Then why do they sit out every time I join their tables? MOST DO NOT PLAY.

That's true but not if you have the ability to move up, eg learn the game, play less tables improve your winrate and beat the higher stakes.

eg, 2 tabling 5/10 > 10 tabling NL 100 (hourly)

Here's the thing. I get action from about 2-3 regs on a regular basis on FTP, and they're basically 400 regs too at this point. It's possible that I have an edge on them, but it's sufficently negligable to not really be worthwhile. Other than that, people just sit out. There's no requirement that people play each other, and most people won't play if they even think that there's any risk at all. Perhaps this means that I should be playing 400, as I'm sure most people at that level would play me as they have no idea who I am. However, I'm not rolled for that level.

This leads to a sort of bottleneck effect where people are "stuck" at a given level, and I'm sure I'm not the only person experiancing it. I despise bumhunting and basically never play anyone who buys in for less than full on principle, but it does put some downward pressure on both my ptbb/100 and hourly.

But that's the beauty of it... playing more hands would mean you are less selective about your matches, forcing you to play better and learn more to succeed. Going for highest $/hour is win/win/win

Yeah I agree with this totally and I dont mind sluggin it out with 90% of 200nl regs.

**** all of you pussy ass bum hunters, you *****ers shouldn't be allowed to open new tables

tom, play more than 35% of your hands hu

you must hate money

yeah sure, come play me and find out how many hands I play

Still stand by my mantra that I'll play any reg at least once, and have only refused action to one person on ftp so far. Refused on Stars once as well, but that was because for some reason MrSweets28 (OMGClayAiken) sat against me and I went lolwatseeya

I decided to post this here hoping that I could find someone to take me under there wing and get me successfully off the ground playing poker. I am finishing my last final for the semester tomorrow and will be graduating this may with a math/education degree. I was hoping that someone here would be willing to help me start out and get going playing online successfully. Up until now I have always just been putting 50 or 100 bucks on here or there running it up and then cashing out or running it back to broke.

However, now that I am finished with school and have nothing to do for 6 weeks I was am interested in playing seriously. I currently work at a retail store and am broke as **** after paying tuition bills, books, and bills. I was looking for someone to look at hand histories with me and discuss interesting spots and what they liked/disliked. I have played nl50 and nl100 hu before and would like to stick to that. I am going to use my paycheck next week to buy pt3, and get started.

My problem is that I have no money to start a roll and it would take me months to do so. I was hoping there would be someone that would be will to stake me just to get me off the ground and as I collect my paychecks I would add them to the roll and pay the staker back. Then pay all the money back plus half profits at the time.

I am not trying to scam anyone just looking to be given a shot. If anyone is interested please pm. I would give you all my info, and would not mind giving phone number to call me and talk about plays and such. Or even meet irl and grab a drink or meet up in AC (i live 2 hours from there).

HAHA

Im looking for women who model for Victoria's Secret to felate me all day long. Im not attractive, not famous, and have very little money.

Also it would be nice if someone could pay my mortgage and my bills.

This is not a scam.

poker is an economy just like every other aspect of the business world...people are slow to adjust, but it does happen eventually...the perfect example is bumhunting...tons of ppl flooded that market the last few months...only problem is they were late to the game...it is no longer the most profitable market for them but they see what people HAD done when it was still juicy and think they can have it too...eventually they will realize those games are dead, and 2hrs playing a week at 10bb/100 isnt adding up well...6m will be booming soon

I mean you see good regs play each other all the time; if you don't have a game going at w/e and really want to play, just sit with any random person who will play you and ask to 2-4 table. It's partly for money, partly to improve yourself and hopefully exert an edge on somebody. I've seen Gaucho2121 play everybody from Krantz to mastrblastr, Eskaborr play CTS and INTERNET POKERS, etc. I've played my share of regs too, and it really isn't the end of the world win or lose.

I played gaucho too, he ran like jesus! =p

LJ + cftw = HU4ROLLZ?!?

CAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGE MAAAATCCCHHH

I tried to sit a couple weeks ago, he turned me down =P

I feel like this needs to happen. Preferably be videoed from both sides. With commentary. Preferably after both of you have taken about three shots of jager.

thats true. i think we need play w/ the best regs to improve. but %50 of the time i am playing poker, i am bored. i don't want think too deep, i don't want play poker, i just want make money. a lot of times i open full tilt poker bored and play just because thats my job. i don't work to lose money, i don't work to get tilted, i work to make money.

people think i am a bum hunter and i hate this. probably people think this just because i am winning a ton of money, so they think "ohh this brazilian can't be that good, he just play soccer".

people at other thread said "urubu is a bum hunter who occasionally play w/ people who don't suck". hmm anybody here do other thing when are playing hu poker? everybody play mostly w/ donks and sometimes w/ good players.

or should i be playing w/ all regs and never w/ donks? yes, i will sit out when 18quills sit in at my 25/50 deep hu table... isnt funny play w/ retartads, i don't want money, i want good regs!!!!!

This dude is the most tilting piece of **** ever. Seriously.

lol it was really funny when you sat at my table. i mean, i'd def. play you if you promised to play at least 42% of your hands, otherwise I'll just be supremely bored and spewy!!!

but i kinda like just letting you sit at my table and feel all mannish and bigger than me. it was really hilarious. thanks again for the laughs.

PAWzzz717?

this thread is silly

table selecting at less than 200NL or maybe 400NL seems a little silly to me. if you can't beat the regs at these limits it does not seem very likely that you're going to be progressing to higher limits outside of taking shots at known fish.

not saying i can beat all the regs at 200NL and lower, that's just how i see it. and i suppose if you don't have any intention of moving up (this would be weird to me, but maybe that's the case for some) then progressing your game through playing better opponents isn't really important.

I can't believe anyone criticizes people for table selecting. Further, I can't believe anyone cares that they're being criticized for table selecting.