wasn't the best, but I think its way better then broke nose. In the end, I was quite lucky.
Raidern was hitting easier slopes for majority of time, Pindarots had to stay at home due to his accident, so me and Meat tried to hit as many slopes and glaciers as possible. It was fun, but during the week we were there I doubt we managed to visit even half of the available slopes. Maybe we can try out the rest next year
Food at slopes was JESUS_CHRIST_SO_EXPENSIVE ( quite good thou ), and for evening we split the trip eating half time out/half time we made something ourselves. I can only give out one major advice: never eat in Mexican restaurant in this area. Only one of us had decent meal there, and let say rest of us thought food was quite... bad :D Some vodka with whiskey back in the house doused the bad taste thou!
During last day we also ordered some Raclette for evening from the house owner, I must admit I ordered a set for my own home few days ago. It was damn delicious.
We also had some fun when going back. I had flight back to Warsaw from Lyon around 13:00, we left around 9:00 ( it was a ~2:30h drive ) with plenty of spare time, and when going still in the mountains we smelled burning rubber... since we were passing some small town we just thought it wasnt our car, but after it continued we decided to stop. It turned out we had some problems with breaks in the car ( quite dangerous in the mountains, huh? ), Meat actually knows how to deal with his car so after taking off the tire and few fast calls we were back on track! We made it right on scheduled time to the airport, however my plane was delayed for over 1:30h.
And I must say, this was only once in my life when I was scared during the flight, lol. I fly quite a lot, and I find it really comfortable, there is not much difference between a bus and plane for me when it comes to worrying about crashes. However, the plane was delayed a ton ( never saw that happen on non-cheap airlines ), they changed the crew right when we were boarding, and when I sat down, a middle-aged guy in suit sits right next to me, pulls out a leather case and starts chewing his finger nails while reading a manual entitled "How to react in cases of plane failure". Him having a official airlines logo on the bag didint help either. When taking off plane was bumpy as hell, I was scared as f%*@. But hey, at least it was fun.
What about the LiquidPoker crew? Seriously, I cant say a bad word about anyone present ( shame on people that didint attend thou! ) even if I wanted. It was an awesome trip, and I hope there will be a repeat of this next year, hopefully with more people attending.
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Photos after clicking on spoiler tag :+ Show Spoiler +
So post black friday I initially tried to be a live pro. After my 3rd session went pretty poorly I decided I needed online. Just cant deal with the commute, the waitlists, the slowness and everything else that comes with playing live poker.
So this week I started playing on hero poker. I talked a bunch with the ceo david through pm/email/skype and deposited 250 bucks on monday because thats the max I could put on with just a visa card. Began by playing mostly 25nl and mixing in some 50nl to try to aggressively build a bankroll while also limiting my risk of ruin. After 2 days I managed to build my roll up to about 550 between my winnings, rakeback and bonuses unlocked but it was going pretty slowly.
Realizing I needed more money, I took the steps necessary to western union 1k over there. On wednesday the only thing i knew about western union was that scammers always try to get noobs to send money using it. But it was actually really easy and painless. Took me 10 minutes at western union, 20 minute drive back, entered the MTCN into the site and within 5 minutes the money was in my account. really awesome stuff.
with a bankroll of 1550 i could then aggressively take shots at bigger games and PLO. ran a little bad at 1/2 PLO, but still doing well.
results after 4 days:
Adding in 35% rakeback and the 80 dollars in bonuses ive unlocked and my roll is at about 1800. making 550 in 19 hours of play over 4 days is pretty retarded under normal circumstances, but its kinda fun trying to take shots in games and move up through the limits quickly.
My goal is to play 45k hands this month and have my roll at 5k by the time i head to vegas for WSOP. I never plan on having more than 10-15k on there just to be cautious, but enough so i can play in the midstakes nl/plo games.
Once I hit 5k ill probably cash out 1500 just so i can immediately book a profit on the venture and at least make it not a losing proposition in the very small chance that the worst case scenario happens. But I expect to be able to make about 5-10k a month online longterm supplemented by what I can make on days when live games are soft like during wsop or if I decided to go to the commerce on weekends.
Its not nearly as well as I was doing before playing full time or even if I were to play full time live, but its much more convenient to play from home and be able to play whenever i have a free 2 hour block and i wont have to put in the super long hours of playing in a casino either.
on an end note, i strongly urge everyone to sign up at hero poker. David is the most hands on CEO i have ever seen and does an amazing job with the site. Not to mention between the bonuses, freerolls, rakeback and things like tournament tickets you will probably earn about 50-60% in rakeback over your first 5k in rake paid.
Of course there is uncertainty these days about playing online poker in the united states, but depositing a small amount of money that is not life changing to you and trying to run it up is a good idea.
