*****(Loose) Aggressive April Chat Thread*****

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About time

"Hi widowmaker89,
As a valued player on our site, we are pleased to inform you that you have been selected to receive rakeback on all of your future play at Full Tilt Poker. "

Since I completely suck on PS this is big news. btw I sent the email a couple months ago for anyone waiting.

Edit: didnt see enty beat me too it. Guess its christmas come early!
 
I don't know. I hear 25nl is juicier at tilt then it is at stars. Plus deep tables. Is 25nl with 27% rakeback better than 25nl with Goldstar though ?
 
WVHillbilly said:
If you do make the move to FT, make sure you sign up at http://www.trulyfreepokertraining.com/ . You'll easily earn enough points to get free Stox / Cardrunners each month. It cost you nothing (not even an MGR hit).
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Easily might be overstating it. to get both stox and CR free, you need to earn 7000 ftp points per month. It's easy at 100nl+, but at 25nl, that's quite a lot.
 
BelgoSuisse said:
Easily might be overstating it. to get both stox and CR free, you need to earn 7000 ftp points per month. It's easy at 100nl+, but at 25nl, that's quite a lot.
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I kind of meant easy to get Stox or Cardrunners. eNTy puts in pretty heavy volume though so both may not be out of his grasp.
 
bw07507 said:
lol 6max. Villain here is a 24/21 regular btw.

Poker Stars, $0.50/$1 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 5 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker

SB: $192.50 (192.5 bb)
BB: $133.70 (133.7 bb)
MP: $133.25 (133.3 bb)
Hero (CO): $101.50 (101.5 bb)
BTN: $100 (100 bb)

Pre-Flop: Hero is CO with A
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A
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MP raises to $3, Hero raises to $10, 3 folds, MP raises to $24, Hero raises to $101.50 and is all-in, MP calls $77.50

Flop: ($204.50) 7
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8
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7
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(2 players, 1 is all-in)
Turn: ($204.50) 5
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(2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: ($204.50) Q
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(2 players, 1 is all-in)

Results: $204.50 pot ($2 rake)
MP showed 6
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A
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(a pair of Sevens) and lost (-$101.50 net)
Hero showed A
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A
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(two pairs, Aces and Sevens) and won $202.50 ($101 net)
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PLease insert villains name here -----> XXX XXX
 
Fish dont beleive u if u play laggy 🙂.

Poker Stars, $0.10/$0.25 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker

UTG: $30.20 (120.8 bb)
Hero (MP): $30.50 (122 bb)
CO: $11.30 (45.2 bb)
BTN: $15.65 (62.6 bb)
SB: $18.90 (75.6 bb)
BB: $25.35 (101.4 bb)

Pre-Flop: Hero is MP with A
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A
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UTG folds, Hero raises to $1, CO folds, BTN calls $1, SB folds, BB raises to $4.25, Hero raises to $30.50 and is all-in, BTN calls $14.65 and is all-in, BB folds

Flop: ($35.65) 2
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7
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9
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(2 players, 2 are all-in)
Turn: ($35.65) 5
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(2 players, 2 are all-in)
River: ($35.65) 5
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(2 players, 2 are all-in)

Results: $35.65 pot ($1.75 rake)
Hero showed A
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A
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(two pairs, Aces and Fives) and won $33.90 ($18.25 net)
BTN mucked Q
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K
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(a pair of Fives) and lost (-$15.65 net)
 
I don't really know much about the ftp system. How are the points calculated, what can you do with them. What is this iron man shizzle and what are the benefits ?

I've heard something about medals ? I want a medal.
 
PLease insert villains name here -----> XXX XXX
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xxxreXnexxx - The X in the middle of his name is actually there. TR has him playing 60k hands between 100 and 1kNL winning at 2.3 BB/100
 
eNTy said:
I don't really know much about the ftp system. How are the points calculated, what can you do with them. What is this iron man shizzle and what are the benefits ?

