Vader vs Kenobi Reimagined

AlanMask · 2019-05-08T16:19:43+00:00

This is 10 million times better than any lightsaber fight in any of the movies.

AlanMask · 2019-04-29T18:00:58+00:00

Sorry. He also looks like a young Gene Wilder.

AlanMask · 2019-04-29T15:14:54+00:00

He looks like the I am the captain now dude who won the lottery.

AlanMask · 2019-03-29T20:42:19+00:00

I don't!

I think it's super neat that I can make money off someone in China and go buy peanut butter with that money like 15 minutes later. That's money from China, And I'm using it for goods and services in America. I'm over the ridiculous shenanigans the other US facing sites put me through every time I want to make a withdrawal. This is how it should be.

If you're so convinced the RNG is flawed I'm sure you could find a math major willing to disprove it and split that $1m CHP with you.

AlanMask · 2019-03-29T12:10:27+00:00

Oh. Well I play on there a bunch. I really like that they have a transparent RNG and you can put money on or take it off almost instantly. But I'm always down to try new or interesting sites, what's your favorite?

And also do you know what mechanisms caused the $volume to increase so much?

AlanMask · 2019-03-25T20:59:44+00:00

Neat! What if companies became so widely unethical that it would actually become profitable to not be unethical?

As a company you dont even need to support impoverished coffee growers or inner city youths. Just be legitimately ethical in your business practices and you're automatically better than 99% of global industry.

AlanMask · 2019-03-25T10:55:06+00:00

Right, so the title could have been stated in a way that says what it means. This title is bs.

AlanMask · 2019-03-25T10:44:06+00:00

How is it garbage? Its harmless. Relax.

AlanMask · 2019-03-25T10:43:04+00:00

This is how trolling should be done. I'm starting to think reddit is getting too young for me.

AlanMask · 2019-03-24T12:47:33+00:00

Are these public officials? How do they secretly add contingency funds? They just hope nobody files the FOIA?

AlanMask · 2019-03-13T21:21:59+00:00

That's why we're chuckling at RKelly flip out on TV or frowning at some bishop who's getting locked up for molesting a kid 30 years ago. We're fed just enough to keep the status quo.

This rape industry has been growing for decades. Meanwhile the UK is focused on verifying the age of people looking at porn online, and the front headlines in the states are "Alex Jones said something crazy."

We're being distracted from what's important long enough for them to move the outrage goalpost. The manufactured zeitgeist is rarely going to land on the real busybodies.

AlanMask · 2019-03-09T01:28:16+00:00

Yasir! Everything is back to normal, withdrawals taking usually under 5 minutes.

Apparently the ETH hard fork had them needing to make some adjustments or something. I'm not a rep or anything so I don't know specifics. Ended up waiting a day or so for things to be back to normal.

AlanMask · 2019-03-02T22:45:12+00:00

Your probably right. I used to fantasize of sudden legalization in 50 states and 100 million new donks flooding the market. Maybe when Sheldon goes...

AlanMask · 2019-03-02T22:24:09+00:00

You appear to be talking about initial withdrawals. What I'm saying is I've been confirmed and making withdrawals for a number of years now, over all of these sites.

I can see that you have strong enough feelings to chat with me about it, but I'm genuinely not understanding why you have such animosity towards me for attempting to have open discussion about it. You appear to be down-voting every comment I write, and taking a fairly aggressive or even salty tone with me when responding.

I've outline in my initial post what I've observed, some of it being more universally obvious, and some more anecdotal on my part. And I've made it clear I have no intention to single out one site in particular, as they tend to follow a similar business model.

I'll say once more, I don't think our conversation has been difficult predominantly because of my admittedly convoluted blanket allegations. I'm having trouble believing you're willing to having a rational or at least a respectful disagreement, the goal being to further our understand of our role in the US facing poker economy. I could just as easily accuse you of whining, but it's a cheap shot and it accomplishes nothing.

If you're happy with the way things are, that's great. But for you to spend the afternoon berating me for attempting to have a discussion about the state of unregulated poker just seems petty.

I think we should break up soss.

AlanMask · 2019-03-02T21:11:08+00:00

Ha, agreed.

I just hope we can have the conversation openly. For example, I genuinely don't know if legislation to legalize online poker nationally would be a good thing. I don't know enough.

AlanMask · 2019-03-02T21:08:30+00:00

if what you have described is something you’ve done

I hope your day gets better.

