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Good old days... Started playing in 2008. At that time rake on Stars was 5cent rake per 1$ in Pot + there was dealt rake.
Started playing 24 tables Fullring 9/7 style. Set mine + hit set at that time playing fullring meant often you get at least 1 full Stack.

After some time i found Tablescan turbo. Filter was set to Tables with at least 3 fish >40% Vpip. Still could easily 16-18 Table 24/7 all day long.

Cashed out a lot of money and build a new bankroll playing Heads up Sit and Go's
Traffic was so high after pressing register a new game instantly popped up.
Crushing the regular Heads up SnG's for 20% RoI was absolute standard.

Later i switched to Cake Poker and Ipoker playing with some under the table Dealt rakeback Deals >70%

Missing the good old times printing Money with nearly 0 effort

I was lucky enough that Cake was my new full time site when FTP was shut down so most of my roll was off of FTP. The games were so soft on Cake and while I didn't get 70% RB I think I was on 45%. Ended up selling my Cake funds for 80-95 cents on the dollar and about six months later they stopped making payments.

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10-17-2023 , 01:59 PM

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Maximus122

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The Bears videos on Pokertube were hilarious.

Every cardrunners instructor would talk about how valuable position was like it was strategy that nobody was aware off and in those days they were right.

Brian Townsend made millions of dollars never calling a 3 bet. Lost it all back when he told everyone on Cardrunners that he never calls 3 bets.

David Benefield told the world to keep 3 betting the button, next level A plus strategy, then would get 4 bet every hand.

Gus Hansen dumped 20 million dollars playing PLO while every recreational thought he was the greatest player the world had ever seen.

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10-17-2023 , 02:02 PM

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rickroll

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most my career was live but did a bunch of no deposit challenges sometimes while watching movies etc from home

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Originally Posted by rickroll

This was a while ago: maybe a little hazy on the details but man when there were only a handful of people online at time it was a weird time.

I was very distrustful of online poker, refused to deposit and was grinding out freerolls at a half dozen different sites. Finally had a breakthrough at Absolute Poker because there the MTT action was pretty slow so I could selectively choose mtts with high overlay because that happened quite a bit. It'd be silly, finding a $1 mtt with 100 GTD and only 40 people in 5 min before late registration ended. I remember in one of these I didn't win a single hand but still cashed. So with a bankroll in the double digits I finally could play more mtts and went deep in a few over a short period of time to bring my bankroll up to about 2k. The feeling was incredible, especially since at all the other sites I was still stuck on double digits.

Then disaster struck. There would be days AP wouldn't load and days when it would work there would just be a few dozen people on the site. This is how I learned about Black Friday - from Googling "Why are the poker sites so empty today?" These were the crazy times. In short order, most people had given up on AP but there were a handful of us that stuck with it, at times there were maybe 3-4 people playing. I honestly have no idea what happened to everyone. I was in China at the time and maybe that's why I could connect and others couldn't - I honestly don't know what it was like back home but can't understand why people who couldn't withdraw just gave up and abandoned the account. Maybe I was just more hopeful of a recovery than others?

MTTs were shut down, as were sngs after a day or two. The only thing going on was ring and sometimes to make that happen you'd just have to sit at an empty ring and wait half an hour for a few players to join. For a few days it was possible to play low stakes but eventually the only things going on were 5/10 and higher. The chat in every ring table was dominated by people asking to transfer their AP money in exchange for cash on FTP or Stars. There was so little faith in AP recovering or ever allowing a cashout that the prices steadily dropped from 1:1 to 1:3 to even 1:10. Nobody ever took on any of the offers. Made an online friend there, he was always on daily and we spoke a lot, only friend I ever made via online poker. Really wish we exchanged contact info before the site shut down - guy was from Nepal I believe.

As the few people there remaining were treating it like monopoly money the play was insanely bad, I ran up my bankroll in short order to over 25k and then back down and up again often buying in several times because people would treat a 5/10 ring game like a winner take all microstakes rebuy MTT. My bankroll was somewhere in the high teens before the client finally stopped working. It was insane, you'd 4bet shove with KK and get 2 callers with A6 and QT. For a moment I figured this is probably what people talk about when they talk about the glory days of online and just prayed Absolute come somehow make a comeback and this money would turn real.

One day the client stopped responding, I must have reopened it days on end but it never responded and broke my heart.

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10-18-2023 , 08:18 PM

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kevstreet

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I should add that I had my Poker Stars account hacked. Someone logged in as me and dumped $13k on the tables in a few hours.

This was devastating as my wife and I had just had a baby.

2p2 raised $8,000 for me to get back on my feet. To this day it makes me teary to think how incredible of a gesture that was. So very fortunate to have the poker community support me like that back then.

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10-18-2023 , 09:25 PM

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pontylad

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The ballad of blackgerbil1

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10-18-2023 , 11:29 PM

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rickroll

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Originally Posted by pontylad

The ballad of blackgerbil1

never heard of that before, but also only lurked strat until a few years back

found this though

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10-30-2023 , 10:14 PM

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Atarirob

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adding another one to the archive. This used to get passed around quite a bit. Some players didn't like the way Rounders protrayed poker players. One of those was David L James who wanted to create a realistic portrayal of the poker world featuring players like Scotty Nguyen and Jennifer Harmon. It's very independent with some very laughable scenes. The Scotty scenes though are pretty amazing.

