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Nitemare
Yes and Yes.
I've met a few. The most significant I met online at a PL .10/.25 table at Pokerstars. About 2 or 3 months later I was playing at a local card room (1-2 NL) and ran into him, the only reason we ever found out who the other was is someone started talking about internet poker and he mentioned he played at Pokerstars. From our conversation we figured who the other was. His name was Pete (which is also part of his handle online) and he is very humble and unassuming, but a VERY solid player. I knew this playing with him online, and for sure after our 8 hour session together at the real felt.
I like to enjoy myself at the tables, online but especially the real tables. Online will never replace going to the real tables. Love the interaction and good times at the poker tables. I try talking at the online tables but you have to dodge what I call the "flamers" and "trolls" that populate the online tables: i.e., those that are mostly talk, will call anyone who beats them in a hand a donkey, whatever. Many of those, and countless others who are already legends in their own minds and will pretty much tell you so. When I see that someone is from Arizona I always try to chat them up. Or when I'm out of town I like to ask people who are local to find out where the good card rooms are, but so many at the micro level have never set foot in a real card room... But that's about the only way I actually meet anyone who plays online.
I asked Pete privately what his take was a month and he told me, but there is no way for me to verify this unless I asked him to show me on his account but that's silly, in my mind I don't have to because I've seen him play live and online.
Don't know if I answered your question. Honestly I'd suggest getting on there with 10 or 20 bucks (depending on the site, if you haven't already) and give 'er a whirl. All I can really speak about is my own experience, I've got money in 3 different sites only because I learned the hard way about the variance that comes with consistent time at the tables -online and off. I'm even giving juicy bodog a break, I got hit with runner runner quads twice in one day while playing Omaha and took a big hit, really hurt my little bankroll there because it sent me into Full Blown Monkey Tilt and I kept playing for about an hour.
I would show you mine, but I'd rather get a 18-24 months in to give a better picture. I am in the black but as I've said before it's nothing to brag about. This is my online experiment at a bargain price as I see it.
And since you appear to use [URL="http://www.officialpokerrankings.com"]www.officialpokerrankings.com[/URL] or a similar site, as I do, I am kuelbreeze1 at Full Tilt. I just played a tournament last night, got 48th place and 4 bounties. Would have been in good shape chip wise with my all in JJ vs KQ but Q came on river. That's one thing I don't understand, is someone calling off over 75% of their chips to an all in bet with KQ, after hitting nothing on the flop, but it's their chips.....lol. If I were to play it again I might have value bet instead of pushed after the flop because the all in with a $2 bounty attached to it is a bit more enticing than a value bet... But as some would say.... "That's Full Rigged...."
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