America and online poker can be such a drag

I'm sitting here in poker deprived Pennsylvania (USA) and I can't beleieve how hard it is to enjoy a little game of poker online.

I don't have a problem with gambling. I play 3-6 times a year online.

Man. Cmon already. It's time we catch up to the times in the United States. We used to the the leaders. I don't know what we are at this point. I only know I'm losing freedoms everyday. I also know I should be able to play poker online (if I choose) - It's my money - My taxes are paid. Let me play some cards.

Rather - I have chest pain.. as the two services I tried to sign up with (click2play and PICclub) are not working. I used PICLUB before - but now it seems harder and they want me to re-confirm who I am. I'm not doing it.

If it's this hard to get on - I'll stay off.

I tried a dierect (debit card) payment on a new site to me - (Poker4ever) It seems I need to waite 24 hours to see a DECLINED transaction.. I know ging in I have a 10% chance of it working.

Yeah - It's great to live in America.

Unreal.

ONLINE POKER NOT RIGHT

Awhile back I asked for suggestions for future blogs. I was asked if I could go into more details as to why I think online poker is NOT right.

Well - I'm not going to give you page after page of stats (I tell all that read - It's the same time and time again.. I'm not a stats man.. I'm a feel man that works the POSITION and plays quality cards.. with a dose of READING players... as best I can)

So my post today will be simple but DO NOT OVERLOOK what I say.. I'm telling all of you something and I know I'm right. THAT'S THE BEST I CAN DO.

Over the last few years I played countless poker games and tourneys online - FULL TILT - POKERSTARS.. etc.. I've won my share of tourneys - (you can see the images on my prior blogs dating back a good amount of time)

Mostly what I find with online is SET UP situations that make it both good and bad for me.. (It does not make it poker however) When I'm NOT INVOLVED IN POKER HANDS (in other words I've folded) I'm still LOOKING at the other hands (the action) and I see the same thing. INSANE POKER ACTION.. It's contrived with some smart computer system.. (If you want stats.. I'd say 98% of the hands I'd guess are set up.. meaning - Whatever players are LEFT in the hand - These players "will" get something to give them a DRAW or a better.. COUGH.. LOSING HAND..

I'm rushing as I post this - so NO DOUBT I'll need to come back and do a re-write.. but I'm shocked at the fact that ANY cash games I play online - I lose. HOW can anyone LOSE em all.. (Take a players skill level out of it)

I play online I lose. I play live I win 80% of the time. Hmmm - NO BRAINER.

I'm not a poor player or a losing player - I work position and I BET HARD.. In tourneys I bet the proper bets - make the right moves based on how the other player is playing that day (or my guess as to how a player is playing) But never over the last few years have I won any major scores or "major cash wins" with online poker(I'm finished with online as it SITS right now)

Now.. I know what some of you are thinking - You can just say I'm a weak player - Sure.. sure you can.

But here is the thing... In cash games - I'm winning great bundles of cash - to the tunes of hundreds and thousands.. I'll HOLD tight.. LOSE A LITTLE - or make a huge score - (enough to purchase FUN items - @ $200.00 - $2,000.00)

In cash games - I'm a major threat to your stack.

SOMETHING IT APPEARS is hedging the other players outcomes.. To beat me. (while I play POKER online) WHO KNOWS - Maybe we are playing BOTS that play for these companies - Maybe they take NOT ONLY the rake - but also the POT too.. (Enron type evil)

I could go on.. - In the next blog - as promised - I'll chat IN MORE DETAIL about my WEEK in Atlantic City - THE CASH GAMES.

But for the TOPIC of this thread - here is the BULLET LIST of info... (to help make the posts POINT)

I played "ONE" cash came - at the TROP (1/2) NO limit.. Tripled my money - $150.00 buy in.

I played "3" NL tourneys - at the TROP -

2-$52
1-$122

I should have cashed in all three - (45-80 player games) but the two $50 games - I got caught.. (No biggie) Had I my BETTER cards held - (one was a semi-bluff that was just bad timing - running into AK) I'm INTO the cash in BOTH - as I finished just before the bubble..

The $100.00 game - I entered the final table (paying 5) with 2nd to the lowest in chips - and .... (this was a 50-60 player game)

I post a trip report this week - covering all the fun.

POINT IS.. (why is ONLINE not right?)

