ILX Poker Players Unite

/fills out 1099-misc for winning a $3 rebuy

That's pretty much it. I'd love to see something where you only have to report if you make over $50k a year or something. I just can't see how taxing the casual players is ever going to work out, especially since the tax laws are so sketchy and rely on terminology like "session" which could mean anything in the internet age.

BTW I'm really happy about the news; definitely could use that money now!! My last check bounced but I hope it all gets striaghtened out. Kinda shocked that the DOJ is doing the right thing here!!

Got an email from Stars Cashier about 30 minutes ago, cashout unsuccessful.

Got another email five minutes ago:

Dear (username),

We were very pleased to receive the news today that allows US players to cash out their real money balances.

In response to this update, the Cashout Option in the PokerStars Cashier will be temporarily closed to allow us to prepare the technical solutions and formulate the plan and processes required to allow you to cash out your balance.

In the interim, any pending cashouts have been returned to your account in order to ensure players have the opportunity to cash out orderly. Please be assured, US player balances are safe. We will notify all US players as soon as the cashier is available again.

Providing you with the facility to cash out is our top priority right now, and hopefully all US players will be able to cash out via the PokerStars Cashier in the near future. We apologize for the temporary delay, and sincerely appreciate your patience and cooperation, as we continue working towards providing you with a solution to cash out.

Regards,

PokerStars Support

Looks like cashouts are a go at Stars.

Got my check from Stars in today's mail.

well now

well, crap

ESPN's "live" WSOP main event coverage is 100x more entertaining than the edited Tuesday night packages.

anyone else on here have a big chunk of money stuck on Full Tilt?

really dumb to call this a 'Ponzi' scheme, but damn was that company poorly run

i think i still had like sixty bucks, so no

$102 and change -- I assume it went up one of the main dudes' nose last year

pokers lame

you're lame for not playing

poker companies settle us fraud charges

Saw that last night, good news. I hope the govt. has kept everybody's account details, because I can't remember how much I had down to the exact penny. Should have taken a screen shot on Black Friday.

I'm lucky that I mostly moved over to Stars by then but I am a little upset that all those player points I got from endless HORSE sessions are pretty much kaputt

kinda wish there was still such thing as internet poker

Finally got my 108 bucks from Full Tilt.

I've been stimming on zynga poker.

My playing days seem like about 3 lifetimes ago. The last time I really worked hard studying a thing and getting better at it. Fuck you, Sheldon Adelson or whoever made Black Friday happen.

Anyone still playing? I made a deposit on Bovada last month, been enjoying playing there so far. Depositing is a real hassle, you have to get one of those temporary Visa cards and there are a lot of fees - I think they charge between 4.9% and 6.9% due to all the processors they have to use. Luckily they waive it for the first deposit, plus give you a (fairly difficult to clear) 100% match bonus.

It's an interesting site - games are totally anonymous, players don't have names, just numbered by seat position. You can take notes but they disappear after the player leaves. Furthermore you can only play four tables at once, so it's not like say Carbon where the same regs would be at literally every table for a stake. Tracking software doesn't really work, you need a converter and even still you can only really see your own stats. As a result the player pool is pretty weak, I'm seeing some plays that remind me of the old Party days, and the full ring tables are limp city. Getting back into this still feels weird but I'm having fun!

http://www.pokernews.com/news/2016/01/antonio-esfandiari-to-donate-50000-to-charity-23798.htm

^^this is my favorite poker story in forever

lol wtf nguyen doin

man that was a sick hand

after running so good this whole week i got coolered out of this satellite tourney this afternoon. UTG+2 opens, i 3 bet to a good size in hijack with KK, button flats, opener flats. flop comes AK9 rainbow, opener checks, i decide to slow play my set and check, button checks. turn bricks, original opener leads out, i shove, button calls with AA. guy rivers quads just for good measure. maybe 3-handed i should have bet flop to charge straight draws and get value from an ace, but no matter what i did i was losing most of my stack anyway

honestly it was a pretty bad flat by button, you should pretty much always 4 bet aces when there's 2 other players in the pot imo

hi folks,
started playing a few online "home games" with friends on pokerstar on sunday nights (20:30 UTC). Currently get around 5-6 players would be fun to have a couple more! Buy in between $5 and $10

let me know if you're interested in joining in.

http://www.youtube.com/dougpolkpoker/live

my favorite poker player dude is livestreaming a 5k final table, and has a lottery going for 5% of his profit

also he's getting pretty drunk lol

yeah Doug Polk is pretty great, one of the few who's legit fun to watch

any US people still playing? I'm going strong on Ignition, for the time being

The only thing I know about poker that is worth knowing is the old truism, that if you don't know who is the easy mark at the table, it's you.

one thing I've started to gravitate towards is the idea that the four pillars of poker are Position, Hand Strength, Aggression, and Pot Odds, and you need at least two of them to make any hand worth playing

starting to get into PLO a lot more...doing well though I am sure I have no idea what I'm doing. that said I don't think anyone else does either.

PLO is so much fun but so easy to be bad at

polk won that tournament last night btw, 271k

wow good on him. definitely one of the most likeable of the newer crop of internet players.

what's really struck me about PLO is just how much different it is than regular NLHE. its such a post-flop game, you really can't ever be more than a 60% favorite before the flop and you can't win big pots if you whiff on it. thus far my "edge" is just noticing which players are unwilling to bet anything but the nuts and which ones get too gung ho about their low straights and flushes. not to mention sticking to the basic principles of aggression and position which people seem to forget in favor of a "limp every hand" strategy.

doug polk and daniel negreanu seated next to each other at the feature table of the 111k WSOP one drop. doug is wearing a "more rake is better" t shirt

is that online somewhere?

that is one of the best things i've ever heard

clay a bunch of the WSOP events are being live streamed on the pokergo app and pokergo.com. it's 10 bucks a month or 99 for a year. the main event will be free

oh thx, i don't keep up like i used to but nice to dive into a tourney on a cloudy saturday

both doug polk and haralabob make the final table of the 111k one drop

doug won and bob got 4th!

aw man the coverage last year on the wsop site was so good
looks like tuchman only doing a lil bit of the coverage on pokergo
think i'm going to leave it, might be tempted with the 10k HORSE final table

seems like a nice wsop so far tho, good to see kurganov win his first bracelet (with liv boeree too + half prize money going to charities)

10k omaha 8 final 17 look like a good bunch
cheering for ray d. obvs

its been a good couple of months for Doug Polk huh

don't really follow players online what's gone down?
i'm trying to catch up on scoop via twitch streams so am v v much behind!

oh sweet there's an 8 hour vid of his final table :)

anyone still playing online? what games/stakes are people on ?

Nah, Black Friday took all the wind out of my sails.

play every now and again on pokerstars
just $4ish tourneys - whatever game is going
play live a few times a week which is enough for me really