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bonifaceviii
Canada2890 Posts
On December 20 2011 23:22 ilbh wrote: is online poker really banned on US? I thought that only the companies that got caught doing illegal transactions were banned, like PokerStars and FTP. Internet gambling is illegal, not online poker. You can play, but you can't play for money. | ||
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HaXXspetten
Sweden15718 Posts
On December 20 2011 23:51 bonifaceviii wrote: Internet gambling is illegal, not online poker. You can play, but you can't play for money. Truth, yet I'm not sure this thread was meant to be a discussion about the ethics of competetive online poker gambling... | ||
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10366 Posts
On December 20 2011 23:51 bonifaceviii wrote: Internet gambling is illegal, not online poker. You can play, but you can't play for money. weird, cus my friend plays poker for money o.o (USA) | ||
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dreamsmasher
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NeWeNiyaLord
Norway2474 Posts
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29 fps
United States5725 Posts
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KiwiLime
United States44 Posts
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Zren89
United States131 Posts
But seriously I think I sort of already thought that pro-gaming was a difficult thing to get into, this just cements that truth for me and makes me want it more...is that weird or masochistic you think? Anyway, I need to experience this, because this is the only thing (sc2) that has ever truly been a challenge in my entire priveledged life. I've had it extremely easy, in school and the rest of my life (for the most part) and this game is HARD, and I love that. The challenge is what keeps bringing me back day after day night after night, playing until 2 in the morning because I know I'll be at work most of the next day. Yearning and striving first for gold then plat then diamond, and now that I am in Masters, trying to eclipse that last gap and make myself unstoppable, precise and relentless. I have to do this, nothing has ever been more clear to me, nothing has ever seemed so pure and made me so focused. I can't imagine what my life would be like without Star Craft II at this juncture, I love this game, I love the community, and I love the challenges that I get to overcome everyday through this game, and with only my wits and a keyboard and mouse. In short, I see your bet and I raise you everything I have, everything that I am, and I go ALL IN on the dream, the need, the hunger to be the best, ever....period. I haven't ever articulated this to anyone except my current girlfriend, no one else seems to understand, even my friends who play the game, don't seem all that interested, but I have started streaming and trying to get input on my play, I joined a clan full of awesome helpful people and I am networking with others who share the same passion that I have for this game, I may seem like just another dime-a-dozen noob waiting to have his soul crushed by the enormity that is pro-gaming, but I am urgently awaiting that crushing weight with excitement. I want to know how far I can be pushed, and how hard I can push back. E-sports I am coming for you, I will not be stopped, I will not be deterred, and I will NOT BE BROKEN! | ||
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Mobius_1
United Kingdom2763 Posts
On January 20 2012 01:42 Zren89 wrote: + Show Spoiler + As someone who just picked sc2 up as my first rts, I appreciate your candor. I want to do experience all the heartbreak that you talk about in this post, I want to feel the agony of defeat again and again, so that I can rise above it, and drink Soju from the skulls of my enemies!!! (sorry got a little melodramatic/wierd there :0) But seriously I think I sort of already thought that pro-gaming was a difficult thing to get into, this just cements that truth for me and makes me want it more...is that wierd or masochistic you think? Anyway, I need to experience this, because this is the only thing (sc2) that has ever truly been a challenge in my entire priveledged life. I've had it extremely easy, in school and the rest of my life (for the most part) and this game is HARD, and I love that. The challenge is what keeps brining me back day after day night after night, playing until 2 in the morning because I know I'll be at work most of the next day. Yearning and striving first for gold then plat then diamond, and now that I am in Masters, trying to eclipse that last gap and make myself unstoppable, precise and relentless. I have to do this, nothing has ever been more clear to me, nothing has ever seemed so pure and made me so focused. I can't imagine what my life would be like without Star Craft II at this juncture, I love this game, I love the community, and I love the challenges that I get to overcome everyday through this game, and with only my wits and a keyboard and mouse. In short, I see your bet and I raise you everything I have, everything that I am, and I go ALL IN on the dream, the