Yes, I am aggressive post flop. But it depends on how many people are in and what the flop looks like. If there are 4 people in the pot and the flop has an ace or a king, it's hard to bluff if you miss because the odds are that someone would hit that flop. Players will often limp in or call raises with ace-rag or K-x suited. If there are only 2 of you though and he checks, it's worth a little stab at the pot even if you have absolutely nothing. I generally bet 2/3 or 3/4 of the pot. That will do the trick if they have nothing and it really is surprising how many small pots you can take down with junk. And to keep them off guard, I also bet 2/3 or 3/4 the pot if I have a monster .

On Full Tilt you can find the pros easily enough. Look for games that are red. These will contain a pro . I found one playing at the play money tables the other day but can't remember his name. There was a waiting list of about 200! lol

If you have observer chat on, you will see them get bombarded with questions but I didn't see Phil Ivey respond once. Maybe he has observer chat off and I wouldn't blame him if he did. After all he is sat playing for thousands of dollars per hand so the last thing he needs are a zillion questions to answer. One guy was getting angry with him. "ANSWER ME DAMN IT!!" and other such stuff was beginning to show up. lol

You'll find this amusing. Tofay, Im trying to release the 1st $14 of my $140 bonus so I can get the fuck out of there "FT"

I'm losing like crazy - of course. At one stage I had two ring games going.

Left screen ,A10 black, right screen, A8 red. Flop left screen, all red, right screen all black. It's the way it always is on FT for me. I've hit one flush in memory.

Anyhows, back to the story, I'm trying to get my bonus, I'm on a $25 buy in ring game. I get KK. I slow play it and flat-call (big mistake) . Flop is x8x. I then raise $3. get one caller. I bet $5. he calls. Turn is x. I raise $8. He calls. River is Ace. You got it. I lost $20 odd to A8 off. He must have put me on a low board-pair and ran with it.

So a few hands later - I'm well pissed off. Like really totally pissed off. My bankroll is under half and I just want out.

I get AA. No fucking around this time. I raise $3.50. I get a caller. Flop is xxx. I bet about $6. He calls. Turn is a King. Oh shit - I know full well he has AA, KK, QQ or JJ. I bet another $6 he raises all in. I know 100% now he has KK in his hand. I'm so angry I say "ahh sod it at least I'll hit my bonus with this huge loss" (Totally stupid of course - loss is greater than the bonus lol). I call. The most stupid call on earth but I didn't care. I wanted an end to my misery.

River - Ace - lmfao! - I doubled up pretty much and he said "that hurt". I didn't even reply. I left the table, and check my bonus had been paid. It had.

I've emailed Full Tilt. Something is seriously wrong with their bonus scheme. I quote from their site

Heading : Tournaments and Sit & Go's

"For every dollar paid in tournament fees, you will receive 7 Full Tilt Points. There is no cap on the number of points you can receive."

that means $5 SNGs should give 35 FTPoints and $10 SnGs 70 points. Looking at my hand histories I should have about 950 points. I have 290.

Regarding your play style Trueform, that sounds fairly much like me. I guess I'm just doomed at FT lol. I watched 2 pros at a 100/200 table today. Insane - people at the table with $60k! and putting £16k bets in.

I'm well and truly outta there. Back to PP with my fishing rod and I'll see how Cake goes - that seems very promising.

Dodgey, I just thought i'd point out that the point structure is correct, it's your interpretation that's got it wrong. 7 points for $1 in tournament fees, means 3.5 points for a $5 SNG, as the "fee" is 50 cents. the other $5 goes back to the players and therefor is not counted towards points. It's generally calculated this way anywhere you play, including pkr.

Ankst

Yep - thanks mate - I found that out too after asking :-) bugger!

Been interesting. Gone back to Party and I'm instantly winning again.

I use Holdem Indicator for pot odds, and it analyses everyones' playstyles and gives you a rough indicator.

