Zoo Chat - October - Random posts go here
 

Please feel free to use this thread to post quick questions, make suggestions, ask if FTP is down again, give off-topic information, etc, etc, especially if you don't think it's worth making a new thread for a simple question or comment.

There's a link to it in the top sticky so you can find it easily at any time.

Thanks.

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First.

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what is going to be this year's October blowup to the poker economy?

2006 was UIGEA
2005 was party cutting off the rakeback skins (empire, eurobet, multipoker, etc)

so, what is going to dramatically effect us this October?

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what is going to be this year's October blowup to the poker economy?

2006 was UIGEA
2005 was party cutting off the rakeback skins (empire, eurobet, multipoker, etc)

so, what is going to dramatically effect us this October?

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pokersites only allow people to continue playing if they play more than 1.5k hands a day

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what is going to be this year's October blowup to the poker economy?

2006 was UIGEA
2005 was party cutting off the rakeback skins (empire, eurobet, multipoker, etc)

so, what is going to dramatically effect us this October?

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The minimum buy-in gets raised and shortstackers disappear forever.

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I can't even think of anything worth making a random post about. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

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what is going to be this year's October blowup to the poker economy?

2006 was UIGEA
2005 was party cutting off the rakeback skins (empire, eurobet, multipoker, etc)

so, what is going to dramatically effect us this October?

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Party coming back to U.S., obv.

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what is going to be this year's October blowup to the poker economy?

2006 was UIGEA
2005 was party cutting off the rakeback skins (empire, eurobet, multipoker, etc)

so, what is going to dramatically effect us this October?

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You just made me cry...

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I won a live donkament today. I forgot to put on deodorant before I left my house this morning, are the two related?

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what is going to be this year's October blowup to the poker economy?

2006 was UIGEA
2005 was party cutting off the rakeback skins (empire, eurobet, multipoker, etc)

so, what is going to dramatically effect us this October?

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The minimum buy-in gets raised and shortstackers disappear forever.

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yeah...that would affect me for a few days...then it's back to full stacking

then again, it's tough not to short with IanBarns at the table---you were there for some of our tangles, right?

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1 out of roughly 3 times opening up the Zoo a person finds 4/4 of the first posts to be something to the effect of FTP sucking

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I can't even think of anything worth making a random post about. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

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<strike>That's good to hear, because every time someone writes something that isn't worth reading, dozens of people end up having to read it, because it's there, even though it may be total and illogical nonsense.

If we can keep all the random posts that people do make in the Zoo in this thread, then people will gradually realise the thread isn't worth the effort taken to open and read it, and in time there will be no random or nonsensical posts made anywhere in the Zoo as the makers themselves won't even open this random post thread to post in it.

Good times.</strike>

Edit: Ignore above. Please post away. Especially the poster called cunning.

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Wibble

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2008 - Big casinos move into online gaming. Buy out FTP/PS/PG
We all complain about rake increases/lack of CS.

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then again, it's tough not to short with IanBarns at the table---you were there for some of our tangles, right?


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Hmmm...

Every table he was at, you were at.

Table selection made easy?

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is pokerstars paused for anyone else?

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I'm having connection issues but no pause

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I'm having connection issues but no pause

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mine was just paused for like 15 minutes.

when it finally came back, i was booted off half my talbes and sitting out on the rest.

was playing Full Tilt fine during that period.

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then again, it's tough not to short with IanBarns at the table---you were there for some of our tangles, right?


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Hmmm...

Every table he was at, you were at.

Table selection made easy?

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amazingly enough, I do follow him around and I don't think he's noticed yet

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Random haikus are cooler.

Contact deity,
exploits peripheral waste.
Electricity.

jHE

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When did WPEX change to 75% RB? Has this caused anyone to stop playing there? Seems like this would thin out the site a bit.

Sorry if this has been asked a million times, but I don't play there and I just noticed it.

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A few months ago. Check out some of the WSEX Monthly Threads.

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is online poker rigged?

or am i just terrible?

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both?

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is having 10-12 buy in swings every session normal?

or am i just terrible?

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Man pokerstars waiting list suck around this time.. Every game has a wait of at least 1, anything good 4-6, and I even see more than 9 people waiting for a table..wtf??

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Is stoxpoker down right now? seems like it's been up and down the last couple of days but i can never get it on my computer.

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is online poker rigged?
or am i just terrible?

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Look at the BBV forum, there was something about absolute poker

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Is stoxpoker down right now? seems like it's been up and down the last couple of days but i can never get it on my computer.

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I spend quite a bit of time at the site and haven't been experiencing any issues the last few days. If the problem persists fire an e-mail off to stoxpoker.support at gmail.com, it's possible that you may be getting routed to the wrong server.

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what is going to be this year's October blowup to the poker economy?

2006 was UIGEA
2005 was party cutting off the rakeback skins (empire, eurobet, multipoker, etc)

so, what is going to dramatically effect us this October?

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The minimum buy-in gets raised and shortstackers disappear forever.

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The minimum buy-in gets decreased and only shortstakcers are allowed to play (like on True poker)

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Is Stars lagging a lot for anyone here?

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Is Stars lagging a lot for anyone here?

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lagging like crazy for me and disconnecting me at random intervals all night.

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Can someone explain the reason people trade funds?

Is this something specific to US players? I can't figure out the advantage over just using a e-wallet and moving the funds over and this is bothering me.

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What e-wallet do you expect them to use?

Edit: Since Neteller there hasn't been any good stable e-wallets for US people.

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That was why I asked if it was a US player thing.

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yes, it is a us player thing.


rumour has it that some people might not have accounts in their own name, which might be another reason.

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Rather than start another worthless thread can anyone give me a decent answer to this question?

I recently moved a small amount of money to full tilt to see how I liked playing there.
I didn't move much at first so have played just some small sngs and PLO10 at Tilt since the beginning of the month.

So here's my question. And yeah it took me thru the end of the week to notice this...
If the rake on a $23 pot at stars in PLO is $1.15 and Full Tilt took $2 out of a $23 pot tonight, remind me again why I should be trying to play at full tilt?

Edit: note I play regularly at stars and couldnt figure out what was bothering me for a while during the play at Tilt this week until I went back and looked thru some HHs... and sure enough its a ridiculous difference in rake.
Since I've only played plo10 at Tilt I have no basis of comparison for the 25 and 50 games yet.

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I think on FTP it depends on what limit you play as to whether the rake is 10% or 5%.

http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/rake.php is supposed to be the rake page but none of the dropdowns show any values for me.

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How did people fix the laggy problems at Full Tilt and the yellow screen of death thing. Just started getting it.