I have no evidence.

You don't need any evidence to ask FTP to investigate as far as I am aware, if you have a suspicion of wrong doing of any sort on the site you simply have to email them and they will try to find the evidence to support your claim. It should be as simple as writing to support saying 'I believe more than one person is playing X account, can you please investigate the matter thoroughly'.


I would bet a decent amount of money that my account has been investigated at least once over the last couple of years because somebody has thought the same thing. I think the volume he does is possible by one person but I also know how I felt when I was doing that kind of volume and it is with out a doubt the most painful thing I have ever put myself through.

In the early days of Jan 2014 I was certain that Trickshot was more than one guy on the account but after asking FTP to investigate and chatting to him a bunch on Skype I'm certain it was just one guy.

Legend itt

You gonna be in Vegas end of June?

It's possible but not 100%. I'm actually in South America atm but should be back home in June or July and I have to stop in Vegas to pick up my car.

I take it you will be there?

How are the pups?

Me and Kym are there last two weeks of June, it's supposed to be the first part of our honeymoon but going to organise a dinner with some people at least one night so let me know if your in town.

Funny you ask about the dogs just got back from the Spa to discover one/all of them had found a roll of bin bags from somewhere and decided to shred it into confetti while we were out!

Anyone playing the 9mill on stars and/or FTOPS 1/2 want to swap 1%?

Anyone know as to why the 50 Rush is not running at this time? Seems strange (but I have only been playing it for 10 days, but it usually starts running fairly steady 2h ago...).

There were a lot of big tournaments on yesterday - guessing a lot of people are sleeping still or taking the day off today. Give it 2-3 hours and games should start to pick up.

Thx. I figured it might have to do with the tournaments... Played 100 FF instead, much softer.

What are your guys winrate pre rb nl200 and nl400 rush? I've been playing a bunch of both, 200 have went quite well at least according aiev and semi-ok ish according to bb/100. Nl400 have not been going that great, but imo the lineups seems to be almost the same?

Enough to pay the bills.

Player pools get smaller as you move up stakes.

You have 18 more questions ;-)

Man if you only knew who I was.. I'm probably the weakest reg-ish (Not sure I would can call myself a reg tbh) player in the entire pool and you have been crushing me quite hard from what I can remember .. Point being I think I'm donating enough to get to ask some questions! It's fun to play vs you at the tables at least, you seem to be a really strong player as far as I can tell, keep it up!

There's a few guys with 5-6bb/100, a few more with 1-3bb/100, and a bunch of b/e or slight losers.

Ha I was just joking but nobody is going to tell you how much they make.

Your more than welcome to ask other stuff but the days of people posting graphs and winrates and answering strategy are long gone, you do still have 18 remaining!!! ;-)

22nd in FTOPS event 9 KK<QQ for pretty much a chip lead stack - sigh.

Tournies are the worst.

Gratz on the deep run bro!

Bl Sparky, tournies are such a mind****.

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What did you think of 5-max? Was it noticeably different from 6-max? Should we keep spreading it?

On a related note, what do any of you think about 6-max vs. 5-max in general, even for ring games? Would it be fun/interesting, terrible, or somewhere in between?

Funny you mention other games - I thought after playing the tournament that making 1/2+ Rush 5-max might have some benefits.

It was literally one of the most fun tournaments I have ever played in my life the difference from 6-max is notable. The only one thing I would suggest is bigger starting stacks but it was only a $100 event so I can understand not getting 10k or 15k chips. I think it was 5 or 6k starting maybe move it to 7.5k for $100 and 10k for $250, 15k for $500.

Nothing to do with running deep either - as a poker player it felt so pure. Fullring tournaments are just the nut low in formats but they are popular primarily because of historical reasons. If you really love to PLAY poker I don't see how you can argue 5-max isn't better.

I'm looking forward to the 4-max but I think it won't be as popular as the 5-max in general. Playing 3-5 max is what I do every day though so I'm not sure how people with out that experience would feel.

I think the idea is interesting for tournaments. I definitely wouldnt consider tourney 6max cash to 5max or anything crazy like that though.

I think alot of fun players definitely prefer 9 handed games as well, so despite our disdain for them they do still hold quite a bit of value imo

I love starting tables and playing 3 and 4 max, it's super fun. Does risk of collusion get too high for this to ever be a safe format though? I believe this is why some other networks shut down 3-max.

I honestly think 5 is the perfect balance - if you think about roughly what % of hands a fun player likes to play on average it is around the 30-40% mark which is actually about the right amount in a 5-max game.

Sometimes fun players don't know what is best for them.

What do you guys think about the Xela prop bet? It's been a couple of years since I played in the Zoom500 games and I don't know anything about what people think of him as a reg.

from what I can tell hes a pretty smart guy/good player - but hasn't really been a reg for a year or so~

Seems pretty unlikely he succeeds unless he hits the very top of his run good over those 250k hands. Only the top winner(s) get close to 6bb over a meaningful sample