The problem with the 1/2 table is the amount of bad beats you take. It feels like every beat is a bad one with noobs sucking out all the fucking time! When you step up to 2/5 it feels like a whole different table usually, and if you get beat, you got beat by a better player. Either way your wallet is empty, the only difference is the bruised ego 
What online poker site has insta e-checks? I believe I played on PokerStars last year and the wait for my check was fucking retarded.
where can you still play online? (for money) How do you get around the legalities?
havenāt played since the whole banning online gambling
i havent played a real table in a while, just online. used to play every saturday with friends, until we all became alcoholics. never been to a casino 
now both full tilt and pokerstars are using e-checks where you can just put in your checking infoā¦and have drafts taken out of it to make deposits and the other way around to have it put back into your account.
i use to hate the hassle of having to fax in copies of phone bills and birth cirtificates or whatever to full tilt, or waiting sometimes up to 6 weeks for a check from poker starsā¦it was such a pain, which is why i started going to the casino weekly and gave up on the sitesā¦but a friend recently told me that poker stars was doing echecks so iām getting back into itā¦and just for fun i updated my full tilt and saw they were doing in tooā¦so i may start playing on both again.
but i know this wonāt stop me from going to the casino, just prob will go there less nowā¦thereās nothing better than seeing the face of a guy you take down hardā¦and then making a separate pile of chips to the side, and when people ask what they are, saying āthese are his chipsā¦ā
yea i thought u couldnt play for money online anymoreā¦
thereās nothing illegal with actually playing online for real money from what iāve heardā¦the only legal issue is them having trouble finding a way to tax you on it, which is why they donāt want you doing it. if you claim it and what not, thereās nothing illegal about it.
a friend thatās into accounting told me also that you can only be taxed on pure profit from gamblingā¦so if you can provide receipts of losses totaling at much as you won, you dont have to pay taxed.
example:
you win $10,000 in a tournament.
you provide $7000 in receipts and say i lost all this much before hand.
you only pay tax on $3000 of the tournament winnings.
i know a guy that will collect losing scratch offās, every time he buys in online he prints up a receipt, every time you buy in for chips at the poker room in the casino you can ask for a receiptā¦
ā¦and hereās the good oneā¦go to OTB, and empty the garbage can of losing ticketsā¦youāll find thousandsā¦may seem gross to go through that effort, but considering he doesnāt have to pay a dime of taxes on his winnings, itās worth itā¦
Wow, thatās awesome. I will certainly reinstall pokerstarsā¦ that wait was just so stupid! :tup:
I still wish NYS had a poker night.
damnā¦ lol genius.
So will poker stars take US customers then? I tried signing back up at pokerroom not long ago, and because of my region I was only allowed to play with āfunā money
iāve never heard of anybody having any problems with pokerstars, full tilt, or bo dogā¦but i wouldnāt ever recommend bo dog.
fuck now i have the itchā¦iāll be in the poker room tonight if anybody wants to meet up and take the houses of some old men
I also play Razz, Pai Gow, Omaha.
Iāve played in Vegas and also got to watch a final table at the WSOP in 07 (FUCKING AWESOME)
Signing up for Full Tilt Poker right now
there are a ton of ways to pay on pokerstarsā¦if you cash out over 1000 dollars you get your check within a week guaranteed. ive done it. :snky:
I voted yes and no, because your dumb ass made a poll with check boxes.
I play any type of poker. Not much experience with hi/lo or raz, but Iām willing to try.
Yeah man, I got your message this morning, the one you left at 4:54pm just as I had closed up shop =P
Otherwise I would have come. Thanks though.
none of you fuckers called meā¦ is it cause im straight?
like my previous post saidā¦this thread gave me the itchā¦so i went to the casino last night.
fucking idiot friends convinced me to sit down and play pai gow for a whileā¦ughā¦and as the saying goes, the house always winsā¦
in a game that has a supposed 63% push rateā¦i managed to lose $200 just betting $15 or $20 at a time in a matter of an hour and a halfā¦fucking ridiculoudā¦63% push my ass.
then i decided to āchase my lossesā as i like to sayā¦and go to the poker room.
sat down with $200 at $1/$2, no limit, $200 max buy inā¦and in a few short hours cashed out $665ā¦feels good making that kinda comebackā¦but sucks knowing my pure profit was nearly cut in half by that dumb main floor.
