on a withdrawal request from Full Tilt from November 12th . . . Why would anyone play on a site you can't get your money off of?
It's not real money if you can't get the cash, is it?
Hello Curtis,
Thank you for emailing Full Tilt Poker Support. Unfortunately we do not have any further updates at this time. We are currently working with our processors to determine the quickest way to get these funds to you. I'm afraid we are unable to provide an exact processing timeframe at this time. We will contact you as soon as we have more information. Again, we apologize for the inconvenience this has caused.
Thank you for your patience. If there's anything else we can do for you, please feel free to email us.
Anyone else having trouble getting their money from Full Tilt? I cashed out my bankroll with a bank transfer when they blocked Washington residents on November 12th, and still have not received funds. All Full Tilt has to say is "sorry for the inconvenience" and "we're working on it" and "thank you for your patience" blah fucking blah.
Is this the beginning of the end?
I mean on the scale, my withdrawal is tiny, surely they can do something for me. I hear about them compensating others for withdrawal issues but all I get is bullshit.
Thanks for listening to my rant, comments are encouraged
I woke up this morning to discover that I can no longer play real money games on Pokerstars, due to a recent decision by the State Supreme Court to uphold the state's ban on online gambling.
State democrats in the legislature and the Governor passed a law effectively making online poker a class c felony, same as child rape, while taking money from the tribes who run lucrative casino operations in the state. At the same time as she is taking contributions from the tribes, the governor has given them a sweetheart deal where the state gets very little in proceeds from their operations.
All challenges to the law have failed and now Pokerstars has blocked users from the state from playing real money games.
30 September 2010 - PokerStars today announced that it would cease providing real-money poker to residents of Washington State. To date, PokerStars has operated in Washington on the basis of legal opinions where the central advice was that the state could not constitutionally regulate Internet poker, or at least could not discriminate in favor of local cardrooms and against online sites. Last week, however, the Washington Supreme Court for the first time rejected that position and upheld the state's Internet gaming prohibition.
In light of this decision, following extensive consultation with our legal advisors, we believe that the right course of action is to now block real money play by Washington residents on the PokerStars.com site. This policy will remain in effect until the law changes or subsequent legal challenges succeed. Our decision to block real money play in Washington does not affect the balance of funds in customer accounts, which remain completely safe. Our payment services team continues to be available to Washington State residents to assist with cashout requests.
We regret this decision, which will no doubt disappoint our customers in Washington State. However, in all of the jurisdictions where we operate, we are committed to making responsible decisions that are based on a full and considered understanding of the most up-to-date legal advice.
PokerStars remains supportive of passing sensible Internet poker regulation in the United States that will provide much-needed tax revenues and formalize consumer protections. PokerStars operates under those conditions, complying with rigorous licensing regimes, for its worldwide operations in the Isle of Man (UK), and for local operations in Italy, France and Estonia.
It's been a while since my last blog post, so I thought it was time to share with the gang at LP.
My last blog was on June 1st, after winning what appears to have been the last Liquidpoker weekly tournament. I'm kinda bummed about that, as I looked forward to these Sunday meetings. But since so many LP'ers are now rockstars in the poker world, I guess they went by the wayside. It would be great to see them revived. The $10 buy-in event was right in my range, and the chance at playing against the up and coming superstars of the game, well that's priceless. Even more rewarding than winning the tournament was finishing second to Myth, who had a bounty on him and managed to keep it from being claimed. Seriously, I had him dominated AK to AQ, but he luckboxed a flush, and my impatience and inexperience at heads up play showed at the end. Then there was finishing second to NineOneOne after entering the final table with a 10 to 1 chip lead over him. Sick beat.
As a grown man with a day job, I don't play near the volume of hands that most of you play. Also, I prefer tournament play to cash games, so I play mostly SNG games, but nowhere near the number of games a lot of SNG grinders play. Last year I played in a bit over 1600 games with an average stake of $7 for a whopping profit of $45!! Amazing, but it was a great improvement over the $1600 I donked off the year before.
I feel my game has improved, but from "sucks ass" there is only one way it can go, right? I still suffer from many of the basic poker disfunctions . . . poor bankroll management, tilt, life tilt, impatience. I think my biggest weakness has been playing marginal hands out of position. Still working on thinking about each decision before I make it, and I think I'm getting better.
Circumstance has put me in a position to try to take poker a little more seriously, and I count on Liquidpoker for insight and tips to improve my game and it's profitability. Always open to suggestions and even criticism of my play, as it all helps the goal of improving. So feel free to comment on hands I post.
And let me finish with this. All you 20-something kids making heaps of dough playing online poker, enjoy it. Don't let anyone make you feel bad for the time you spend on the computer. Take advantage of this time in your life, because it won't last forever even if you want it to. But you have to balance it with living as well, go outside once in a while, get a tan, bang some girls, have a good time. At 22 you have no idea of the world, not like you will when you are 42. You don't want to look back and say "I wish I woulda . . . " So go through the doors that are being opened up by this game and enjoy. You have plenty of time to be responsible later in life.
Well I haven't been around Liquidpoker.net for a while. To be honest, I'm so outplayed by you all that I'm embarassed. I tried most of 2007 to hang with the LP'ers and earned a few ladder points, but my best showing had been a second (to myth, who had a bounty on his head,which went unclaimed I'm sorry to say) and third.
I hadn't played in the weekly tournament since last Christmas. And I registered today literally at the last minute. I'm always amused by the banter in the chat box at this tournament, and today was no exception. I played pretty tight I think, maybe could have been more agressive, but I didn't make (m)any mistakes, and I finally won the tourney.
I didn't recognize many of the names in the field. I only had notes on ToTMidiaN. What has become of the old guard? Where are you Chobo? blunt_smokr? Too rich to play the donkament? haha
I'll give you all a chance next week to relegate me once again to donkness. Until then, I am the champion!!
I played my first live tournament today, a 40 player field with a buy in of $35, at the 'Drift on Inn' (http://www.driftoninn.com/) in Shoreline, WA, which is about two miles north of the city limits of Seattle.
I was doing well until I picked up pocket aces. UTG I raised 4x, only to have the player on my left re-raise. Though I really didn't want to get all in pre-flop so early in the game, when it folded around back to me I chose to push all in (someone tell me pushing was the right move). Naturally, his pocket queens improved with a queen on the river, and though I had him covered, I was crippled and was soon out. Suckouts happen in real games too! Still, I had more fun than I do playing on-line, so I will certainly be back for more. This is a daily tournament, and I plan to play both days next weekend (not ready to quit my day job yet lol).
Bouncing back and forth between pokerstars and full-tilt. Sick suckouts on both sites. It seems to me that your pocket pairs make sets on the flop a lot more often than the odds would suggest on full-tilt. And on 'stars you see 'broadway' a whole lot. I doubt they are real trends, just the result of playing so many, many hands.
I decided to give Full Tilt a try, after two mostly unsuccessful years on Pokerstars. Since I've only played real money games on pokerstars, I have no basis for comparison.
After 18 games (I play SNG's almost exclusively), my line according to sharkscope:
Avg stake = $9
Avg profit = $8
Avg ROI = 73%
Total profit = $139
Compared to the embarassment that are my stats for pokerstars, I'm ecstatic. I've made some mistakes, donk calls here and there, and a bad beat or two, but for the most part, I get in or near the money most games. I notice I make a lot of sets with pocket pairs. I don't see as many bad beats and hear a lot less complaining about them.
If you play(ed) both sites, let me know what you think.
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