NEOPETS RUINED MY LIFE!

[SHATOUSHKA]

this really should have gone on the other board.

[rmartino]

edited for spelling errors???? You took out entire sentences!!! I was going to reply on how you said something about us being with loved ones and you were at home playing neopets, but I can't because you took it out!!!!

Anyhow, my point was that some of us were at home with loved ones, yes. But Neopets did manage to take over an hour and a half of his time.

[TastinGood]

i edited that sentance so that it didnt come across the wrong way.

[SHATOUSHKA]

................. *insert comment*

[demon chloe]

this thread is a total SHatz' wannabe....

[demon chloe]

btw...

verdegrenouille is NOT hungry...he's got a new toy...and i've got 900 NP.... rawk on..demonchild


.....skips out happily

[TastinGood]

huh?

[SHATOUSHKA]

lmao, dc....

keep on a rockin!!!!! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[TastinGood]

It all started a month ago when I was introduced to neopets. I enjoyed playing the games, making Neopoints, buying/selling/trading, etc.

It was all going just great. Starting at the end of last week, I was trying to make a lot of neopoints very quickly so I played virtually all the games that I could play (and liked). I earned over mucho dinero, but was faced with a problem. On Neopets, you are only allowed to play games for points 3 times a day.

On Saturday, February 14th I sat online as no one else seemed to be around at that time. Neopet resources had been drained as all of my daily points had been earned so I had to come up with something to do.

I enjoyed many of the luck/chance games that neopets has to offer so off I went in search of online casino type games.

And this is where the tale of my troubled life begins....

I soon found myself depositing $25.00 into my freshly made account and hitting the poker tables.
"I kicked ass in Neopets Round Table Poker", I thought to myself, "What would stop be here?"

So I closed my eyes, picked a table and sat down. It took me a few hands to understand what all was going on and just exactly how it all worked, but then I settled down and started playing some down and dirty poker.

As I said...I deposited $25 into my account but only played with $15 of it. I was gonna play safe and conservative. Just for fun.

I soon turned my $15 into $30 and then $50. Before long I was nearing $100 and kicking ass.

I kept playing for hours and hours until I retired Valentines night with a little over $71.

I quit because it was 2am which meant I could play some more Neopets and make more dinero.

I awoke Sunday full of confidence. It had snowed Saturday night which pissed me off, but I still vowed to make this a successful day and make some quick cash playing poker.

I went in with my $71 and again only played with $15. I stayed pretty much even for a while and then I quit because I had to watch the Supercross.

When I returned that night, I had fire in my eyes for I would own the tables and take no prisoners.

I played for hours, scratching and clawing my way. Buying pots, bluffing my ass off....working like a dog to make what little money I could.

But eventually I lost it all. My empire came crashing down and I was left with 45 cents.

What a fool I was! How in the HELL could I lose it all?!?!

Knowing that the smart thing to do would be to write it off to experience, I quickly entered in my credit card digits and threw in another quick $25.

I was going to make these assholes pay.

It has some very detailed stats while you are playing that you can look at if you choose to, and I always kept a pretty close eye on them. Throughout my two days of playing, I was winning about 21% of the hands. On tables of 10 people, that's not bad.

After I bought in with my fresh $25, I quickly went 0 for 10 but I knew my time was coming. I won a few small hands and won up to about $35.

And then it happened. The kind of hand that makes fortunes happen.

I got pocket aces and then saw one more ace on the flop. That makes three of a kind. The river card was a 9 which put two of them on the board.

I had a full house. Aces over nines. I raised just a little bit when the fellow to my right raises 24 dollars. I felt like I just hit the fucking lottery because this guy had a full house too, only his wouldnt beat mine....nothing beats Aces....

...or so I thought.

I quickly called his bet of $24 and was about to win the biggest pot of my 2 day old online poker playing career.

I was back in it, baby.

And then the cards are shown.

He has pocket nines which gives him 4 of a kind.

My heart sank as I watched all of my computer generated chips slide over to his side of the table.

That took the wind out of my sails. I tried to continue on playing with the $10 or so dollars that I had left to my name, but I couldnt do much with it.

I left with $6. I shall at some point return to either cash out or lose the rest of it (shouldnt be too hard to do).

So how did neopets ruin my life? Simple. If they didnt have the god damn "3 plays a day" rule, I would have never had to search out alternate games to quench my online game playing thirsts.

However while I may be done with Ultimatebet.com...neopets shall remain among my bookmarked sites.

For Neopets rule!

*edited for spelling errors. and trust me...there were a LOT!*

<font color="#000000" size="1">[ February 16, 2004 12:57 PM: Message edited by: TastinGood ]</font>