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Originally Posted by ArtySmokes
Can you prove that you were ever a winning player, for say, 10,000 hands or so?
I've posted my modest graphs and a few hand histories in various 2+2 forums. Anyone that's seen me around here knows I'm a real player. You've produced no evidence that I'm a shill, and absolutely none to show that you are anything but a troll.
You have a real problem with the words "variance" and "evidence", don't you, Troll?
He probably did make more than you back in the 2004-7 era due to the bonuses and dealt rakeback and other promotions available at the time. To give you an idea of one of the promotions - Will Hill paid you $10 an hour for playing 1/2 limit poker. Those tables were filled with guys who stalled every hand and as a result about 20-25 hands were played each hour.
That meant you were given about 20BB/100 and that was before rakeback which was good for another $10 or so total (so another 4 BB/100 or so).
The results you have are for a different time and game than promotions like that, so what guys like blatant did was learn they could make a few hundred or maybe a thousand a month net per month (despite losing at the tables) even without knowing/learning how to play poker. In contrast those who really knew how to work the system made easily 5-20k a month from similar activities.
No doubt he thought the games were legit at that time when earning basically 1000%+ rakeback...
Obviously that could not last forever and as the promotions faded and the rooms vanished/merged and the games got tougher guys like him simply could not compete. He was never a winning player and without the 20-30 BB/100 hand handout he became a losing player and likely lost all of his past gains as a result.
That is all he is - a failed, outdated bonus whore and nothing else, and why you guys bother paying attention to him at all confuses me, but for what it is worth he probably did in the day make more than you have to date, but then anyone could back then.
Have more fun with this new crazy riggie instead, he is kind of fun and he at least brings more theories/fantasies to the table like having the government agencies care about what he says, and he partially carries on a conversation as well.
Move up the riggie food chain!