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spoohunter
10-06-2005, 03:16 PM
this sucks.
10-06-2005, 03:17 PM
adapt
10-06-2005, 03:32 PM
Why are you playing at Absolute. Move over to one of the many many sites that don't suck.
10-06-2005, 04:27 PM
I noticed the same thing, cleared the raked hands for my PSO bonus and I am planning on leaving the rest of my deposit bonus there.

There are many better places out there.
10-06-2005, 04:46 PM
i used to not like absolute but i dont think its all that bad...
10-06-2005, 04:59 PM
This just in: sites with perpetual, stackable bonii and rakeback are home to extremely weak-tight players.

Also: water is wet. Film at 11.
SharkBait
10-06-2005, 05:05 PM
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This just in: sites with perpetual, stackable bonii and rakeback are home to extremely weak-tight players.

Also: water is wet. Film at 11.

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Well done sir.
oreogod
10-06-2005, 07:29 PM
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adapt

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or learn how to play shorthanded (HU to 3-6 players).
10-06-2005, 09:27 PM
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or learn how to play shorthanded (HU to 3-6 players).

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Having played my first session of 6-max at Absolute today, I would tend to agree with this. The 6-max 1-2 tables seem much fishier than the full tables.

Just be warned, playing 6-max is different from full ring, and has greater variance.
crazy canuck
10-06-2005, 09:36 PM
HAHAHAHA

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RiverTheNuts
10-06-2005, 09:59 PM
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HAHAHAHA

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yes, lmfao
banditdad
10-06-2005, 10:51 PM
Unlimited bonus, rakeback that is not offset against bonus, and players that will call down with any piece. If you don't like the site you need to play better.
ewile
10-06-2005, 11:00 PM
I like Absolute and have decent success there.
I played Gamesgrid for a couple of weeks when they first started up and found those games truly unbearable (and unbeatable)

I really hope that Absolute can keep growing!
dogmeat
10-06-2005, 11:08 PM
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this sucks.

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I don't know what games you were playing, but I deposited there for the first time in about six months, and have been playing the $4 and $2 NL games and every table has at least three players that are poker-impaired.

If you don't like those games, I can't help you.

Dogmeat /images/graemlins/spade.gif
10-06-2005, 11:15 PM
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Unlimited bonus, rakeback that is not offset against bonus, and players that will fold when faced with a preflop raise. If you don't like the site you need to play better.

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FYP.
10-07-2005, 12:11 AM
There 2/4 Limit short handed games are the softest I have ever seen. What rock garden are talking about?
theben
10-07-2005, 12:26 AM
great post
obsidian
10-07-2005, 12:44 AM
Is their 10/20 any good?
Wes ManTooth
10-07-2005, 01:18 AM
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Is their 10/20 any good?

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one particular 6 max table 10/20, average pot $169 players/flop 53% 120+ Hands per hour
10-07-2005, 01:36 AM
Not bad, but like any site when you get over 5/10 it gets harder.
oreogod
10-07-2005, 02:04 AM
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HAHAHAHA

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yes, lmfao

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thanks. Didnt quite come off how I wanted it...supposed to be Sklansky/Malmuth popping up subliminally advertising their books. Working on one, where they box each other...with Ed Miller as the referee.
Arnfinn Madsen
10-07-2005, 07:23 AM
Not to brag or anything, but I play for a living and I mostly play at Absolute. Rock is not equivalent to good player. Some of these rocks are so easy to read that it makes them easy to beat, first I started raising with crap and now I have actually taken the mental step that I have started 3-betting with crap. Even if I know their hand is better than my their preflop and postflop predictability gives me a winning edge.

And the fun part is all their berating of how I don't know how to play (for not following their "rules"), how I am the big fish and they will get all my money etc. One guy folded his BB to my preflop raise 6 times in a row, then telling me in chat that he would win the big pots since he would be in with the best hand while I would only get the small ones. At the 7th time he 3-betted my steal, and I folded to his flop bet, then I continued stealing his blind. Wonder how +EV that rock strategy is /images/graemlins/smile.gif.
paperboyNC
10-07-2005, 10:01 AM
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Not to brag or anything, but I play for a living and I mostly play at Absolute. Rock is not equivalent to good player.

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No offense or anything, but usually when people start with "not to" they mean just the opposite /images/graemlins/smile.gif
Arnfinn Madsen
10-07-2005, 10:04 AM
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Not to brag or anything, but I play for a living and I mostly play at Absolute. Rock is not equivalent to good player.

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No offense or anything, but usually when people start with "not to" they mean just the opposite /images/graemlins/smile.gif

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/images/graemlins/smirk.gif Maybe it came off that way, but my intention was to point out that your opponents do not need to be loose to make money in poker (seems to be the hardest myth to kill). An attempt to open the eyes of those who complain about games/sites tightening up.
lefty rosen
10-07-2005, 11:47 AM
I can only see this working well at 10/20 or higher as the rake has less relavancy. If you pay 5 percent rake on tiny pots. Playing in a rock garden is awful.....
Arnfinn Madsen
10-07-2005, 12:23 PM
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I can only see this working well at 10/20 or higher as the rake has less relavancy. If you pay 5 percent rake on tiny pots. Playing in a rock garden is awful.....

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No flop no drop, and small pots which weak-tightness often results in gives each player an equivalent of 10c in bonus, so the real rake in these weak tight games is really low on a per hand basis.
10-07-2005, 05:29 PM
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Rock is not equivalent to good player.

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This is why I have continued to play there - it's good to learn to beat the weak-tighties.

And as I say, if you've got the roll and nads for 6-max, it seems to be a different world.
Leavenfish
10-07-2005, 07:19 PM
This is why hardly anyone plays there and those who do play there brag about how great it is...to get fools to come play! That's what I hear anyway...full ring games anyway.

---Leavenfish
pokermachine
10-18-2005, 12:47 AM
You are a really bad player!!!
oreogod
10-18-2005, 01:09 AM
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And as I say, if you've got the roll and nads for 6-max, it seems to be a different world.

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AYE! AND IT CAN BE!


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