Help my horse (and me)

[Grunch]

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

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you have.



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I'd love to hear you elaborate on this.

[Matt Flynn]

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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.

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Very good. We'll get PokerAce, and I'll run several dozen hands with him off his pokertracker history.

[Matt Flynn]

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Matt,
if your buddy is playing full ring, .....

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friends don't let friends play full ring. ;-)

but you do make it sound intensely profitable.

[snowbank]

OP is a newb. jk Matt.

My view on Stars and Full Tilt:

Stars: check/call, check/raise, check/call, check/raise, check/call, check/raise

Full Tilt: hero raises, villan # 1 re-raises, villan #2 4 bets, hero pushes, villan #1 calls, villan #2 calls. Hero shows AK, villan #1 shows 55, villan #2 shows 66.

Stars= no rakeback, but decent store, and best customer support by far and there's not a close 2nd

Full Tilt= $600 bonus that takes a while to clear + rakeback, but have a reward store that they actually charge you to get stuff from with your points that cuts into your rakeback

[Matt Flynn]

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Full Tilt: hero raises, villan # 1 re-raises, villan #2 4 bets, hero pushes, villan #1 calls, villan #2 calls. Hero shows AK, villan #1 shows 55, villan #2 shows 66.



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i think we've found the cure for erectile dysfunction.

[Austiger]

Will you coach me? You have a blue name so you must be good or something.

[Matt Flynn]

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Will you coach me? You have a blue name so you must be good or something.

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i don't currently give private lessons (horse excepted) because i am so busy with job and family and book and poker. however, once volume 1 comes out, you will get to pick my brain right here in SSNL. Sunny's too.

[SomethingClever]

Have your friend play 6-max instead of full ring. It will be beneficial to him in both the short and long run.

Also, Full Tilt is just as soft, if not softer, than Stars at the limits you mentioned.

If he plays on Full Tilt, it is IMPERATIVE that he sign up with an affiliate that pays 27% rakeback.

[2Paul2]

I've played a ton of at 1/2 at both stars and ft and assuming party isn't an option(im like 99% sure your us from following your old high stakes posts) ft is definitely softer imo. Ft also gets you a decent rb%(stars has none) and one of the best sign up bonuses on the net. Also if he's rly serious he can use 6th sense at ft to help w/ game selection which in the long run is a massive boost to wr as im sure your aware.

I haven't played much 100nl at either but i'd assume .5/1 and 1/2 correlates pretty well.

Paul

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2 more things.

1) Regardless of whether he was to go w/ poker office or pt or whatever if he's going to get one of those things sixth sense is the thing that he can use at ft in particular that is just invaluable when it comes to game selection(coming from an 8tabler that used to just jump in to the 1st 8 tables going).

2) If u rly wanna start him off on fr stars is better. Definitely the biggest fr site around atm. I think you'd be better served getting him straight in to 6max though because the way things are going fr game selection at 2/4+ is going to be non-existant in the not so distant future.

I guess a 3rd thing to. One other option is to spread money on both sites. Take advantage of ft's sign up bonus and rb and learn 6max there. Learn fr on stars and take advantage of the fpps and obv if you are at both sites you have the max game selction possible.

Paul