Just curious on this issue. So I stopped playing online poker several years ago. Shortly after the Bush administration passed that bill banning banking transactions to European escrow sites. Anyway, does online poker still exist in the US? And if so how do people get around the US ban?
You can play on Poker Stars and Full Tilt. Those are the 2 main sites. Ultimate Bet there system got compromised by somebody on the inside and this poker pro Russ Hamilton with a screen name potraker was able to see all of the cards. If I were you I wouldn't get back into it. Texas Holdem is a ruined game. All those people that say they make all of this money are liars or they are just plain lucky.
No, I've just played enough poker to know that so called "playing well", traps moves or whatever, is nothing but card configuration. People that get far in tournaments do a combination of folding and chip management and once in a while when there cards hold up they survive. You could get aces ten times in a row winning hand after hand and then you get aces board is 639 and you push guy calls with a set of 3s? Is that skill or card configuration? The people that have the most luck win time and time again. If you don't think it is all about card configuration, chip management and folding to donks would are bound and determined to bluff you all in and hit runner runner, then you don't know much about poker.
I dont know I made a decent amount of money back in the day. People play way way too aggressively alone and simply playing by the numbers (even if you lose games you shouldn't be losing) was winning me money in the long run. Literally if I took the time to design a program and just inputed all the statistical odds to every hand versus every possible draw on the table, I guarantee I would make money in online poker. I still don't understand how those companies are operating if you cant deposit money overseas anymore but whatever I guess they found a way.
Both Pokerstars & Full Tilt have eChecks available. (At least for established players, not sure if it's available to people that don't have a history with them.) Money comes out of your checking account and it's credited to your poker account instantly. (Takes a few days for the ACH to be withdrawn from your checking account.) Withdrawals can be transferred right to your checking account.
I used to like Party Poker, but it puts so much spyware on the computer that I don't want to play it anymore.
I miss the old Party Poker days of 2003/2004. Fish who could instantly deposit on their credit cards after watching WPT on TV, tables with 8 or 9 players passively seeing flops... Don't know if we'll ever see games with a texture like that again. The games were so juicy even someone whose game runs as bad as I do could clean up.
Could not agree more!!! Online poker now is alot less "fishy" and thus less profitable. I'll play every now and again but I do it more for fun now.
i have no idea what you mean by card configuration. anyhow, i don't deny that luck is a factor in poker, but if you know how to play beyond the basics and are disciplined it's not too hard to be a winning player...especially online. i don't even consider myself a great player, but win consistently. or maybe i just have all the luck.
Poker to me has always been a game of human interaction. I never enjoyed the online poker craze and I love poker more than most.
I couldn't disagree with you more. Playing poker is math plus psychology and a little bit of chance if you do it correctly, otherwise there would be no one that could be a professional poker player. Way before there was endorsements, way before Chris Moneymaker, way before the boom, there were guys playing poker for a living. Poker is math, with 52 variables in each problem. You can see 2, 5, 6, or 7 variables but you don't know the rest and have to make decisions based on probabilities. Those that make the correct decisions win most of the time. However 80% to win still means 20% to lose and that's why they are called bad beats. When you have an 80% shot of winning, you push a lot of chips in because the odds are in your favor. Occasionally, some donk makes a bad decision and hits the 20% or even 2% chance and wins. But if you are a good player you WANT those people at the tables. You make your money on a guy chasing the gutshot straight. Poker is also psychology. You want to guys at the table to have a perception of you that is untrue. You don't want to give away information unless it is useful to you later. Showing the bluff now so they will call you when you have the buts later. Mucking your cards when everyone else folds. Acting weak when you are strong, strong when you are weak, until that is what they expect. Then you act strong when you are strong. It is tactical. And while there is less psychology online than in a live game, it is still there online. The time it takes to fold, chat, lack of chat, mucking cards, showing cards, etc. Poker is science and art.
Pros go broke all of the time. Math only works over the long long haul. Poker is going to be a dying sport in the not to distant future as people realize this.
Also, perception, most players aren't perceiving anything but there own hand. You, my friend are still sleepwalking.
poker stars is rigged... if youre letting a computer to randomly select your cards for you then prepare to lose... you guys have to remember the only thing online poker sites care about is blinds, Tournament is the safest thing to play if youre going to play online, I dont care how good you are... you will lose money if you play cash games... Chris Moneymaker? Do you guys even know how much he lost from online poker after he won that tourney?
Poker is a game where every two bit idiot think he can win money. Where do you think all the prize money come from? From fools who think they can win!
Obviously a Donk that doesnt know how to play Texas Hold'Em. I play prolly about 2 times a month online. But play in a Texas league that you win points instead of money. #1 gets seat at WSOP. Anyway, You are allowed to play like PokerStars or Full Tilt. Ps > Ft though.
