Funding the poker pros on PokerStars!

Thought I'd help out some of the pros at PokerStars, i was feeling flush!

A sample email from PS:

Hello Kerouacs Dog,


We have transferred $0.10 from your account to 'KidPoker' as per your
request.

Good luck to you both.


Regards,

PokerStars Cashier

just a little experiment to see if anyone transfers the money back!

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oh,for people who don't know(or arent on PS), barryg1 is Barry greestein, RainKhan is Hevad khan, Nomercy is isabelle Mercier, Money800 is Chris Moneymaker, ladyMaverick is Vanessa Rousso, fossilMan is reg Raymer, and kid Poker is Daniel Negreanu

Had a spare dollar, so thought I'd help out the rest of the pros there!
Elky is bertrand Grospeller, exclusive is Noah Boeken, Humberto B. is Humbero Brenes, aakkari is Andre Akkari, and Stevejpa is Steve paul-Ambrose

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LOL!
This should be interesting. I'd love to hear what comes of it. In fact, Im going to do the same thing.

LOL this preaty intresting,thing the wil return the favor?

In one episode of either high stakes or poker after dark Daniel Negreanu whas talking about how people where allways sending him 10cents and he didint now how to respond,should he send back 10cents or dollar or what.

damn, I thought I was being unique there.
I reckon he might send the money back, along with a few of the others.....fingers crossed!

they probably wont send back as they are money hungry hoes

lol, arent we all

I used to rail Nergeanu the first couple weeks he was playing on PokerStars. People would say, "My friend just transfered you $.02" and Negreanu would respond, "Tell him thanks." I think the most anybody gave him was $2. It was quite common. I don't know why they did it though.

He had a small bankroll at first, built it up, then blew most of it. I think the free $ kept him afloat until he made a hefty deposit (or PS paid him) and he started playing for big money.

There's no way to make a personal reply back to a money transfer, is there?

LMAO let me know what happens

whoa i didnt know gavin griffin was on team stars

Probably got signed up after winning an EPT event a while back

Well I can tell you where your $0.10 to Tom McEvoy went...

PokerStars Game #17116466670: Omaha Pot Limit ($0.01/$0.02) - 2008/05/01 - 00:50:42 (ET)
Table 'Parenago' 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: ccjet ($8.73 in chips)
Seat 3: Tom McEvoy ($3.41 in chips)
Seat 4: smd173 ($2.02 in chips)
ccjet: posts small blind $0.01
Tom McEvoy: posts big blind $0.02
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to smd173 [2c 5c Ks 3s]
smd173: calls $0.02
ccjet: raises $0.06 to $0.08
Tom McEvoy: folds
smd173 said, "this game might be a bit loose for you Tom "
smd173: calls $0.06
*** FLOP *** [Ad 4s 8c]
ccjet: bets $0.18
smd173: raises $0.18 to $0.36
ccjet: raises $0.18 to $0.54
smd173: calls $0.18
*** TURN *** [Ad 4s 8c] 9♦
ccjet: bets $1.21
smd173: raises $0.19 to $1.40 and is all-in
Pokerwizz56 joins the table at seat #2
PokerNRunner was removed from the table for failing to post
ccjet: calls $0.19
*** RIVER *** [Ad 4s 8c 9d] 2♠
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ccjet: shows [Js 3d Ac 8d] (two pair, Aces and Eights)
smd173: shows [2c 5c Ks 3s] (a straight, Ace to Five)
smd173 collected $3.86 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $4.06 | Rake $0.20
Board [Ad 4s 8c 9d 2s]
Seat 1: ccjet (small blind) showed [Js 3d Ac 8d] and lost with two pair, Aces and Eights
Seat 3: Tom McEvoy (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: smd173 (button) showed [2c 5c Ks 3s] and won ($3.86) with a straight, Ace to Five

Tom McEvoy said, "lets gamble it up boys and girls"

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lol @ tom mcevoy

^^^Pkyplyr is gonnna slap you for that one Van.

btw, wondering how (or if) you guys are getting paid back. Also wonder just how much all these small amounts all added up to.

The poker pros are able to make good enough money to be poker pros why give them money. You could play in a 10 cent game and win 50 dollars or more so why would you give that away.....
If there is a reason other than being nice let me know I just don't get it

theyre obv gonna ship them walgreens gift cards

They brobably wont notice, I never randomly check my history

Yes, but when someone transfers you money on Stars you do get an e-mail from Stars support showing the transfer.

So actually Kerouacs Dog is just doing this to spam up their emails

Daniel talked about it on the PokerCast, how people were always sending him 5 or 10 cents. I doubt you will get an answer from any of them, because people do this sort of thing all the time...

This is the kind of reason that causes rules to get changed. Stars has been courteous enough to allow any amount of transfer to all it's members, but sites like FT have minimums. Guess there's a reason for minimums afterall.

Stars, like any other poker site, is a business. I can see posting jokes, etc, on a forum such as this. CC and other forums are the place for socializing. Stars is a place for playing poker. Have looked through their main lobby numerous times and have never found a tab labelled 'fun zone'.

There's at least one reply here that indicated they would be doing the same thing. How fast would you change your policies when a department manager at YOUR business reported needing 10 more PAID employees to handle the 02c to 10c transfer requests to 30 pros from 10,000 (or more) members, all of which have to be approved and generated manually?

Try playing practical jokes in a live poker room and see how quickly the pit boss and security invite you to leave. This idea is somewhere WAY below the 'where's da pazwurd' posts in quality.

^^^ ouch

umm, who manually does this? Pretty sure most of it is done automatically.

You would think that they have to be approved.

Come on man, enjoy this joke for what it is, a joke. Let's not shed any tears for dear old PokerStars and their employment department on the Isle of Man. You realize that PS is a billion dollar privately held company right? 10c transfers to pros really is not going to hurt them in anyway.

I'm confident that K-Dog is not going to graduate to pulling practical jokes in a live room. Besides, to me this is no more than the equivalent of sending a drink to someone accross the room.

speeding up the process,eh

It cost me $2.50 in total

I could have played the money, but the way Im playing lately, I would have lost it anyway, so what's the difference!

There's a fun zone on my lobby.............lighten up mate, please!

thanks.
Four days later, and not a single transfer back from any of the pro's, Im shocked, to say the least, money-grabbing f**kers, lol.
Oh well, back to asking for passwords on here, I guess, eh, nevadanick!

It actually happened when Daniel was commentating on the final table of the Pokerstars WCCOP last September I think. I was listening to his online radio commentary, it was really funny, he couldn't believe all these 2+2 posters were sending him like 5c + 10c.

My bad your right

No Sindri, I'm not saying you were wrong mate, he probably was talking about it when you say. I was actually referring to the actual incident when everyone was sending him the moniez lol.

I heard about it on the PokerCast on 2+2.

I uderstand the humor, why give them free money? Makes no sense to me?

Who ever was the person who sent the money in the first place, u diffently made my day, man I SWEAR I AM GOING TO SHOW EVERYONE WHAT U DID FOR THE "PROS" once my entire family wakes up, WHAT A RIOT.

I'm dying of laughter here, and the comment about daniel "saying ppl always send me like .10cent's and I don't know whato do, should I send them .10cents, or 2bucks or whatever" ****ing priceless

i used to go to play money tables and send random people like $.07 and stuff. still do, occasionally.