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Well, now that Party has split off the skins (and playing Crypto and Prima), I'm finding myself at the same 18/8 tables full of rocks and TAGs even at .5/1. That has lead me to thinking about learning to beat these games instead of avoiding them.

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I'm assuming you're talking about full ring... Is Prima really that TAGish? RVP was the site that burst my online poker cherry, and I played some .5/1.0 there a few months ago before moving.

Maybe things have changed since late June when I left, but they seemed to be somewhat tighter but not like a complete rock garden. I mean 6 people wouldn't limp to see the flop or anything, but almost everyone played horribly after the flop so it didn't really matter.

Yeah, the $1/2 ring was a rock garden that I basically steamrolled for a couple of sessions before I got tired of it. I never really understood why it was so weak-tight at that level. Those weak-tighties don't know what to do when a pre-flop TAG and post-flop LAG is at the table. Good times.

That's where I noticed the difference.