Any Full Tilt regulars on here? NL 200 and NL 100

[Acevader]

Boxing, Tilting, Mario and Donkey are all pretty nitty but they don't make the preferred list. Sure they are fairly straightforward to play and - crucially - low variance, but ultimately you want the one hit wonder donks that will call 3 streets of value betting with TPNK.

My avoid list includes:

- Fittsmurf (non-stop going to war with other regulars, a bad trait in a player IMHO - just concentrate on the fish rather than making personal battles)
- Midnight234 (same as Fittsmurf but not as good a player)
- Raylapsley (I don't mind Ian so much, he can be tricky but generally we seem to have a degree of peace between us - lol)

In general I like to avoid players that play with their ego. I can't stand it when you legitimately stack a solid regular who then spends the next 2 hours 3-betting you and c/r nearly every c-bet you make. Grow up, you lost a pot, get over it and play your normal game. I always find this behaviour coincides perfectly with a dry run of cards and missing every flop and when you finally make a standard they have the nuts!!!!

[SimaoMacaco]

I love playing with the trio drunken, mario etc.. if i grouped them together in PT they would be my main bitch. Bajunky seems the most problematic for me so far.

[Acevader]

...I hope they don't post on here otherwise they will de-nit and close of a source of income!

Drunken get seriously out of line today on all of my tables for about half an hours. He was 3-betting like a mad-man on all of his tables. I really struggled to adapt as I gave him credit for having AA or, if he was feeling really loose KK, for about the first 4 times and then after that I couldn't decide on a range to 4-bet or call with!!

[NFuego20]

Speaking of 200NL regs, you guys all need to moveupplskthx

I don't like the direction the reg/fish ratio is headed.

[Smart Money]

Acevader has made some good posts recently on the topic of "Regular-on-Regular Action."

There are two extremes to this I think, with most of the regs falling towards the latter stages of this continuum.

You can constantly go to war with other regulars "playing poker" and make a profit across less than maximum tables.

Alternatively you can minimise your confrontations with the other regulars and concentrate more on the fish. This requires a lot less effort allowing you to play more tables (and probably for longer periods.)

Now obviously if you're able to exploit certain tendencies that other regs may have then it's foolish to not do so. However, I believe the biggest winners are those that don't go out of their way to attack the other regs- and instead focus more on the easy money that is out there.

My goal isn't to be the "best" player at these stakes per se. Rather it is to be the biggest winner.

I'm starting to analyse the game of other regulars more closely now. (As part of my recent analysis of other regulars' I've been prepared to sacrifice some short term profits by making some otherwise pretty poor light calls- and even making some poor unorthadox plays- just to get a showdown to see what they've been playing and to see how they react to those plays.)

I'm analysing their game not because I intend to initiate more fights with them at the tables, but because I don't want my game exploited. As someone who usually plays 15/16 tables now, you open yourself up a little because that many tables limits your focus on individual players- whereas an aggressive regular who only plays half as many tables naturally gives themselves an edge in those one-on-one battles. Albeit at the greater expense of them often failing to fully exploit the poorer players that are out there.

[Acevader]

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My goal isn't to be the "best" player at these stakes per se. Rather it is to be the biggest winner.

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QFT

Leave the Ego at home I say.

[vizer02]

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Acevader has made some good posts recently on the topic of "Regular-on-Regular Action."


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It seems to me that the regs at NL200 don't attack each other as much as they do at NL100. Because of that, I've laid off from attacking the regs because they aren't playing back at me as much, and usually give them credit for a hand when they do. The exception to this so far is Bigkawik, who's I've stacked 3 times catching him 3-betting me as weak as A,10os.

I agree with your analysis Smart Money, and feel that because lately it seems there are more regs at the table than fish, in order to be more profitable maybe we will have to play back at each other more often. Analyzing the regs game and exploiting holes is something that will only make us better poker players, and when we make the step up to 2/4 and beyond it will definitely be something we have to adapt to.

[Smart Money]

Yes, absolutely.