Interesting Poker Stars Observation

PokerStars is set to eclipse Party in total players (especially if Party keeps running those sucky new TV ads), so it makes sense that many will be bad.

[UATrewqaz]

I recently played 7K hands of 1/2 at Stars to clear 3 pending bonuses and you are right, there are lots of terrible players that mulitable and I would see them day after day.

There were alot more TAG's than on PP and this made the bad players stand out even more, but day after day the terrible players were there multi-tabling (I was 6 tabling and there were usually only 6-8 full 1/2 tables going at any given time).

the first 6K hands, - 120 BB
the last 1K hands, +150 BB , for a net of +30 BB and a 0.40 BB/100 rate.

Variance is a biatch... but the $390 worth of bonuses made it worth the time.

[MicroBob]

I'm not concerned with how many Stars has COMPARED to Party.

I just think it's impossible for a site with 40k-50k players during the daytime (and 60k or more at night) to be a total 'tight-aggressive, rock-fest'.
I haven't played much cash-game poker at Stars...but when I have I have found some pretty fishy players.

I mean, there are 50k-freaking players on there. They aren't all Howard Lederer. Especially at the .25/.50 level.

[cardcounter0]

Yes, limit games. I just thought it was interesting that on Party the fish pretty much are at 1 table (lately a 6-max one), while at Stars there is a greater tendency for them to multi-table.

And I had a guy start berating a player when he got his KK cracked after limping in with it on the button. Beat by the SB who had 99, flopped a set, and raised and re-raised it all the way. In the ensuring conversation between the two (after the player had made statements like he never raises AA because he always gets beat), he admited to also playing at two NL tables at the same time.

So this chump was not only multi-tabling, he was mixing NL with Limit games at the same time.

[68Mustang]

PS is definately a gold mine. Even with .10 and .20 limit , max multitabling with no thinking robotic SSH play makes a huge profit and the no-rake taken is a nice bonus.Can't wait for my BR to reach the .25/.50 tables.

[BigBiceps]

I don't understand your example.

Are you saying not to call in the SB with 99 to a late position raise?

Or that he was bad for multiple raises later with a disguised hand?

[ckmo]

i like the 36/2 over 1500 hands with a .8 postflop AF that 4 tables .5/1 with me now. He was playing .25/.50 with me while i came up there too. Poor guy is on a downswing too....

[MicroBob]

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I don't understand your example.

Are you saying not to call in the SB with 99 to a late position raise?

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in his example the button limped-in with KK on the button (he didn't raise).

[Greg J]

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i like the 36/2 over 1500 hands with a .8 postflop AF that 4 tables .5/1 with me now. He was playing .25/.50 with me while i came up there too. Poor guy is on a downswing too....

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Something tells me this is a permanent downswing.

[cardcounter0]

Not only did he limp in on the button, but when the SB flopped his his set, he continued to re-raise the SBs raises all the way to the river. I guess he thought a mere overpair was good, and the SB was capping every turn with top pair? Then whined about losing to the set.
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I see why you guys like no-limit.