Making the Switch

[Andy B]

I think that your choices are Stars and Full Tilt. Stars has more games and the lower ante, but there's no reason you can't have a little money on both sites. Full Tilt's higher ante should beget better action, but I haven't played on there enough to really know.

The games aren't going to be as good as you're used to. In my limited experience the $20/40 stud game at Foxwoods is really juicy, and the $5/10 games on Stars are merely good, and sometimes not so good. If your game-plan is geared towards six-way raised pots, yeah, you'll need to adjust some.

[Andy B]

And what did you do to deserve a year in Columbus?

[cgrohman]

I graduated law school and I applied to work for a judge. Basically, you take what you get. I am moving to California as soon as my sentence is over. Thanks for the advice.

[cgrohman]

The $10-$20 Foxwoods game during the week is Grandma's kitchen. I felt bad about it, but I was agressive as all get out and made a nice profit off of the senior citizens.

[cgrohman]

PL-

I bought PT. IS there a good manaul out there that shows us computer illiterate people how to use it?

[Andy B]

A $55 software package doesn't come with documentation?

[cgrohman]

Eh. I just grabbed the trial version for stud.

[PoorLawyer]

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As for multi-tabling..One question...Do you multi-table in live play? Then I wouldn't do it at higher limits online either. Just my opinion...

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I disagree. Even if your per table win rate goes down, you should be able to play two tables with an increased overall BB/100 as long as you don't overlap tables too much. More than 2 and I think you are asking for trouble, but there just are not a ton of times when you are having to make decisions in both games at the same time. Also playing 2 tables helps me play tighter because I am not looking for reasons to play weak hands out of position out of boredom. One table + fantasy football reading + porn also does the same trick [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I would also buy PT. I think it is worth the $55 bucks to track your stats and find areas to improve.

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If your looking at this solely as a "win rate" tool, then I guess 2 would be OK. But I'm looking at this as I can only really & truly play one table at a time. Meaning getting reads, keeping up with outs & dead cards, etc.

Let me ask you this...Would you multi table if you were sitting in a higher limit game (10/20 in this case) with a table of very solid players that knew you were multi tabling & used that against you? They're liable to rip your arms off & beat you with them. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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ive multitabled 10/20 with regulars that knew me, so I guess yeah is the answer. The simple fact is that if you are playing tight you can look at your hand and instantly know whether you even have to bother looking at the rest of the board....if not go to the other table. It just takes a little practice to remember the cards on 2 tables for the few times it comes up. If you aren't comfortable with 2 tables of stud, then a full ring HE game should fit the bill or omaha, where each hand takes a longer time it seems.

[Bill King]

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all of you who think you cant play several tables of stud are nuts.

if you can play 8 tables of limit holdem.. you can play more than one table of the slowest game ever.

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Personal preference I guess. My whole point was if you try to multi-table then you relegate yourself to playing your cards & your cards only...at least to some degree.

What happens when you get the tables confused & bet into a rock when you think you're betting into a fish? I know someone who pushed all in like that at a NLHE game. It wasn't purty!!!

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poker ace is only $55..

[TheSalche]

for pt stud the real important thing to note is the hand categories ... make some nice categories of 3-striaghts, 3-flushes, wired big pairs, split big pairs, rolled ,etc

helps you find leaks after a few thousand hands ... thats why you should multi-tables