So post black friday I initially tried to be a live pro. After my 3rd session went pretty poorly I decided I needed online. Just cant deal with the commute, the waitlists, the slowness and everything else that comes with playing live poker.
So this week I started playing on hero poker. I talked a bunch with the ceo david through pm/email/skype and deposited 250 bucks on monday because thats the max I could put on with just a visa card. Began by playing mostly 25nl and mixing in some 50nl to try to aggressively build a bankroll while also limiting my risk of ruin. After 2 days I managed to build my roll up to about 550 between my winnings, rakeback and bonuses unlocked but it was going pretty slowly.
Realizing I needed more money, I took the steps necessary to western union 1k over there. On wednesday the only thing i knew about western union was that scammers always try to get noobs to send money using it. But it was actually really easy and painless. Took me 10 minutes at western union, 20 minute drive back, entered the MTCN into the site and within 5 minutes the money was in my account. really awesome stuff.
with a bankroll of 1550 i could then aggressively take shots at bigger games and PLO. ran a little bad at 1/2 PLO, but still doing well.
results after 4 days:
Adding in 35% rakeback and the 80 dollars in bonuses ive unlocked and my roll is at about 1800. making 550 in 19 hours of play over 4 days is pretty retarded under normal circumstances, but its kinda fun trying to take shots in games and move up through the limits quickly.
My goal is to play 45k hands this month and have my roll at 5k by the time i head to vegas for WSOP. I never plan on having more than 10-15k on there just to be cautious, but enough so i can play in the midstakes nl/plo games.
Once I hit 5k ill probably cash out 1500 just so i can immediately book a profit on the venture and at least make it not a losing proposition in the very small chance that the worst case scenario happens. But I expect to be able to make about 5-10k a month online longterm supplemented by what I can make on days when live games are soft like during wsop or if I decided to go to the commerce on weekends.
Its not nearly as well as I was doing before playing full time or even if I were to play full time live, but its much more convenient to play from home and be able to play whenever i have a free 2 hour block and i wont have to put in the super long hours of playing in a casino either.
on an end note, i strongly urge everyone to sign up at hero poker. David is the most hands on CEO i have ever seen and does an amazing job with the site. Not to mention between the bonuses, freerolls, rakeback and things like tournament tickets you will probably earn about 50-60% in rakeback over your first 5k in rake paid.
Of course there is uncertainty these days about playing online poker in the united states, but depositing a small amount of money that is not life changing to you and trying to run it up is a good idea.
Looking for a place to find some new movies where i can just click and stream it. Dont wanna go thru all the hassle of torrent files and all. Anyone know any good ones?
So being that black friday hit and all my money is still frozen on stars, I have sit around long enough. I want to work out something with someone so I can go play some live poker. I have a place about 1hr away from where I live where I can play some 2/5. I feel very comfortable playing, and being that the place I would be playing is a cruise ship that goes into inter-coastal waters (so its legal to gamble) most of the players will be rich fish looking to have a good time. The cruise runs every night and I would be able to go a couple times a week if possible.
History- Im mainly a sng/mtt player online and can play up to 40 tables no probs. I have had past cash play (which is where i started before online hit the world and it was just more convenient to stay at home) and have played much 1/2 - 2/5. Im willing to work out a reasonable deal with anyone that would like to stake me live. The split would go in your favor of 60/40 as long as I was able to get the stake starting asap.
Here are some graphs of my play online
this is my lifetime OPR
lifetime sngs
lifetime graph all games
Hope to hear from someone soon. Im sure theres ppl that will back me as a good person, honest, and all if anyone needs anyone to vouch for me please let me know. Also feel free to PM me any questions or anything else you would like to know
hey guys!! :D
after more than a year way from poker, I'm back! I decided to quit to take care of some issues in my life, things that I couldnt handle well at the time. I cashed out all my roll but I'm gonna put some back on PS to get back to action.
So I just went back through most of my blogs reminiscing on my poker career and ROFL i am the biggest crybaby emotional roller coaster faggot of all time. I had some pretty awesome stories sprinkled in there to make it all worth it though LOL.
holy shit i never realized how fucking emotional i get and how much i hate losing at anything jesus.
cliffnotes in my life
-just got a job that makes me happy
-I havent had sex in a really long time cause of no confidence + depression
-not drinking makes u lose a lot of weight
-picked up a new nicotine addiction
-hon ruins lives
Have you guys used Click2Pay, or UseMyWallet? I did a google search with both and both times scam came up as a suggested search... Though, if they did scam, how could they be in business still?
then likely going off the grid for a long time barring unlikely good news.
it was a good run everyone, gl in your future endeavours. i wouldn't expect to hear much from me unless I win EPT Madrid and they try and pay me on stars, or um, the FBI changes it's mind.
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