[Chico Network] BetOnline, Tiger, etc.: Unofficial Discussion Thread

What is the red glow around "Blitzerbobby" supposed to indicate?

Network appears to be currently down. Is this a planned outage? Any ideas when it'll be back?

are hyper sngs gone for good?? none in the lobby today just "bomb" and "mystery" ones

yea, sngs lobby completely dead now, hopefully they wake up and realize they are missing out on a lot of money from this change

Is there an alternative to "Advanced Chico Converter" ? I just can't find a permanant solution to Norton Quarantining it. Every time I restart my computer, Norton forgets the exemption and Quarantines ACC again and makes it unusable when I remove it from Quarantine. Forcing me to re-install ( and get a new code).

Or should I be ditching Norton for a Anti- virus that doesn't hate ACC so much?

bomb pot SNGs are genuinely one of the dumbest ideas I've ever seen a poker site do. you don't need another element in a SNG to force the action. as a novelty fine but replacing your standard SNG with these things is just beyond stupid.

curious what y'all are receiving as your instant cash bonus - I was getting $45 for $600 in rake for a while (which is pathetic), then it upped to $100 for $550, which isn't great but it's doable...I did nearly twice the grind that week and barely cleared it. now it's offering me $125 for $750 in rake...at the stakes I play that's basically impossible. it's offered me that three times and I've never come close...any way to get a lower offer? or is this just what Chico does?

I was getting an offer of $200 for $3000 in rake, but then they dropped it to only $2500. I grind a lot, but nowhere near enough to rake that much in a week. I haven't even bothered to opt in the last few weeks since I know there's no chance I'll come close. I've been shifting a lot of my business to other sites since Chico's rewards have been declining lately.

Saaaaaaaaaaaame, the offers weren't very grindable.

This is literally the biggest joke of the few sites still offering STTs I've ever seen.
Somehow (some, maybe most) still play them. I didn't personally, can't imagine they can be still played profitably.

Anyone notice some strange play in PLO over the weekend? Several new accounts at mid/high stakes PLO with some oddities:

1. nailscissors - has exact same long term stats as strumpan69 - 50 vpip 35 PFR 5 3bet
2. calldebloof - fish who plays incredibly passive and gets aggro in very weird spots, seemingly can't lose long run
3. a$$eign - see 2

Not familiar with 1 and 3, but calldebloof is just a terrible fish. I don't have too many hands on him, but in my small sample he's hemorrhaging cash. If he's winning against you, it's just variance.

I honestly think there's something nefarious going on. Every reg is getting slaughtered. Every fish is crushing. Hidef is up like 900 buyins in a day as one of the worst players in history.

This reminds me exactly of what happened on Bovada years ago when out of nowhere it was just impossible to win. You could still get it in good pre but you'd just get ****ed over and over again.

I think the way it is set up is that they do get crushed some of the time but they just win long term.

I've never posted conspiracies because they're 99% bullshit but I think Chico needed some money.

"Every reg is losing"

No, maybe ones that are regressing because they're not improving are.
If you broke down the study quality and quantity of the people going on forums and claiming it's unbeatable now, you'd likely get shockingly pathetic results.

It's midstakes plo. Half decent effort and consistency = double digit winrates

In regards to ignition, I know firsthand about the top euro pros that lined up to get remote access accounts to slaughter the 1k and 2k games for double digit winrates in silence when they heard shitty us regs were winning absurd winrates by being less ******ed than all the whales. I knew firsthand of a bunch of them that got the accs and showed some absolutely ridiculous results, pushing 15-20bb/100 over hundreds of thousands of hands at PLO.

You want to be the person ripping through the games like a hot knife through butter? Look to yourself before you instantly call it suspicious/cheating.

Are you actually training as often as possible, are you game selecting with as much precision as you can, are you preparing for sessions as much as you can, are you improving your health as much as you can. It's no surprise many of the absolute best NL MTT players are in great physical shape.

Important to note as a follow-up:

Everyone is improving to some degree via experience, some way faster due to intense training and improvement.

