blonde poker forum
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
July 22, 2025, 07:26:31 PM

Login with username, password and session length
Search:     Advanced search
2262375 Posts in 66606 Topics by 16991 Members
Latest Member: nolankerwin
* Home Help Arcade Search Calendar Guidelines Login Register
+  blonde poker forum
|-+  Poker Forums
| |-+  The Rail
| | |-+  The end of online poker...
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic. « previous next »
Pages: 1 [2] Go Down Print
Author Topic: The end of online poker...  (Read 4188 times)
Blackbeard
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Posts: 373


View Profile
« Reply #15 on: May 23, 2006, 11:59:07 PM »

Or you could just play for fun and pleasure(too many people talk about becoming winning players and iam a winning player etc etc Zzzz)
Buy a £20 quick cash voucher at William hill every now and then, deposit it and play the Mtt sats to the 10k/15k if you get it GREAT if not you have had a bit of fun !!!!
Logged
ifm
If you're not part of the solution, you're a solid or a gas. Jimmy Carr
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 9259



View Profile WWW
« Reply #16 on: May 24, 2006, 12:06:12 AM »

Interesting thread and one close to my heart just lately.
I came to a decision a few months ago relating to online poker in that i just can't win consistently, i feel this is for several reasons:

Firstly you need the bankroll to play the better events, when i say better i mean with better and fewer players. You enter a $10 comp and you invariably get 200+ players, enter a $100 comp and you are looking at a more manageable field (and better players, i suscribe to the view that better players are easier to play against).

I have been trying too many different games, some cash, some sng's, some multis and various variations, PLO, PLO8 etc.
I am trying to find MY game but don't stick to any long enough to find out!.

I am too impatient.

I have lost more than i ever expected or wanted to and now i think i try too hard.
So i decided to stop it, stop trying to make copious amounts of money and just have some fun, i think we all dream of hitting a winning streak and walking into work, smacking the boss and retire 30 years early, the truth is very few have the ability or determination to do it.

My decision is to just play the smaller games, sng's and multis for less than $10 and a lot less than i was, i have a bankroll now of about $1000 shared amongst many sites so i can't play the bigger events anymore.
I also want to go back to more live poker as i was for the majority of last year, i'm only talking £10 and £20 rebuys and the odd fessie event but these i have far more success in.
Last year i was plus £11k in live events but this year i have just been too lazy to travel.

Wow gotta be one of my longer posts Smiley
Logged

Sometimes you have to suffer a little bit in your youth to motivate yourself to succeed in later life.
Do you think if Bill Gates got laid in high school, do you think there'd be a Microsoft?
Of course not.
TightEnd
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: I am a geek!!



View Profile
« Reply #17 on: May 24, 2006, 12:10:13 AM »

long or short it doesn't matter, its a bloody good post

enjoy the compliment, i do compliments once every six years for you Ian!!
Logged

My eyes are open wide
By the way,I made it through the day
I watch the world outside
By the way, I'm leaving out today
NoflopsHomer
Malcontent
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 20204


Enchantment? Enchantment!


View Profile
« Reply #18 on: May 24, 2006, 12:11:40 AM »

Interesting thread and one close to my heart just lately.
I came to a decision a few months ago relating to online poker in that i just can't win consistently, i feel this is for several reasons:

Firstly you need the bankroll to play the better events, when i say better i mean with better and fewer players. You enter a $10 comp and you invariably get 200+ players, enter a $100 comp and you are looking at a more manageable field (and better players, i suscribe to the view that better players are easier to play against).

I have been trying too many different games, some cash, some sng's, some multis and various variations, PLO, PLO8 etc.
I am trying to find MY game but don't stick to any long enough to find out!.

I am too impatient.

I have lost more than i ever expected or wanted to and now i think i try too hard.
So i decided to stop it, stop trying to make copious amounts of money and just have some fun, i think we all dream of hitting a winning streak and walking into work, smacking the boss and retire 30 years early, the truth is very few have the ability or determination to do it.

My decision is to just play the smaller games, sng's and multis for less than $10 and a lot less than i was, i have a bankroll now of about $1000 shared amongst many sites so i can't play the bigger events anymore.
I also want to go back to more live poker as i was for the majority of last year, i'm only talking £10 and £20 rebuys and the odd fessie event but these i have far more success in.
Last year i was plus £11k in live events but this year i have just been too lazy to travel.

