Poker Blogging

i`ve played online poker for play money and it getting boring would playing in a real money tournament live be more fun than online play money poker?

ok, well I was thinking about starting to get into online poker coaching. Thus far I have only taught classes to my friends, and they have improved greatly. I looked online and found some sites but they cost around 150-250 an hour. This seems like to me it would limit them to high stakes players.

I would like to teach some smaller stakes players, or any players really that are interested. I plan on starting out charging only 25 dollars an hour.

My online full tilt name is DaSarge06 . If you look it up you can see I have over 17k winnings in the past 120 days. I normally teach MTT strategy and Cash Strat, but have taught Sit’n'Go before.

If anyone is interested post here, or email me and we can get in touch. For now, Good luck at the tables!
yes, I could put up a 15 min videos fairly easy, I’m just wondering if it would be worthwhile, as I don’t know if anyone is even interested.

Right now, 100% of my income is from online poker. I cash out $2,000 ever 2 weeks or so and have a check mailed to me. I play Sit-n-go tournaments almost exclusively. If you don’t know what this is, you basically sign up for a small tournament (between 9 and 45 players), and once enough people have signed up to play, it starts.

My question is, what is the best way to track this for my 2008 tax return? I’m sure ideally I would record every single tournament, but by the end of the year I will have thousands of tournament results, but it seems this is rather tedious for both me and the IRS.

Would it be more effective, or legal for me to simply track the cashout checks? Since I’m working with an out of country company, and the money’s not really mine until I have a check in hand I thought this might be ok.

Also, I never make deposits (and actually never have, but that’s another story) if that makes any difference.

So if i want to be smart about my first deposit to an online poker room, couldn’t I just pick a room with a 100% 1st deposit match bonus. Then deposit $500 and get $500 for a total of $1000 in my account. Then go and enter a $500, 6 person Sit N Go tournament. And then if I loose just withdraw my initial $500 and go to a different room with a 100% first deposit bonus and keep doing this until I win the Sit N Go????

if it is now illegal to gamble online within the US why do these gambeling sites still take your money. My little brother stole 1000 dollars from me and lost it all on a poker site. Is there anyway to get my money back should I contact the fed government about this site? how would you handle this?
one yes online poker for money is illegal in the united states. I can get the statuit number if you would like.
2 I tried signing up for the same site aqbout a month ago and they would not take my debit card due to the fact I was a resident of the United States.
3 I had given him a check for his birthday that he photo copied and was using the reference and accounting number to gain acces to the funds in my account.
4 Although he is a pain in the ass I would rather not see him go to jail.
3 I know pot is illegal and I smoke it everyday so your point is lost on me there. And he is already in the whole for 18 bathroom cleaings so he kind of is my slave already.
richard it is not illegal to buy food but it is illegal to gamblle with money online no matter what country the compnay is based out of. The user of the computer and the financial institution are based in America. If a muslim cAME OVER HERE AND KILLED HIS DAUGHTER AS AN HONER KILLING WHICH IS NOT ILLEGAL IN THERE COUNTRY HE WOULD STILL BE PROSECUTED HERE. SAME AS WITH THE CEOS OF THESE ONLINE GAMBLING SITES ONE FOOT IN aMERICAN TERITORY AND THEY ARE IN JAIL.
But guys it is not like he had a check from another country it is an american based bank. So if there are laws passed not allowing the transfer of funds from an american bank to a gambeling site how do they get around that. I am still miffed I went on last night and tried again still no go says financial inst based in the US. So if it is illegal for these sites to withdrawl the money how do they get around it.

I play live games and just recently take part on online poker and alot of things that in live games somehow doesn’t apply to these online, I keep losing alot in tournaments because of people draws out that normally in live games they would go broke or would never take such risk with all their stacks or 2/3, is it because of the overrated pot odds that some how seemed so attractive to them? How do I go about this matter and improve on my play, Im so sick of being the chip leaders and get elimanted with marginal hands that would not fold even the turn didn’t hit and I do shove it in with either all my stacks on the turn or atleast pot size to stop them for drawing out but I can’t seemed to see this method works, any ideas anyone? Anyone??? Please thank you millions times:)

******UNDERSTAND THIS IF YOU WANT TO PLAY A LOT OF POKER****************

***IT IS EASIER TO BEAT A BAD PLAYER THEN A GOOD PLAYER

dont play only tournaments,
Play more cash games. in a cash game you want someone to call it you have kq and they have 23

One bad beat doenst ruin you night in a cash game cuz you can keep playing and if they keep playing with 23 you will take all of there money by the end of the night

If you only play tournament you will find more donkeys then in a cash game,

Whining doenst prove you are a better play taking there money proves you are better

How much would a tournament director charge a par to set up a poker game! Thinking of starting a free poker league in a small bar in town!

Im learning more about poker to expand my ability to assault casinos, i have been playing in private games with success.

I went to a casino to inquire about any tournaments they may be holding since i happened to be there that day.

They explained to me that the tournament cost 52 dollars, of which 12 goes straight to the casino!!

I was so shocked by this that i begin to question weather playing poker at a casino is feasible to actually expect a profit. That 12$ commission represents something of a 20% disadvantage! I just don’t see how any player can hold an edge over other players larger than that so they expect to win money.

And what about in the games where they take a rake? like a commission out of every pot. How do you overcome that?

Most importantly, how do you KNOW/PROVE that you are expecting to overcome those factors?

Did it ever pass anywhere besides Washington (The state)?
Yes the Government was planning on banning online Poker, saying they can’t control it or something, and even free to play games can lead to online gambling, and may people losing real money.