"I Started Playing Online after seeing the WPT on the Travel Channel"

[spydog]

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I was making money counting cards at blackjack in Tunica.


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Just curious, what system did you use?

FWIW, I used RPC (Revere Point Count system).

Did you ever belong to the BJ21.com Green Chip forums?

[MicroBob]

yes...i was on BJ21 and have mucho respect for Stanford Wong.


I have used a couple of different counts...mostly just a general hi-lo with a bunch of different side-counts in there.
In single-deck and double-deck you can make some casual observations that can prove helpful. "Hmmm...no 8's have come out yet" and then know the different appropriate strategy deviations.

[MaxPower]

You left out some choices. Some of us started playing holdem online long before the WPT and before Moneymaker.

[Grisgra]

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You left out some choices. Some of us started playing holdem online long before the WPT and before Moneymaker.

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Lucky bastards. How come you didn't tell me? [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

[MrGrob]

Yea, I started after seeing "Rounders". I saw it, figured that since I had found online casinos, I might find an online poker room, and there it was. I started at Paradise Poker (back when .50/1 was the lowest you could find), and the rest, as they say, is history.

[Harv72b]

Another WSOP vote.

I got hooked on the ME episodes from 2003, but didn't actually try out the game until midway through the 2004 shows. First started playing on Pacific (because I remembered seeing Dan Harrington wearing the 888 cap in 2003), just play money for a week or so. Then I picked up Hilger's ITH, read it, and decided to give it a shot on the nanolimits with a $20 deposit. About 3 weeks later I heard about a sweet bonus on Empire and deposited $100 there. I eventually got fed up with the software on Pacific & cashed out up about $100, but I'm still playing on my initial deposit at Empire (after about $3600 in cashouts). I also dabbled a bit on Pokerstars, eventually losing my first $100 deposit, but later making that up +$250 before settling on the Party skins.

[helpmeout]

Late night TV here in OZ I saw some dudes playing poker (some WPT event) and I thought hey I could do that.

[papa_georgio]

I played with friends pretty regularly, but was hesitant to deposit money in an online poker room until one of my friends showed me it was legit. Now that it's so easy to sit in on a game I've been playing very regularly. But it's still just a hobby.

[Onaflag]

I was talking to my Mom in mid-2003 and she told me she was playing a little poker online. My parents are in WI and I'm in CA so we only see each other when we meet in Vegas or Reno. As an IT Manager, I told her I didn't know anything about it, but wouldn't recommend it. How do you know your money is safe? It is probably rigged, anyway.

I created an account on Paradise just to watch her play. Then promptly forgot about it. A month later a buddy at work told me he'd found the new addiction. I told him it's funny he says that because my Mom is hooked.

That was it. Off to PokerStars. Called Mom to say "I'm in!" and proceeded to lose a few buy-ins. Then heard about Moneymaker, got excited, and proceeded to lose a few more buyins.

By late summer 2003, I was tired of funding my online habit and decided to at least "try" to make some money. A library of books later I noticed the website on one of the covers and thought, what the heck, let's see what else they're sellin' and lo&behold found out what I was missing out on.

I didn't know this stuff was on TV until I was already main-line addicted. Now I'm trying to decide what to do about taxes. Fund a poker account? Never again with "my own money".

BTW, anyone else think this stuff is rigged? [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] hahaha!! Those were the days.

Onaflag..........

[TimM]

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