AFTER - AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!
BEFORE - HOW GREAT IS WAS!
Last night I picked up a copy of Bluff Magazine from Sept. 2009 I had laying around the house. As I flipped through the pages seeing all the ads from PokerStars and Full Tilt I realized how much we don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. We could have gotten behind the Poker Players Alliance and pushed harder for legislation before the DOJ shut down these sites but we were happy enough with things the way they were. We had what we thought were two great sites to play on and getting money on and off was very easy. So why did we need government interference in our poker lives. Well I think we all learned why on April 15.
As I thumbed through the pages of Bluff I remembered how I looked forward to every Sunday and the Sunday tournaments. How I normally made a nice amount of money each week on PokerStars. How great the software was and how smoothly it ran. How after a session I could go back and load games in the Universal Replayer for an easy review. I thought about what great promotions PokerStars always had going and most importantly how much I trusted them. I thought about all the women I met (virtually) through the PokerStars Women's League, not to mention how much money I made off those women's games. I wondered if I realized how great it was at the time.
Thanks to our nanny government all that is gone now. We now have only small sites to play on with little volume and little game choice. The software is slow and buggy and hand history and in game last hand review is terrible. I have to say some of the sites do have good customer service but some are terrible. Getting money on and off is slow and difficult and making decent money seems almost impossible and can these sites be trusted?
We can go on this way or we can get busy and push hard for legislation. I'm am trying to do my part by contacting members of the house and senate asking them to support legislation. You can do your part too. The Poker Players Alliance has an ongoing thread on 2+2 poker forum where you can get links and names for senator's and representative's Facebook pages and email addresses to ask for their support. You can find the thread here, please help by making these contacts as often as you can.
Until we get legislation I'm afraid things won't get a whole lot better, so keep pushing your representatives and senators. Make your voice heard!
