I’d been playing 4/8 limit holdem poker cash games in casinos for about 2 years, without the benefit of D.M. Vadais fantastic teaching poker articles available at nopaypoker.com, and so I was down financially a few thousand dollars.

Finally one day, I thought my ship had come in! Believe it or not, in less than 90 minutes I received pocket Kings FOUR times and pocket Aces FIVE times -- the most phenomenal starting cards I'd ever received in my life in such a brief space of time, and ALL of them in KILL pots, where the limits were DOUBLED to 8/16.

Each hand was capped at $32 per player pre-flop, with me having the best hand preflop! KA-CHING!! I was thrilled and overjoyed, licking my chops as the pots piled high in the middle each time, singing "We're in the money...we're in the money!!" (Silently to myself of course, with only an ear-to-ear grin of a poker face, and a slight leap out of my seat each time I flopped a set to give me away!).

And then, believe it or not, I LOST EIGHT of those nine hands, even when I flopped a set, for a total loss of $625 in that hour and a half of getting the best cards of my life!!

I couldn't believe it! People were rivering straights, turning flushes, having 5/2 offsuit make 2 pair against my aces, and so on!! The only reason I didn't lose $1000 was that, ONE time only out of nine, my pocket aces were up against 1 person who flopped a set and 2 people who turned flushes, in a huge $300 kill pot, when a fourth heart on the board came out on the river, with no pairs on the board, and I had the ace of hearts for the nut flush!

Then my pocket starting cards all went to crap, except for finally getting suited face cars and I looked down at my tiny stack and said to myself, "That’s it!! That's it!! I've had it!! I am NEVER EVER EVER EVER going to play this stupid unjust random suckout game anywhere or anytime, besides NoPayPOKER, for cash money again! I'm going all-in with my last 16 bucks and this Queen/Jack of hearts, and calling it quits!!! That's it for this life -- I'll play poker at nopay in this life, and maybe I'll play in heaven someday -- but for now, put a fork in me Chef Ramsey, I'm done!!"

I dejectedly shoved in all my chips, was called by 7 other players who were already in for $12, and waited for the flop…

The flop came Ace/King/deuce of hearts, giving me the nut flush, the turn was a brick, and then, with my heart pounding in anticipation, the beautiful Ten of hearts came on the river, giving me my first Royal Flush, a huge pot, and a $250 bonus high-hand prize, all on "the last hand I was ever going to play" in a live cash game in this life!!

So now I still play at casinos 10% of the time, but I wisely play at nopaypoker.com 90% of the time, and to the casino's dismay I tell every poker player I meet at the at the casinos about nopaypoker.com and their fabulous benefits and instructional articles which have helped me make over $900 in casino tournament winnings lately!! Nopaypoker.com, even without high-hand and bad-beat bonuses, is THE place to play -- FAR better than casinos, and a lot more fun. You will never lose $625 of your own hard-earned money in less than 2 hours with fabulous starting cards, with dozens of dollars lost to rakes and dealer tips to boot, at http://www.nopaypoker.com

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