u/RandomLightCR

I used to play Omaha High Low a long time ago and I paid for my bachelors and first new car with that money. After online poker disappeared from the US I focused on my career and moved on with my life.

I saw the ads for WPT Gold on a random Doug Polk poker news video when he first started being endorsed by them. I deposited 20 bucks and got the bonus and everything. The issue is they only offered Hold’em. I never really liked that game and wasn’t good at it either. Won a little and lost a little and stopped playing with $28 in my account.

Time passed and I noticed that WPT Gold had added Omaha High. Now that was interesting to me. I love Omaha games, but I had no experience with Omaha High, just High Low. So I started playing the 0.01/0.02($4 max buy in) tables after watching some strategy videos on YouTube.

I started winning and all my old Omaha instincts started coming back as well. I felt amazing when I reached $100, lol. The issue was the next level for full ring was 0.10/0.20($20 max buy in). I hit $220 and took a shot. It went badly, back to $160. I read more and studied more.

I hit $240 and tried again. This time it went well. I hit $400. Felt great, then downswing and back to $240, lol. Read more and studied more and tried again. At the same time WPT Gold started their summer promo where they gave tourney entries so the tables got crazy good. I ran good and hit $1000. I felt invincible, lol.

Two things happened next. I hit a downswing again and WPT Gold ended the promo. I didn’t notice at first, but ending the promo resulted in some of those takes being extremely tight since it was full ring. I hit $360. I really wasn’t sure what to do.

I played the $4 tables again to build my confidence and looked at the 0.05/0.10($20 max buy in) six max tables. Those tables were really good every time almost. I noticed that six max really opened up the game more. So I changed to six max. I decided to play those tables unless I saw some good full ring tables happening again. Using those tables I hit $500, then $700. I was winning super small, but winning every single day.

All of a sudden every once in a while a good full ring would appear. I played those and six max as my main game. I started running good. I hit $1617, then I got the text from WPT Gold that Arizona residents cannot play on the site starting August 8. So my Poker side gig is over as I cannot leave Arizona. It’s been fun.

This whole experience made me really fall in love with poker all over again. I wish I could keep playing, but that is just not possible as the only tribal casinos near me do not offer Omaha at all. Overall great experience with WPT Gold. I wish it wasn’t going away. It’s been fun. Really going to miss the grind, even if it was for pennies, lol.

Is WPTGold leaving Arizona forever now? Any way to play from this state? Can I play from California? I am on the border of both states that is why I ask this.

I could not find much info on what the Topps exclusive would be for comic con, but I like cards and the company so I put it in the portal. I got the Thursday slot at 2:30 PM. I showed up at 1:30 and the booth didn’t have any people so I walked up and asked what the exclusive was. They said it was a Marvel Mint Box for $200 with a limit of 1.

I came back at 2:30 to find a huge line. I asked the guy why there was a line when everyone can only do 1 transaction so it should be extremely fast and there should be no line. He said that I can comeback later in the day and everyone who won the exclusives portal is guaranteed one box. He also said that line was artificially created to make the booth look good, but in about an hour there would be no line at all.

Came back at about 3:30 and once again the booth was empty. They scanned my code and I walked up to buy the box. Overall I have to say that the fact that everyone was guaranteed 1 box and they could only buy 1 box made the experience without a doubt the best exclusive experience I have ever had at Comic Con. There was nothing to worry about and everyone got a box. I think all comic con exclusives should be handled this way. I will be putting Topps every year in the exclusives portal from now on due to how positive the experience was.

I guess I am just old or bitter, but something about having to camp out to get the exclusive comic con chocolate that just ruined the product for me. I didn’t even know it was a thing. I just went to get my wristband for Drawn into Marvel and saw a line of people sitting down waiting for the chocolate stand to open. In previous years you could just get the chocolate at anytime and that worked as a nice treat. Now you have to camp in line for very expensive chocolate and it sells out quickly. Are people selling it on eBay now? What’s the reasoning behind camping for very expensive chocolate?