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Disclaimer: This is likely going to be the most boring section but year 3 is where it starts to get good (which I can make it more humorous) and I will type it up while I play tomorrow. But as long as interest in these threads is here I will invest the time in making them. A couple comments in the first one said it was nostalgic, which I agree, its kind of why I am even writing these. These were the actual good days of poker before government decided to fuck it up for everyone, poker is a shell of what it used to be and it will never return to its glory days without government fucking off. There is no entry point for new players these days, there are no advertisements on ESPN, no play money hustles or low stakes games online full of fish (now full of bots or bot like regs) or mega field mtts for people to get excited about. Also processing power has grown so much that problem solvers are becoming prevalent in decent stakes games. Jump online and play some NLH, it is insanely unfriendly to anyone playing less than perfect (plo is the only way to play online now, lets make it bigger than NLH!). Your every leak will be exploited. Its just not going to come back. (No one tell me bovada is soft either, fuck the anonymous stuff, 4$ rake no rewards system, they deserve no business, globalpoker is the only one worse) Also worth noting every single event I cover is real. The only thing that can be false is dialogue (for humor usually) and potentially altered hand histories due to lapsed memory.
Oh and since I bashed two online sites I will plug one. Coinpoker.com - learn how to use crypto and join up. The software is solid, traffic a bit slow for USA time zones but its growing a bit. I have no affiliation aside from playing there and would enjoy more traffic in USA peak hours.
Year 2
I am now a 20 year old gun slinger in the wild West of online poker. I am grinding sit n gos and mtts and cash games. I am a jack of all trades, and a master of all games. I am playing plo stud8 nlh it didnt matter, I just wanted to learn every game. I was a genuine student of poker, it consumed my brain at all times. I wake up at noon to slide into my chair and start grinding, still living at home with my dad in my ear telling me to get a job because “there is no future to gambling” to which I retort “you got it wrong pops, its actually no gamble no future, and I am gonna gamble for mine”.
I am in the backwoods of Oklahoma. I have no clue when high speed internet was invented but I sure as hell didnt have it in 2006. I was still using dialup as it was the only option available. I grind a lot of mtts and sitngos, and when Poker Stars releases a small patch or update I always paid the piper. I would leave the website open 24/7 so disconnects often would leave me screaming at my computer banging my head as updates downloaded for 5-20 minutes usually. Often I would be ITM in an mtt or holding AA/KK somewhere praying to the poker gods that everyone else disconnected and was feeling my struggles as well.
Nevertheless I am becoming a winning player. I have erratic account balances ranging from 300-1000$ while I play $1-10$ mtts (and occasionally jumping into a 20$+) and cash games at 10nl/plo mostly. I dont exactly recall the tourney that allowed me to cash out $3,000 off of Poker Stars, but it happened at some point that year. I remember the day it came in the mail pretty well. I got in my piece of shit 1998 Ford F150 (that I drove from age 17 to 23ish until I gave it to a friend who had his car stolen, it finally collapsed at 310k miles, I abused that truck, it literally had so many original parts on it, including the spark plugs amazingly) and drove into town head held high with my prize sitting on my lap. I couldnt wait to get to the bank so they could ask me where I got all this money from (which is ironic because a year later you had to lie if you wanted to retain your bank account). In my mind, as a 20 year old who has never even held 1000$ of my own money before it felt like I was going to be cashing the biggest check they would see all week.
I arrive at a Bank of Oklahoma, walk in and head to an open teller. She was an elderly lady probably in her 60s. I hand her the check and give her my account info and she starts punching away on her computer. She asks me how I want it, and with a smug grin on my face I say “in cash”. She gives me a blank stare then reaches into her drawer and pulls out a stack of $100 bills. This was the moment I had lived for, this was the moment my year plus of sitting in a basement ostracized from society grinding it out on my leather ass was for. She leans in to start counting out $3,000 and time is moving so slow for me. My bottom lip is literally shaking watching her count this massive sum of fiat, it was at the time the greatest moment of my life (over losing virginity, over the first time feeling the euphoria of MDMA, over anything). It felt so fulfilling. Pixelated cash turned to physical cash and I was on my way. Making the hour drive to the city to buy some cocaine and hang out with friends.
