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Zynga Ready for Real Money Gaming or Trying to Hide Failures?Very interesting session tonight. When I first get home, I can’t log into Empire. The thing’s just hanging. I do some errands that I had been meaning to get to (thanks Empire!) and try again an hour or so later. Bang! I’m on. But there’s only six 6-max games being spread and maybe 4 full games (at my preferred level, $5/$10). Huh? Ok, so they open up two new tables and I get seated at a completely fresh game. I don’t catch much on the one table but the deck smacks me in the face at the second (thanks Empire!). First hand KQo from MP. Limp, limp, I raise, cold call, call, call. Four players see the flop which comes AJT with two spades (the ace and the ten are spades and I have the queen of spades in my hand). EP bets, MP calls, I raise, button cold calls 2, EP re-raises, MP calls, I raise, and everyone calls. The turn is a spade. EP bets, MP calls, I think about raising but against three opponents I’m probably dead to another spade, button mucks. River is another spade. EP bets, MP calls, I raise, EP re-raises, MP mucks, and I call hoping I didn’t just run into the K of spades. Nope. A7 with the seven of spades (thanks Empire!).
The table just kept going like that. Another hand I limp in with 9Ts on the button and catch a TTx flop and fill up on the turn against a guy who decides I don’t have a ten and makes it a rasing war on the turn and the river. Turns out he slow played aces (thanks Empire!).
Within 1/2 hour I was up 30BB. That’s including the 7BB I was down on the other table. Then Empire freezes up and kicks me off. I try to log back in again but it just hangs so I call it a night and think about the fact that that was probably the fastest 30BB I’ve ever won in my life (thanks Empire!).
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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
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There’s a couple posts on 2+2 talking about Party crashing tonight. Sounds like you did a hit-n-run between crashes. Cool.
I was in a $5+1 SnG when Empire crashed last night. They refunded my buy-in this morning, plus an extra 28 cents. Thanks Empire!