If you aren't improving, you're regressing relative to population. If you're improving at the same slow rate as the average lazy reg, you're not really improving relative to population. You have to improve faster and better than the people you're playing against to win a high wr and scale upwards.

Good post, I can't really argue with anything you said. That is an interesting insight on the 1k and 2k games. I was not playing that high back then - I saw a lot of weird stuff going on at 100 and 200. '

On Chico/BoL the only thing I will say is that I've consistently grinded most stakes of PLO for a few years now and the one thing that still sticks out as very odd is that there were 3-5 new accounts playing 200PLO and up with very similar strats that all started within the last week or so. Probably just coincidence but I've never seen this many new players at one time before. The player pool is very repetitive.

FYI They charge less for BTC withdrawals vs LTC weird

There is a continued deluge of new 6 card PLO players with similar names and stats. Usually some noun or name and then a 2 or 3 digit number after it. Anyone noticed this?

I don’t see any non hold em tourney’s. Did I screw up my filter or are they gone? Usually there’s a handful of PLO PLO8 or 5 card PLO tournies.

Thanks.

It starts to load fine, then gives me an error message, but I can click through it and log in and it seems to be working fine.

Just saw the most blatant chip-dumping ever. It was a cash game, so I'm not sure what the point was--I guess just small-scale money laundering or something. Here's the hand:

Hand History driven straight to this forum with DriveHUD 2 Poker Tracking Software

PL Omaha 0.5(BB)
BB ($100.86) [VPIP: 33.3% | PFR: 33.3% | AGG: 0% | 3Bet: 50% | Fold to 3Bet: 0% | 4Bet: 0% | Hands: 3]
CO ($78.85) [VPIP: 75% | PFR: 50% | AGG: 100% | Hands: 4]
BTN ($22.49) [VPIP: 75% | PFR: 75% | AGG: 66.7% | Hands: 4]
HERO ($50) [VPIP: 30.7% | PFR: 20.7% | AGG: 29.9% | Hands: 426170]

Dealt to Hero: 5♦ 4♠ 7♣ 5♠

BTN Raises To $3.25, HERO Folds, BB Raises To $5.50, CO Raises To $13.75, BTN Raises To $22, BB Raises To $30.25, CO Raises To $72, BTN Folds, BB Raises To $100.86 (allin), CO Folds

BTN puts in $22 leaving 49 cents behind; CO puts in $72 leaving $6.85 behind; they both fold to a shove getting a zillion to one on their money. As if that wasn't enough, I had just sat down at the table, and all three immediately left, clearly indicating that they had no intention of playing poker and were just transferring chips. Situation was reported to the site; I'll update with any response.

About as clear a case of transferring money as one can get tbh, seen this many years ago on 888 where two players would register in $20HU games and one sit out and they repeated this game after game. Unfortunately for them I am a lover of watching SnGs and cash tables which is the only reason I spotted it. Since there are wagering requirements put on p2p transfers on most sites this practice has become more frequent.

Keep an eye out for them and see if the site took action and update here, in my case 888 tbf dealt with them and I never seen them again.

Here's the email I just got:

We are writing to inform you of a recent integrity review concerning a game in which you participated on the Chico Poker Network.

Our proactive monitoring systems identified a case of Chip Dumping between three players at your table on 12 September 2025. Following a thorough investigation, we have determined that the players were indeed guilty of breaching our Terms and Conditions. Their actions were in violation of our fair play policy, compromising the integrity of the game and the experience for other players.

As a consequence of their misconduct, we have taken decisive action by closing their accounts permanently, and as you were present at the table at the time of their rule breach, we wanted to inform you of this outcome.

We appreciate your continued trust in the Chico Poker Game Integrity network. Should you have any questions or wish to discuss this matter further, please do not hesitate to reach out.

Sincerely,

Chico Poker Game Integrity

nailscissors is playing PLO100 for a longer periode.

Has anyone else experienced significant lag issues lately? I'm not experiencing it on other sites, so it's not my connection.