Short version of the weeks that followed that event, cocaine and home games for pennies. The money ran dry and my nose wore raw. The cocaine was rarely good obviously but thats to be expected in 2006 and in the Midwest.
Towards the end of the year I am going to a friends house to play after a weekend of partying and poker. We played at the casino the night before and have had little to no sleep in two days. Hes not a well seasoned super pro who has cashed a $3,000 check like me but he dabbles a bit. Its Sunday and were gonna grind a few tourneys, one in particular was a freeroll for anyone who earned X amount of FPPs over a set period of time. Everyone who makes final table gets a $12,000 package to main event. So we saddle up and jump into this (if my memory serves me correctly) 26,000~ player field. Luckily it had a good structure with plenty of play, 5 minute levels was going to allow my sharpened skills to shine. Laptops out, chargers plugged into a power supply we were underway. We felt like Louis and Clark setting out to traverse the western USA. We were gonna chart our maps on our way through this large field and claim our prize. We rarely say a word to each other through the first hour, were dog ass tired from the partying and high stakes 1-2nl at the casino the night before.
I bust my entry in the second hour, humiliated by the poker gods I look over at my friend in disgrace to let him know he is on his own, only to see him fast asleep sitting out at his table. I grab his laptop and feel my heart thud and my jugular swell as I have been revitalized having a second chance at this tourney, so long as he doesnt wake up.
I quietly accrue chips, soul reading my digital opponents and swiping their blinds. An hour passes I am still alive. Another hour and I am full thrive. Another hour and it seems I wont be deprived. We get down to 1000 then 500 then 100 people left standing. I awake my friend to show him what I have done, much to his surprise. He was excited but knew that I was the captain of his ship now. He fell asleep at the helm, so his ship now belonged to me.
Now to the hands I remember pretty well.
Two tables left. Not a ton of play but I am one of the bigger stacks. 15ish left and I am in the blinds with 66 when some asshat rips from the cutoff. It will cost me 3/4 of my stack (tbh I cant remember how many bb, it had to be 6-10 I would think, a 5 minute level turbo with 26k people back in 06? Had to be shallow) but I nut up and call.
My 66 is ahead of his QT but he finds a way to win. Now I am on deaths throes seeing this 12k package slip out of my grasp.
Aside from a pivotal pot that I won with K9o (ripping shallow) I remember no other hands but I assure you no one was all in or had someone all in more than I did at those final two tables. It tailed off with me comfortably sliding in from 11~ left to 9. I remember agonizing so many all ins, laughing when I won and yelling FUCK!! when I lost. More highs and lows over that 20-30 minutes than I had ever thought possible, and wouldnt feel again for a year or two. This 12k score was by far my biggest to date. We fist bumped and despite having no sleep we went out drinking and playing 1-2 like a couple of punk 21 year olds that we were. Kind of a side note but I have had many threats to me at a poker table, I am a bit mouthy (in the name of humor, but the humorless get angry).
Since it was my friends account we chopped the 12k. He proceeded to become a 200nl pro for the next few weeks. Sitting with the likes of Sam Simon (of The Simpsons, he was a frequent Poker Stars player) and melting off a good portion before tapping out.
I proceeded to continue to chip up from there. Then I had some issues on Poker Stars. While playing some 180 man sitgos I was talking to someone in chat. Who then found me on my cash tables to ask me what I had in a hand. Needless to say I broke collusion rules (worse than that, he lingered and was telling me his hands and I would tell him mine like a nimrod). Wasnt exactly intentional but I received a life time ban on Poker Stars and they sent me a check for my account balance. Not my proudest moment, it was dumb but honestly resulted in a net positive.
