Nice score SnWhy.

@ the whole starting tables thing, grow some balls and try to start tables. Way better than sitting on a waitlist with 6 people on it. And I always make sure to sit directly across from other regs, and hope to get the same in return. And if someone insta sits out I really don't care, as long as the table gets filled with some flounder.

OK, since we're so into etiquette why isn't it regarded as bad etiquette to use TNFT to click the TimeBank automatically???

I think unnecessary timewasting chases away fish and is disrespectful to all opponents. It makes me so mad I might just sit out on any reg who uses it HU!

Bolded for mf'ing truth.

I rarely have to go to my timebank, even when mass tabling and this annoys the crap out of me too and comes up in the Stars thread often.

Counterargument is that the time-bank is there for a reason and all players have the same access to it. I always play fast- sometimes too fast.

Nobody has brought up the point yet so i have to ask SNwhy:

Now you have just luckboxed $7k are you got to GTFO of $50 ?

Please !!!
Seriously tho, congrats man

Lately I've been starting a few table while sitting on waiting lists. I might transition to starting more and waiting less as I get more comfortable. The past few pages ITT have had some good info on the rationale and strategy behind it.

Theory: Sitting at an empty table, when someone sits down across from me, he's a reg. When someone sits down to directly to my right, he's a fish. When someone sits down directly to my left, I'm the fish! LOL

I mean its for my benefit as much as theirs. Why have a reg on your direct left or right at all when some fish will prob just take that seat?

This

Exactly. You don't want to be directly next to a reg in either seat when the table fills anyway... It's just common sense.

Although I do love it when the fish sits down HU... directly on my right.

Well some of us are trying to get FTP to ban auto-timebanking software or find some way to make their life hell by breaking them every software update.

I think this would only make a difference to a small amount of players. IMO, fish time-out much more than regs playing 10+ tables. Also, 24>16 so there really shouldn't be too much complaining about "slow" stars regs coming over to FTP.

MX Revolution +TN + 2 30" monitors= no problems, even if you get rid of the auto-timebank.

thx everyone for the congrts.

I'm a total fish in cash games so i'm still gonna keep playing 50 nl combined with 100nl untill I've established i can win at FR 100nl cash games. gonna withdraw some funds and have fun with the moniez.

No maniez in donkaments - SnWhy is solid.

Nice score buddy! Are your nipples raw yet?

I never bothered to ask him, because i wasnt one of the 24 tablestarting guys. I opened my one or two tables and that was it. But i obviously never joined his tables.
And to be perferctly reasonable here, i'm pretty sure Rusty would have stopped it, if someone asked him to do it at their table. I dont know him, but many ppl saying he's such a good sport and whatnot.

But i do think the discussion was more general and his name only came up, because he has an easy to remember name. Or because his stars SN is well known on 2+2.

No more nipples in MTTs, too much rubbingz

unless villain is martink. In that case you must counter blitzkrieg.

abso****inglutely

yeah, that's why I made the statement you quoted.

yep, those two reasons, plus he's been doing it forever

Obviously a real life pic of SnWhy rubbing the fiddy is required -- post in BBV for photoshopaments and give us a link in this thread.

Alternatively, you can hire a (ahem) model to rub your fiddy on her titty.

I think y'all are making a mountian out of a mole hill with the "sitting out at new tables" thing. Compared to the sins of

• taking the jesus seat on a fish who just joined a new table
• taking the jesus seat on the reg

sitting out at a new table is nothing.

Well, we haven't played chess since then, FWIW, haha. But yeah, not often this happens. Glad you all liked the story, though. None of the pictures are of her, but the one on the top resembles her face. She knows a little poker, but not all that interested in it.

God, I think I'm going to throw out this laptop when I get home. I'm in DC for the week and been grinding on my laptop for the first time ever. Down 5BI under AIEV in 5k hands which doesn't account for people sucking out when there are like less than a few pennies left to get in.

And as I say this, some 100/12 guy catches two pair with J4 to crack my aces. I hate this game.

But a few hands later, he gets it all in with bottom pair vs my top pair. I get it all back.

Why would you NOT take the jesus seat on a fish if you can? First come first serve imo.

I think funkyj was referring to the scenario

1. Reg starts table
2. Fish sits
3. Reg2 takes Jesus seat

I pretty much agree 100% with everything you said. And I can see how it's kind of unnecessary on FTP, but then again not a huge issue. But yea, you summed up perfectly everything I was trying to say last night so I don't think I need to say any more on this issue.

And like Funky said, there's way worse things people do when starting tables

Also, with the jesus-seat stealing thing, the only time I'm ok with it is when it's kind of a "ill scratch your back, you scratch mine". Only if the other reg is a regular table starter is it ok for them to do that to me (since I'll just do it back to them). The thing that tilts me the most is bumhunting jesus-seaters who just sit in the lobby waiting for a fish to sit HU so he can jesus-seat

no offense, but imo all this table etiquette about how to behave on new started tables, where to seat, where not to seat... IT IS EFFING BS !

as far as game rules are respected (because it is absolutely normal that poker rooms enforce players to do it!) everything else is purely crap.

what is next? should we play poker with fair play...!? should regs mathematically split fish money equally!? should regs do not take each others money?! ..or if a reg stack-off a fish, should he leave the table and let other reg take his seat!?

"always make sure to sit directly across from other regs"
wtf is this ?!?! who is entitled to be a reg and who's not?

every player (fish, reg, whatever...) is equal in the tank. play poker. earn cash. there is no room for politeness in this game..

(btw, i also hated the shortstakers, i still hate the halfstackers. but i blame the poker rooms for them to allow those low buyins)