I won a total of $900 - with an investment of $340.00 (all games)

I'd never dare to drop $340.00 online in a month.

I did it in the past - but never again..

Hmmm - Let's make my point more clear.

I played a few hundred "online poker" CASH games (close to a thousand) and I never once MADE enough on the first night to cash out.. I never seem to have a good win - Hell my online wins are so far and few between... IF I DO WIN A MAJOR POT WHILE PLAYING ONLINE - I get into another major hand soon after - that I MUST play hard - ONLY to lose to a 1-2 outer. Taking all the profit away. STREAKS OF WINS IT SEEMS IS NOT ALLOWED WHEN PLAYING POKER ONLINE.

ONLINE POKER IN MY MIND - CATERS TO ACTION JUNKIES - NOT QUALITY POKER PLAYERS. QUALITY POKER IS NOT REWARDED ONLINE.

LIVE POKER -

FIRST NIGHT at trop in Atlantic City playing - (In 2 hours "lol" of play mind you.. IN and out in 2 hours) I was up and GET THIS.. I cashed out.. a nice win $300.00 profit over the $140.00 buy in. Actually I think it was $340 profit - as i remember buying stuff for my kid on the boardwalk.

BEST PART... When I went back for the next day of LIVE poker - I "knew" I'd never have to worry about a CASH OUT CURSE.. I knew - I'd be playing the PEOPLE (players) and the DECK. The REAL (non RNG) DECK OF CARDS..

THE WAY POKER WAS SUPPOSED TO BE PLAYED.

If the day ever comes when I can CASH OUT (with online poker) the same amount of times (%) as I do in live casino poker (and the same amounts in short amounts of time) - I'll think about coming back - but something is going to need to change.. (MAJOR CHANGE to online poker.. Much like the NEW poker site I keep telling all of you about) THEN and only then - I'll give online poker another spin..We need a ReAL DECK of CARDS online and a company on the up and up. We need REAL DEAL.

lol - (Can you believe I'm just taking a break from putting down a new kitchen floor - "floating floor") I just came inside from cutting in the driveway to get out of the heat) That tells you how much I think about poker. ALL DAY every day..


Oh.. In the next post I have to tell you about the ONE hand I played and the CALL I got.. (player made the right call) - I got super lucky and then REALLY unlucky.

As I see it. Online poker is rigged. It's all tweaked outcomes and situations.. Online poker to me = RIGGED POKER.

That's poker folks..

Atlantic City run and a nice small win...

I'll be back to blogging in the next few days to tell all about my run (Vacation) in Atlantic City...

It includes a stop at the Philadelphia Zoo on way down and then the Franklin Institute on the way back.. with some poker stories (win) talk about.

Today - I have to get some projects finished around the rentals.

Hope you are flopping quads today..

Make it happen...

Summer winding down.. AC run

Summer - It goes way too fast.

My last post - I told you change is coming - change to the online poker world. I'm happy to report - It still is.

Want more info? (e-mail me dwyertj@hotmail.com) BE A PART OF ONLINE POKER HISTORY.

I mentioned how I'd be away for the summer months. (well - I don't lie) Summer is what I live for. Sitting on my deck drinking nice wine... Tending to my gardens. Enjoying my 5 year old - (she is just taking of the training wheels) Trips to theme parks.. pic-nicks.. etc..

I just LOVE summer.


As to poker..

I have not played online poker for over oh.. 2-3 months. The other day - I jumped on to FULL TILT - played a game with my full tilt points. WHAT A CROCK OF CRAP!

I play one game. The systems of FULL TILT and others will never change.

Take a look at what beats me here in todays sample.. Then tell me online is not tweaked against us. (You might have to look back a few years of this blog - and take a look of the many pics of insane bad beats.. I've been posting SICK poker hands for years now) People always want stats - I give you images! (get your own stats) YOU JUST HAVE TO TRUST ME THAT I BET THE HANDS CORRECT... THE OTHER PLYERS PLAYED HORRIBLE and they get hit by the LUCK TRAIN caled the RNG.

Anyways..(In todays hand) I flop a monster.. - Get called by a player who is clueless (It appears he knows something I don't about poker.. Maybe he has a crystal ball next to his computer. OR... "Maybe is he just a FULL TILT COMPUTER PLAYER" and has a friend called the FULL TILT "RNG")

FULL TILT RNG delivers cards to poor players"." (PERIOD)

Just look at the picture..

