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yeah i was thinking the same thing, I dont really know much about it but the home games thing seems to cover a lot of bases

i have no idea why my post about monkeys ended up here. haha.

wait can you play for actual $$ in the us again?

I think Washington (state, not DC) is the only place that has banned online poker? It's not illegal to play, there are just some tricks to putting $$$ in yr acct and cashing out.

how does this star thing work? i can set up a stars account then maybe.. is there a rakeback thing for stars?

that goes to show how longs its been since i played.

No rakeback that I know of for Stars.

i can't play for like the next month, but i would be up for the ilx game again.

i can play most evenings i think with some prior notice.

e.g. weds, thurs, sunday evenings

yeah me too, if i feel like taking up this habit/time waster again. it may be harder for me now, since i have a kid.

making good progress on the bankroll playing cash games lately. seems really easy to find one or two fish to target on each table. fold everything except if i have the goods with them and then pull back the line for a double up. not really testing ones poker ability i suppose?

you generally have to use echecks now to deposit

stars is a great site but yeah they don't have rakeback (though there is a reload right now), instead they do this VPP program that is kind of like rakeback, but it only really approaches the standard 27-40% levels if you're a high volume player. you won't get anything like 33% but the upshot is that stars really is the best poker site in so many ways and has a huge pool. give and take I guess

making good progress on the bankroll playing cash games lately. seems really easy to find one or two fish to target on each table. fold everything except if i have the goods with them and then pull back the line for a double up. not really testing ones poker ability i suppose?

it was really easy to do this in the early days, but you don't really find those "all in with top pair no matter what" players anymore. you have to learn to beat the regs

hmm fulltilt are full of them or maybe they're just regs and i have gotten better? i wonder if the time of the day makes a difference too

that may be but the old style of "play really trappy" doesn't work the way it used to, even the fish know how to do things like pot control now.

time of day does make a difference...friday/saturday/sunday are the best times

I would be down for home games to lose money to ILXors. I'm available for a while some afternoons and most late evenings (CST, Texas)

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Can still play real-money games on Full Tilt, for the moment.

i wonder how many people are playing way above the roll right now

their roll i mean

What, just spewing because they think they'll never be able to cash out?

yeah

not that i'd know anything about that :x

what the ffffffffffffffffffffffffff

holy shit this sucks hard

i don't doubt we'll be able to get our money back but this is really bad for me

i wish san te were here to talk about this

ok i'm kind of freaking out now, apparently checks are bouncing and I was counting on this money for the down payment to the place i'm buying...this could totally screw me...BUT online poker is so big...they can't just confiscate the money can they?

there's got to be quite a few people (poker pros mainly) with millions or close to it on these sites, essentially using them as banks, right?

yeah there's a ridiculous amount of money on there

Just submitted a request to pull out the $75 I had in PokerStars. Hope it goes through.

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Full Tilt this evening.

Cashed out my $160 at Stars a couple of hours ago...requested a check instead of a transfer. Not sure why...giving them my checking acct details just feels unsafe right now.

Rumor is that the indicted sites are going to shut down worldwide within the next 48 hrs, even in countries where they operate legally.

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Just got email from Stars, the cashout request is being processed. Hope the check doesn't bounce.

i haven't played in a couple years but this kinda sucks. don't really care about the money i've still got on fulltilt, i feel like the 'right' thing to do is just wait til this blows over and see how i can get it back then, rather than making a run at it and ending up with a check that won't be accepted by US banks

it doesn't let me cash out, lol

btw from what I heard the checks issued in the last few days are bouncing, so let me know if any of them come through

I may just frame mine instead of risking an NSF fee.

lol one of my online poker buddies JUST quit his job this friday in order to go full-time
can't get owned harder than that

woo i lost all of my money on fulltilt a few weeks ago and never reloaded.

Maybe a home-game scene will start to develop around here now.

how will we play our ilx game now?

maybe i'll start a server

lol last line of linked article:
"...as the Courier Mail put it, if this were still the old days, he'd buried in the Las Vegas desert right now"

like all your money

no kidding, but I doubt anything will be done about him
I mean look at Russ Hamilton, who directly stole millions from poker players, he's still alive and playing golf
still, fuck this guy, fuck the poker sites for pissing off the man with the info to bring you down

I guess maybe there will be a positive out of all this, this should lead to regulation right??

I think it will eventually. This is just the process of tearing down a bunch of houses to put up a mall.

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acewhiskey needs to work on his bankroll management

That used to be high-rolling! Then AceWhiskey stopped playing Yahoo Games in 2004 and the rest of the world done passed him by.

I guess if checks are bouncing, I'm probably fucked on the money I had on PokerStars.

Part of me thinks I should cancel this PS cashout until the situation is a little more stable -- right now, there's a run on the bank, so to speak. After things settle down a little, Stars may put some more resources into covering cashouts so they don't freak out their remaining legal players. Y/N?