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July 20, 2007OK, I'm not going to do the normal PartyPoker bashing that seems to run rampant in forums and blogs. It's funny how everybody bashes them BUT everybody has played there. Anyway, I'm simply going to tell my experience on PartyPoker.
A few years ago, I got interested in online poker. I grew up playing cards. My family played poker along with spades, hearts, canasta, rummy, and gin. I played poker some while I was in the military but nothing serious. Being a minimum of 4 hours drive from a casino, online poker offered my a legitimate way to play regularly without the driving hassle.
Googling "online poker" brought up an ad by PartyPoker so what the heck, I downloaded it. I decided that I'd play the free games. That should be entertaining. And it was. For awhile. When I got up to 14,000,000 in my play money account on Party, it was turning a bit boring and I was feeling pretty confident about playing real money games.
I was concerned about the legitimacy of online poker though. When looking at the deposit options, I didn't feel comfortable linking my bank account to a poker site. So I had an idea. I opened a separate bank account to use ONLY for poker. I hooked up with Neteller and was ready to go.
My 1st deposit was for $100. I did this on a Friday night. I didn't really get to play much that night but I was eagerly anticipating Saturday. My day was clear and it was "poker time". I started on a $0.25-$0.50 NL table. From the start, I was on fire. It seemed like anything and everything that I played hit on the flop, made the straight, or rivered me a flush. I played for over 8 hours that day. I moved up a couple of times and finally ended up on the $2-$4 NL tables. That $100 deposit had grown to over $1000 and thoughts of retiring from my regular job crossed my mind. That was Day 1.
Day 2-Sunday-the fire went out. I played exactly how I had played the day before but with opposite results. For every AA, there was a KK flop. Every open ended straight stayed open. For every
, there was a 
flop, 
turn and on and on. Nothing went right. I started on a $2-$4 NL table and worked my way down. I'd lose my buy-in then move down in stakes. Lose it again. Move down again. Finally, as I neared $200, I decided that I had endured enough that day. Well, a week later, that deposit was totally gone.
I'd seen it grow by playing aggressively loose and I'd seen it shrink by playing the exact same way. I decided at that point that I needed to do a little reading and studying of the game. From there, my online and live game has greatly improved. But that's best saved for another posting.:-]Read more: PartyPoker
