[Wolffink]

Ya, Pokerstars is fun. I also trust them more than I do some of the other sites. I think PokerStars will survive when one day the pokersites implode through too much competition and eventual scandal/corruption/thievery.

Well, I wouldnt post this as a new thread, but since you mentioned it, I did play some PL 08 on Pokerstars for the first time this weekend at the .10/.25 level. I've played fixed 08, but I always liked having A-2 and knowing I was probably going to the river. A trained chimp can play low loose limit fixed 08.

Obviously with pot limit, A-2 without something else is asking to lose a good bit of your stack. I couldn't see really playing the .02/.04 levels because that's just insane.

Nice thing was after about an hour and some minutes I was up $30. A lot of people in on the pots, not much preflop raising, and I got big calls on the river when I held the nuts. 08 is a great game when you have a lot of action. A few months ago, I seemed to be in a lot of fixed 08 games, I think they were on Absolute, that everyone would fold to cutoff + 1 or cutoff, they raise and it was played max 3 people, some head to head, or the raise would win the blinds. That's pretty wacked. So I went back to Holdem and started playing Miller's short stack for No Limit, which so far is working out okay.

There's variance. You know you rarely see posts where someone goes to a game they just started playing and say "Hey! I got my butt kicked and lost ... and the game isn't very fun!"

But when beginners win at something new, they get excited and think they might have discovered the pot of gold.

The bad part of me thinks online sites might rig this--so I thought when I played my first pot limit omaha hand and I received 2 aces! (unfortunately since it was my first 0mahaHigh pot limit game, i was on the .02/.04 table), though still ended up losing the hand.

But ya, PokerStars isn't bad at all! And I'm back reading the 08 posts trying to pick up more on how to play 08 besides playing A-2, A-3, 4 cards above a 9, wait for the nuts....blah...