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On Full Tilt
May. 9th, 2005 12:40 pmI've had a look at the Full Tilt bonus. It appears to me that I would need to play something like 9000 hands at $5-$10 to work off the $600 bonus (depending on the nature of the $5-$10 game there). That's quite a lot, even if the stuff is paid in $20 increments. By contrast, even a tight-fest like Pokerstars required just 800 hands to gain a $120 bonus, equal to 4000 hands to get the $600 on Full Tilt.
That said, I was looking at the affiliate potential of Full Tilt. Could we get something like this together? I was thinking of (unofficially) offering 10% rakeback. Then you pay them out of the 20% commission that you get.
I managed to pick up nearly $70 in an hour's play on Stars, leaving me a tantalising 3 points away from the deposit bonus when the game was close to breaking up and it became my turn for the blind, so I sat out.
Interestingly I got the chance once again to apply the "raise with a pair of threes" on the button scenario. (One limper, tight game). Folds from the blinds, flop of AKx. Check. I bet. He folds (what was that about ultra aggressive, Dave? :-)) . Clearly this move would have failed abysmally if I had flat-called.
I then played a quarter of an hour of PLO. It was down to six players and I got something like 679T double-suited in the small blind and decided to bash in a raise. Flop came JT2 rainbow. Genially it was checked round. The turn brought a Jack, also giving me a four-flush. So, I have top-two pair, a gutshot draw to a straight and a draw to a flush, in a short-handed game. I check and the next player bets out. He's been quite a heavy raiser, so this could be anything. I decide to call. River gives me a flush.
I check, he bets pot, I call. I win. I think he had a pair or some such garbage.
The pot was a mere $21 I think, but, surprisingly, I felt confident throughout. A hard one to explain, that, since one could argue that my hand was somewhat ropey. Perhaps it was the fact that it was short-handed that made me rate my hand somewhat higher. Perhaps it was that I had already seen evidence of this player's aggression.
Super/System 2 (now irritatingly renamed the rather more prosaic Super System 2) arrived this morning, so I'll give it a quick skim through this afternoon. Still awaiting Harrington on Hold 'Em.
My thoughts on tournaments this past week. Forget about being "the terrier". Someone will reraise you all-in. As soon as the antes kick in, bash in the lot, again and again and again. If you get unlucky and find Aces, Kings or Ace-King, there's always the chance that you will bad-beat them, or that by the time it happens you will have enough chips to outchip them. Most of the time, you just don't get called. A 3xBB raise seems to be getting reraised all-in about 50% of the time these days, once you get to level seven and above.
That said, I was looking at the affiliate potential of Full Tilt. Could we get something like this together? I was thinking of (unofficially) offering 10% rakeback. Then you pay them out of the 20% commission that you get.
I managed to pick up nearly $70 in an hour's play on Stars, leaving me a tantalising 3 points away from the deposit bonus when the game was close to breaking up and it became my turn for the blind, so I sat out.
Interestingly I got the chance once again to apply the "raise with a pair of threes" on the button scenario. (One limper, tight game). Folds from the blinds, flop of AKx. Check. I bet. He folds (what was that about ultra aggressive, Dave? :-)) . Clearly this move would have failed abysmally if I had flat-called.
I then played a quarter of an hour of PLO. It was down to six players and I got something like 679T double-suited in the small blind and decided to bash in a raise. Flop came JT2 rainbow. Genially it was checked round. The turn brought a Jack, also giving me a four-flush. So, I have top-two pair, a gutshot draw to a straight and a draw to a flush, in a short-handed game. I check and the next player bets out. He's been quite a heavy raiser, so this could be anything. I decide to call. River gives me a flush.
I check, he bets pot, I call. I win. I think he had a pair or some such garbage.
The pot was a mere $21 I think, but, surprisingly, I felt confident throughout. A hard one to explain, that, since one could argue that my hand was somewhat ropey. Perhaps it was the fact that it was short-handed that made me rate my hand somewhat higher. Perhaps it was that I had already seen evidence of this player's aggression.
Super/System 2 (now irritatingly renamed the rather more prosaic Super System 2) arrived this morning, so I'll give it a quick skim through this afternoon. Still awaiting Harrington on Hold 'Em.
My thoughts on tournaments this past week. Forget about being "the terrier". Someone will reraise you all-in. As soon as the antes kick in, bash in the lot, again and again and again. If you get unlucky and find Aces, Kings or Ace-King, there's always the chance that you will bad-beat them, or that by the time it happens you will have enough chips to outchip them. Most of the time, you just don't get called. A 3xBB raise seems to be getting reraised all-in about 50% of the time these days, once you get to level seven and above.
