Nostalgia for the Old Days - Page 4 - Internet Poker

Making $10k+ by casino bonus whoring. They even had autoplay on BJ so I didn't have to actually play myself. It was basically them insisting I have some of their money.

Good times.

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01-07-2010 , 07:15 PM

#78

lefty rosen

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Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,861

Pacific Poker used to have auto quaders every Friday night and Saturday night and frequent Saturday days. You know the guy who quads any two until the river. losing with AA or KK to 7/2 off happened a few times to me. Then there was the all in donks with two random cards.... Oh yeah those guys still exist.....

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01-07-2010 , 07:17 PM

#79

lefty rosen

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Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,861

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Originally Posted by Omaha Chris

I've actually been watching tuff fish on PokerTube all week (there are 60 session videos on there!), and that's part of what brought about this thread.

Just marveling at the softness of the games he's sitting in, at how a player as average (and tilty) as him could actually hold his own at everything from NL 400 all the way up to 2K.

Poor fish would get absolutely creamed nowadays.

He was getting creamed. He just wasn't getting totally destroyed. Trust me he lost good money.

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01-07-2010 , 07:22 PM

#80

RikaKazak

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Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 9,662

Remember the days when there weren't 5 ****ing nit ss'ers on every FR table on the net?

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01-07-2010 , 07:25 PM

#81

RikaKazak

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Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 9,662

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Originally Posted by Charlie.Dont.Surf

best football game I ever watched...nothing like a risk free $1K

Remember the days when party casino used to give out $50 for free....$25 on 7 and $25 on 12 baby

(I hit 12 once...nice $900 pay day

)

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01-07-2010 , 07:31 PM

#82

rounder2000

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Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 31

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Originally Posted by Reckless_Abandon

I remember back in the day UB ran a promo where they gave u half your SNG buyin (not entry fee, buyin) back as a bonus that cleared quick with their old terms. It capped at like $800 per week.

It was so easy back in those days to play different rooms and get near or even over 100% rb.

whats the difference bw a buy in and an entry fee

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01-07-2010 , 07:35 PM

#83

Tapirboy

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Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 4,993

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Originally Posted by RikaKazak

Remember the days when there weren't 5 ****ing nit ss'ers on every FR table on the net?

I remember playing on Pacific before they had NL cash games. Now that was sweet.

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01-07-2010 , 07:38 PM

#84

RikaKazak

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Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 9,662

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Originally Posted by Tapirboy

I remember playing on Pacific before they had NL cash games. Now that was sweet.

I never played pacific...I remember playing on empire when the max tables was 3

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01-07-2010 , 07:53 PM

#85

Reckless_Abandon

journeyman

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 238

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Originally Posted by rounder2000

whats the difference bw a buy in and an entry fee

50+5 sng
50 buyin, 5 entry fee

Did I just get leveled?

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01-07-2010 , 08:16 PM

#86

ICMoney

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Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 8,278

Remember when raptor would 8 table sngs and we were like

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01-08-2010 , 12:07 PM

#87

the_stranger

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Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 108

Just before UIGEA two places/rooms could exceed the mythical 300,000 logged in players! Maybe many above 100,000...

Now? Maybe two above 20,000...

Last edited by the_stranger; 01-08-2010 at 12:14 PM.

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01-08-2010 , 04:13 PM

#88

wax42

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Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 352

I remember Party Poker Beginner's tables, which had a bug or something (don't remember) so non beginners could play on them. That was easy money. Also, Party Poker 9-max tables, which for some reason played much looser than 10 person tables despite there being only a 1 person difference. I cried when Party got rid of those.

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01-08-2010 , 04:45 PM

#89

Online Veteran

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Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 3,609

I remember the original Poker.com (the one that got hijacked in 2002). I really liked that site a lot. Also, I remember when Pokerroom.com was a play money site only. One could win a T-shirt/prizes over there instead of real cash. How could I forget the original "America's Card Room" (not the one on the Ongame network). I also remember when TruePoker offered Texas Hold 'em Hi/Lo! I love reminiscing about the good old days of online poker. Sorry if I went back too far, I think OP only wanted to hear about online poker from 2003-2006.

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01-08-2010 , 05:43 PM

#90

Moneyline

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Originally Posted by ICMoney

Tuff fish vids.

Dag gum.

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01-08-2010 , 07:12 PM

#91

spike420211

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Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 9,509

i sucked back then.
>but i do fondly recall Poker Room in the Public Library [didn't even have my puter back then], trying to fist-pump during a 1/2 nlhe session as quietly as possible.
>filling out an email survey, and then grinding out 9 hrs in a PLO freeroll
[I had NEVER played PLO b4 this] and coming within 3 spots of a gift certificate for 50.00 in Omaha Steaks @ Paradise.

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01-08-2010 , 07:23 PM

#92

BK1248

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Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 3,773

i was hugo on pacific ,u poors

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01-08-2010 , 07:32 PM

#93

themandude

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I used to love the tribeca network, and also playing pontoon for sick casino bonuses.

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01-08-2010 , 07:53 PM

#94

mofliedlice

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Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,610

Take a list like this http://www.casinoguide.ws/ .......and cashout a bazillion dollars, take a dump........and do it all over again...........x100billion

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01-08-2010 , 08:22 PM

#95

darkconcept

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Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 2,221

pokerroom.com/partypoker limp reraise AA = profit...
waiting for a big 'freeroll' score to come...
first time playing live, and not understanding what a string bet was, doing it over and over again, and not asking what it meant because i was embarssed...
what the hells a cbet?....

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01-08-2010 , 08:29 PM

#96

jmillerdls

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Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 3,485

I just remember being able to fold into the money in SNGs...back when I had no clue what I was doing.

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01-08-2010 , 09:28 PM

#97

donttiltboy

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Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,676

gutshot was the nuts

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01-08-2010 , 10:03 PM

#98

the_stranger

banned

Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 108

Omaha Chris,

Why don't you open, too, just the opposite thread -
"The bright future of the New Days" ?

Maybe, 3,000,000 Chinese and 2,000,000 Indian new players will not hurt the poker.

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01-08-2010 , 10:14 PM

#99

GMan42

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Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 5,257

Making 3x as much in poker/casino bonuses as actual profit...sigh.

I was another ****** who never really worked on his game and/or tried to move up...kept a bankroll good enough for 3/6 limit and withdrew every month because I actually kinda needed the money...never tried multi-siting and playing more than 4 tables because it seemed too hard. Now I play much better and grind 12 tables on FT to make like half as much $$$. FML.