hi everyone 
I am still playing poker full time  on ultimatebet   i play 8 to 12 hours  a day   every day  and I am doing very well.   I am now at the icon level  the highest level there is   to reach this level you have to earn 10k of raise points  and you can only earn these points by playing cash games.  as a icon member  i am a VIP player  and i have a VIP live chat button that i can use to talk to a VIP host that has been assigned to help me anytime i need anything.  i also get special invites to tourneys  and i get invites to play with annie duke and phill helmuth.  i also  get 9% interest rate on my cash at ultimate bet.  there are all kinds of other perks

 

I have heard it suggested that poker is very much like life. In fact, poker is an excellent metaphor for life. We’re all dealt a hand. Some of us are dealt a good hand, others not so good. The way we play our hand makes all the difference.

 In poker and in life we are dealt hands and we must make decisions as to how to play our hands. These decisions aren’t made in a vacuum, so there are risks and rewards that become obvous.  Sometimes we choose to become aggressive and at other times we are more reserved, holding back to see how things unfold.  We face many struggles where we’re sometimes well equipped and at other times we’re not so well equipped. There is always an air of uncertainty. The best we can do is make the best possible decisions based on the available facts.  We are rewarded or punished according to the decisions we make.

 We all should strive to make more good decisions than bad decisions. As in life, so it is in poker.

 very interesting,  I will be forwarding some very important info about a certain staking website to the proper authorities  and maybe this certain website will be shut down.

owners of up and coming poker staking site  made the decision to cease operations, citing a potential violation of the Securities Act of 1933. Just a few days removed from signing World Poker Tour (WPT) Host Mike Sexton and NeverWinPoker.com owner Bryan Micon, This staking site made the call.

A press release that is scheduled to be distributed explained the situation and other  founders faced: “We have been told that we are ‘selling an interest in someone else’s opportunity to earn money,’ which makes it an unregistered security that is being offered to the public without qualifying the investor and without a prospectus. After further research and consultation, it looks like this is a very grey area.” Rather than risk continuing operations and then ending up in court, company officials elected to halt operations immediately.

The press release also indicated that the company’s withdrawal from the industry was not an indication that others involved in the business of staking poker players were breaking the law. The company stated, “We are in no means giving a legal opinion, but are erring on the side of caution.” The warning about the Securities Act of 1933 came from a lawyer who is known by one of the owners. Staking opportunities for the recently-completed WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic were the first ones offered.

Mike Sexton was recently signed by this site and owns one of the most familiar voices and faces in the industry. As the man behind the World Poker Tour (WPT) alongside Vince Van Patten, he was instrumental in launching the WPT back in 2002. Coupled with the introduction of the hole card camera and Chris Moneymaker’s World Series of Poker (WSOP) win, the WPT aided the start of the modern poker boom. Sexton won a Limit Seven Card Stud High-Low event during the 1989 WSOP. It remains his only WSOP win to date, although he has racked up a total of 44 cashes to his name. He is also a monthly contributor to Poker News Daily.

Bryan Micon’s site, NeverWinPoker.com, is one of the premier online poker forums. Micon is joined on the site by Dustin Woolf and Todd Witteles. The latter is known as “Dan Druff” online and was one of the key interview subjects by CBS News program “60 Minutes.” Micon made a deep run in the 2006 WSOP Main Event, taking home $123,000. During the same year, he pocketed $74,000 for ninth place in a $2,000 No Limit Hold’em tournament. He logged one cash during the 2008 tournament series, finishing 15th in a $1,500 No Limit event that was ultimately won by Danish poker pro Jesper Hougaard.

Others on the roster  included Tom McEvoy, the winner of the 1983 WSOP Main Event. Doyle Brunson finished third in that event after dominating the marquee tournament in the late 1970s. McEvoy has 36 WSOP cashes over the course of his career for a total of $1.3 million. He has also authored a slew of poker books, including “Championship Hold’em” and “How to Win No Limit Hold’em Tournaments,” which he co-wrote with T.J. Cloutier and Don Vines, respectively.