Wow gotta be one of my longer posts Smiley

  though I can't believe you could concentrate for this long. Cheesy
Logged

ifm
If you're not part of the solution, you're a solid or a gas. Jimmy Carr
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 9259



View Profile WWW
« Reply #19 on: May 24, 2006, 12:14:27 AM »

long or short it doesn't matter, its a bloody good post

enjoy the compliment, i do compliments once every six years for you Ian!!


Swoon *thump*
Logged

Sometimes you have to suffer a little bit in your youth to motivate yourself to succeed in later life.
Do you think if Bill Gates got laid in high school, do you think there'd be a Microsoft?
Of course not.
RED-DOG
International Lover World Wide Playboy
Global Moderator
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 47397



View Profile WWW
« Reply #20 on: May 24, 2006, 01:48:33 AM »

  goldstar thumbs up  
Logged

The older I get, the better I was.
Nem
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 9494



View Profile
« Reply #21 on: May 24, 2006, 08:09:12 AM »

I am too impatient.

Well, you're pretty stuffed then.
Logged
Rooky9
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 2662


TheAuditor


View Profile WWW
« Reply #22 on: June 28, 2006, 08:21:57 PM »

UPDATE....

I passed my exams that I was studying for, even managed to please the big boss with an 84% and 78% - three months until the next set!

I tried to deposit some money once they were over on Pokerroom, the site I first played on..... three bloody weeks later and the money hasn't turned up in my account even though it left my bank account the day after the deposit! I have had so many phone calls and live chats to ppl from pokerroom all over the world with no success to date! I asked for the contact details for their internal audit department because I wanted to see if there was anything more fraudulent in this hold up but they wouldnt give me them...

luckily I have managed to play at my old level on another site without depositing and playing to play and build a roll is working far better than my old chuck some money on when i see a comp i want to play!

I played a live game the other week and came third...

So I am back Playing poker until the exams get too much but i will not be going down the route of putting small amounts of money on to play a specific comp (unless there is really value and Tikay has a bounty on him!)

Anyhow, the point of the post is...

STAY AWAY FROM POKERROOM!
« Last Edit: June 28, 2006, 08:23:46 PM by Rooky9 » Logged

Claw75
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 28410



View Profile
« Reply #23 on: June 28, 2006, 09:53:23 PM »

great results - well done!
Logged

"Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon....no matter how good you are the bird is going to shit on the board and strut around like it won anyway"
matt674
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 10250



View Profile
« Reply #24 on: June 28, 2006, 10:08:56 PM »

Funilly enough i too gave up serious online poker for at least 2 months on Monday. I want to take at least a month off from playing on pokerstars before the world series as i want to get some practice on my live game instead. I believe even though the live and online game are exactly the same you need to play a different way to be successful in both and i dont want to be taking my online game over to Vegas with me.

I'll still play the odd blondepokerleague event and the occasional $100000k freeroll on stars before i go but apart from that - NO MORE!!

(i'll probably start getting serious withdrawal symptoms by sunday!!  Cheesy)
Logged

sponsored by Fyffes
londonpokergirl
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 2421


Team Busty Gang Capt winners BB1 & BB2


View Profile WWW
« Reply #25 on: June 28, 2006, 10:16:05 PM »

I've had a losing cash game streak for about 8 weeks prior to 3 weeks ago of about £4k
and my poker calculator says the hands i lost with don't compute lol

Decided to only play a few hours a day here and there until after WSOP and play lots whilst i'm out there and maybe only play live here when i get back

Logged

Cardroom Supervisor at Gala Casino Leeds

Ex- Editor of PokerNews UK/Ireland Magazine
suzanne
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 4069



View Profile
« Reply #26 on: June 29, 2006, 02:20:45 AM »

Well done on your exam results Rooky  thumbs up

At the weekend when Blonde was down I found myself browsing the net when I came across positive PROOF that online poker is rigged.

This is quite an old post so I expect many of you will have seen it but for those that havent

http://www.billrini.com/index.php/2004/11/30/proof-that-online-poker-is-rigged

PS am I allowed to post that? Please delete if not.

Logged
Pages: 1 [2] Go Up Print 
« previous next »
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
Page created in 0.085 seconds with 20 queries.