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Originally Posted by Damnfinn
I don't play any more, haven't for years.
Now, here in Washington state it is a ten year prison sentence for gambling online or even talking about it thru email or internet.
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This just sounds incorrect. How can talking about this be a crime? As for playing, it is technically illegal, but the government does not go after casual online players. To be honest, they haven't even gone after the pros, who would be first if they went after players. Who they do care about are the CEO's of the online gambling companies that run their stuff overseas, as evidenced by their detaining one such person who I believe was switching planes in a US airport.
As for my poker history, I am a fairly successful low stakes player over about 250k hands. I average about 10$ an hour multitabling now, but when I first started at micro limits, it was much much lower, and my total roll stands at around 2000$ at the moment. I don't believe I have what it takes to be a high stakes player, so I'm becoming more of a casual player while I pursue other interests. I've played NL primarily, at 3 different sites. Recently, I've been trying some Limit and some 7-card Hi stud action. Have also tried my hand at live play, which I find fairly interesting but don't love as much as my mentor does.
My mentor taught me the basic rules and very low-level strategy in college. He plays as high as $150/$300 stud, and is semi-retired at this point. Basically, he's going for a masters, but has no real plans but to play poker for a living. He plays about 4 hours a day at most. He is the one who got me started by transferring 50$, which I dropped to $10 at some point. I started following his teaching from that point on, and when I got to 100$, transferred back his $50. Then I proceeded to grind that up, very slowly, to where I am right now.
If anyone wants to discuss strategy, I'm always willing.
www.twoplustwo.com is a great resource if you can ignore the useless posts and focus on the good ones.