gg online poker?

Neteller bailed on the US kiddies. So the main e-wallet is gonskie. Looks like online poker is taking some pretty big hits. here is my take on the situation...

We will still be able to play. Just going to be a pain in the ass for all the fishies to put 50-200 dollars online every now and then. Still going to be a whole world of people playing, and still going to be some people willing to go to the trouble here to put monies on the sites. So i think this is just going to really hurt the big time players. Its going to be harder to turn a profit when there is less money, and less fishies. Also i think ego is going to eat all but a few of the best players, because they are going to keep fighting it out in hard ass games, just to give a lot of the money to the house. Someone once said the Big Game was like that. Just a group of people taking money from one another when on tilt. Just a back and forth thing.

I think there will be plenty of action down in the micros. i am willing to bet i will have all the 5-20 dollar heads up action i can take, untill they somehow shut down the sites. Also beings i mainly withdraw money by transfering it to buddies 10-20 dollars at a time, its not that huge of an issue to get money off. Granted if i ever started making some major cash i would have to figure something out. but thats nothing to worry about now. (hope i get to make a post about the troubles of getting large sums of money of on-line poker some day) So it looks like i will still get to plug away.

But to be honest...Online poker and me have a love/hate relationship. one week i love it, and then i hate it for a week. even with the good times lasting longer than the bad these days, i still can hate online poker. So even if they did shut down to the US, i really would be somewhat releaved. There is the 20 dollar re-buy every tuesday at town, and JUICY .50-1.00 nl game on most saturdays. also, 100 buck tournaments + side action every month close by. I could get a decent amount of action without the online games. I play better live, and get way less frustrated about it. I was stuck 120 dollars tuesday in a live cash game, and was fine. Clawed my way back to only -72 bucks before i left. if i drop 40 dollars online i am bonkers. Just would free up a lot of time for other things. not that i am complaining. I love playing poker. but if i could only play those 1-2 times a week, i could be doing other things. there is more to live than making my sharkscope roi look good, getting skilled enough to 5 table, and learning how to beat tournaments with more than 20 people in them.

So i am not worried at all. nothing changing, it changing a little, or online poker going away for good. I am ok with it either way. Kindof nice to be able to laugh at the guys shitting bricks on pocketfives over all of this.

ON A SIDE NOTE....i am killing the heads up sng's on Poker Stars. I know i will not be able to keep this kindof winning up over a big number of games, but its nice to play/run good. I am up to ~90 dollars on my Stars account, up 40 from the 50 i put in. Also this is nice because i am putting a decent amount of mony into MTT buyins, with little to show for it. I am getting better tho, and expect some 4.40 final tables soon. But i am thinking of making the move to the 10 dollar heads up matches soon. I am going to give it another week or 2 before i give it a shot. I have around ~350 dollars online after transfering 20 to Jester_cky (he blew it all in 40 mins :-) so i have 70 buyins for the 5 dollar level. I like having 50 buyins, but am comfortable taking a shot at the 10 with 30+ So i think if things keep going well i am going to give the 10 buck matches a shot. Will be playing half 10 half 5 to start with. just so things are not that rough if i were to hit a downswing, or play bad.

I am sticking to the regular speed matches for the most part. I like the turbos, but they take away a lot of the edge i think i have in the middle stages of the match. Granted i think i play well at the end of turbos, but they are more of a crap shoot, where i am going to be getting my money in a lot of the time as a 20% favorite, or dog.

ok done rambling.
-take