I always found Black Friday to be a funny reason for the shutdown. Not funny ha ha just strange to me.
I left
online poker in 2008/2009 after 60 minutes published its first story >>>
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As
60 Minutes correspondent Steve KroftAt the time I was working 50-60 hours a week and had no problem depositing a couple hundred bucks at a time into the site usually once a month or two months.
I was a recreational player who thought he was better than he was, But for me, it was cheap entertainment at the time
So when I saw the scam happening I backed out entirely until about 2012 oblivious of black Friday. But only playing on WPT
I eventually learned about other sites but I decided to never deposit again. Consequently only allowing myself to build a br from
freerolls.
This is how I found cardschat! and it is so much more than a forum to grab a password. I have met some great people here from behind my screen and there is an immense amount of information here to help anyone be a better poker player if you put the time into it.
So for me I joined for the freerolls and stayed because of great content and people