Help my horse (and me)

[Coffee]

Also...I didn't mention in my PM, but have your buddy practice judicious table selection...biggest pots, most players to flop, etc.

[Ra_]

FT has better bonuses too, it think they still do the %100 up to $600 for signup. a nice help to a starting bankroll.

[Matt Flynn]

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FT has better bonuses too, it think they still do the %100 up to $600 for signup. a nice help to a starting bankroll.

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Holy *&^$! Nice!

[thedustbustr]

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FT has better bonuses too, it think they still do the %100 up to $600 for signup. a nice help to a starting bankroll.

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Holy *&^$! Nice!

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fwiw this took me like 18 days of solid 4-8 tabling 7 hours a day to clear at nl100.

[MyTurn2Raise]

Matt,
if your buddy is playing full ring, he is likely to run into 3-4 set miners/ nut peddlars at every table from 50NL to 200NL. Most of them are easy to play against, ie not tricky at all postflop. PokerAce HUD is definitely worth it IMO with pokertracker as well. Reviewing sessions in pokertracker is just so sweet.

[MatthewRyan]

Wow, is this really the 100000000th "FT or Stars???!" post. Op should know better

[Matt Flynn]

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Wow, is this really the 100000000th "FT or Stars???!" post. Op should know better

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Sorry man. Once you get old enough around here they let you slide a bit, but I understand it's an imposition. I'll make it up to you in strat posts.

Matt

[MasterLJ]

FTP is great. Between FTP and Neteller I was able to clear a xxxx cashout with less than 36 hours between cashout and the money hitting my bank account.

As far as I know I haven't run into any bots. There's only one that I was suspicious of though since his name was "TestBot," or something and he called my all-in with A-high in a 250BB pot. His time between actions was always the same. Are people that stupid to make that their screename though?

Anyway, as for setfarmers, they aren't bad if you can spot them. They are really stripping away the portions of poker that make poker profitable and differentiate good players from bad players. They aren't allowing themselves to make mistakes but are relying on the mistakes of others. Everyone makes money on sets, it's those who eek out profits in between sets that are the allstars. Therefore, if it means just one less person at my table to worry about, then I don't mind a set farmer at all.

The play on FTP has been really really fishy as of late, and ABC poker works fine. I'd strongly recommend that your buddy reduce, if not eliminate bluffing from his game. It's usually spew. If you can't get someone to fold a mediocre overpair bluffing is the wrong direction to go, there's just too much value in your big hands.

[TDouble]

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No resizable tables

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Probably the biggest reason I don't play at FTP. Seems stupid, but I don't have two monitors (yet).

[Matt Flynn]

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As far as I know I haven't run into any bots.

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you have.


thanks for the comments on set farmers and the ftp games. i too feel that any set farmer who does not mix in a fair bluffing freqeuncy is toast to a decent player, so hopefully my horse will run over a few of them 3BB at a time. we'll show everyone how to clobber a set farmer -- and how the set farmer can adjust -- but not in volume 1.