Online poker has had its difficulties for many years, especially since 2011 and the exclusion of American poker players. Poker, generally was on the rise until that point when one day the domain of Full Tilt Poker was seized by the FBI. From April 2011 it is always in decline, not just the online part, but also the live action too. Poker is not the hot topic anymore and while there have been efforts for revival, it is probably just WSOP keeping Poker in the news and relevant.
WSOP-2019 (Cardplayer.com)
Blockchain.poker is a very cool poker room where you can relax and play some poker without having to risk anything. The system rewards you for your time with a faucet that refills your wallet when busting your account. However, there is a timer too, and may take up to five minutes for a refill of 100 sats.
The website is very easy to use and register. Actually, there is no registration required and you can just start playing immediately. However, you will need to provide a password as you want to come back and find your coins in your wallet. Otherwise, you will have to start again from the beginning.
The interface is simple and it is running in a browser tab, makes it a little hard when multi-tabling, but someone can have fun playing at two tables getting a fair share of action without having to stay with only one. I enjoyed the layout, but probably it needs a little more work to stand out from the competition. It would certainly be a lot better if the team creates a stand alone desktop version, this way blockchain.poker can compete with the rest poker software.
It is great for one table, but for running multiple, I get timed out often and had to just stick to two a maximum of tables open.
The poker games are using BCH, BTC and BSV as cryptocurrency options and there are games running for all these cryptocurrencies.
When starting we receive 100 sats in BCH and again every couple of minutes after we bust. It is a great way to keep players in the game, and enjoy poker while having some interesting time and perhaps learn the game.
The lobby
Blockchain.poker gives online poker players a full experience similar to any other online poker room.
There are plenty freeroll tournaments happening almost all the time and usually you will find one ready to join, in any of the three cryptocurrencies.
Tournaments and SnGs have different structure, which we can find in the overview of the tournament. It takes some time, perhaps half an hour to become accustomed to the software, but it all becomes very easier with time.
There are also plenty of high stakes games to be played, and while I haven't got enough time in this, I have seen a few tables ready for action.
I am going to keep it simple and just try to play some poker for entertainment.
Usually in freerolls you need lots of luck to make it ITM (in the money) or final table so I'm going to play my game, and hope that RNG will be on my side.
From Zero to Hero Challenge!
Withdrawal limit in BCH is 100k sats.
I am starting my challenge to 100,000 satoshi (in BCH) starting from the faucet chips and plan to make it to the withdrawal limit! I want to prove that poker is lucrative and no matter the variance (luck) that is very important, poker (Texas Holdem) is mostly a game of strategy and discipline.
Let the grind begin!
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Relaxing? lol I can't even play Poker with friends for free I get my heart racing and dry mouth. It stresses me out A LOT! I'm very good at it which makes it worse as I can't take advantage xD