On Full Tilt
May. 9th, 2005 12:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peterbirksI'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.
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Date: 2005-05-09 02:40 pm (UTC)Having said that, for the player numbers available during my "window," the games, when I can find them, are pretty good. Well, they (and the handful of S&Gs I've played to date) have been good to me so far.
I'd be a big fan of mutual affiliation/rakebacking - without fiddling around getting new accounts (shades of shadiness there) we'd need a pool of players with gaps in their account lists. We'd need some kind of Humiliation game ("I have never signed up at Party" would probably be the winner) to establish where people could be sent to accrue affiliate income.
I'm game, but I'm not daft enough to organise it.
FWIW I'm known at Pokerroom, Party, Stars, Full Tilt, VC, WillHill and Paradise. Active at the first 5 (about to become 4 because I'm on the brink of cashing out at VC because (1) I don't seem to be able to win there and (2) their "generous" bonus won't clear until doomsday)
There are probably a couple or three more that I've downloaded and registered at but never deposited.
Affiliation
Date: 2005-05-09 09:43 pm (UTC)Re: Affiliation
Date: 2005-05-09 11:35 pm (UTC)