When I'm on FT, mostly, 7 to 8 of the 9 people in a $10 SnG show as "Tight aggressive Solid" after about 20 hands or more. Went back to PP and as before, I'm one of the one or two who show as that, all the rest are "fishy", "rock" "loose Passive", "Loose aggressive" "tight passive".

Definately a different type of player.

I'm honest enough to say I'm not good enough to fight a field full of tight aggressives yet. :-)

Well I can now say that Full Tilt is indeed a little dodgy.

After depositing to both Hollywood and FT since leaving PKR, I had a great start...I was upto $4300 from my initial $3400 I left PKR with by the end of June.
Hollywood since then has been pretty steady - although the bonus is extremely hard to clear, yet the competition is generally weak - there are alot of fish, but odds do indeed stand up most of the time.

I'm having the worst beats on FT though. I've cleared $500 worth of bonuses with them since I joined in June, yet i'm $250 down from my initial $1000 deposit, and if it wasn't for this site i'd be flying along.

The next few days i'm just going to play primarily on Hollywood and see how my luck runs - if i manage to finish up, i'll take my money out of FT and put it elsewhere.
I may be having just a bad run of luck, but it's been going on since the start on July on FT - maybe if I run it out, i'll make a shedload, but right now the donks are always prevailing ;/
Today within the first 20 minutes of my session, I lost with a K high flush to an A high, and then flopped 3 10 10 with pocket 3's in my hand - reraised all in, the other guy shows AA, and then the other 10 hits the river
Then just before I finish up about 30 minutes ago, a guy called my pot bets with a nut flush draw vs my pocket kings. His flush didn't hit, but what with him having A2h, obviously, the Ace would hit on the river ;/

Why don't you guys listen to me for once. If you no longer wish to play on PKR, play on Cake Poker I know the name sounds funny, but the people behind this site are some of the best in the business and they continue to grow at an astounding rate. They offer a 100% up to $500 bonus that is almost the same as Full Tilt's. Use Bonus code: CPB500 for the $500 bonus.

Download Cake Poker and start winning!

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I have experienced a little odd stuff too on FT, the sort of thing I used to see on PKR in that I get dealt the exact same cards 2 hands in a row. I don't know what the odds are for this to happen or if it happens in live games, but when you get dealt 9s 6s then the very next hand get 9s 6s AGAIN, it starts bells ringing. I have very often been dealt the same cards but different suits for 2 hands in a row. Like I said, I used to see this on PKR so is this a common occurrence? Without any live experience, I cannot judge if this is normal or not so any input on this would be welcome.

I'm still working through my bonus at FT so I'm not looking to move anywhere at the moment. Also, I still like it there. hehe. And of course there is rakeback, which Cake Poker doesn't seem to offer.

I may look at Cake Poker though, just to see what all the fuss is about

True, unless you're playing the $2/4 or higher rakeback doesn't make sense as you wont hit the qualifying levels. Play through bonuses will generate more for you.

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yeah - I discovered the rakeback is useless for me - they remove any bonuses earnt before paying rakeback, so for me , that's $140 of rakeback deducted before I earn anything.

btw - I had two hands the same, if not the same suit in my live game on Sunday. Several times. I got two junks in a row - something like 69, and I got AQ twice in a row.

I withdrew from FT as I was on a 100% losing streak. May have been down to me, most probably, but it ruined my Karma there so I ran like a girl! :-)

In fact, I'm losing all the time online at the moment. A few lame wins just in the bubble in MTTs but overall - lose lose lose. I was winning all the time up until this point. Assistance suggested it may be because my confidence overtook my ability - i.e. I got a little ahead of myself. Could well be the case - I think I've become more passive as I've tried to revert to a tight ABC game.

Thanks for this info. It doesn't happen that often but when it does it sticks in the memory banks and probably seems worse than it is. Knowing it happens live too dispels any bad software thoughts. Damn, I need to get some live play experience. hehe


Sorry to hear that bud. Hope you get back on track soon