I've heard something about medals ? I want a medal.
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Points are completely useless and shouldn't even be considered when looking at the benefits. I've been playing there a few months and have raked close to if not over 10k, and I finally have enough points to buy an ipod. On top of that, when you buy something with points it deducts from your mgr so you get less rakeback. Just compare fpps to the 27% rakeback (or use 28%, that's probably about right if you include ftp points and ironman).
 
zachvac said:
Points are completely useless and shouldn't even be considered when looking at the benefits. I've been playing there a few months and have raked close to if not over 10k, and I finally have enough points to buy an ipod. On top of that, when you buy something with points it deducts from your mgr so you get less rakeback. Just compare fpps to the 27% rakeback (or use 28%, that's probably about right if you include ftp points and ironman).
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points are kind of useless, yes, but ironman can be decent value for someone who plays regularly but not huge volumes. To me, it's worth about $150 per month (300 medals = $50 + mid-year bonus = $100). Last month I raked about $1000, that means ironman was worth 15% extra rakeback for 42% total.
 
BelgoSuisse said:
points are kind of useless, yes, but ironman can be decent value for someone who plays regularly but not huge volumes. To me, it's worth about $150 per month (300 medals = $50 + mid-year bonus = $100). Last month I raked about $1000, that means ironman was worth 15% extra rakeback for 42% total.
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Really? At iron I'm getting 100 medals/month which is the equivalent of $20/month. Sure the days I get more than 200 points I get a few extra medals here and there and I don't know anything about the mid-year bonus (is it just $100 mid-yea or is $100/month for that?)
 
zachvac said:
Really? At iron I'm getting 100 medals/month which is the equivalent of $20/month. Sure the days I get more than 200 points I get a few extra medals here and there and I don't know anything about the mid-year bonus (is it just $100 mid-yea or is $100/month for that?)
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Its per month. They do it in June and December.
 
watching the wsop 2007 ME final table again tells me 4 things about poker.

1. Running hotter than the sun is better than being good
2. You should open raise to >10xbb if you have a pp because you will flop a set
3. Hilm spewed his stack almost as well as i did in the scoop yesterday
4. Praying to God before each card in an all in will help you run like Jesus, doing it from the rail does not work as well
 
feitr said:
Hiya, have a couple of questions from ppl playing on "different sites" (ipokers, chuck plays prima?, zach plays UB?) How active are the HU tables there from nl200-nl1k? How good are the players at nl200+? I've decided that i am not going to play higher than nl1k, and will focus on playing 2 sites, anything from nl400-nl1k HU...so i need one more site to play. My default is pokerstars, but i won't get any rakeback there and the games aren't exactly poor compared to other sites. FT is a no-go since i can't get rakeback there and i hate them so much now i wouldn't even take it if given. One other thing to consider is that ipoker/prima, etc have higher rake for HU i think, so the games would have to be fairly weak to justify going there instead of pokerstars since 0 rakeback @ 50c rake = 50% rakeback @ $1 rake in midstakes.
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Anybody?
 
zachvac said:
Really? At iron I'm getting 100 medals/month which is the equivalent of $20/month.
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That's because you're a noob. 😀

It gets better as time goes by.

I don't know anything about the mid-year bonus (is it just $100 mid-yea or is $100/month for that?)
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it's a $600 bonus if you got iron level for 6 months. $100/month. The only trick is that there's no guarantee that it happens. It's always happened before, but they don't commit to the fact it continues.
 
Oh great, no poker for me tonight as I gotta take the dragon out!
 
You taking switch out on a date, Jag ? :\

Conversion rate on FTP raaaaaaaped me. Withdrew $605 from PS, there was 10 euros still in my neteller that should be around $615 or maybe more according to google conversion rate. I finally managed to deposit $592 on FTP :x.

Oh well At least I got rakeback + $592 bonus (I assume it's gonna hit my MGR so less or no rakeback) and the free $25 for take 2.

And sorry feitr, I don't know.
 
feitr said:
Anybody?
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Generally there are only like 5-10 HU tables running on prima, most of which are around the 50nl-200nl range. I have a feeling the 400nl+ players are actually good, whereas the 100nl regs are just laughable. Like stack A6o first hand, then 5bet jam Q7s after you've opened the button a few times, and run after losing.
 
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