What would be the best way to do this 1.) So I can continue to play while I am waiting for my check. 2.) So I don't have to drop back in stakes, I don't really want to play less than nl50

ATM - I have a 5k roll and that is it as far as poker money goes. 

If it's Carbon, just switch clients but stay on Merge. I'm not sure what other clients there are, but there's bound to be one that's decent. You'll stay in the same player pool, and you won't have to deal with any money transfers.

If you want to keep playing while you're transfering away from Merge, take away around 1k (20BIs) from you Carbon account and deposit it somewhere else. When you're sure the new site is okay for you, then you can make the whole switch. In the meantime, you should be comfortable enough to play with 20BIs.

If you're worried about the safety of you're money, I'd suggest giving Carbon a call and asking for the reasons behind the switch of policy. If they sound unsure, or like they're trying to make excuses, cash out. Safety first.

Wouldn't I still need to cash out to put money on another skin? I tried logging into sportsbook using my same username and that failed (I didn't expect it to work though).

No they got rid of P2P transfers some time ago

I think I was flipping out for no reason. Poker hypochondriac or something. Thanks for your responses

Well, I'm out of ideas. If you find a solution or a way to exchange your VPPs for money, I'd love to hear it.

My solution is to keep trying to crush the 6 max games and to bink a tourney :)

Hahahaha, good luck then, you're going to need it to bink that $60 tourney!

That was amazing.
I'm definitely going to use that when we're at the same table.

push it curly!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75Tmg2sY1Fk

Great I'm going to have to play in that one too...how do you even play tournaments? Any recommended videos for a beginner? I know you are just suppose to play very tight like a dumb knit and then loosen up as the blinds increase?

I wonder what type of bankroll I am suppose to have to play a $60 tournmaent?

lol - I don't have the bankroll required but since its the only thing to use VPP's on I figure what can it hurt ; a min cash would be better than having 6k+ VPP's. Not sure why but this really ticks me off.

Oh yeah did I mention I hate tournies!

nick rampone was an essential pro a time ago and beginning on his videos would be the best to get on the elite videos. lucas greenwood/james hudson talk a lot about fundamentals on mtt. the others make more of the live recording and I don't see the way to get the max value from it yet. 

on elite sam greenwood talks about some deeper fundamentals and you have a bunch of world class mtt players like chidwick, holz, rampone and koon. we don't have unlimited time so these I recommend. but probably will watch some day all coaches here. 

I doubt Mush will go study deep tournament fundamentals anytime soon...

Strategy wise, when the blinds are really low, I play every hand that has potential. If you hit a big hand, you'll easily stack weak players, which will give you a cushion for later.

The most important thing IMO is constantly thinking about and adjusting your bet sizing to abuse smaller stacks.

 If you bet 75%|75%|30%, for example, you last bet is pretty much useless. Adjusting your bet sizing will allow you to put maximum pressure on the wittle fishies.

Thanks guys! Wish me luck tonight, I'll need it :)

Good Luck Mush - lets go for a 1st - 2nd RIO battle!

Thank you~

squeeze on the right amount, 60x

Hahaha what are the odds. On the other hand, wtf is that devil doing?!

i"M BUSTO :(((

FJDLKS snapped off bluff by arizonabay a wild Mushmellow was DSEFAETED :((((

D:

sorry mush  - really wanted an all rio final table

The feeling when you snap called me was devastating~! 

D:

are you still in it? You gotta take home the prize so I was not slain in vain!!!!! :D :D: :D

edit: i see you that guy just larz lucksacked you with A5o fsdjs;f

DIaling i feel Oiklike pUKINing all my hard work is wasted and i'm BUSTO to ROBUSTO a disgrace to rio :'(

I used to play a lot of MTT's - but they take so long and most days you are in the red. I hate red numbers on my PT4 calendar lol

:(

you gotta ship it in like a man with big CAJONES

i'm railing you you gotta ship any A and stuff i think ask Dialing

Mafuyuchan keeps shoving you have to tame him and snap him off with AA

Thats what I was thinking too - but I think I need somethin better than 94o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAQd9nFoRYk

been so card dead not a card over a 9 since the KQ

JJ works

no more raise/fold with 14bb ? we're back to 2004 ? 

For me the bottom is 9bb LP and 11bb EP. But I also have records of RFI 66% hands sometimes. So, don't take this advice. 

I mean, I wouldn't say always, but usually. It all depends on the table though. I'm not afraid to raise/ fold 10bbs so long as I know my opponents understand a min raise at 10bbs means I'm not folding 99% of the time. You have to be aware of how they perceive a 10bb mr though. If you're not comfortable manipulating a table and spots short I'd suggest open shipping 15 or under and making your life easy. Keep an open mind and open up your parameters as you get a better grasp of the arena. The biggest mistake people make imo is getting a strategy on a training site and thinking it's the end all be all. Lots of people do this and blindly follow the heard. The best are always a step ahead of what everyone else is doing, that's why they're the best! There is a time and a place for everything, nice to have an open playbook.

Thanks, I think I made a slight mistake shipping 20bb's from the HJ w/ ATs but all the stacks behind me were ~8-15bb's. I decided to ship because I don't think I was going to fold if anyone shipped behind me. What do you guys think? Ya, the CO had AK and 14bb's. Had no info on any of the players.

ATs is 0.37bb +EV shove pre ante, considering an effective stack of 14bbs for the CO, BTN, SB, BB. But I raise/fold it very often against players that won't shove very wide there. 

This is from a while ago - it is how I built my nl10 BR but I used to do pretty good in very small buy in tournies 

sharkscope

vamoooooooooooooooooooo 

waited all that time for a premium pocket pair 12bb? hehehehe :D

doubt I make it to my next button lol

Yes, I need to revisit the unexploitable shove/call charts if I am going to do this again!

Me too! Fml

A month ago I bubbled a final table of a 900 man, $109BI multi-entry tourney on FT, his A6 vs my 77. That bubble cost me about $700, not counting all of the money I could have made if I survived until there was less than 9 players. All that to say I also hate tourneys sometimes.

NoHubris trying coming 21st in an 8mil gtd sunday million. fml

* scratch that, i mean 20th. http://pokerprolabs.com/danmerrrrrrr/pokerstars/2013/mtt i honestly still feel fucking tilted 5 months later. WTF 

Well Done - This actually got me thinking of playing some more tournies, I might use some real money and buy into some of the COPS coming up

Yeah, I plan on playing the remaining MiniFTOPS coming up this weekend. Hopefully I'll run as good as I did this morning.

Cool! how much did you win?