The end of the year I turn 21 and am grinding FTP and I am thinking about moving out of my folks house. I never get a fat roll together but I am winning here and there and blowing money like an idiot kid who has no concept of tomorrow. I was downloading new poker sites (the resulting net positive from losing stars)
One last story from this year. This is genuinely my favorite one I ever tell (and I tell it occasionally to this day in certain situations with people I dont think will get offended and they set themselves up for it)
I walk into a card room and get a 1-2 seat. I grab chips and head that way, and I end up drawing a seat directly to this old mans left. The old man was my grandfather. I had spent minimal time with this man in my life. Less than most people do with grandparents who live fairly close. He was a gambler though, stocks or cards. Rumor has it (never heard this from him only my mom and other family) in the late 70s or early 80s he sells a plot of land with a few oil drills on it and heads to Vegas where he spends 6-9 months playing poker and comes back busto. I never asked him about this story, if true I am sure he was felting himself to Brunson or Slim or some of the other old timers. The land yielded him a few hundred thousand dollars. The funny part is that piece of land is still pumping oil in 2019 (he fucked up). He recovered in life though, he never lived poorly. Owned a house on a lake in Oklahoma and dated meth addicted women 30 years younger than him my whole life. Just a standard version of a sugar daddy I suppose.
Anyhow, we greet each other and exchange a few words before just getting immersed in the game. Hes not exactly an old man coffee player, I do know his favorite hand is 910 though from poker discussions we had previously. About an hour into the session I have barely played a hand. I look over at him and say “man I just keep getting 92o 83o 72o over and over”. He then turns his head towards me and looks me in the eyes and says words I never will forget. He says (using fake name here) “Johnny, there aint one guy at this table that gives a fuck what youre folding” and looks away. I wasnt shocked at the cold response. He was a brash and dry person. Never told a joke that I remember. I never forgot it though and when people try to complain about their cards I tell them “I will tell you what my grandpappy told me, aint nobody at this table gives a fuck what youre folding”. Even though it was kind of cold, truer words rarely are uttered at a poker table. The last thing I care about is someones bad beats or card dead hour or wtf ever else. We are all so self involved that we think people care to hear a bad beat story or whatever, but they dont.
Part 3 in the next day or two.

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Alright. let me preface this by saying i haven't been playing online poker for very long. maybe 4 months. however this post is not necessarily poker related but more so related to the means in which we play poker online here in the USA. This might be a long post that you must read to fully understand but bare with me as i really need to establish whether something shady is going on and if i should change poker sites and warn people not to use bovada. Thank you for any help or opinions.
I started playing online poker on Bovada on June 3 2018. I deposited $100 USD. I decided on trying bovada over other sites simply because it would allow my brother to receive the refer a friend bonus from my deposit. on June 10th I also referred a friend and fellow new online poker player to Bovada. He deposited $100 and i received a $100 refer a friend bonus. I now had my $100 from my deposit and $100 in bonus funds that are essentially locked until you meet the requirements to unlock them.
From June 10th to July 2 2018 I continually played in $1-$2 sitngos on a consistent daily basis. I played 111 to be exact(i have spreadsheets to log results). My buyin total was $141.85 with a profit of $22.30. I also played cash/zone games in that period. my total buyin for that time was $67.65 with a loss of -$16.95. This means that i essentially played $209.5 and profited $5.35 total playing poker on bovada. The reason i am including is, is so we can see how much money i played with, and that i didnt lose money.
