February Fever Poker Chat

WVHillbilly · Feb 11, 2009

dg1267 said:
My thoughts exactly. Three straight days of running like total shit. None of my 15 outters are hitting AIPF, my AA might as well be 72, KK might as well be tarot cards. This is just sick!

How do you have 15 outs if you're AIPF???

Sounds like you need a break.

tenbob · Feb 11, 2009

Looks like William Hill will be switching networks from crypro to i-poker sometime in the next few weeks. Looks good as a skin to whore for a bit, Will Hill has always had some nice looking RB deals, withir or not it will continue on the new network has yet to be seen.

feitr · Feb 11, 2009

tenbob said:
I hav'nt really checked out the HU tables since my last free $5 on Titan (ran it up to $400 playing HU plo ) I am playing the FR tables mainly the 8 player ones.

As for the deal i got on Paddy Power, its a 150% deposit bonus, which is clearing pretty easily, and a level boost in thier VIP programme. The VIP scheme seems better to me than stars, the equivelent of gold star nets me $120 in straight cash without any clearance, and I get to keep the points, which can also be transfered for cash.

I don't have a rakeback deal, but once my bonus is cleared im gonna whore another skin until PP offers me another reload bonus.

Edit : Oh and seriously there is so many more fish on i-poker than on stars, the shortstackers are so bad that I actually don't overly mind playing with 3-4 of them on my tables. (Raise QJ UTG, and stack off to a 3bet type bad)

It is the software that gets me. I tried titan a while ago playing 6max and i just couldn't make the software work - i would constantly time out and auto fold and my hands/hr was so bad compared to stars that even if the players were worse it really didn't matter. But software matters alot less in HU since you play less tables. $1 rake just makes no sense, clearly must reduce the HU traffic by alot.

tenbob · Feb 11, 2009

The fact that there is no time bank is really really annoying. I find that I cannot handle anymore than 6 tables, the turbo ones only give you 10 seconds to act or you get folded if your facing one of these annoying river min-bets that you never fold to anyway.

eNTy · Feb 11, 2009

http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotions/25-billion/?utm_id=5

reload bonuz

zachvac · Feb 11, 2009

nice, free $250 from Stars, thanks

.

Jurn8 · Feb 11, 2009

wheyyy reload bonus !!!! shame I dont have 1k spare

lol

maybe $600 will be enough!!

feitr · Feb 11, 2009

tenbob said:
The fact that there is no time bank is really really annoying. I find that I cannot handle anymore than 6 tables, the turbo ones only give you 10 seconds to act or you get folded if your facing one of these annoying river min-bets that you never fold to anyway.

Yea was same with me. Like 4-6 tables was max and they don't even pop up properly when cascaded (neither does party, was the reason i moved back to HU). No time banks would be managable if they didn't give you less time to act in general than any site i've seen.

Wonder how ongame is, anybody play there?

zachvac · Feb 11, 2009

Too bad Americans can only deposit $600 at a time anyway. Emailed Stars to ask if I could deposit $600 today and $400 tomorrow and still get full bonus or whether there was a method to deposit 1k without a fee like Western Union.

feitr · Feb 11, 2009

lol when party offers a reload bonus it almost isn't even worth doing since you get raped so hard on the exchange rate you lose like 20% of the bonus by having to deposit (and withdraw later).

eNTy · Feb 11, 2009

feitr said:
lol when party offers a reload bonus it almost isn't even worth doing since you get raped so hard on the exchange rate you lose like 20% of the bonus by having to deposit (and withdraw later).

Plus you need like a billion party points in 2 weeks for it to clear, which was impossible for me.

I got close to 70% of the dep bonus in jan, but I didn't really play all that many hands tbh.

feitr · Feb 11, 2009

I think you only need 600? Clears in a few thousand hands @ nl200. Only took me a little over a month to clear the 4000 points for the $500 deposit bonus. The problem is that there will be a 6k point stretch before i reach the 12000 points for the $1000 bonus or whatever it is where i don't get anything. The $1000 bonus clears at like 40% rakeback tho i think, so i'll probably start using these reload bonuses to help bridge the gap to get to the 12k points.

