Problems withdrawing from Party! December 7, 2006
Posted by yorkshirepuddings in Bonus Whoring, Cash game, Poker, Poker Sites.3 comments
Last night I tried to withdraw my funds from Party Poker but received an email from the Fraud Investigation Department! The gist of the email said that I had received funds from another player via the transfer system and they wanted to know what this was for, who it was who gave me it, what was their motive for giving me it, oh and what coloured under crackers I had on! I initially panicked and thought they were going to freeze my account which would have been disastrous as the money on there accounted for over 50% of my total bankroll! I was unsure what to say as I know Party do not like affiliates giving rakeback and I’m sure they’re not too happy about affiliates giving out bonuses etc. I checked the Poker Source Online support forum and found a couple of people had encountered a similar problem. Thankfully it is only a security measure to help prevent money laundering! A couple of emails later and I am told my cashout has been reversed and that I have to play “50 raked hands” or “25% of the money transferred in raked hands”, which ever was greater.
It was my bar shift last night so I couldn’t log on until just after midnight and despite being tired I still fired up 4 tables of 6max NL25. I know from past experience that usually every other hand, at least, is raked in these games so I could be fast asleep by half twelve! I thought it was going to be one of those nights when I was UTG and saw JJ. I popped it to $1 and it was folded round to the BB who pushed for $26! WTF? I considered calling but didn’t fancy risking a whole buyin on a coinflip when all I needed were 50 raked hands to cashout, I folded. However, I did manage to get stacked, well all but $3 as villain wasn’t fully stacked! Here are a couple of hands for you!
Goodbye stack - I don’t think there is any getting away from this hand to be honest. I raise it up with one of my bogey hands, but also one of Cadmunkey’s favourites, the dreaded pair of Tens. I get one caller who I have no reads on at all. Flop is glorious and decide to slowplay and check and villain checks behind. Turn brings an 8 and again I check planning to either raise here or bet any river representing a bluff with a missed AK type hand. Villain again checks. River brings a Queen and I bet out around 3/4 of the pot hoping the Queen helped him. He then raises me and I think I’m about to double up. I should push here but for some reason I raise it to $14 leaving him $5 and change. He then insta-calls and flips over 66 for flopped quads! FFS, cooler!
Recouping my losses - Again no concrete reads on our villain but he seems pretty straight forward and I think AKs at 6max is strong enough to 3-bet here. He flat calls and we see a flop that is King high and I think I am ahead here, especially as villain only flat called my 3-bet. I’d be c-betting a lot and fired out a half pot bet which villain thought for a while and called. I decided to check any turn with the intention of betting the river, hoping it looked like a bluff. Villain checks behind. I then bet around 2/3 of the pot, which is the most I think villain would call here. He thinks for a good 10-15 seconds and calls and mucks the Hilton Sisters, another of my bogey hands!
So 143 hands and a loss of $9.55, not disastrous and it means I finished the bonus chase with a net profit of around $120, not to be sniffed at. I’ve now successfully withdrawn to Neteller and all is good in the world!
Due to my overspending during the first weekend after payday, namely around £300 ($560), I have had to borrow a little from my bankroll but this will be put back online on the 22nd when I get paid as I should have an extra £250 ($470) in that wage. Bankroll was around the $610 mark but I now have around $430 online. I’ll be focussing on clearing the $100 bonus at Bowmans over the next couple of weeks then once that is cleared I’ll be taking a break until the end of the year where I will know my exact bankroll and site that I will be playing at, which will probably be either Full Tilt or one of the Prima skins.
Thanks for reading and best of luck at that those tables 
