decimation of internet poker

2005 · #1 10-08-2005, 07:19 PM

It's a very sad day in internet poker history. death to Party

woodguy · #2 10-08-2005, 07:40 PM

30,000 on Party now....
No MTTs registering though....strange.

43,000 on Stars

Regards,
Woodguy

JeanieJ · #3 10-08-2005, 07:43 PM

Very depressing. I've been using rakeback for motivation to move up limits and recently moved up to the $100 tables. But I would rather play on a busy network so off to Party I will go. Also I cant get on Multipoker [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img], half of my roll is on there.

pfkaok · #4 10-08-2005, 07:45 PM

Yes. this sucks. althouh it might work out as it'll give me more motivation to keep working on my game so i can beat the bigger NL games and not have to worry about no rakeback.

would be nice if they had some tourneys today too.

Prime Time · #5 10-08-2005, 07:48 PM

They just updated their S/w.
It will be back by 2nite.

Ulysses · #6 10-08-2005, 08:16 PM

Overreaction. Only people hugely affected today imo are mediocre to bad multi-tablers.

Annulus · #7 10-08-2005, 08:18 PM

I guess I didn't realize how lucrative this whole rakeback thing was for many. This won't affect me at all. I play mainly on partypoker and it has been a very good side income for me for the last year.

with that being said how is this the decimation of online poker? im sure many pros who make a living off rakeback will be affected, but for guys like me and many others life goes on....

billyjex · #8 10-08-2005, 08:22 PM

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Overreaction. Only people hugely affected today imo are mediocre to bad multi-tablers.

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ugggggh you play huge games and can't relate to an average 10/20 grinder (I'm sure you have worked your way up but you are long gone from those days.) listen, i make 1.5bb/100 at 10/20, and over the course of a year i will make say 120k. I will lose 30k because of rakeback. That is nothing to sneeze at.

I am not going broke because of this but I am losing a lot of money.

pfkaok · #9 10-08-2005, 08:23 PM

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Overreaction. Only people hugely affected today imo are mediocre to bad multi-tablers.

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yeah. luckily i've switched to NL recently. so i'm in the transition stage from mediocre/bad multitabler to decent poker player. ( i hope)

Ulysses · #10 10-08-2005, 08:28 PM

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Overreaction. Only people hugely affected today imo are mediocre to bad multi-tablers.

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ugggggh you play huge games and can't relate to an average 10/20 grinder (I'm sure you have worked your way up but you are long gone from those days.) listen, i make 1.5bb/100 at 10/20, and over the course of a year i will make say 120k. I will lose 30k because of rakeback. That is nothing to sneeze at.

I am not going broke because of this but I am losing a lot of money.

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Well, the main reason I can't relate is that I moved up from 1/2 to 15/30 pretty fast without getting rakeback. There was some period of time when I played 10/20-6 and got rakeback and it was nice, but I never made much at all from rakeback, in terms of percentage of earn. Sure, it was extra money and nice, but never was a signficant part of what I made from poker.

I understand that it is a big deal for players like you. However, my point is that it is only a "DEVASTATING OMFG INTERNET POKER IS OVER" type event for the poor/mediocre guys.