My Dilemma

I've bounced around between a few poker rooms and I just can't seem to stay settled. I'm on a mac so my choice in rooms is definitely limited. I recently cashed out at bodog, and I liked bodog but as a mac user I could only player 1 table at a time. I was on full tilt earlier, ran up my bankroll to 850 but then it plummeted to 300 and I cashed out from my original investment of 100. I'm a little scared to go back. I've been playing around at UB and it seems okay, but I'm a little hesitant about sending my bodog bankroll over there (the one I recently cashed out on.) I've also had some trouble depositing on Stars and I've heard it's a lot of grinders so I'm not thrilled to started there. Is it really worth buying a windows to get to those smaller, softer sites? Then there's the whole issue of poker software on smaller sites...Any suggestions?

Did you have any problems with the site? Or did you just withdraw because you started to run bad?

I was running unbelievably bad. Some of it was bad play and some of it was bad luck. This fall occurred simultaneously with my rise on Bodog.

What are your objectives in playing poker???


IMHO the impression I get from your post is that poker is all about $$$ to you so you should play where you THINK you have an advantage and feel comfortable, which means you'll be switching sites a lot as you'll start feeling uncomfortable during your downswings. So get a Windows system so that you can move at ease between sites.

My objective is making money. I view depositing $$$ in a poker site as an investment and I want to get it in as good as I can. I want to go to where I have the best edge.

I've been considering buying a windows, but I really wouldn't use it for anything besides poker and it's probably gonna cost something like...700-800? I'm pretty unfamiliar with windows since I've always worked on a mac.

That pretty much says it all. Just play where you're comfortable, because there's no magic room where everybody plays terribly.

WOW... $700 or $800??
Why not just go out & buy a laptop strictly for poker? Here you can pick up great deals on laptops (ie. for $700 you could get Dell 17" 4GB Ram, etc.). I've recently purchased 16" HP 3GB Ram for less than $500, have seen an Acer 15" 2GB Ram for $449. (I use 3 latops for playing, 17,16 & 15 at same time, lol).
I'd get set up to play... ie. good chair!!!.. & a wireless numeric keypad.

Actually, I know the play is significanly different on some of the sites... ie. Bodog has ALOT of weak players.

This, and ub is right behind it imo.

All depends on what level you want to take your online game. A system that can handle 24 games across 3 36" monitors with blazing fast HUD, AHK, DB & whatnots will cost a lot different than one to play 1-2 games at a time w/o any add-ons.

I'm a broke college student, it would be around a third of my net worth.

I might pick up a cheap one this summer.