stevesbets

I already received a number of questions about my prop bet with N 82 50 24 when people saw me in a cash game on full tilt. The prop bet came to an end this afternoon with Nat buying out of the bet. His reasoning was that I had already played at least 500 sngs if not the 600 sngs required by the bet, and it was very unlikely I’d just give away 1k by wanting to play something else over the next month. My reasoning was, I don’t really like playing those HU sngs as much as I used to. The player pool is smaller, and the one of the few regular fish, Dariominieri (more on him later), crushed me. So anyway, rather than pay off the whole 1k, I let Nat buy out for 300 plus some other non cash considerations.

I am currently very disappointed with pokerstars for several reasons. The first is that I am one of their leading if not THE leading rake generator for their site of all time yet they don’t treat me at all like a VIP as they should. More frustrating than that, they SPONSOR Dariominieri who is in my opinion one of the bigger scumbags who has risen to “superstar” level in online poker. They repeatedly allow him to break the dumb chat rules which wouldn’t bother me so much if they wouldn’t constantly chastise others for utter nonsense. My last post about Dario was simply a hand with no analysis and it brought the wrath of his clueless and incoherent Italian friends so i can’t imagine what this will bring. Frankly, stars sponsoring someone like that is to me indefensible and I am currently talking to them about it. I plan on playing on full tilt until I resolve the issue.

    I never cease to be amazed by some of the ridiculous products I see out there. I swung by a blockbuster recently and while my friend was looking at xbox games i noticed a playboy video game. I couldn’t imagine how such a thing could exist and be appropriate for kids so I checked out the box. The tag lines for the game were “build your riches and deck out the mansion”, “throw killer parties!” and my favorite “Build your money and social value to get a girlfriend…or two…or SIX!!!” This really takes “Sim” games to a whole new level. I can’t really imagine anyone who has the time nor the inclination to play an xbox game of this sort but I guess the market must exist or the product would not.

As a side note, I was at Chilis with a friend after the trip to blockbuster and there was a bunch of work groups having “Christmas lunches” or something of the sort there. I don’t mean to be a critical asshole but something about these groups of people totally depressed me. It’s hard to describe in blog form, its something you just have to see. It reminded me of an Ed Norton quote from fight club, “This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time”.

In reponse to someone calling me terrible on a forum someone wrote:

stevesbets is a legend IMO and i became a significantly better all around poker player just watchin that guy grind HU sit and go’s

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This blog is to come, I just didn’t want to forget the title