I bet THIS HAND hard - He called with NOTHING.. (He even raised PREFLOP) "Maybe this super bad play is a trigger to the FULL TILT "mega-bull shit computer"to deliver the win... IF EVER THERE EVER WAS AN EVIL MATRIX - It's the FULL TILT RNG.

Just look at the picture.

It's sick



The point I'm trying to make is.. I played one game - I have not played any online poker in 2 - 1/2 months. This is what I run into. Within 15 min or so.. IS THIS RANDOM?

I know in my heart it's not. (so will you - if you pay attention and tell yourself the truth)

I can log on right now (but I won't) and it would happen much like this picture.. again and again. IF WE CAN'T WIN WITH THE MAJOR HANDS WE ARE DELT, with the ADVANTAGES WE FLOP - "ever" - Why play. It's not even poker. (Ahh.. It's a slot machine)

Now.. I know what many of you players are going to say - (Tom! - What about the hands you WIN.. Show those pics.) TO THAT I SAY - I do.. (look back over my blog.. go back a good bit) When I DO "win" hands ONLINE, for the most part, (I don't think I'm winning as much as I would LIVE) - THE OTHER PLAYERS never seem to play at me the same way (they lose a little when I got the "GOODS" - THEY NEVER DUMP IT ALL)THEY ONLY PLAY HARD (invest a lot of chips) when they have JUNK and.. then - like magic "catch.." (I win very little or nothing when my good hands do hold.. which is rare.. (THIS TO ME IS JUST ONE PIECE or CLUE to the SCAM that is the CURRENT online poker experience)-

My good hands Can't seem to win.. they get crushed by hands like I show you in this sample here today

My quality flops either LOSE by a crazy turn & or river (again - todays sample) or gain very little.. (others fold) Wis I had a knickle for everytime I had a GREAT hand - only to watch the whole table FOLD (A table of players that up to that point have been showing crap at their showdowns... Hmmmm?? Suspect.

It's NOTHING like what I see in live poker. Even with the NEW wave of STEROID INDUCED younger styles of play. (Eveyone plays like Gus now it appears)

To play poker online (at this point) is pointless.. The TV news show 60 minutes needs to dig deeper.. and run a part 2. I think that ONLINE POKER in it's current form - should never be made LEGAL in the USA. It's a SCAM much like the illegal poker machines down the road at the local bar..

THIS IS WHY I'M SO PUMPED ABOUT THIS NEW POKER NETWORK. (Due this fall 2009) If it does not OPEN and I'm wrong - I'm finished with online poker all together. I'll sit here in POKER DEPRIVED PENNSYLVANIA and waite for table games..

Let's see - What else is going on.. More to life than just poker...

My college kids will be returning in a few weeks. (we booked 4/6 rooms.. hoping to fill by this weekend.. Darn Economy.. WHERE IS MY "CHANGE" Obama) My rock wall projects are 85% finished. (I'll post images of rock wall project soon) Upkeep on my homes is going pretty good too - Painted the foundations - and pressure washed the whole place. In my garden.. My pumkins are starting to look pretty good.. and the SUNFLOWERS are about a week or two away from showing some FLOWERS..

As for me..

I'm going back to summer activities - BLOGGING poker is a winter sport for me.. I have a trip to the Hilton in Atlantic city coming up.. I might post about that.. When I do Atlantic City.. It's family all day - POKER all night. (ha ha - used to be POKER all day and night.. into the morning, the next morning.. Sleep - Repete)

HEY! If you are reading this blog - Hit me up with an e-mail. Or give us your thoughts in COMMENTS. Questions - whatever.

I'd love to hear from you.

Soon enough - FALL and WINTER will be here.. and HOPEFULLY the NEW POKER SITE! Then I can show you images where GOOD HANDS HOLD UP more than not. Ah... I love that this CHANGE is coming. (Cmon GENE! - Let's light this fire storm)

Hope you are all enjoying summer 2009 - Get out there! Soak up that Sun.


Look at that IMAGE in todays post - SOAK IT IN! You and I are being scammed by ONLINE poker in it's current form.

Let's steal Obama's message and ACTUALLY come thru - "Make some real quality CHANGE" to online poker.

Very exciting!

Don't forget - email me - If you want to be a test player on this new network. dwyertj@hotmail.com