Suddenly at my former security job, people were coming up to me acting like online poker experts...."You said you play online poker right? You going to quit playing now and finally get smart?".
Now normally my response to this would be to call them a idiot and walk off but I decided to try to hold out a intelligent Olive branch and try to have some Peace.
So I told them "Look.... yes there was a online user on Absolute poker who had a super account linked to the company, yes they/he/she stole millions of dollars and could see other players hole cards, yes Russ Hamilton a poker pro was behind it and his fat ass is in Vegas and was never brought to justice."
I usually like to start of agreeing with people, so they get a sense that I completely understand where they are coming from, then I will go ahead and prove my point.
"Did you not catch the part where everyone, who was stolen from got their money back with interest? Yes there were a lot of questions about how they could have handled this whole situation better at first, even denied it was possible at the start. However when the evidence was brought to light, it was handled very impressively, the player's money was given back with interest and Hamilton is now a outcast from poker, and black listed. Which is probably even worse than Jail time."
Usually when you say something that makes sense, people take a long time to search for something to say, really I think they were just trying to throw rocks at my glass house. People tend to label things and believe the first thing they hear when it comes to something they are not a part of. We will use tattoos for a example, when I did not have them and wasn't shaving my head, I got tons of job offers before the poker years, when I was in a band. Why because I blended in I was normal on the surface it was almost like mainstream society came up gave me a huge hug and said welcome to the family.
When I slowly morphed into the person I am today, the gap between them and myself in general became wider and wider.
Then I was accepted by a smaller group of people who were real. People at a few of my jobs, were asking me if I did or sold drugs, there was even a time when I was brought up as a suspect of destroying company machines. (which is all untrue of course no criminal record).
All of this came the more I became my real self, instead of trying to blend in. See none of the people who were putting these labels on me, had any tattoos, were into the music the band played, they had much different goals. Yet they were experts on how people with tattoos do drugs, guys with saved heads and tats have all done prison time,musicians are people who sleep around and cheat. You get the point I hope.
Online poker is the same deal, one bad example and suddenly everyone who doesn't play poker, or isn't a good poker is united that it is rigged. Or everyone who plays is a gambling addict (addicted to poker for sure).
You can search online, just search "(enter the poker site here) is rigged" you will find countless people complaining about how,THEY ARE ALL rigged, they lost to a bigger full house,lost with a straight flush to a royal flush, some stories are so utterly fantastic it is like listening to your drunk friend at the bar impressing a chick about his many years as a dolphin therapist.
All this can do is fuel the US congress ignorance even further, the only reason they are against this in the first place is they can't figure out a way to make decent money of it. Full tilt poker alone makes 40 billion dollars a year, combine the top sites together, it would most likely surpass 100 billion dollars.
Right now they have banished online poker players to the far ends of cyberspace with some states having harsh penalties that rival drug crimes....idiotic and all from playing a game.
For the cry babies who post all over the net about these sites are rigged, you need to realize you are either on a long bad run that happens, or you just plain suck.
In Vegas players get drunk and blame a dealer for the bad run of cards, I have heard these players call dealers assholes and cunts. Makes me sick, they should be knocked out. Online the "sites are rigged". I will give you a example of how a bad player thinks online poker is rigged, I will probably lose you non poker people out there because you probably barely know what hands beat what. So I will try to make this simple.
A player who has won a few cash games, against friends gets online and thinks he can really play poker, that he is really really good (all poker players think they are better than they really are, even the great ones).
From first position (meaning first person to act) they have K J of clubs this player raises it up, one person in late position calls. The flop comes 10 Q A the bad, house game player thinks "Oh yeah baby hit a straight" So he bets the person in late position calls, the turn card is a 10. So the person with K J is betting big time, the person in late position goes all in K J calls, person in late position has AA giving him a full house Aces full of 10's the river is a dud because K J is drawing dead. He complains how online poker is rigged blah blah blah how it is a set up hand.
Lets break this down, K J, played a average hand in horrible position, he simply should have folded the hand, so what do we have him doing wrong already? Him over valuing cards. He hits the flop gets very lucky suck out against AA, he keeps betting not even taking into consideration what the other player likely has. Turn card is a 10, the best hand before the flop AA won. Again the player who played a average hand in early position not thinking about what the other player has bets out and the player with the full house makes the money off the weaker player. That is how poker works over time, if the donkey would have laid down the average hand like he was suppose to, never would have occurred but then again Pros and better players do not want him too.
Just a example really, or guys who lose with AA, who go all in pre flop which just how it works sometimes. AA doesn't mean it can't be beat, it just means you will probably win between 75% to 90% of the time depending on the hand match up of course.
So in closing anything over time, is going to have some bad things happen, no matter if it is your job or online poker and someone who isn't good at something or is unlucky is going to try and blame anything rather than accepting they are either unlucky or dare to accept the fact...they aren't as good as they think they are.
While there are some smaller sites out there, like any business that simply cannot be trusted and will screw you over, like any business good and bad ones.
The large and medium big name online poker sites are not rigged or set up, if you think so you are only 1 of 3 kinds of people. 1. you believe whatever you see on T.V or read. You are a dumb ass who doesn't play poker or you are just conservative and or your mommy and daddy had a gambling addiction. 2. You are a complete idiot who doesn't realize you are just being unlucky so you should quit poker and take the time to be a chess professional where no luck is involved 3. You are a bad poker player, a donkey, a fish. You need to believe your poker game is great because your life sucks, and you are in a dead end job. You need to quit and do what you can to better your life or tell me online where you play so I can take your money. Don't worry I'll spend it wisely : )
Oh and I wanted to set the record straight about Absolute poker, because I have read if you are in America it is really hard to get customer service here, and never by phone. You are all full of shit.
My first deposit which was only 100 dollars to test out, was mainly to check out the site, play some poker, black jack to pass the time, then invest thousands in my account. I am happy with the results and here is why.
My first deposit Absolute poker called me about 5 seconds later and I talked to Tom, he wanted to make sure all my information was correct, my credit card and everything was legit, he was like a long lost buddy on the phone and wished me a lot of luck. I know for a fact that Poker Stars and Full Tilt do not do this, and if they did sure would not do it for someone who deposited 100 dollars.
I know cause the last year I have put thousands of dollars on full tilt and poker stars.
You might be thinking Hey big deal, so what? Just a used car salesmen line.
I won a Pot limit Omaha tournament my second night on there, finished first out of 31.
I get a email from Absolute Poker saying I need to contact their security department by phone (toll free number). They wanted to make sure I was legit, went over the details of my account one more time, and it was great to see a company that would go in detail like that. So that is two personal phone calls in a matter of days.
I can promise you full tilt and poker stars does not do that.
There were two players, being overly rude on full tilt, and working together on a cash game Omaha table. I sent a email to support, pasted the logs, told them I thought it might be a team game. Another player did as well I was not alone.
Well 4 weeks later I still haven't heard anything back I know they got my email as well, amazingly the cashier department was right there to make sure my money got in and out okay, through email no hands on voice customer service.
I'm not saying Full Tilt is a bad place to play, In fact I think if you are a high roller that is the only place to play online mainly based on the Omaha 2000/4000 blinds. Honestly I get the feeling they are almost too busy to get back to medium and low level players.
So yeah Absolute is a great place to play, the people are great, the players are much nicer and respectful on there, then on the bigger two. They have cleaned the pest who was the insider and now they provide one of the best experiences online, along with Ubet. When it comes to online Poker. Be sure to click on our links and sign up for these great sites today.
People who post to complain on the net are just losing players(I would say 9 out of 10 times).
Thanks for reading kids.
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