IGGY at PokerWorks

PokerStars is still #1.

Per http://www.pokersitescout.com/, it’s amusing to see Party back at the #2 spot. Dear Lord, how I miss it. And yes, I know it would be easy to circumvent things and get a new account there, but really, I’m not that desperate. I’ve gots plenty of games at PokerStars and FullTilt.

And I’m ready to start hitting the tables again after a nice break. Truth be told, if not for the Neteller hijack - I’d be feeling pretty good about things. I doubt Stars and Tilt are gonna go anywhere soon, so hell, for the most part it’s business as usual.

Tis also interesting to see UB & BoDog’s numbers on the PokerSiteScout page. I’m gonna fire up my UB account over the weekend - it’s been far too long. If I have any issues funding it, I’ll report back.

Damn, I was just reminded that CC’s Bash is starting in a bit so I gotta cut this short.

Anyway, allow me to share my fave poker post of the day. For all I know, this is all false and a stupid AOL chain email, but I still had a chuckle.
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Ever wonder why it’s so easy to make $ at poker?

Take a look at the kind of people that populate your local poker rooms:

MICHIGAN - In Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys.

CALIFORNIA - A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who “totally zoned when he ran,” — accidentally jogged off a 100-foot-high cliff on his daily run.

NORTH CAROLINA - Buxton, NC: A man died on a beach when an 8-foot-deep hole he had dug into the sand caved in as he sat inside it. Beach-goers said Daniel Jones, 21, dug the hole for fun, or protection from the wind, and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom Thursday afternoon when it collapsed,
burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach on the outer banks, used their hands and shovels, trying to claw their way to Jones, a resident of Woodbridge, VA, but could not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him while about 200 people looked on. Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital.

CALIFORNIA - Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed in Lompoc, CA, as he fell face-first through the ceiling of a bicycle shop he was burglarizing. Death was caused when the long flashlight he had placed in his mouth (to keep his hands free) rammed into the base of his skull as he hit the floor.

DELAWARE - Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed in Selbyville, Del, as he won a bet with friends who said he would not put a revolver loaded with four bullets into his mouth and pull the trigger.

HONORABLE MENTION - NEW JERSEY Paul Stiller, 47, was hospitalized in Andover township, NJ, and his wife Bonnie was also injured, when a quarter-stick of dynamite blew up in their car. While driving around 2 AM, the bored couple lit the dynamite and tried to toss it out the window to see what would happen, but apparently failed to notice the window was closed.

RUNNER UP - WASHINGTON TACOMA, WA Kerry Bingham had been drinking with several friends when one of them said they knew a person who had bungee-jumped from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in the middle of traffic. The conversation grew more heated and at least 10 men trooped along the walkway of the bridge at 4:30 AM.
Upon arrival at the midpoint of the bridge they discovered that no one had brought a bungee rope. Bingham, who had continued drinking, volunteered and pointed out that a coil of lineman’s cable lay nearby. One end of the cable was secured around Bingham’s leg and the other end was tied to the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before the cable tightened and tore his foot off at the ankle. He miraculously survived his fall into the icy river water and was rescued by two nearby fishermen. “All I can say” said Bingham, “is that God was watching out for me on that night. There’s just no other explanation for it.” Bingham’s foot was never located.

AND THE WINNER FROM G-E-R-M-A-N-Y is : Overzealous zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt (Paderborn, Germany) fed his constipated elephant Stefan 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm finally let it fly, and suffocated the keeper under 200 pounds of poop! Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded on him. “The sheer force of the elephant’s unexpected defecation knocked Mr. Riesfeldt to the ground, where he struck his head on a rock and lay unconscious as the elephant continued to evacuate his bowels on top of him” said flabbergasted Paderborn police detective Erik Dern, “With no one there to help him, he lay under all that dung for at least an hour before a watchman came along, and during that time he suffocated.

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I’ve been sick of reading about the PPA for quite awhile now. I’m not sure why they are even relevant anymore. Have they done ANYTHING? In my mind, they lost this battle a long time ago and the idea of a grassroots effort to get online gambling back is absurd.

And while I rarely, if ever, concur with anything cranky Arlo Payne says on RGP, I’m gonna share his PPA rant here. Enjoy.

From almost day one I have stated the PPA appears to be nothing more than a new group of carpetbaggers trying to make money off the issues at hand.

Within a very small time frame it also appeared the PPA was at best over their head if they really did plan on dealing with the goverment with reference to the online poker issue.

It also appeared they were more concerned with getting people to send them money under the cover of them being the answer to the problem at hand. But they really did not address the full method by which they would attack the problem beyond top level fluff.

Many things they wrote appeared to be at best half truths leaving out some key data and facts with references to those facts.

I also found it funny and strange they were asking for money from the players instead of being funded by the sites for 100% of their needs. Of course they should of asked players to sign up as support of their efforts but to ask for funds from the player base was a huge red flag.

To date I have not read or heard of one thing the PPA has done as far as actions and interactions with the goverment.

One would expect any group that says they are attacking the problem would publish a weekly or at least monthly undate with clear and exact details of what they have done during that time period. It has no meaning or support to the cause to have a group talk in general terms
without sharing more direct information of their actions.

Sending out hats and T-shirts appears to do nothing more than give a false sense that action is taking place but to me it only sends up another red flag all is not well on the front. Sending oout shirts etc would be well and fine if they also published exact facts and details of what they have done so far. As an example stating you have met with people in DC sounds all good up front but the fact is those people could just be someones high school buddy that now sells used cars. To me the hats T-shirts etc is nothing more than a smoke screen
for lack of true effective action and a tool to get more money sent in.

A key missing piece of information is just where has the money collected to date gone and what results has that money purchased.

Still for me the key is my feeling that even if the PPA has good intentions they lack the skills required to address the issue in a manner that will get good results. In my heart I feel the PPA is really doing more harm than good. Hell from what I read I really don’t think they have done any good or if they have really done anything at all besides raise money which would only be good for those getting the money.

Now of course the above is only my opinion based on what I have read or in many cases what I have not read due to a lack of clear information I have seen from the PPA. Over the years I have learned to not trust anyone that wants money but does not suppy me with a clear
plan as to where and who the money is going and what exactly the money will be used for. Just saying the money is going to be used to attack a problem is not good enough for me. I want to know the attack plan.

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