Tight Poker

[Linuxrocks]

I have decided to deposit 300$ on full-tilt for their 100% match bonus. Coming fresh from Pacific Poker 50 NL success (I tripled my 100$ roll in a few hours), I took the 3 50 NL tables on Full-tilt head-on. Wham ! Wham ! Wham ! Before I barely got my first break coffee, I lost all the buy-ins. What the ****? The tables were ultra-rock-garden. I min-raise with AA, KK, no-one calls, even the blinds ! I raise with T8s, one guy calls, I flop a flush and he shows me a higher one. Bang ! a drop of 30$. I raise with AQ, got called by one guy, Axx flop, bet, raise, bet, he shows AK, another 30$ drop. It went like that. I could see atleast 5 bonus whores playing on all three tables simultaneously. I switched tables, but I found a different set of bonus whores.

Finally, I was down to 120$, then the reality struck. My Semi-Laggy play doesn't work against rocks. Someone even commented on how tight the tables were, and I asked him whether it's always like this, and he said it's much more fishy in the night.

Ok, enough I thought, and dropped to 25NL 3-tables, and a 5/0.5 tourney. What a relief? I went on to win probably the next 7 out of 10 tourneys, and doubled up on a few NL tables, and my roll is showing 308$. 25NLs are very soft, and people limp with a lot of suited crap. I also saw a lot of people buying in for the minimum 10$. I tortured all the short-stacks whenever I got a chance. I don't have to say much about 5/0.5 tourneys. They are the easiest I have ever seen on any site.

It was an interesting experience, as it's been a while since I played a lot of poker. Hope this review helps someone. Summary: 50 NL on Full-Tilt is full of bonus whores playing like utlra-rocks, play 25NL you will win a lot more, and clear the bonus only a little slowly.