Full Tilt Poker Game #11605669360: Table Vespertina - $1/$2 - No Limit Hold'em - 5:52:16 ET - 2009/04/10
Seat 1: fligan ($306.70)
Seat 2: TotallyWired ($198.95)
Seat 3: nemesisalmighty ($81.30)
Seat 5: mmateo1 ($100)
Seat 7: ooo chronic ooo ($381.15)
Seat 8: RoundersClub ($284.60)
Seat 9: pungster ($161.15)
RoundersClub posts the small blind of $1
pungster posts the big blind of $2
toona is awesom sits down
mmateo1 posts $2
The button is in seat #7
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ooo chronic ooo [9d 9s]
fligan folds
TotallyWired folds
nemesisalmighty raises to $4
mmateo1 adds $2
mmateo1 folds
toona is awesom adds $80
ooo chronic ooo has 15 seconds left to act
ooo chronic ooo raises to $17
RoundersClub folds
pungster folds
nemesisalmighty calls $13
*** FLOP *** [2d 3h 9c]
nemesisalmighty checks
ooo chronic ooo checks
*** TURN *** [2d 3h 9c] [4d]
nemesisalmighty bets $16
ooo chronic ooo raises to $32
nemesisalmighty raises to $48
ooo chronic ooo raises to $64
nemesisalmighty calls $16
*** RIVER *** [2d 3h 9c 4d] [6c]
nemesisalmighty bets $0.30, and is all in
ooo chronic ooo calls $0.30
*** SHOW DOWN ***
nemesisalmighty shows [Kc Td] King Ten high
ooo chronic ooo shows [9d 9s] three of a kind, Nines
ooo chronic ooo wins the pot ($164.60) with three of a kind, Nines
nemesisalmighty adds $40
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $167.60 | Rake $3
Board: [2d 3h 9c 4d 6c]
Seat 1: fligan didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: TotallyWired didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: nemesisalmighty showed [Kc Td] and lost with King Ten high
Seat 5: mmateo1 folded before the Flop
Seat 7: ooo chronic ooo (button) showed [9d 9s] and won ($164.60) with three of a kind, Nines
Seat 8: RoundersClub (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 9: pungster (big blind) folded before the Flop
3 comments:
It amazes me how much more online players dump off chips at small stakes rather than microstakes, where players know their limitations and the variance that goes with NLHE. At $1-2 I see the most amazingly bad plays, things beginners wouldnt do in a XBLA Holdem. The guy flat called my 4-bet with K-10 high. Then value shoved for $.30 lol.
Unnnn-real. Play better imo.
Strange play, but like you say, the microstakes is more about beginners getting their craft down. The casual beginner will just hop right into the $1-2 and see what happens.
If you can find the right niche or a cache of them then good times ahead :)
The amazing thing is people hop online and think $1-2 is a small game - they wouldnt even consider playing smaller. Many of the players at $1-2 have ground their way up from $.01-.02, but a lot of them just depsoited a few hundred on ftp and play until its gone.
The players overall at the $.05-.10 cent games and $.10-.25 cent games I find are more consistent players. They know their limitations and how fast you can burn through 10 buy ins, even if you are a winning player. They have a lot less gamble in them, despite the stakes being so small.
A fair number of the players at $1-2 and up think "Im too good for penny poker, thats a joke" so they hop right into $1-2. Now that I have finally FINALLY finally ground my bankroll up out of the depths of online poker HELL, and can actually afford to play $1-2, Ive found that the play is overall weaker than at the lower levels.
Its more agressive, but more donkey-agressive than the expert-maniac agressive you see at $2-4 and $5-10 and up (durrr etc). Its rare you see people put their whole stack in drawing dead at any level of poker, to me it was just shocking seeing as though I had just moved up to $1-2 when this hand happened, and expected better players, not worse.
The old saying about poker is true, there are bad players at every level, even the highest stakes: take Eli Elezra for example. The guy owns half of Vegas, but he cant lay down a hand and picks the worst spots to bluff. No wonder they ask him back to GSN's HSP every year and he always gets a seat. The other players love him. To Eli's credit, Ive heard he is much better at mixed games than NLHE.
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