Tuesday, June 01, 2010

June 1st = Internet Poker's Y2K?

If you worked in IT on December 31st, 1999 than term "Y2K" would probably set off a series of flashbacks of not watching your female friends flash their boobs after doing that 5th round of Irish car bombs at the New Year's party but instead sitting huddled around fellow geeks hoping your company's mainframes wouldn't suddenly go tits up and eat itself.

The world did not end, computer problems were minimal, and I was still eight months away from being a legally married man despite becoming a homeowner just two weeks prior.

Now that the Internet Poker version of Y2K has come to past, will the UIGEA's ugly "due date" has come and past but as of right now (7:30pm CST) PokerStars has 187,183 players on 29,660 tables and Full Tilt has 88,844 players on 27,304 which doesn't seem like everyone got the fuck out of dodge and are continuing to play.  For now, a sea of calm even at 2 + 2, whose official June 1st thread doesn't show a lot of panic, except for a popular credit card option being cut off.  I for one have never used a credit card to deposit so I wouldn't know about such things.

Still, I have a (large for me) paycheck coming to me in the next few days from SCOOP, and was hoping someone in the 2+2 thread would have chimed in about any problems with cashing out.  No worries.  I can still play in the WSOP this year if my heart desires such action unlike this douchecanoe who pulled something akin to trying to put a hand in the till of an open register at the 7-11 while the cashier tried to make you a Big Gulp.

I hope there was an angry mob of player waiting to give him a beat down for trying to steal another player's chips.

3 comments:

JamesRaz said...

Great article - there was such a buildup to June 1, 2010 and it being the end of online poker. June 1 came... and went... and 3 days later the game is still thriving!

JamesRaz said...

Great article - there was such a buildup to June 1, 2010 and it being the end of online poker. June 1 came... and went... and 3 days later the game is still thriving!

Wolfshead said...

Huddling around fellow geeks my ass. I was in work shutting down our old midrange, System 36, and bringing the new network servers up to speed as the test period was done and it all went live as soon as we got back. To make it even more interesting I got caught in a two block snowstorm on my way home at 4 that morning. Driving along there was nothing, then all of a sudden there's about a quarter in of snow on the ground and I can't see it's coming down so hard. Two blocks later, nothing. Who said Y2K wasn't bizarre?