Hustling the Party

[thewho89]

It was a plan bordering perfection. Or at least my friend and I thought it was. The plan was simple: Deposit $100 into one account on Party Poker, refer several freinds to the site, transfer them $50 a piece, have them play 125 raked hands, then receive the $50 and $25 bounuses for each friend referred. Simple enough. I was out looking for friends who wanted a $50 transfer from me witht the promise they would not go broke before the 125 raked hands were complete, so I would turn my initial deposit into $50 cash and $0 lost on the account. My friend, meanwhile, took the easy route and began making fake accounts, transferring money to them, receiving the bonuses, and then transferring back into his original account. I pondered this idea for about ten minutes and then began scamming. I thought he was a genius. How could a company based outside the United States ever find out the names we were making were complete balogna? They never could. I did this twice and got my bankroll up to about $240 when all of a sudden I couldn't log in anymore. Apparently my account was blocked an email was being sent. I looked for an email. No email. I emailed them. Nothing. My friend finally called and got some customer support representative in India telling him that the names on two accounts were too similar, so they all got shut down thinking that every account (even though most were real) were fake.

I can't be mad at Partypoker for keeping the $240 i built up, and I even give them props for foiling our plot to milk them out of a few dollars. I learned cheating gets you nowhere but out, and i've decided to work up my bankroll the olde fashion way: by playing good poker. I'm still sour about depositing with partypoker, so I am playing Pokerstars (freerolls mostly until a friend deposits and can sell me money) and trying to become a better player, so I can begin earning some serious loot playing online poker.