First Session at Full Tilt Poker
I haven’t really played any poker since I cleared my bonus for Doyle’s Room. That was over a month ago, and so tonight I had some free time and decided to check out the ring games at Full Tilt Poker. This was not my first time playing there, as I did play a $5 dollar SNG earlier this week, which I won pretty easily. I had the help of hitting a few huge hands and that allowed me to bully everyone.
In tonight’s session, I started off a bit nervous since I was unaccustomed to the interface and the general style play, whether the players were aggressive or passive, loose or tight. Also I always have this fear that the players will play really well and that I’ll get slaughtered. Lucky for me that didn’t happen. I bought in for $13, my usual half buy-in, at the 25NL tables and finished up $42 in under 2 hours, mostly by winning two big pots. The first I had AA and my opponent had KK. The second I hit a set of 10’s and let someone overplay their AK.
Overall, I’m feeling good about the players’ lack of aggression. They weren’t as tough as I expected. When I first sat down, players were betting like crazy but the action slowed down drastically after a while. In the end, most were pretty passive so I was able to play my game. Granted I only played 89 hands and I understand that that’s not enough time to judge the quality of players yet. Also it’ll be interesting once all the PT users get enough hands on me.
Personally I’m still waiting for that new player luck to wear off. I read somewhere that some casinos let new players win on their first visit so that they can hook them to the thrill of winning, and then proceed to make them lose on subsequent visits once.
Full Tilt Poker, poker, session recap
March 19th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
Am I the only one to like aggressive table? I just love it when I flop a set and an aggressive player with TPTK starts betting on my behalf. Great play!
March 20th, 2007 at 4:40 am
I hate aggressive players because that means I have to play tighter and I get bored.
I prefer to beat up on passive players because then I don’t need a good hand to win.
The problem with aggressive tables is if you have a table 5-6 of maniacs, then poker becomes a crap shoot. Aces don’t hold up as well against more than 1-2 opponents.
But I agree, I too love it when I flop a set and my opponent has a big pocket pair or TPTK.
March 24th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
hey, i though u might want to check out cake poker. they dont have poker tracker or hud capabilities yet, and their management has been saying they dont want it. they also have those .1/.2 blind tables, and thier traffic is increasing, but still kinda low. but some of the stats on the tables (from the lobby)are obscene. thought u might be interested. got some good bonuses and rakeback too if u get with a good affiliate.