thats sad

that's awesome. I think the 2nd no money hu song has been stuck in my head for two days...

"You maybe good at poker, but you suck at LIFE"

lmao...

"you might have a bankroll but your life is BUST"

I used to play these, $5-33 level, for about two years (part time).

I made over $8k.

Then I switched to shortstacking (because I got tired of the 6-12 hour matches) and sucked at it. (marginal $12/hr RB pro)
CM is one of the top five NBI players, no doubting it.

However, I just find it funny that shortstacking gets hate while NBIs recieve barely any in comparison.

I am 20x better than I was when I played NBIs yet am now only starting to win $ ($40/hr last 2 months) at shortstacking. SSing takes a hell of a lot of skill and is just as valid a form of poker. Don't believe me, look at 1bunn, wizardofahhs, imsakidd, and showtime. I have no problem with NBIs or timing out- you don't like the format? don't play it!

Preserve player choice Stars! Every form of poker takes specialized skills.

P.S. a present for all the haters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZvfTnwzc8U

awesome jglsd1

It shouldn't surprise you at all that shortstackers get more hate, it should be extremely standard to you. And this is coming from someone who is indifferent to shortstackers.

I am thinking about writting to pokerstars and suggest they make this change in their no blinds increase HU-sng tour:

After like 5 or 6 hours the HU-tour should automatical end. The prizepool should be divided in a way that is fair according to the amount of chips each player have when the tour ends.

Like if 1 player got 3.000 in chips and the 1.000 in chips. Player one receives 3/4 of the prizepool and the rest for player 2.

My question:

You think this is fair and is it possible for them to change their software in order to get this running?

i am preety indifferent to cowboymarco doing this. its up to him if he has decided earning money is the main aim for him. If pokerstars allow this situation to be exploitable then if players r happy to do they can exploit it. He earns a lot more than the population on average with a very easy job.

@jglsd: no

@3tothe: lol, very easy job? sitting behind your pc 2hrs waiting for a game, then another 6 hours to blind your opponent down. every single day, 18hours/day. I'd really feel respected and good about myself..

Just looked at cowboymarco's pokerprolabs, the guy is a ****ing genius! He is in no way breaking any rules, and to say this is unethical in anyway is ******ed, we all play poker to take each other's money and he has obviously got some macro poker skills that allow him to do this very well.
No blind increases means the game could last a very long time, people should be prepared for that eventuality.

given the huge timing down skills that prevail in these games Al Bundy could easily be one of the top five NBI players. Shortstackers might be making the games tougher but these timing down bastards drive ppl away from poker thru their douchebaggery.

^^ +1

@chadders - lol you are so wrong - timing down to frustrate people into shoving a2c is neither skillful nor ethical.

These ppl are terrible for the game - have some foresight to actually see how this affect the bigger picture - marco+co are scum.

The thing is marco can only do it in the parameters of sng's with non increasing blinds, so it's not like he is ruining much- it must be well annoying to play against but its the only sng where it wouldn't be infathomable to have to play for a few hours, people registering should know this and prepare for it.
He is making all his actions in the alloted time frame that stars gives everyone, to think one sng that takes forever will "drive people away from the game" is an exaggeration, if anything it should just drive them away from playing cowboymarco.

To call him scum is a bit much, there is loads of **** so much worse than this going on in poker where people are being conned out of cash and what-not, but this guy is just using the rules to his advantage.

I guarentee you stars' own view on this matter would be the same as this, people were making complaints about d/c'ers gettin so much time to have their hand folded every hand, stars just gives them their alloted action time an that's that, you do what you want with it beacuse you paid for it.

OMG I wish I had known. By the way, if you request a split he doesn't listen.

Oh my f***ing god. The whole point of this thread is that most of his profit comes from people NOT knowing what they're getting into.

No, wait, the point of this thread was the song.

All i'm saying is that in my opinion it's not unethical.

i couldnt' care less about ethics. they are terrible for the games and the poker economy. stars should get rid of these games asap. these parasite scum have taken hundreds of thousands of $$ out of the poker economy though no poker skill whatsoever. if you don't believe me, sit them some time: they are beyond clueless at poker.

don't kid yourself - they affect all of our bottom lines.

Thanks marco for taking my 10 dollars when I asked a split early in the game.

are this games still running?

the difference is the fact that people play regular SNGs, lose money and leave happy. when they play cowboymarco, they lose money and leave unhappy and pretty fed up about HU. anyone who spends 6 hours playing a stupid $10 game vs a timing down piece of **** is less likely to continue playing HU than someone who played a 6 minute game

I see a lot of russians waiting for hours in the no blinds increase lobbys. They all have ridiculosly huge ROI.

My ideea is that good players , that play daily and multitable should take one of those game each day , till those cheating douchebags are broke.

Really , it is not ok for a cheating jerk to be making thousands of $ out of poker.

Why do you think they are cheating pokerfun? Why do you think they are douchebags? I'm interested in your thinking, to say the least.

lol , its obvious how they are cheating.

the rule is simple , 2 players play poker and the one who wins takes the $.

yet this douches do not play poker , they just make a game so long that villain has to go to work/somewhere and closes the computer or even better he starts shoving every hand.

its the same as if they stole the wallet out of villains pocket , except the villain also gets humiliated and pissed off .

but is he breaking any rules

yep , he is breaking the rule of playing poker , he is not playing , he is just waiting for villain to sitout.

is it written somewhere?
if villain sits out is it "hero's" problem? NO, its villains.