Doyle Brunson and his Poker Room Screw Over Affiliates!

Here is a sweet shot of Doyle taunting me at a recent event. He's saying "Thats 9 grand I saved by not paying you commission on your 400 USA players in the last year, Sharky!" Heres the readers digest version of how I got screwed by this "Poker legend" and his dump of a site, Doyles Room.

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I signed about 400-500 players up with pro grinder Scott Fischmans "Fish Tank" site. Scott played with us and a few of the old "CREW" that he had. It was fun. Then Scotts site struggled and basically made a deal with Doyles Room to take over all his players/accounts.

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Doyles finally (after many emails) agreed to let me keep all my players that were transferred over. I never received credit for all (they get to keep 100% of the rake my players generate and not pay me my 25% commission if they end my link to those players) but decided I could have received nothing and dropped the issue, vowing to pretty much stop promoting this site that doesnt care about all the work I spent promoting Fish Tank and signing 400 players.

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Remember this is 25% commission for the rest of all players lives. So them snagging 100 players from me could be lotsa bucks long term.

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Doyle might not have a thing to do with shady site managers (hes probably just a "spokesman" as far as daily business goes), but his name is on the door, so he can kiss my big ass.

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It gets better. So then when the UIGEA laws hit Doyle is exposed. Hes got USA players and could be in trouble with jonny law, for promoting the site that invites USA players. They ceased letting USA players in and dumped all USA players that were already in.

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My players were 80% USA so I lose pretty much the rest of my signed players. Fun. I had lots of tourneys and promoted fish and doyles hard for 2 years.

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Thats fine, I understand they didnt want big trouble and were not gonna stand strong like FT, STARS, AP, etc. So after several months Doyle and crew decide, hey!! FT, AP and Stars are not incurring any wrath from Govt!! We can jump back in, and retain all the emails and player info from all those "affiliate signed" players AND NOT PAY THE 25% commish! Sweet, we rich, woohoo. They could have emailed me and other affiliates that worked so hard. They don't call or email. They ripped me and others off and I will never promote or recommend their weak act to anyone ever again. Doyle, if you know whats going on at your room you can fuck off to, your room screwed me and many other affiliates over. I hope you feel good about paying us nothing for years of hard work.

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What comes around goes around. Myself and many other affiliates will spread the word about what you are, and how you do business.

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Sorry about the weird spacing and dashes everywhere. The blogger software is not spacing correctly today.

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Good Turnout At AP, TALOND takes it Down!

You DO NOT WANT Shark Veteran Anthony "TALOND" heads up!

375 Shark runners sooted up and it came down to TALOND and your favorite blogger (all 12 of you). Heres a quik report I posted in the forum after strong and tight playa TALOND FINALLY smack talked me. I think he GooGled the word smack+poker to come up with a few jems, lol.

It was a good see-saw battle Talond. You smack talk good now but very weak passive smackagge at the table. I kept telling you to read the blog so you could earn sum rags/swag/free shit, lol.

It was a very weird tounrey for me so heres a quik report. I did nothing exciting for almost 4 hours. No cards (none!) but i was "hangggin around", and stayin out of trouble. With about 16 left I was 16th and sittin on 4K with blinds at about 800/1600. TALOND was already fat with chips at this point.

I won a race and doubled up, stacked another as a small favorite, then stacked GTech Mom on the only beat I layed down in 5 hours, I think. I pressured her blind on the button with the v v pretty J8clubs and she pushed back with A10o. I still only had about 20K and had her covered (15k maybe?) and figured I was behind but needed to get lucky to survive. popped a jackson and laid a small beat on mom (sorry darlin). As all knows she plays vn vn. But I figured 2 live cards and flush possibilities so a good gamboool.

Rolled from then on as I play pretty good when i have bully chippies. This is whats weird. For 5 hours. No sets, no flush, no str8s. NONE. My best hand that I remember was 82o when I rayzed in pos HU agin Talond and flopped 2 pr and got a lil action. So I guess in retrospect I played pretty good. Many, many new players and rooks (a good thing!! we need fresh blood/meat!)

I had support knock out my nemesis cardluvr early to lead the way to this HUGE cashish and BR enlarger. $4 an hour!! sweet baybee jesus how do you guys do it!! I play one or 2 freerolls a year so see ya next April kids.

Congrats Talond! I need your posts sir! Keep helpin us here. Share your knowledge with the newbs and BORN, you got serious game and mad skilz (way to tight short, I stole you blind, sir)

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Lots of good posts in our forum, this week. I selected this one and went on quite a rant. Thx for putting up with me Beverlee. Email me for a Shark logo tee for posting and supporting our forum. Free shipping and handling, size, address soc sec #, visa w/expiration and 3 digits on back to, and date of birth. tyvw i appreciate ttyl.

