Sunday, April 30, 2006

Pulling Teeth to Withdraw Money at Crazy Poker

If you read the earlier post I had a great night of online poker where I took $5.00 and turned it into $55.00. Well, it was a great night. What was not great is trying to withdraw money. Most of the sites I have seen will only let you with draw $50.00 or more. Well I knew I met that little rule so I desided to withdraw $55.00. I get an email that I haven't met the terms and agreements of playing 100 raked hands. I only played 86. They deposited a "token" back in my casino account. So I try to find my casino account. No luck. Call their support number. Get a woman with a thick english accent who after 15 minutes puts my $55.00 back in my poker account. Now I'm pissed. All I want to do is play 14 more hands, not fall below $50.00, and withdraw my money. Is that too much to ask? Well, things were going along great. I was counting my hands. I had played 18 hands. I was up $4.00 more dollars to $14.00. A happy ending to this story would be for me to cash out, withdraw my money, and give the finger to Crazy poker. Well my stories don't always have happy endings. I'm playing at a .05 -.10 NL table and this one guy who is laying a bunch of bad beats on players at the table. Well of course 2 of them get into it and start insulting each other. This leads to the following hand. The bad beater call the big blind. The bad beatie raises to .50. I have an ace nine of hearts so I call the bad beater calls. The flops comes 9, 9, 6. The bad beatie is steaming and is first to act so he bets out 1.50, I raise to $5.00 with trip nines and a ace kicker. The bad beater calls, the bad beatie also calls. My sensable side tells me that something is wrong. My sensable side is telling me to bail, I have enough hands and money to make my withdraw. Just fold and get out of this hand. My poker side is saying, "Shut the F up sissy, you have trip 9's with an ace kicker and their is over $18.00 in the pot. The turn is a 10. The steaming bad beatie goes all in for his final $10.00. I have $8.00 left, if I lose I will fall below the $50.00 level and will not be able to make my withdraw. What could this clown have? 7 - 8 for a straight? 9 - 10 for a full house? or a Nine anything else? My sensable side is screaming... "Fold Dumbass.... Fold." My poker side keeps saying, "Fold? Trip nines with a top kicker? Are you crazy?" I call the all in. Bad beater calls too!!! There is over $46.00 in the pot. The cards flip up and....... Hold on a minute, before I tell you what happens, I have wrote on here before that I want to give up online poker. The cards flip up and bad beatie has a 9 - 10 for a full house. Bad beater has a 7 - 8 for a straight. I have trip nines, with an ace kicker. the third best hand. I'm out of money at the table, below $50.00 so I can't make my withdraw. What was the river card? Who the hell knows? I tell you one thing I know, it wasn't an ace. The bad beatie types to me, "Now that's how you play poker." and leaves the table. I sit there for a moment listening to my sensable side mock my poker side. "Trip 9's with an ace kicker, Trip nines with an ace kicker, some poker player you are." I will have to try again later to build my account up over $50.00 to cash out. Trip 9's with an ace kicker. My nose is still bleeding.

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