[ClubsPoker] Discussion Thread

I checked them out because they spread mixed games, but I have only seen those running at penny stakes. Haven't tried to actually play yet. How's the software?

I have never heard of it. Looks like a Global Poker "Social", No HUD type site. I will check them out and see what type of GTD prize pools they're offering.

Thanks for the info!

I played a micro tournament with the free daily 50 cents you get for logging in. Global Poker blows this site away in terms of GTD prize pools for buy in amount, GP software is much smoother, much more crisp and modern.

Not impressed, but if you are in need a place to play in the USA and don't like GP or ACR, this may be an option.

i tried them out. i have never played on Global so i cant compare them but i do like club pokers software and UI.

They also have mixed games but the stakes are very low. They need to add medium-high stakes

Signed up at launch and micro PLO (.05/.10 & .10/.20) was ridiculously soft - on par with or better than Ignition. Have only played a few times since they started advertising on HCL as it brought in much better players. They removed the .05/.10 PLO tables and the .10/.20 tables usually have a few strong regs who play .25/.50 and .50/$1 as to their regular stakes.

1/2 becomes ridiculously soft, even 2/5 has a solid amount of whales. I think site isnt' as well known yet so its a vast ocean of dead $

I play there when I can. There's not too many Omaha games running, but when they are, they're super soft. They just introduced a rakeback system too, which is nice. One problem I have is that the tables don't always load. It just says loading and hangs. You can usually fix it by closing the window and opening it again, but it's annoying.

Wow…. that is an extreme rake increase especially for $1/2 + if your a serious player there’s gotta be better options than this is criminal.

It seems that their loyalty system is completely skewed towards old accounts or those who have been on the platform for a long time. This is a common story — they keep the “old whales” with bonuses, but at the same time lose active new players who bring in no less (and sometimes more) rake.
This is a strategic mistake on their part: if they've already raised the rake, then they need to incentivize new players even more so that their base doesn't shrink. And a limit of $1,450 with 80k annual rake is just ridiculous, especially if you're really grinding volume.

They have this promotion going on where if you "play 30 hands" at certain tables you qualify for a freeroll. I asked them over email and on their twitter account what constitutes playing 30 hands. Here are their responses. Glad we cleared this up!

Anyone have the problem of occasionally getting kicked off tables at this site? I love playing here and it normally works good, but once in a while I get an error message saying that I'm logged in from a different session and it boots me out. Usually this happens right when I log in, but sometimes it happens in the middle of a session and I just get booted from all my tables midhand. Playing from a standard desktop computer with a regular Internet connection. I've written support but they sometimes take a while to respond so I thought I'd ask here too.

California exit email received this morning. Dec 29 is cutoff date to submit withdrawals; after that, coins expire and sessions geo-blocked.

Is there a problem getting on site this morning for anyone?

The Sunday major for this site is the Sunday $6k at 9:00 pm for $22 buy-in
Soft is an understatement

That sucks. I love this site. Hopefully it survives despite losing the CA market.

Very Curious to see peoples opinions on what might be a super user on the site. "Tinfoilcat" is playing 6 card omaha and is having insane sessions at 1/2 and 2/5 where he is sitting for 20+ hours at a time playing and will have 3000-8000bb in his stack. Hes doing this consistent to though have talked to clubs but they seem. So far ive seen well over 50k won in a month playing 2 tables only. at 1/2 and 2/5

I've noticed this too. I previously had him tagged as a maniac. My best guess is that this is still the case--he's just a fish on a crazy heater. I've seen him made some really dumb plays, and I did double up through him recently when I got it all in with good AA preflop. He had a horribly dominated hand--something like 35% equity, which is damn low heads up in PLO6. My hand held. So he's no superuser, unless he's intentionally losing a hand here and there to throw off suspicion. But if that's the goal, why play 20+ hour sessions and run up 80 buy-in stacks?

Do you actually know that he's won 50k, or are you just counting his stack when he leaves a table? It's really easy for whales to donk off buy in after buy in and you don't notice because they just automatically rebuy, but you do notice when they go on a winning streak and now have a huge stack. And equities run so close in PLO6 that you can kind of Martingale yourself up in a way that you can't in NLHE.

That said, the results are pretty crazy even for a maniac running hot, so I'm sort of on the fence here. I'm happy to share hand histories with you if you want to do some analysis.

I’m mostly basing it off over the last 3 weeks I’ve seen him have 2000-4000bb at 2/5 at least 4 times so that right there alone is 10k

Then he had roughly 8 sessions of winning 5000bb at 1/2. This is sorta insane to even see someone have that many BBs

So between the last 3 weeks he had 90k right there. That BB/100 isn’t even possible it’s actually impossible so either chip dumping or some kind of cheating. Either way he will kill the 6card Omaha I leave the moment he joins and so do multiple other people cause you will lose your money 100%.

There is probably 10+ people who refuse that are regulars against him

Did anyone receive a 1099 for 2025 from Clubs?

Yes, also recieved a 1099. Any idea what to do?

Your winnings have been reported to the IRS.

Do you have any follow up on this? I'm becoming more convinced that he's a superuser. He plays a ton, has terrible fundamentals, and manages to get 1000 BB stacks on the regular. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've seen even an excellent player get up to 1000 BB on a 100 BB buy-in table, so to see him do it at 3 tables at once is incredible.

I analyzed some of the hands I lost to him, and my best guess is that he knows the runouts, but not his opponent's cards. When he gets the money in, he almost always makes a very strong hand, but sometimes still loses if his opponent makes an even better hand. There might be some times when he's not cheating--I think it's just too obvious if he never loses.

I'm at the point where I'm avoiding him now, and considering quitting playing on Clubs entirely, even though it's an ultra-soft site that I'm made a ton of money on. It's too disconcerting to see this happening. It's really shaken my faith in the fairness of the site.

Looks like he has been banned from the site maybe hes no longer on the leaderboard but Clubs admins are not giving much details into it at the moment looks like. I want to get reimbursed money along with many others if hes been banned cause this dude cheated this website for months making tens of thousands of dollars