Poker

played plo cash with bonus funds and only preflop rake counted somehow

Just realized after a session grinding PLO cash with some bonus funds, only the preflop rake seemed to get counted toward unlocking the bonus, not any of the real action after the flop. I was definitely mixing it up post-flop, so this threw…

Bubble call here?

Tough spot last night in a $1/$2 cash game with about $190 behind. I’m in late position with AJo and the action folds to me, I raise to $10, only the cutoff calls. Flop comes J-8-6 rainbow, I bet $15 and he snap-raises to $45. Pretty much s…

pokerstars table crashed after all in and hand replay shows no showdown.

I was playing NLHE and shoved preflop with pocket tens, get one caller, table freezes at the river with two pair showing, and then boom, everyone’s disconnected. Get back in and the hand history shows no showdown, just chips moving to the o…

rake points frozen

yeah, i get that sites have anti-abuse checks and want to verify everything before handing out bonuses or rakeback, but when the rake points freeze for days it feels sketchy. i've hit this a few times, usually right after some streaky luck…

room says my sit n go volume looked like bonus farming after one weekend grind

put in a real grind last weekend, like nothing crazy - just a chunk of sit n gos back to back, few hours at a time. woke up to a message from the room saying my play looks like “bonus farming” and i gotta verify stuff. got the account locke…

Turn shove bad?

was grinding out a little 1/2 last night, table was pretty loose and i wasn’t exactly running hot, just picking spots and nursing the stack. two hands before the break i get dealt 77 in mid, a couple limps before me, i bump it to $12, butto…

ggpoker tournament lobby showed paid but cashier still says pending payout.

Just finished a tournament and the lobby shows I got paid out, but when I check my cashier, the payout's still marked as pending. I'm used to fast updates between the lobby and the account balance, so it's kind of throwing me off. Not sure…

rivered again

Still shaking my head here. Twice in the same session, I had them dominated preflop and then just got killed on the river. Once with pocket queens all-in against someone’s ace jack, and naturally they hit an ace on the last card. Stuff like…

poker bonus says knockouts count but bounty fees didnt move the tracker.

Chasing that poker bonus with the knockout requirement and it straight up ignores my bounty fees. The promo said every knockout should move the needle, but after playing several knockout tourneys, the tracker is still frozen. I double-check…

played micro mtts all week and bonus only counted buy ins not rebuys.

Just noticed something weird with the bonus this week. I spent way too much time grinding those micro MTTs thinking every cent would count toward my bonus but apparently only the original buy in gets tallied up. Rebuys and add-ons, which I…

jacks are impossible to play and i keep punting them

Honestly, jacks feel like the absolute worst hole cards to play for me. It’s like every time I get them, I’m just watching for overcards and bracing myself for pain. If I try slowplaying, somebody with garbage gets lucky, but if I come out…

does sitting with same weak players make poker rooms flag account activity

So I’ve been finding some pretty soft tables lately at my local rooms, usually with the same handful of regulars who just bleed chips. Sometimes we wind up sitting together several sessions in a row. I’m sticking around because it’s good fo…

Satellite overlay gone?

Used to love that satellite overlay on the MTT lobby, made it way easier to spot which tourneys had satellites running and whether the feeders were worth messing with. Lately I just can't find that option anywhere, not sure if it's been mov…

poker bonus cleared but leaderboard points stopped counting after midnight.

Bonus actually cleared about ten minutes before midnight but my leaderboard points froze right after. Was racking up a decent score too, then it’s like my account just stopped registering new hands on the board. Doesn’t look like it’s backf…

small blind defend?

never been a big fan of defending the small blind with junk, always feels like you're bleeding chips. i get there’s the argument for pot odds and maybe trying to hit something cheap, but i end up in weird spots post flop. people seem to say…

ggpoker cashier asked for source of funds after i withdrew less than lifetime deposits

Did a withdrawal for about half my lifetime deposits and got hit with a source of funds request, which threw me off. Always been steady, mostly blackjack and some sports parlays, nothing wild. Never had a withdrawal flagged before, usually…

HUD notes missing?

Noticing my player HUD notes are suddenly missing when I log in lately. No major updates or anything, and the stats still show up, just all my manual text notes are wiped. I never really relied on color tagging, just those short lines I’d l…

wpt global tournament paused on bubble and restarted with antes different.

was playing the tourney last night and it got paused on the bubble for like 30 minutes. when it finally restarted, i noticed the antes were totally off, higher than before the pause, but the blinds only went up by one level. i double-checke…

rakeback cap hit

just hit the rakeback cap for the first time this month and it feels a bit weird. not complaining about the free cash but it’s a different game when you know your hands aren’t adding up more rewards after a certain point. played most of it…