the day to play online poker if you can get in a game without having the feds close it down before you can cash out. Of course that doesn’t apply to the rest of the world, just those of us that live in the land of the free (major sarcastic rip intended there).
I have been playing Carbon Poker – even cashed out a nice piece and once I hit the cash-out button, the check was delivered by Fedex within three days. Woo hoo! I’m working on scoring something big though at the WSOP.com – I have cash on deposit but freerolls are my game right now. I even made 47c or something like that in a $100 freeroll a few nights ago. But mainly I’m gearing up for the $100K freeroll they are offering to those that make a deposit before X this month, or signed up at the Rio during the WSOP this year. I signed up there specifically to be able to play this freeroll. WHEE! Check out the deal here.
My new series is running at PokerWorks, The View from the Box, with a new edition today. This is going to be a lot of fun for me…for one thing, I love talking about the overall picture of poker and most of the world isn’t aware of the depth of emotional overload and the roles people play when they are at the table…yah, they don’t always bring their poker face.
I’ve dealt games that were filled with society chips ($1K, $5K, $25K denominations) many times but I never got to handle one of these babies.
Here’s the story behind that elite poker chip.
On that note, I’m out…laters.
Liked the back story.
When I hit Vegas, I found out the hard way that many of the old, hardnosed assholes players didn’t even want a dealer to look at them, let alone know their name and use it.
That’s a line from your article on PN. As a tourist in a poker house I’ve caught dealers from my tables telling their regular semi-pro players my personal information and watched the semi put the information in their little black books. I’ve gone as far as asking the dealers to give me the same information on the semi’s and been refused.
Those old pro’s might have a point. Grumpy, to be sure, but a point.
TM, Mostly, dealers should never talk to players about other players wins/losses or playing habits. But when I hit Vegas, I really wasn’t prepared for how totally cold they could be. The eyes give them away, that cold, stark stare takes the breath out of you when you’re a newb. 🙂