• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Anyone play online poker?

Page 3 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
JEDI said:
anybody who has ever had $ withdrawn from these sites are having their bank acct frozen?!

thank god i opened a separate acct for them and closed it when Bush passed the anti-gambling law
Click to expand...

No, they froze the processing company's accounts, not the player's.
 
You sillies. We already have government subsidized gambling in this country. Except you do it with people's pensions. And if you lose, you just pay 10% of your net worth and somehow try to eke out a living on 350 million dollars.
 
My buddy more or less makes a living through online poker. He is very distraught at the moment as this potentially means the loss of thousands of dollars for him. Hopefully people are able to cash out at some point down the road. Even so, he is now without his source of income.
 
Bibble said:
My buddy more or less makes a living through online poker. He is very distraught at the moment as this potentially means the loss of thousands of dollars for him. Hopefully people are able to cash out at some point down the road. Even so, he is now without his source of income.
Click to expand...
Oh no. He might have to get a job. And pay tax.
 
GodlessAstronomer said:
I was referring to the freedom to spend your money how you want to.
Click to expand...


You can...Indian casinos are in most states, plus "There are 19 states (and one US Territory) that allow commercial casinos in some form: California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana,[9] Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Dakota, Washington, and West Virginia." (from wikipedia)
 
I've never played online poker, just never got into it, and always thought it was kinda dumb.

so how does this work? I hear stories of people making lots of money just playing poker, and many actually do this for a living, 6 figures are common apparently.

Anyone lose money? I mean for every winner, there must be a few losers.
 
MaxFusion16 said:
Anyone lose money? I mean for every winner, there must be a few losers.
Click to expand...

Obviously. If everyone was equal in skill, the only winner would be the poker sites and casinos. Luckily, there are a lot of bad bad players who sink money into it which makes it profitable for good players. My friend got cocky after making 35K 2 years ago and thought he was much better then he really was, and wasn't working at the time. Unfortunately, he got so cocky he thought he could never be beat and everyone but him was bad, and changed his game completely yet doesn't realize he strayed from what made him win (not to mention he was running hot). He's about 7K in the hole the past 2 years and kept switching back and forth between PS and FTP. Changing your game to play the same 'new poker' as everyone is not how you win.

He calls it variance, I call it losing your touch.
 
Last edited:
MaxFusion16 said:
I've never played online poker, just never got into it, and always thought it was kinda dumb.

so how does this work? I hear stories of people making lots of money just playing poker, and many actually do this for a living, 6 figures are common apparently.

Anyone lose money? I mean for every winner, there must be a few losers.
Click to expand...

I lost a few hundred and learned my lesson. No one who plays honestly wins.
 
rudeguy said:
I lost a few hundred and learned my lesson. No one who plays honestly wins.
Click to expand...

Tens of thousands of people who play honestly win. If you played and lost then either your sample size was not big enough or you played against people better than you.
 
rudeguy said:
I'm talking about people running multiple instances of the game, with different user names, sitting at the same table.
Click to expand...

My friends did that for awhile. Other players reported them, stars reviewed the table logs, and they got permabanned and lost all their FPP on stars.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top