I AM NOW A POKER GOD!!! (5,100 to 1,500,000 in 1.5 hrs)
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No clue, haven't really been keeping up with it. Last I heard Pokerstars was buying out Full Tilt to help pay some of the people that lost thousands/millions when shit hit the fan. Probably still a good ways off from opening back up to US players without going through the bullshit though.
I took $400 and made $10k in 3 days on FullTilt playing in $5/$10 NL. I then lost it in 20 minutes when I played $50/$100 NL heads up with a guy just waiting in the room for me to come in. Not kidding but I should have definitely stayed at the $5/$10 table 
Hehe, reminds me of when I used to grind on pokerstars. 16 0.25/0.5 tables at a time, was so fucking boring playing TAG but it's ridiculous easy to win if you're not a retard.
When WPT first hit it was even better because scrubs were just throwing money down the toilet.
When WPT first hit it was even better because scrubs were just throwing money down the toilet.
mirin' my .25/.50 no limit skills brah?
This was 2-3 years ago when poker was my only source of income, got burnt out and said fuck it about the same time I started getting interested in IM. Was playing on mostly full tilt too so i got lucky I got out when I did.
And this is, of course, my hottest run of cards ever over a 9k~ stretch. hence why i saved this beautiful fucking graph. wish i had my database over all time still.
Not bad at all. .25/.50 is such a nice soft game as well. How many tables were you playing at once?
I took $400 and made $10k in 3 days on FullTilt playing in $5/$10 NL. I then lost it in 20 minutes when I played $50/$100 NL heads up with a guy just waiting in the room for me to come in. Not kidding but I should have definitely stayed at the $5/$10 table
yeah bro, def should have stayed at 5/10. only jedis play 50/100, you was fucked before you sat down.
this. playing ABC poker at .25/.50 was boring as hell but there was no way to lose money in the long run, especially if you kept your ego in check and stayed away from the regs that only 2-4 tabled and actually played back at you if you made a move.
12 tables across 2 monitors. anytime i tried to play 16 my play suffered horribly after about 15-30 minutes of that shit.
I don't get how people can play that many tables. I know its obviously better because you see more hands, but does that mean all you do is play conservatively? How do you keep up with who plays aggressive or who bluffs a lot with 12 tables? If someone does a search and sees your on 12 tables doesn't that just make you an easy target to be bluffed?
Usually you only play certain hands (e.g two face cards and above) and fold everything else - based on the hand you'll raise the blind accordingly. You generally don't look at individual players - you're more concerned with seat positioning and such.
You're usually only actively playing one or two hands at most at once and it play becomes almost automatic after awhile - you also get to know any regulars fairly quickly and they play-styles in relation to bluffing/aggressive play. You also don't start playing 16 tables at once, you start with one or two and then slowly add them as your play improves.
Only time I really paid attention to individual players is if they were regulars or on a bad tilt - in which case I'd obviously play more aggressively if I had good seat position.
You play poker on a basic level, kinda like you would with a strategy sheet at blackjack or something similar. Except at poker, as long as you keep your emotions in check on the bad days then it's pretty hard to come out a loser over a significant amount of hands.
There is software made that puts certain stats on the tables themselves beside the players names so you can keep up with a little more advanced moves like percentage of the time the player is likely to blind steal, re-steal, 3bet, 4bet, frequency to showdown, etc. After awhile you can throw these numbers together on the fly and get a really good idea of who you're up against, even while playing a lot of tables.
Generally though, it's best to stay away from those that play less tables that are good at playing back at you. You can take the game to another level and play back at them of course, but when you're 12+ tabling it's just going to hurt your hourly rate in the long run.
edit: ^^graphs like those above is what makes this game sick, probably would have off'ed myself at around the 25K mark