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beverlee756 wrote:
i have watched a lot of the smaller buy ins as you mentioned and have noticed a lot of the bad beats,guess I will go back now and watch some of the higher buy ins and see how that goes.I dont play on the other sites that were mentioned,just AP and there are quite a lot of "suckouts"and bad beats,just sometimes it just seems that the site has to be rigged.


Good post Beverlee, Thanks for telling us how you feel.I could be wrong in your case but heres the deal, IMO. Newer players, bad players or maybe just players that don't understand the game make statements like this.

I'm NOT putting you down, just trying to add my 2 cents, and maybe help you or another newb (not sayin yer a newb, I don't know you). The sites have NO interest (ZERO, none nadda) in changing the RNG (random number generation). They are getting very wealthy (good established sites) by making the games fair.

Poker is a game of luck and skill. Thats just the way it is. How many times have you seen a horrible donk beat skilled pros on TV (wsop, wpt, whatever). They usually get it in bad, then suck out. I hate this saying but "thats poker". They probably sucked out 10-20 other times to make the TV table. Or won 10 coin flips str8. Seen that happen, although I can't win 3 in a row.

This "donk makes good" is a good thing!! When a horrible donk wins a big freeroll he thinks hes good. He then pays off all the good players until hes broke. wash rinse repeat. Same thing happens to semi pros or donks that win a big event. They re-distribute those "ill gotten gains".

Cash players follow them, stalk them and you want them all confident and rich at yer table, if yer good. Please read up on "variance+poker" and understand what happens when you continually get yer $$ in good. It means you will be a winning player.

I can get my ass kicked for 5 days str8 playin low limit NL and get it in good 75% of the time. Don't matter sometimes. I can also suckout and win, although it doesnt happen often cause I usually git it in good. Im not braggin, im getting to me point!!

You need to get it in good most of the time.THEN, it don't matter what happens for one day or one week. You will be a winning playa, and be able to buy mass bling like mister T and wink martindale (best game show host eva). Variance is MUCH higher in MTT. Its way more luck than cash games. I was becoming a decent $20-100 buyin MTT player. Then I found NL cash games. Way less variance, more instant gratification, and I can play when I want.

In tourneys you must sit for 5, 8 or 10 hours. Might be 12 hours a day for 4 days. Thats not fun to me. I like to sit when I want to sit, and play for as long as I feel like. I like my new friend zingbust (Paul) but i'm a poker player...getting up at 10am to play a Cearsars Palace MTT with him is too friggin early. I get up at 2pm, when in poker mode. CASH GAME! I'm in!

Online I can fire up 6 tables and play 550 hands in an hour and call it a night. Thats fun, all with less variance than all you tourney players. Of course, if I hit a big MTT win i will eat all my above words and become a MTT pro, lol. Sorry for the ramble, but it will make a good blog post.

If I do post it watch the blog for a free shark logo tee, beverlee. Keep posting and give me your thoughts if ya want. If this rant didnt help you maybe jiggy will get sumthin outa it.
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Lighter (partial qoute from post):

The whole online poker world really changed 14 months ago when the US government started getting involved and Neteller was frozen for US players. So many sites were closed to US players and so many really bad players were chased away. With some of the terrible players that used to play, making money at ring tables was so much easier. I find that now, even though I am a much better player, I have a hard time winning consistently.

Shark post:

Good post lighter. The games are tougher at every level, IMO. I still see newbs coming back now just not as many. I'd like to add a few things to your info that I mostly agree with.

Nows the time to work harder on your game, add pokertracker/HUD if you don't have it. Learn it and use it. Plug your leaks, identify good/bad players. Data mine every nite. I have been winning very consistently but I don't sit with many 12 tablin animals, players with strong stats or known regulars.

I don't play sites I can't datamine, or use PT with (Stars for one). I also quit if the nite is bringing lotsa beats and my "tude" starts going downhill. I got plenty a honeydews and shark shit to do if I need to shut er down.

I don't agree with certain sites giving more beats. I believe in random shuffling that the sites use. We see unreal hands, miracle beats , etc, etc because we see so many hands. I play 600 hands an hour at home and 33 per hour at the Flamingo. The chances for weird, crazy beats and runner runner bullshit is gonna happen at home way more. And its gonna happen at all sites.

I pick my sites by how bad the players are, and table select carefully. If you players are doing all of the above and still not winning consistently then you gotta drop down a level or 2. Crush the level you are playing before you move up. I 100% believe and know I can beat the next level up. But i'm in no hurry to get there. Winning most nights is fun. The next level is tougher and has less tables to select from.

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