Go read this blog post located at http://deadmoneyinc.blogspot.com entitled: What's a girl like you doing in a place like this?

Just wow.

It is a federal crime to threaten the President of the United States.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-10-16-bush-myspace_x.htm?POE=TECISVA

HAHA.

in Poker news, I have opened a Neteller.com account and will soon be depositing on that. I will then decide where I want to play online poker, either Full Tilt or Pokerstars.com. If anyone has any good bonuses or rake back or anything on either of these sites please let me know by click on "email me" right below this post. Thanks.

http://www.pokerstars.com/legislation/uigea/

Wow. This is awesome. I do believe that PokerStars will now become the #1 poker site on the internet. Full Tilt will be a close #2, as far as US players go.

Looks like I'll have to open an account on PokerStars.com :) Several of my friends play on that site and I do like the interface. First good news in a long time for online poker players. Weeee.

Finally I have a winning session. Although, I can't say it was a very profittable one. I was up $80 in just about 3 hours of play. I suppose that's a fairly decent hourly wage, but at $1/$2 that's pretty pathetic. I suppose it is DEFINITELY better than losing.

Whenever I have those horrible sessions it makes me so down on myself. Even if it wasn't really my fault. I think I've realized that I could never play poker for a living. I think it is a fun hobby and something I want to continue to get better at, but as far as making a living on poker, I do not think that is for me. I'm sure my Mom and Dad will be happy to hear me say that :)

Bad. Just plain bad. I was taking constant runner runner beats. I hate those nights. I played about 1200 hands and naturally in that many hands I am going to take a few beats, but the number of beats I took last night was incredible. I honestly feel that I was lucky to only be down $600 at the $1/$2 tables.

I was six tabling and none of my hands were holding up. Couple of perfect examples.

Lost Ks Kd to Kc Qh. All in preflop for $100 each. I was 92% to win the hand, lost to club flush. AK to QQ (I had AK), I raise three callers preflop. Checks to me I bet pot, he raises all in (which was about a minraise), and I call. He shows QQ, and hits a Queen on the river. I only lost like $75 in that hand, but still, poker sucks. Next hand I have QQ against his KK. He raises preflop, I reraise, he flat calls. Flop comes 55Q. He checks, I bet 1/2 pot. He min raises, I push, he instant calls with KK. Hits a king on the River. Lost $200. Granted, he had the best hand preflop, but I only had $24 invested preflop with the worst hand. The other $180 was put in on the flop when I was a 92% favorite. These were only three hands out of about six that were just like this. Needless to say, last night was no bueno.

Poker is a game of skill, but there is that little bit of luck factor that you must have during sessions like this one. You can get all your money in with a 92% chance to win, but 8% of the time you are still going to lose. This, my friends, is why poker sucks.

This Friday is the day that George W. Bush is supposed to sign the Port Authority Bill into law. At that time PartyPoker will reveal their procedures for American players to withdraw their money as well as put any restrictions on Americans playing on their site. It will be interesting to see how the online sites restrict Americans.

Full Tilt Poker has decided to allow Americans to play on their site until congress comes up with the exact rules and regulations for American financial institutions to ban online gambling.

I am waiting on PokerStars to make an announcement as far as American players.

My next blog will be about my previous session last night on PartyPoker.

Welp, there goes PartyPoker.com

Party Poker United States Legislation

How fucked up is it that in a mere 3 - 12 months, it will be ILLEGAL, yes ILLEGAL, for me, as an American, living in the US of A, to play online poker. A game to which I use my OWN money. My actions taken do not cause any pain to any single person or group of people. I am simply sitting at a computer, using the Information Super Highway as a means of communication. And now, because congress does not know what the fuck they are doing (have they ever?), they have decided that online gambling should be outlawed in America (with no solid basis for their argument, mind you).

This blows. I used to have faith that the people elected to Congress would keep in mind that they are supposed to be making decisions based on what the people want. Well, congress, THIS IS NOT WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT. Fuck you government.

On a lighter note, I'm guessing with all the backlash this is going to cause, and all the lobbying that will be done, we will see online Poker (not too sure about online gambling) back in the mainstream in less than a years time. Hopefully I am right about this. We shall see.

Congress Approves Internet Gambling Ban Bill

and

Gambling Online Faces Collapse in US after Senate Ban

WOW. I see this working out one of two ways. Either a) this affects US online poker very little, or b) this destroys US online poker. Hopefully, the former happens.

I do not know too many of the details, but what I do know is that this is obviously NOT a good thing for US online gambling. Once again, the people we elected into power have failed us. Now why didn't the state or federal government just tax online gambling and make roughly $3 billion dollars a year in revenues? I guess no congressman has a business degree.