On that July 2, 2018 i also completed my refer a friend bonus. that initial $100 was unlocked. i now had $200 from my deposit and $100 earned through referral + my profits that were mine that could be fully withdrawn. Throughout june 10th through July 2nd i watched the bonus go from $100 locked up to $0. every day it would tick down as i played more and more.
i thought wow this is great.. i should refer so more people to essentially build my bankroll while i continue to play online poker and learn it. So that is what I did. On July 10th i referred a friend for $100 and received another $100 refer a friend bonus. I watched that bonus tick down a bit as i continued my regular couple of SNGs a night. on July 17 i referred another friend and received another $50 bonus. from July 10-July 17th i watched the $100 bonus tick down to $68.85.
it was on July 18th that things got weird. July 18th the bovada website changed its UI. I remained playing like I normally would, however i noticed my bonus staying at 68.85.. after a couple days of not seeing progress like i had usually seen.. i contacted bovada through chat. I explained what happened and asked why i had not seen my bonus ticking down like normally? The rep explained it was because of the website change it was an issue that was known about, and that it she could assure it would resolve in time. ok Fine.
Here we are August 12. my bonus stands at $68.85 with the $50 bonus in line behind it waiting for the first one to be completed. so i contacted Bovada chat again first.. the rep literally said "i am seeing that you have been playing poker which does not contribute to that rollover for the bonuses" i responded by copy pasting the "Refer-a-Friend Welcome Bonus - Rollover Requirement: 5X Sports/30X Casino/6 Poker Points per Bonus Dollar - Play on Single or Double Deck Blackjack, Baccarat, Craps, Roulette, Live Dealer and Mini Games Will Not Count Toward Rollover in Casino "
she basically then went on to talk about jackpot sitngos and how the rewards work( idk why ive only played a couple of those) and also basically circular arguments until i finally said fuck it shes contradicting herself, must be confused and not understanding the situation etc. let me call the phone number..
I tried to call bovada multiple times only for it to ring twice then hang up on me.. i then used my GF phone which worked.. (weird?)
I talk to a rep for at least an hour explaining all this to which it seemed he hardly had enough information, and clearly he was having trouble accessing information from before the website UI change. His explanation ended at "you simply haven't met the requirements for the current refer a friend bonus". my reply was simply, how did i complete the first $100 bonus so quickly yet this one froze and hasn't had any progress in the basically the same amount of time with nearly identical if not more playing volume. At one point he actually admitted "i almost thought at first it was the website changeover that caused your issue but now i see its this : where we went on to explain the same thing that i just haven't wagered enough and i need to wager A LOT more." This was after several times earlier in the conversation he tried to assure me it wasn't the website. So.. he kept telling me it wasnt the website, then he said he almost thought it was the website.. but in the end its cause i haven't wagered enough. OK fine but how did i complete my first $100 bonus, and in the same amount of time and playing habits, i haven't seen my second one complete? how come the progress froze since the website change and a rep confirmed it was the website change initially and it would resolve?....
what is going on here?
So TLDR;
- i played bovada, cleared a $100 bonus, thought fuck ya, lets get some more bonuses..
- got more bonuses $100 , $50
- then those bonuses stopped progressing the day the website UI changed over
-rep said it was because of UI change and it would fix
-it never fixed
-call bovada a month later and they basically tell me everything is ok, sorta. but clearly things dont add up.

I know there is Bovada, BetOnline, and 5dimes that all use the same casino, tables, and software. To my knowledge these sites don't let live play count towards unlocking your bonus.
Is there any other sites that accept USA players that have live blackjack? Are there any sites that have a $5 table? Are there any sites that have a live casino count towards unlocking your bonus?

I started playing this summer with my friends and kinda picked up quick. Learned how to play ABC Limit poker and managed to turn my 30 dollars into more than $1000 (with lots of beginners luck and patience) over 10-15 casino trips. I played 2-4 Limit very conservatively but now am looking to really improve my game. I've been reading a lot on the internet but it can be difficult getting used to all the Poker jargon!
Anyway I wanna try to take my game to the next level and move to NL. I did not know that USA players could actually play online poker and I'm just learning of microstakes poker. I downloaded bovada but have not put any money on it. My question is what do I do next? Is learning on microstakes online a good idea?
My hometown has a casino and that is where I played but I am now in college and the closest poker room is over an hour from there :(
Thanks for reading and any advice is appreciated !
TL;DR: College Kid starts playing ABC limit, makes some money and is now looking to really improve and move to NL