Originally Posted by 6471849653
Stars is one of the sites that allow one to win a full amount for at least 50k hands at any limit. I played there ever since they started their business. But after that and especially since December in 2006, they started to use a balancing system against the better players, who will not be able to win even the worst players in the world until they are tilting. Stars however, might let one win two hours per day, but one won't win anything after that even if one plays the easiest games all day.
Fulltilt sure had some intro cards when I started there in 2006, but not many, and the problem there seemed (I have better places to play at) to be that when the (real money - the play money could be just the opposite) cash game has 4+ player, the looser as well as the loser players get proportionally more luck than the better one's, and was the exact reason why I stopped playing there at those numbers.
At Absolutepoker, if one is a new experienced player, one gets intromoney and wins on fire for a short time; I played sit/go limit holdem heads up tournaments about 40 and won about 90% of them, and before I played them I tested at play money heads up and was on fire. But then it stopped and I instantly stopped after seeing that two tournaments and went to test at play money, and the same extra bad beats were there too.
I have played shorthanded limit holdem at BOSS media network and Action poker network and I couldn't win (or at BOSS I couldn't win only in fishy shorthanded limit holdem games) , though I didn't play all that much, but I tried even play money at action poker network (at stars the play money games are not rigged, they are under random cards, but at other places they might be under the same cards) and the beats were more than they should be.
I have played at cake network and won at shorthanded limit holdem about eight big bets per 100 hands in my 1st 8k of hands, that's not abnormal for me when I am running not bad, but I think one is on fire there when one starts, and after that I was playing break even the next 5k of hands, getting the extra beats similar to pokerstars, and that is so a familiar style how it has been happening the last ten years ever since it started to happen at paradisepoker in 2000, where everyone else also were getting the beats (they even put one to lose practically every hand, not too sophisticated) and couldn't win even at the easiest games.
So, I don't mean one can't win money, but there are these points when one should put most of one''s time of playing always where one is running good. The additional points are to move up faster, not going to get one red flagged for very high win rates/amount. And then there are some forms that one can't beat, but at others one still does, e.g. the games that have less players (that form having less players) might be protected, balanced, and the more fish there are, the more their combined extra luck factor makes winning up to impossible, but supershort one might still beat them in spite of their extra luck. One also should observe the hottest players and avoid them, it being that they are still on intro money or their luck factor is marked higher at that time at least. So, it's not only about poker, but about all these other things (and the rake, rakebacks and more) that one also needs to beat.
If you don't do as well as I do, then you either are having real bad beats as fluctuations, or are not as good for the limit as you think you are.