Microlimits infested by tight germans

cwes · #1 06-06-2006, 05:57 PM

While trying to build myself a new bankroll at the micros I was wondering why those tables where infested by so many tight and aggressive germans.

I found the answer yesterday. There's a german site named 'Pokerstrategy' operated by an English Ltd. It seems that this site advertises at universities throughout germany to cater players to party. It starts them off with a small bankroll and advice copied from the 2+2 books (they named their sources). This leads to (overly) tight and very aggressive play by these players trying to build their roll. I think it sucks as it makes building my bankroll tougher.

Just wanted to share in case someone else was wondering where all those tight germans are coming from.

spino1i · #2 06-06-2006, 06:00 PM

As long as they stay away from 3/6 NL im happy.

JohnnyHumongous · #3 06-06-2006, 06:35 PM

Interesting, there's a guy who plays high limits on party named "pokstrategy2" from hamburg, I take it he's one of the founders...

cwes · #4 06-06-2006, 07:38 PM

That might well be the case. The seemingly founder claims to play in high limits and B&M events discussed on that site are often near hamburg.

Overdrive · #5 06-06-2006, 07:47 PM

Sounds like there is a German Blitzkrieg woflenstomppin all over your Party microlimits that you like to play.

Solution?

Don't play at Party.

AngusThermopyle · #6 06-06-2006, 07:59 PM

cwes · #7 06-06-2006, 08:11 PM

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As long as they stay away from 3/6 NL im happy.

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Wait until the makers of the site have digested and translated the new NL book. You won't like it, I guess.

cwes · #8 06-06-2006, 08:20 PM

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Sounds like there is a German Blitzkrieg woflenstomppin all over your Party microlimits that you like to play.

Solution?

Don't play at Party.

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Hah, little do you know! .5/1 are small stakes in my terminology and way above my roll (and i suck at them .5BB/100)! I am talking about .05/.1, .1/.2, .25/.5 stars tables (I pwn these with 4.5BB/100@30k hands, and no it's not variance, it's ALL SKILL [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] ! These are infested by them due to a former bonus program of that site.

kfellmy · #9 06-06-2006, 09:55 PM

you could go to some other site.

cwes · #10 06-06-2006, 10:41 PM

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you could go to some other site.

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That's not really neccessary. Their strategy (even tighter than advocated by SSH & HPFAP) is well known, they are easily spotable, they don't defend their blinds, but they just don't bleed as many chips as LPPs whom I would prefer at the tables.