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New Poker Folklore: The Bonus Curse

Postby Beavis68 » Sat Feb 24, 2007 6:49 pm

I figured out the key to the doom switch, and it has nothing to do with withdr3walling


When you first get a bonus, they let you run hot - it helps to wait until late in the bonus window to start playing so you dont get too many competing players at a table.

But at the bonus nears completion, they trip the doom switch on you, and it stays doomed until the next bonus.
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Postby oatmealforxmas » Sat Feb 24, 2007 6:51 pm

I believe it
[12:17] heat517163: i won 26k last month
[12:17] heat517163: and havent bought ANYTHING
[12:17] heat517163: not one thing
[12:17] heat517163: i almost bought a few shirts
[12:17] heat517163: but monicas like
[12:17] heat517163: "you dont need more clothes"
[12:17] heat517163: meh
[12:17] oatsforxmas: ha
[12:17] heat517163: wanted funny shirts
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Postby black_knight6 » Sat Feb 24, 2007 6:54 pm

So very very false
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Postby Felonius_Monk » Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:41 pm

They always flick the Doomswitch on me when I'm close to finishing a bonus.

The old "I only needed 87 more hands to clear the $100 bonus and lost $480 doing it" story. Happened to me a ton of times.
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Postby black_knight6 » Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:46 pm

...I'll say that it never happens to me cuz I don't play with an eye to bonus, I play on networks that I know I can be a winning player on WITHOUT bonus, and the bonus just pads my pocket...I think a lot of these 'curses' happen when people either aren't winning players to begin with, or play on sites with insufficient traffic or radically incompatible opposition to show a profit.
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Postby oatmealforxmas » Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:49 pm

[12:17] heat517163: i won 26k last month
[12:17] heat517163: and havent bought ANYTHING
[12:17] heat517163: not one thing
[12:17] heat517163: i almost bought a few shirts
[12:17] heat517163: but monicas like
[12:17] heat517163: "you dont need more clothes"
[12:17] heat517163: meh
[12:17] oatsforxmas: ha
[12:17] heat517163: wanted funny shirts
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Postby Felonius_Monk » Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:55 pm

The Monkman J[c]

"Informer, you no say daddy me snow me Ill go blame,
A licky boom boom down.
Detective mon said daddy me snow me stab someone down the lane,
A licky boom boom down." - Snow, 1993
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Postby MTPaid » Sat Feb 24, 2007 8:36 pm

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Postby black_knight6 » Sat Feb 24, 2007 8:40 pm

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Postby Pok 7's » Sat Feb 24, 2007 8:53 pm

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Postby black_knight6 » Sat Feb 24, 2007 9:04 pm

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