Grubby at PokerWorks

“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”
– Mark Twain on the U.S. government and online gambling

I half-expect never to again see my cyber money in NETeller or in Full Tilt.

For a poker player, this is probably the best way to play. Raise with impunity now, because even if you win, you lose. No such thing as scared money online here in the U.S. and A.

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I guess I can stop looking for my NETeller card; they just announced their ATM card is no longer working for U.S. withdrawals. Checks sent will also take longer than their original quote of 6-8 weeks. And who’s to say by the time we receive them that banks will not have been told to refuse all checks from NETeller?

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There are some really good players playing the 6max games at Full Tilt.

By good I don’t mean they only play good hands and don’t suck out, I mean they keep me guessing. They’re just as likely to raise with AA as they are to raise with J5o.

Sucking out is just a side benefit.

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Full Tilt isn’t the first to offer targeted bonuses, but poker sites could take a page from casinos and offer incentives to regular players to continue playing. Because once regular players get wind of not being treated equally, they may decide to go elsewhere.

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Dear Full Tilt:

I heard that yesterday you offered some players a $50 bonus after earning 400 points and other players $100 after earning 800 points.

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The online casinos I play are devoid of any solutions for alternative deposit methods for the U.S.

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There’s a real danger in thinking the government targeting online gambling is all that they’re after.
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Last Christmas, I was bitten by a dog.

This Christmas, I was bitten by a donkey.
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On Saturday I played a whopping 1688.80 points on Full Tilt, double that of my Friday. That’s an insane amount, and indicates either cold rainy days or no life or both.
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I didn’t quite reach my $500 porn quest, but I did earn $397 (anyone notice Full Tilt’s careful tournament wording of poker “earns” and not “wins” for the naughty, naughty U.S. players flaunting their poker noses at the UIGEA?).

Rather than blow it all on booze and tube socks as I tend to do, I decided to be good and use it to make a credit card payment to my near-overlimit Citibank account. That was my intention, anyway.

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