This was poker in 1999.

https://archive.org/details/thebigblind

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10-30-2023 , 10:49 PM

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coordi

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Thanks, that was the worst 6 minutes of my life

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10-30-2023 , 10:57 PM

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rickroll

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it sounds like mitch hedberg is narrating it

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10-30-2023 , 11:00 PM

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Dominic

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what was the site that was green and had a no download client that you could play on your browser? That was my first site...I sat down at 5/10 limit and cleaned up and I had no idea what I was doing lol.

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10-31-2023 , 10:08 AM

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Slugant

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Originally Posted by rickroll

it sounds like mitch hedberg is narrating it

that would be an improvement

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10-31-2023 , 03:20 PM

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plaaynde

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Originally Posted by coordi

Thanks, that was the worst 6 minutes of my life

Yes, but he thought he knew how to smoke.

Repping tough. Like the spa scenes from rounders better.

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10-31-2023 , 06:40 PM

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madlex

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Europoker was browser-based IIRC but I don't remember the color scheme to be very green.

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11-07-2023 , 11:43 AM

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runout_mick

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Originally Posted by Dominic

Pokerroom.com

They also had a downloadable tournament manager/timer thing you could use for home games.

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11-07-2023 , 11:37 PM

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smartDFS

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ah yes, pokerroom. so many random sites during the wild west days. anyone remember JetSetPoker? they had the funniest response to UIGEA, which was to send this lobby message

and then stiff players. class act

2p2 was alive and thriving and i remember it being rather hysterical. anyone remember the gators thread circa 2007? does that still exist? can't even remember what he was on about but was driven to tears of laughter. ditto for the ugly baby photoshop thread, but i imagine all the hosted images are gone even in the off chance the thread still exists

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11-08-2023 , 02:18 AM

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rickroll

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it's really sad going through old threads because you see all these posters that you remember from back in the day and haven't heard from in ages

to top it all off they are always discussing broken images and urls so you have no idea what is going on

also, like 1/3 of all posters in old threads are banned

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11-08-2023 , 08:43 AM

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runout_mick

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Originally Posted by rickroll

also, like 1/3 of all posters in old threads are banned

And a disproportionate number are deceased. I can think of at least 4 or 5 posters that I liked (or was at least entertained by) that are no longer with us.

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11-08-2023 , 08:56 AM

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Punker

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Originally Posted by smartDFS

ah yes, pokerroom. so many random sites during the wild west days. anyone remember JetSetPoker? they had the funniest response to UIGEA, which was to send this lobby message

Do you mean the ugly/happy baby photoshop thread? That was gold. Canadians will forever remember them being shopped into Ron McLean and Don Cherry's head.

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11-08-2023 , 11:01 AM

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smartDFS

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Do you mean the ugly/happy baby photoshop thread? That was gold. Canadians will forever remember them being shopped into Ron McLean and Don Cherry's head.

that's the one... some great, creative shops for sure. the original image was just so goddamn funny that literally any variation on it was gold. it wasn't so much the baby's ugliness as it was his indignant expression, like in his few short years on earth he had seen some **** and was over it. then to contrast with smiling baby... too good

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11-08-2023 , 05:14 PM

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Atarirob

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I've owned three cats since then, it total makes the jump.

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/2...e-jump-113428/

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11-08-2023 , 05:24 PM

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Punker

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https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/3...toshop-501191/

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11-08-2023 , 07:17 PM

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wazz

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Originally Posted by runout_mick

Pokerroom.com

They also had a downloadable tournament manager/timer thing you could use for home games.

that brings back memories. they had a forum, too, i think it was called pokah? that was where i cut my teeth and made my first poker friends, i believe there's still some of them that hang around here

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11-09-2023 , 01:12 PM

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Neil S

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Originally Posted by runout_mick

Pokerroom.com

They also had a downloadable tournament manager/timer thing you could use for home games.

I played here since you could play on Linux. And the lowest stake was 25NL, they didn't have the penny micros. It was free money.

Free money like that would never last. BF may have killed it early before it naturally petered out, but it was never going to last.

Last edited by Neil S; 11-09-2023 at 01:19 PM.

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11-09-2023 , 01:22 PM

#74

Maximus122

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Originally Posted by Neil S

Any stakes below 25 NL really should be gotten rid off.

We are talking about people who have to be 18 years and older to play online poker, not a bunch of seven year olds.

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11-09-2023 , 01:56 PM

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madlex

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Originally Posted by Neil S

I played here since you could play on Linux. And the lowest stake was 25NL, they didn't have the penny micros. It was free money.

Did anyone offer nano stakes back then? I don't remember ever seeing that but maybe I just missed it.

FWIW I think poker room.com was bought by bwin (at that time it might have still been called betandwin) who also had a browser based version.

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