In any case while the vip of party sucks, it actually gives an advantage to HU players (just count the generation of points as raked hands of a certain stake,even tho with 50c rake you pay less rake per raked hand in HU) whereas @ stars it would be like 3% rakeback. Party is probably 20% all up i'd guess @ nl200 HU and very marginally better at nl400, although i've heard you can get like 40% with rakeback deals (which aren't allowed from what i understand) but i never know the right ppl...

Tygran · Feb 11, 2009

zachvac said:
Too bad Americans can only deposit $600 at a time anyway. Emailed Stars to ask if I could deposit $600 today and $400 tomorrow and still get full bonus or whether there was a method to deposit 1k without a fee like Western Union.

Let us know what they say.

Would really suck to have to use a money order or western union...

The Shrog · Feb 11, 2009

Also, can those of us working in clearing the reload bonus that started at the end of December load again and get this one too?

switch0723 · Feb 11, 2009

fml, may aswell doomswitch myself with a bonus ldo.

$250 for free, woot

the story of the 10 billionth hand aswell is sick, i wonder if the guy who had 2 pair committed suicide

eNTy · Feb 11, 2009

switch0723 said:
fml, may aswell doomswitch myself with a bonus ldo.

$250 for free, woot

the story of the 10 billionth hand aswell is sick, i wonder if the guy who had 2 pair committed suicide

Link to this story ?

switch0723 · Feb 11, 2009

eNTy said:
http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotions/25-billion/?utm_id=5

reload bonuz

facepalmaments

Jagsti · Feb 11, 2009

feitr said:
Jagsti and anybody else who plays on ipoker, how active are the midstakes HU tables (like 200-1000nl)? Did you guys get good rakeback deals? If so how?

I figure paying double rake probably isn't the endo f the world if the games are soft (not sure) and you get decent rakeback. Party just isn't that active so i'll probably need to play 2 sites once i move above 1/2.

Sorry Feitr for the delay, Been busy at work.

Ok, I've only played 100nl and for the most part it's seems pretty easy. Even the regs are terrabad. I've only struggled against probably 1-2 regs. The short stackers are even beatable

. There's usually at least 10 tables running, with probably 3-4 regs waiting for more action.

just looking now, 1900 GMT:

100nl - 20 tables running /6 tables 1 player sat down

200nl - 7 tables running / 21 tables 1 player sat down

400nl - 10 tables running /20 tables 1 player sat down

600nl - 5 tables running / 14 tables 1 player sat down

1000nl - 1 table running / 8 tables 1 player sat down

The same regs will be registered for 200nl games upto 1knl!

Irexes · Feb 11, 2009

Hello Pokerstars support people,

In order to get max benefit from your most generous bonus please up my deposit limit to $1000.

May I also request that you don’t flick the doomswitch until after I finish clearing it the bonus.

Many thanks

Irexes

Took them 4 minutes to respond. Awesome.

Worryingly they did not comment on the doomswitch.

blankoblanco · Feb 11, 2009

Irexes said:
Took them 4 minutes to respond. Awesome.

Worryingly they did not comment on the doomswitch.

wtf nice preferential treatment. i emailed them my request an hour ago and they haven't responded

zachvac · Feb 11, 2009

I got a response that they forwarded my message to the proper department or w/e.

Oh also Jag and combu please check pms?

Irexes · Feb 11, 2009

combuboom said:
wtf nice preferential treatment. i emailed them my request an hour ago and they haven't responded

zachvac said:
I got a response that they forwarded my message to the proper department or w/e.

They know how to treat VIPs

dg1267 · Feb 11, 2009

Irexes said:
They know how to treat VIPs

Rex, you have a little something brown on your nose!

Irexes · Feb 11, 2009

dg1267 said:
Rex, you have a little something brown on your nose!

Sweet smell of $250 bonus imo.

Jagsti · Feb 11, 2009

Feitr - BTW, if you go through an affiliate, and tell them you play 50k hands/month of 100-200nl min, then they usually get you promoted to the top level VIP. I'm led to believe that this equates to something like 33% RB at 6max, and +40% at FR. Not sure what it equates to at HU as I'm in the process of evaluating that this month.

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