Charade You Are
you can call me Frost
Silver Level
Guess Vegas's plan to have online poker banned so everyone would play at their casinos isn't working out so well.
If your plan is to make money, all the grinders know multi-tabling is the way to do it. Kind of hard to do that live.
And another poker web site and forum has jumped on the bandwagon to help players relocate.
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/online-poker-ban-sends-pros-elsewhere-127509853.html?ref=853
If your plan is to make money, all the grinders know multi-tabling is the way to do it. Kind of hard to do that live.
And another poker web site and forum has jumped on the bandwagon to help players relocate.
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/online-poker-ban-sends-pros-elsewhere-127509853.html?ref=853
OzExorcist
Broomcorn's uncle
Bronze Level
FYP. The thing it's not easy to do live is go from $20 to $2 million in a couple of months because you're right, volume is an issue playing live. Doesn't mean people can't make money though if they're in the right games.
okeedokalee
Glory To Ukraine
Loyaler
OzExorcist
Broomcorn's uncle
Bronze Level
I think this gets filed under bad news - apparently Full Tilt credited players with well over $100m in funds that it never debited from their accounts:
http://www.subjectpoker.com/2011/08/ftps-60m-shortfall-actually-much-larger/
http://www.subjectpoker.com/2011/08/ftps-60m-shortfall-actually-much-larger/
Charade You Are
you can call me Frost
Silver Level
Just more evidence of their incompetence. If anyone should have known there were problems with the payment processors (e.g. the DOJ setting up phony sites), it was the poker sites. Guess FTP never heard of a stop-loss order.
xdeucesx
Bar Master
Silver Level
pokerstars was doing this too, I actually had an E-Check deposit fail to go through twice in one week, but was given the funds instantly to my account. Eventually it was resolved bc I sent the $ via Western Union, but I'm sure most players would just never pay the sites back
Worak
Legend
Bronze Level
The only thing I want to do with my FTP account when it is unfrozen is to draw out the remaining 30$ asap.
I withdrew the big chunk right after BF as it was still possible for me being non US.
You're all right about game structures and availability which were best there but there will have to be alot of work to be done to make me deposit there anytime soon again.
I have totally written off my UB account - coundn't withdraw there soon enough never having deposited there ~ 200$ gone there built up from 0, bleh.
I withdrew the big chunk right after BF as it was still possible for me being non US.
You're all right about game structures and availability which were best there but there will have to be alot of work to be done to make me deposit there anytime soon again.
I have totally written off my UB account - coundn't withdraw there soon enough never having deposited there ~ 200$ gone there built up from 0, bleh.
KerouacsDog
Legend
Bronze Level
same as, for fulltilt, Im gonna take most out (if I can eventually), and just keep a small br there.
As for UB, why dont you play there now? I still play there, taken $8 up to $120, and can get it out any time I like, via moneybookers, or neteller if I dont mind waiting. Get over to there, theres a small player pool there now, lots of overlays in gtd mtts, and lots of fish at 2nl-10nl
JOEBOB69
Cardschat Elite
Silver Level
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fletchdad
Was good while it was good. It no longer is.
Loyaler
OzExorcist
Broomcorn's uncle
Bronze Level
That'd be autotune in all its horrible majesty. At least SrslySirius has the excuse that he's not meant to be a real singer, unlike all the pop singers that use it these days.
Anyone ready for a bit more bad Full Tilt news? Their lawyer in the class action suit (the same one that was answering player questions) has filed a motion to withdraw himself on the case because pursuing the case would impose "unreasonable financial burden on the law firm".
http://www.subjectpoker.com/2011/09/ftp-pro-se/
It's maybe not a total disaster because IIRC Ifrah was only involved in the first class action case and they have different counsel handling the DoJ / AGCC / investors issues. Still, it doesn't sound good...
KerouacsDog
Legend
Bronze Level
thanks CR
yeah i just want my money back, will leave a tiny bit there, but not much.
OzExorcist
Broomcorn's uncle
Bronze Level
Is it actually set for the 15th? The wording of the AGCC statement was "...as soon as possible and in any event not later than 15th September", though granted, I don't see how it can happen any sooner.
OzExorcist
Broomcorn's uncle
Bronze Level
Update / clarification: apparently Ifrah was also representing Ray Bitar in the DoJ criminal case, and continues to do so.
S
santa fe slim
Rock Star
Silver Level
Couldn't agree more. Have a few bucks there myself, but will NOT play there again. Just give me the MONEY!
C
cAPSLOCK
Cardschat Elite
Silver Level
Charade You Are
you can call me Frost
Silver Level
But at least a little good news maybe. http://www.tightpoker.com/news/us-well-on-the-way-to-legalize-online-poker-2827/
dmorris68
Legend
Loyaler
Lots of speculation that this is bogus. Just doesn't seem logical that the DOJ would allow something like this to leak. There's typically no warning when they seize processors or indict sites.
I'm hoping it's just something fabricated by a competitor (Cake?) trying to horn in on their US market.
But now I'm torn as to whether I withdraw now or leave it -- if it is true, as the article suggests my funds are probably safer if left on the site than in payment processor limbo...