lol few hundred dollars wtf lol

you ****er. i can't get to a casino any god damned time I want. i can't take a second job. unlike you, i win at poker.

now please *****.

why do I keep gambling online? Familiar with the concept of risk/reward?

Why do I gamble online......LOL, cause my time is worth something, and Im smart enough to make the decisions as to whats best in my own self interest for my own personal situation......I wasnt lucky enough to come across your post before I made my decisions lol.

Here's the thing buddy: Using steroids isn't cheating.

Playing online poker has been villainized in the public image to a certain degree, yes? Well, people that use steroids or GH receive that treatment too, only much, much worse because they are famous (and because the use of most of these products have been deemed "illegal). However, let me lay some facts:

Almost all steroids CAN be harmful to the body. Some, however are much worse than others. With the proper medical supervision (something a professional athlete has FULL access to) a person can use steroids safely. There is no reason they should be legal. It's like saying a player shouldn't be able to take vitamins or eat lots of protein. Steroids aren't going to MAKE you a pro athlete. They can, supplemented with hard work and dedication, push you to the next level. Everybody in pro sports uses them (or at least 99.5%)--it's not cheating.

You're comparison to everybody being able to see hole cards is moronic. Even with steroid use, baseball, hockey, football are still very competitive (obviously). If everybody's hole cards were revealed there wouldn't be much of a game.

Lastly, do you honestly think that Bonds wasn't on steroids during the early part of his career when he was comparitively small? That's a joke. He probably started using them in high school or more likely college, but he changed the KIND of roids he used. Not all steroids make you big and bulky (like, for instance the types that sprinters use to help build FT muscle fibers.)

I would suggest losing some of your hubris, especially when discussing things you clearly don't understand.

-Zack

love the stat "99.5%". It's exact numbers that leads to your legitimacy, not to mention the cool sideways smiley face w/ sunglasses.

losing some hubris...lol irony...

there are a lot of people, relatively speaking, who made decent money at poker...estimates are that 15 million people in this country played online poker

if you look at OPR you will see that anyone in the top 1% made a decent wage out of poker

1%*15million = 15,000

if you were in the top 10% of winners you made no less than 80K at tournament poker. That's still 1500 people. These 1500 people are a lot more likely to post here than the general population. Frankly a lot of posters here made money.

This thread tilts me something fierce.

If it's against the rules, it's cheating.

GOD the ignorance in this thread is simply astounding

the morons who claim online poker is a game of luck/everything's rigged/the site steals from you are the same morons who lose all their money and wonder what the f happened

get a f'ing clue.. maybe if you took the time to actually, you know LEARN the game.. you could make money too!!

why would we want that?

It's against the rules--just like what pokerstars/fulltilt/AP did was against the rules. Just because the gov't says it's not allowed doesn't mean it isn't total BS.

Steroids are GOOD for professional sports. Now, I'm not going to argue that there have NEVER been problems health or otherwise because of steroids, but these athletes are consenting adults who choose to push their abilities and careers to the limit. Steroids:

-Reduce the chance of injury. You better believe it. Especially in contact sports like football, hockey, etc... Stronger muscle tissue, stronger connective fibers=less chance of a pulled something, a strained something, or a broken something.

-Extend careers. Do you really think somebody like Brett Favre would have been able to play as long without utilizing every nutritional edge he could get.

-Make the games more entertaining. As fans, we like to see the fastest, strongest, most skilled players doing what they are able to do. Football would not be nearly as exciting if there weren't people like Shawn Merriman who weigh 260+ and still run a 4.3-4.5 40yd dash.

-Steroids, like it or not, actually level the playing field. Like it or not, everybody utilizes them. If, within the professional world, the use of steroids was actually stigmatized (which of course it isn't), there would still be a small percentage of people that chose to use EVERY resource at their disposal. The way things are handled now, teams have their own physicians monitoring their athletes, making sure that players are training properly.

These are just a few points off the top of my head. But believe me, I could go on with this argument alllll day...

99.5%--obviously an approximation that is very close to the truth.

What part of my post suggests that I am talking from my arse? I have known athletes who have used steroids. I am an acquaintance with a retired NFL trainer (who's name I will not mention for obvious reasons). I am not just flinging mud. I am a certified trainer myself. I SORT OF know what I'm talking about in this situation.

nh

It's not about what government says. It's about the rules owners set for their leagues.

The fact that no one recognizes OP is a troll makes me want to vomit in my mouth, eat the vomit, and then vomit again.

is this real?

bfd

We all do. That's why it's in the containment thread.

WAY TL;DR

cliffs:
OP is a troll
thread has more gimmicks than FTP and all there MET (if your slow the thread has more gimmick accounts then real 2p2 accounts)

you take Normanchad seriously and call him a REAL U.S. POKER PRO?

i mean really?

wow

And the people that run the NFL aren't a form of government? Of course I'm using the word loosely, but what I've said still applies.

The fact is, the use of steroids has been given such a bad name that there are people out there that believe regular over the counter supplements, such as creatine phosphate, are actually bad for you. It's all a joke.

but seriously, though, by 2013 we'll all be fabulously wealthy and eternally grateful doj kept all the american fishies locked in with us on the new 100% legal megasites.

some notice woulda been nice tho

No. They're a form of property owner -- the opposite of government.