Also available for backing  was Mark Gregorich, who authored part of “Super System II,” a recent update to the timeless classic. He was the commentator for “Poker Superstars I” and also contributes to Card Player Magazine, one of the largest poker print periodicals in the world. Gregorich took fifth for £17,188 in a £2,500 buy-in HORSE event during the 2008 WSOP Europe. He finished 11th in the $50,000 buy-in HORSE Championship during the 2007 WSOP and owns nearly a half-million dollars in WSOP earnings.

hi everyone
I read some comments  from some people  and  they asked how they can reach me  well  you can always email me at baddputtycat@yahoo.com
been a tough getting used to my normal routine after being in costa rica for four weeks straight.  the weather over there was awesome. the best part was  that I payed for my entire trip and everything from my online poker winnings.
i am back in indiana and trying to adjust  to  my normal full time poker playing, I arrived in Indpls on
3-2-09  and  had some severe jetlag.  I am now back to playing poker  full time now  and  I did miss playing live poker alot. this week alone  I have played  over  50 hours of playing poker online. i have put in a few 12 to 16 hr sessions this week  and  all in all  I have done very well.   I have now  started playing on my multi monitors now    I have 8 monitors  and this allows me to play alot more tables. I actually know someone from the geek squad at best buy  and they  hooked up my monitor setup for me

sorry  everyone  for my absence   I have been in costa rica for the last 4 weeks   and it was a very great trip.  I truly enjoyed every minute of it.  I took  several trips  and had the best time ever and I will be going back. I also met  some really nice people, I met several online poker room managers from  two different online poker rooms. they gave me some great tours of costa rica. I will definately be going back.  I am now playing full time between two online poker rooms  and I am doing the best I have ever done.
stay tuned to some daily blogs from me.

omg  can you believe that  unixbro  would do this?   out of all the things I have seen and hears  omg   what a loser  unixbro is …. This Thread

CAN YOU BELEIVE HIM???

I  finished this week at ultimatebet  $3900  winner for the last seven days   and on cake poker  I am up $2300 for the week, as far as doylesroom  I finished up only $1300.  I have even added another pokerroom to my huge list pokerrooms that I am already playing at.  I am now also playing on carbon poker. carbon poker is just about as soft as cake poker, but there isnt really any site as soft as cake poker. I am relly doing great in my online poker playing, I am switching it up between online and live play as much as possible.  I did play two nights at the horseshoe casino(formerly caesars) in new albany indiana. and I have to say  i was very impressed with my play.  I play $10-$20  hose  and that game is very loose/soft. I won $2300  in two nights  weeee.  I am on such a roll  it is unreal.  I did take my laptop  with me and i found myself playing internet poker in my hotel suite after i finshed my live game  and before I started my live game. I have been playing the doyle brunson bounty tourney every week  on doylesrom and I love this mtt, doyle brunson, his son todd and mike caro  and several other top pros play in this mtt and if you knock out a pro doylesroom gives you a $500  bounty, thats $500 cash.  I really enjoy chatting with doyle brunson on his forum  and  at the tables.  and mike caro is awesome as well. mike caro is the mad genius of poker. 

The post below is a trip report from jewdonk   from NWP     what a greta guy jewdonk is, I wish him all the best in his new venture in las vegas. I am sure everything will work out for you in las vegas marty

A few months ago I realized what deep down inside I think already knew.

Which is that Sacramento is a dead end cow town with virtually zero opportunity, populated with white trash, disgruntled state workers and other assorted cretins. There is no night life, only a handful of decent restaurants..and in a nut shell, the town is a swirling, sucking, eddy of despair with bad traffic and no culture.

I am entitled to issue this commentary because I was unfortunate enough to have been born and raised there. It used to be a quaint little town when I was a kid, but sadly over the years it has become a minority melting pot and it seems like everyone is miserable.

