those arent available in Nevada .

I agree completely. In Michigan we're pretty close to regulated poker, and we would certainly, with a population of about 10 million, add something to a player pool. That said, I play on two sites that allow HUDs (ACR and Juicy Stakes Poker) and I'm not giving that up for a bigger player pool.

What does "third-party software" mean exactly? Does it include an equity calculator? ICMizer? The calculator that comes with Windows 10?

I occasionally use a calculator during a hand, but not the other two tools. I'm just wondering how that would be defined/detected/enforced.

Nice this man is William Wallace

“Where you going?”

“Going to pick a fiiight”

I’m old school, I use an abacus

i dont know all their security measures nor should/would they tell us. But i do know they scan what executables you have running at the time that you have the software running.

Cool. I used to know how to use a slide rule, but it's been a while.

lol It cool dude I am very willing to admit that russian/euro are very -ev for the game. But let stop the bull.**** with pretending that poker player truly care about "legal" protection. I don't see anyone coming in and complaining about U.S player vpn playing on stars. Why is the excuse they just want to make a living are sudden different for the euro/russian.

What the hell win a tournament for more than $5000 and WSOP.com doesn't pay you out immediately????Been playing on the site for years. This is email I just got. What could the reason for this?
Congratulations on winning $15,000 Weekly Friday [Re-entry, 6 Max].

You will be receiving tax forms for your recent winnings from OnlinePokerTaxReport@Caesars.com within the next 24 to 48 hours.

Your funds will be released within the next 24 to 48 hours as well.

Please feel free to contact our Support team 24/7 at 1-866-745-2385 or via email at SUPPORT@WSOP.COM

See you at the tables,

The WSOP.com Team
www.wsop.com
support@wsop.com

What are you confused about?


I understand that 99.9999% of people didn't even know that they were doing their taxes wrong. But now the ones who win a reportable event are going to find out.

You may end up not even owing anything, but you'll have to figure out how to report everything correctly to get back anything that you overpaid.




P.S.

And "doomsday" report is when too many people find out that when they win Y and lose Y-way more than Y, the government still wants taxes on y*20% (or whatever). Gambling is no longer that feasible for me if I plan to report it on my taxes as it is supposed to be. Hence, I have not gambled in months and I don't see it happening soon. Playing poker is not feasible for tax purposes at the moment. If I were to play, then , personally, for me, approximately the first $4,000 of profit per year would be breakeven after taxes with the new tax structure. I've decided to reconsider as of 1/1/19, but as of now, I'm not playing. It is the 10K SALT deduction limitation in Trump's tax plan that killed it. That part killed the entire northeast and California. Without that limitation I could deduct my state taxes and my property taxes and that plus everything means I'd itemize anyway (regardless of gambling) ... oh, but the new law limits the state and property tax deduction to $10K (well, mine are like $18K).

The new law is so weird. In some respects it does something that would lower the tax and in other respects it does things that would raise the tax. It like makes it hard to figure out what the goal was. In the end, what it does is I think going to be very fact specific to your situation.

For my situation (ignoring the above), I think I will be taxed on more of my income, but at lower rates. I'm not sure which will have the larger impact; I didn't do all the math out.

The limit of the SALT deduction is easy to see though.

What does not caring about VPN's have to do with wanting to play in a fair game? The poster you replied to is right, by the way.

Maybe he was thinking there is no law that says he has to wait to get his funds

I laughed hard when seating bug still happened......OMG I cant wait for them to have competition

Oh, I see; the issue was not getting the funds credited to the account for 24 to 48 hours. My mistake. I’m not sure why they do that.

Yep and still waiting.

last i checked, if you won a significant amount in a live tourney they wont give you the money until you fill out a tax form (or they will withhold max amount). this really isn't much different nor is it that big of a deal

a lot of adverts around town for wsop.com. I wonder how many people visiting will actually put money on on the site to play tourneys or satellites

I joined last year when I was in town and the highest stakes running when I hopped on were 0.25/0.50. I'm going to check it out again this year though since it should be a lot better.

is the site down right now?

working for me

any update on list of games running during peak hours?

No Limit Hold'em
Pot Limit Omaha
Pot Limit O8

stud 8
flo8

When I was in vegas I checked it out. Seemed pretty dead. I think at peak times I saw 6 200nl tables going, and 2 or 3 500nl, and one guy opensitting 5/10. plo was worse. no other action besides nlh and plo. can't imagine there's ever gunna be much action unless they can get some high population states to join

i know several ppl makign a living on the site... and i make low 5 figures as side income off of it... and i dont play higher than 1/2

since the merger holdem and plo exploded with many fish... even the plo8 gettting more games now and very very soft.