need, the hunger to be the best, ever....period. I haven't ever articulated this to anyone except my current girlfriend, no one else seems to understand, even my friends who play the game, don't seem all that interested, but I have started streaming and trying to get input on my play, I joined a clan full of awesome helpful people and I am networking with others who share the same passion that I have for this game, I may seem like just another dime-a-dozen noob waiting to have his soul crushed by the enormity that is pro-gaming, but I am urgently awaiting that crushing weight with excitement. I want to know how far I can be pushed, and how hard I can push back. E-sports I am coming for you, I will not be stopped, I will not be deterred, and I will NOT BE BROKEN! BoxeR did not become the Emperor by writing about it beforehand on the internet (despite nobody else understanding), NaDa did not walk around Seoul shouting "I AM NADA", or if he did it certainly wasn't why he won a Golden Mouse. ThorZain didn't post on TL about how he was going to beat Naniwa, and I'm pretty sure MVP doesn't make "Going to win GSL" blogs on Playxp. Just go do it, man, if Rekrul and other blogs from pros telling you how hard it is to become pro can't stop you then nothing will and you just have to try and see for yourself, whether you make the cut or not, for if you don't try yourself you'll forever regret it. + Show Spoiler + BTW it's spelled "weird", sorry. | ||
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longdongsilver
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scronaldo
United States19 Posts
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MattBarry
United States4006 Posts
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phANT1m
South Africa535 Posts
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SEA KarMa
Australia452 Posts
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shell
Portugal2722 Posts
that or you are a big troll and i wasted 1 minute ;D | ||
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sorrowptoss
Canada1431 Posts
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Zren89
United States131 Posts
On January 20 2012 01:53 Mobius_1 wrote: BoxeR did not become the Emperor by writing about it beforehand on the internet (despite nobody else understanding), NaDa did not walk around Seoul shouting "I AM NADA", or if he did it certainly wasn't why he won a Golden Mouse. ThorZain didn't post on TL about how he was going to beat Naniwa, and I'm pretty sure MVP doesn't make "Going to win GSL" blogs on Playxp. Just go do it, man, if Rekrul and other blogs from pros telling you how hard it is to become pro can't stop you then nothing will and you just have to try and see for yourself, whether you make the cut or not, for if you don't try yourself you'll forever regret it. + Show Spoiler + BTW it's spelled "weird", sorry. Think of it more as a war cry, not as self affirmation, or even an imploring of the community for support, it's more like I was trying to define my intentions to myself. I had to write it somewhere besides the inside of my own head, and when I read this Rekrul post, something inside me lit fire, every line was an affirmation of the difficulty of what I am attempting, what I am training my hands and my mind to do, every part of me screamed, every fiber of my being rallied as if to say you are going to bleed for this (not literally) you are going to want to quit, but it doesn't matter, as long as you don't actually quit. If this was easy everyone would want to do it, or no one would...but I'm sure that the players you mentioned said to themselves, and perhaps even to those that they were around, that they wanted this more than air. They may not have gone through the streets, declaiming their future acts of glory (that was never my inention), and I'm not really doing that either, I just wanted to vett my goals in a place that I know has a higher probability of understanding what I am saying, and identifying with it too. Perhaps boxer never wrote a blog post about his dreams of setting up his own team (pretty sure he did thats how interest starts to be generated most times) but they are not me, and I am not they, what worked for boxer isn't going to work for me, we are different people, but I won't say it again, I will just do it. Also wierd(weird) has been fixed  thank you for your candor! | ||
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Zren89
United States131 Posts
On January 20 2012 09:33 shell wrote: Zren89 do you think you can do it? Then go for it.. it will be hard but good luck! that or you are a big troll and i wasted 1 minute ;D 'No i don't "think" I can do it I know I can! Would be a pretty funny troll though now that I think about it haha. | ||
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niuage
United States175 Posts
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rafaliusz
Poland482 Posts
On January 20 2012 04:34 MattBarry wrote: Brood war is not the most complicated strategy game ever. Good article though you're not educated enough to make such a call. Good post though. | ||
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