Regardless…

Eight days ago, I was living in a small guest house doing landscaping work in exchange for free rent and scouring the help wanted ads for a suitable temporary profession and not having much luck at all. The weather was rotten and the job prospects bleak to say the least, and I found myself gradually slipping into a depressed state of mind.

I have a sales background, and most of the positions being advertised were either ‘all commission’ or with some shitty hourly base and I made up my mind right then and there in a Jim Beam induced epiphany to get the fuck out of Dodge, pack my shit and come to Vegas again.

I say ‘again’, because I moved here 3 years ago. But it didn’t exactly go as planned.

I got arrested on the freeway right next to the strip on my 3rd day in town for a 10 year old bench warrant in Tonopah, Nevada.

You see, back in 1995 when I was still working as a merchant marine…I paid cash for a Mustang 5.0 GT in Philadelphia and decided to drive cross country. I drove head first into a speed trap in Tonopah city limits doing 70, crumpled up my ticket as soon as I signed it, and thought to myself ‘I’ll never come back to this shit-bag town ever again’

Just never thought it would come back to haunt me 10 years later.

Needless to say, I had a great view of the Bellagio from the back seat of a Nevada State Police cruiser in handcuffs as they hauled me off to the Clark County Detention Center, impounded my BMW and locked my ass up for 5 days in probably the worst jail in the United States of America.

Bailing myself out, re-insuring and registering my car in Nevada, and getting it out of impound was a crippling blow to my sparse bankroll, and I spent the next several months trying to claw my way out of the financial abyss to no avail.

After a few months behind the eight ball, I threw in the towel and came crawling back home to Suckramento with my tail between my legs spending the last 2+ years of my life trying to figure out what went wrong and how to get back on track.

Which brings us to the present day

Last Friday late, I packed up the C70 and hit the road at 2 AM for the 10 hour drive to the desert with my dog by my side riding shotgun. Stocking up on plenty of Red Bulls and packing more than a half ounce of California’s finest…I set the cruise control at 70, and settled in for the long 600 mile drive.

The sun was coming up over the horizon to the East as I stared through a bug splattered windshield in the Mohave desert, and I pulled off the road behind a gas station that seemed out of place amidst the sprawling emptiness and reclined for a much needed power nap before the last leg of the trip.

I pulled up Las Vegas Blvd at about 11 AM on Friday morning, and immediately checked into a ‘pet friendly’ motel walking distance from the MGM Grand which was surprisingly inexpensive, clean, and served as the perfect place to decompress and evaluate my options and review plans for the coming weeks.

The one major handicap I have been burdened with (by choice) is lugging around the 50 pounds of raw energy we all know as Winnie. It’s not easy being a dog owner, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. Where I go , she goes…period. So the first order of business was finding a place with a backyard.

I mean it’s not realistic to shack up in some hotel room, and leave her sitting around alone while I go whoop it up in strip clubs and poker rooms without a care in the world. So I started scanning craigslist share rentals for a nice place..and well, I have to say I hit the jackpot.

Found a great place about a mile from the Wynn, walking distance from the Palms with a huge backyard. My roommate is very laid back, but the best part is that he has this gigantic 120 pound doberman pinscher.

Normally I am concerned about her getting into fights, Winnie is a brawler, but when she ran into ‘Kane’ she got severely owned. It’s pretty clear who the ‘Alpha’ is in this household. Regardless, we both couldn’t be happier in our present situation.

Now most of this first week back in Las Vegas for me has been trying to take care of business before tearing up the strip and cutting loose , but Superbowl Sunday was a different story lol

I left my car back at the motel because I knew I was going to get shitfaced, took the short walk over to MGM Grand about 1 o’ clock and got on the list for the 1/2 NL game and waited for kickoff pounding as many drinks I could get my hands on.

For the first hour and a half, I was ordering a fresh cocktail every time the waitress dropped one off…because quite honestly the service in the poker room sucked. They only had two skanks in skirts with protruding cleavage working the entire room, and it was pissing me off because I wanted to get plowed and they weren’t making it easy.

