Recently, I lost a prop bet for $200. I learned a costly lesson about Mobile Poker. The terms were simple I couldn’t play and win $100, either in cash games or in a tournament on my computer before my friend could play and win the same amount on his phone. We both could play on as many tables as we wanted and the bet would end when one of us won $100. We only had to win $100 on a single table, so we didn’t have to be “up” $100 over the course of the bet. We just had to win $100 in one session on one table. Any sized cash game or tournament counted, except for heads up matches. I thought I had a monster edge in the bet, turns out I was a massive dog.
Understand my friend is a great poker player, and I’ll concede a far better player than me. His bankroll and his results put mine to shame. So, it’s kind of a sucker bet, because unless I got lucky he was going to win $100 before I did. Except, I thought it was a sucker bet the other way. For starters I didn’t know you could play Mobile Poker.
I didn’t know any of the sites offered a platform for Mobile Poker in any way. Thinking that none did, I thought he was taking by far the worst of it. After all, I just had to win a $100 on my computer at some point and time before Mobile Poker begins to exist, whenever that would be. He may be a good poker player but he’s not the most tech savvy guy in the world, so I thought it was easy money.
Running a Mobile Poker game is a tough objective, unfortunately somebody’s figured out how to do it. Turns out he plays on bwin, and turns out bwin’s been offering Mobile Poker for some time now. Which one of us is tech savvy again? Apparently, it’s really him. Not only is he a better poker player than me he’s also a bigger tech geek too.
So we made the bet at his house, and I decided to stay and watch the rest of the soccer game that just started on TV after he challenged me. After that I planned on going home and firing up my computer. I was going to play some sit ‘n goes and cash tables until I won $100 on one of them. As were we watching the game he starts text messaging people. I think nothing of it, because he’s not much of a soccer fan, as he always says he rather be playing it than watching it but I’d never seen him so focused on texting.
The game was pretty good with three first half goals. Meanwhile, he’s nonstop with the texting. Eventually, I ask him who he’s talking to? He says “Talking?” I say “Texting.” He smiles and says, “Oh right now, I’m with Apple_fan83 and a couple of her friends.”
Oh okay, whoever that was. The guy dates a lot it could be any number of girls. I could barely land my girlfriend and he gets a phone number every time he goes grocery shopping. Except it wasn’t some girl he met picking out vegetables. Apple_fan83 was on his cash table, and my buddy was in the process of killing a Mobile Poker game. All that texting? Just him playing the game.
Halfway through the second half, I decided I wanted to see what Apple_fan83 and her friends were texting about. I walk across the room and look over his shoulder and I see he was sitting on $92 in a Mobile Poker game. He smiled and said, “I started with $20.” I didn’t say a word, I just grabbed my keys and ran to my car. Just as I got home and was getting online he sent me a picture mail. It was his phone, the cash table and he had $123 on it. He texted “Ship it!”