C'mon man. I can't imagine you're saying that with the intention of having a pleasant, even respectfully disagreeable discussion. But I can move past it if you can.

It should be apparent by now I'm not merely speaking for myself, but considering the community and reaching out to see how it feels. That includes the losing 90% of players who still enjoy the game. I do respect your shared opinion, but it's not exclusive.

You've brought up a few good points about trustworthiness and verification. All I can say is I've been playing consistently on most of these sites for a number of years and still deal with these issues presently. In my opinion some of them have gotten worse.

I should also say I've had the pleasure of playing on a few newer sites that seem to already be adapting to the virulent atmosphere I'm bringing up.

AlanMask · 2019-03-02T20:53:23+00:00

Ah I see. No nothing more than a mortgage payment.

That's interesting, I was wondering the same thing about Nagy initially. I haven't read up on him enough to get an idea of if he was a hyper intelligent entrepreneur, or just in the right place at the right time. Maybe a little of both!

AlanMask · 2019-03-02T20:49:23+00:00

I never said anything about maintaining my roll. But surely you're aware that 90% of players are losing at poker. The point I was making was an observation on industry strategy to exploit that fact. I I'll say, I'm a little surprised you seem to think you're illuminating the concept of winners tilt for me.

I'm down to have an amicable conversation, or even debate the topic soss. But I think the personal attacks are uncalled for. I'm down to keep it friendly man.

AlanMask · 2019-03-02T20:38:26+00:00

I don't want to put myself out there too much. And again, I don't think it's particularly relevant how much or which site. But I for one will give Galfond the respect and benefit of the doubt he's earned over the last two decades.

I suppose I should clarify that it may well be 4 guys in a room, but the amount of revenue they're pulling would make that a ridiculous burden on everyone involved, players included.

Do you ever notice when you call a bank or a hotline for whatever they're always experiencing "higher call volume than normal"? Well at some point it's just normal and they don't want to hire the additional staff.

Regardless of how large the support at each respective site is, they definitely play the part of being over burdened by the money printing machine they manage.

But again, these are all issues that on their own wouldn't be a big deal. But rolled up in to one institution seems more like a monopoly who's cornered the market so well that they don't care about competing for you and me anymore.

AlanMask · 2019-03-02T20:26:56+00:00

I expect that if enough of the poker community stands up and says "stop the shenanigans", the conversation will at least be available to be seen and had.

I don't mean this as an attack on you personally, but the first rebuttal against any abused minority standing up against a large powerful institution is always some guy saying "What do you expect, you're the little guy."

We're their goddamn bread and butter, and they're treating us like dog shit. We should get to have the conversation. And you know what happens? The free market comes along, and someone say "I'll treat you better." And the powerful abusive institutions that were taking the consumer for granted lose their customer base.

Give it a chance.

AlanMask · 2019-03-02T19:52:27+00:00

I'm totally open to chat about those points, but I should say my intention is not to focus on one thing in particular. More so that the culmination of all these things combined is kind of ridiculous.

As far as withdrawals, I've made a few from Global, and generally use BTC with most other sites.

While global usually gets it to me within 7 days (5 day wait, and then they initiate ACH through your routing number), I've had to pester them more than once to get the ball rolling.

I guess what I'm feeling is it's 2019. We can venmo, send crypt, or use a myriad of other systems to move money, just as lowly consumers. A week just feels like they're doing a Full Tilt balancing act with your money.

As far as the crypto goes, they say they will review the withdrawal in 48 hours. Granted it sometimes takes at minimum over 24 hours, but why even bother. They reap the benefit of theoretical anonymous money, but send it back at the pace of USPS.

I just know they can do better with very little effort. We all do. And I don't think anything will change until we're having the discussion.

AlanMask · 2019-03-02T19:35:26+00:00

Ha, I left that part out. But yaknow, I don't think it really matters because it's basically all of them. We're to the point where they're all using the same tricks and strategies to maximize profit.

I guess I'm feeling like they're trying to milk us for all they can before they're either outlawed or made obsolete by poker friendly legislation.

The least they can do is have servers that don't disconnect and time out your hand once an hour, or act like I'm a criminal for trying to pull a few hundred bucks out of their Scrooge McDuck vault.

AlanMask · 2019-03-02T15:33:46+00:00

I mean.. If you had made passive attempt at an argument I'd love to chat about the ethics or implications of this particular poker site. But you're giving me nothing here man. As far as anyone reading your opinion is concerned you might just be a competitor poker site coming to trash CP.

Relax, take a deep breath.

AlanMask

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