Anyway it took an eternity, but after about 5 Jim and Cokes I was lubed up nicely and settled into some poker without a care in the world. I have played some pretty juicy 200 NL games in my life, but imagine a table full of recreational players getting toasted within 30 feet of the MGM sportsbook on Superbowl Sunday at a 1/2 game lol, I mean do the math for yourself. I was drunk off my ass at this point and still managed to triple my buy in about 2 hours.

The dealer was a condescending douche and at one point called the floor on me after I had flopped two pair on a 10/5/Q board, I lead out and some guy shoves on me. I go into the tank (I had 10/5os) and wanted to show the guy all in my cards. The dealer is warning me he would kill the pot if I showed and I am like fuck that..he is all in I can show him if I want to. ‘you are wrong’ . The snotty dealer calls the floor over and he says the same thing…I was completely looped at this point (working on my 8th or 9th Jim and Coke) and when he walks away I say ‘he is wrong too’ and then an authoritive ‘I call’ and flip over my two pair almost defiantly

I stack the guy who had K/J and whiffed, rack my chips and stagger to the cashier to cash out flipping a single one dollar chip at the dealer and fire off an in your face ‘peace out’

The guy I stacked was the jock douche bag sitting directly under the TV >

OK well there is a lot more I could talk about, but I will say that I am stoked to be here. A fresh start is always good for the soul and I feel more at home in Las Vegas than just about anywhere. What a perfect place for a poker degenerate. I mean it doesn’t get much better than this when you think about it. This town has literally hundreds of terrific restaurants, shows, all kinds of different things to do. Hot chicks everywhere. Tits and ass in your face wherever you look. I feel like a kid in a candy store again.

This is an ongoing trip report of course, but I think you get the idea for whats in store

I have been a member of neverwinpoker since the forum first opened,granted  I havehardly if ever posted I still always like to read the forum.  there has been alot of recenrt  drama in the shooting off forum.

http://www.neverwinpoker.com/forums/shooting-off-f1-vwls-lets-be-honest-here-t63386.html

the recent firing of the paid mod fckvwls was handled very poorly, and she shouldnt have been fired. she was a very good mod who helped everyone everyday. this just goes to show what kind of terrible business sense micon has. of course look who we are dealing with, micon constantly begs his members to be staked in high limit tourneys. micon is a terrible poker player, druff should have never allowed vwls to be fired. so what if she and a pro poker player hooked up and he loaned her some money. it was a loan and she is paying it back.  this is just another terrible example showing how micon  has conducted his business. such a shame.  now everyone is leaving NWP  and going over to boris78.  micon doesnt deserve to own anything.

Today (sunday) was a very busy,hectic day for me. I had to squeeze in some  good shopping  before  I played my usual mid limit,high limit stakes  on UB and Doylesroom and cakepoker.  I recently got rakeback from UB  weeeee.  with my cash game play  and my levels of play on UB  I will be averaging  between 1k to $1500 per month in rakeback.  I am also getting rakeback on cakepoker.  we recently got 12.5 inches of snow dumped on us in one day, can you believe the city wont even plow the side streets. when the people complain  the mayor simply says “do it yourself”   this is one of those times when I am glad  that i dont live on a tiny side street.  I actually live in a really nice condo community and they really keep the property looking nice and snow plowed  lol.  I recieved a $3k check from UB  yesterday (saturday)  so today I set aside a couple  hours of shopping to sort of celebrate.  I am also staking/investing on a very popular  staking site.  This forum has alot of different  types of boards and poker staking is one of them, they dont really advertise because they dont have too. they have a huge member base. and yes they are alot better than donkeystakes will ever be, they are actually honest players and they dont roll each other. I bought myself 2 huge monitors for  my dell laptop   now i will have 4 monitors  so i can easily play 20 tables at once with no probs  whatsoever.  my rakeback will be pouring in from ub  weeee .