Pacific Poker (cash)

[Bozza]

How are people getting on? Seems to have been a few new players joining up from the NSC ad since we "came back" according to 888.com's stats.

I'm just playing for the first time in a month or two right now.

 

[Benny Seagull]

didn't see that thread? you guys playing with real or play money and what's the link?

 

[Bozza]

Click on the advert in the top right...

 

[SK1NT]

ive moved onto party poker as pacific poker need photographic proof that my credit card is mine and yet i was able to use it for 6months prior , muppetts

 

[Easy 10]

Swimmingly thanks Bozza.
Cashed up a couple of times (and bought a couple of DVD's with the proceeds). I'm back up to $83 playing 5c/10c tables. Marvellous.

 

[Bozza]

Play any tourney's, Easy?

 

[Easy 10]

Yeah played a few. Did a $3 buy-in last week and came 2nd, (beaten on a FLUSH for christs sake - I had a J, redneck bitch had a K). Only won about $6 that time I think, but the tournies are good fun, as there's definately far more "edge" to it playing No Limits than there is on the sit & go's.

Just sit back and let the muppets go all-in against each other early doors, then start getting involved later. Usually pays off, with a little luck. Love it.

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

Play any tourney's, Easy?

Stan James is a good site for tournaments as well. Loads of options, quite easy players. Because it's linked to a betting site, you get a lot of people sliding cash from their sportsbook to the poker accounts. I hover the SNGs at anything between $2 and $5, playing 3 tables at a time, and don't often fail to come away with a profit (very tight playing works almost every time). It's not an income, but it's enough to uplift my cash for the annual Disney trip! Cash tables are not bad, but there are better players than me, so I have to keep on the lower limits (under $3/$6 otherwise I get burnt!). Cashing out is easy, straight back onto the Switch card that paid it in!

Pacific is nice, but the software can be a little glitchy at times. Very friendly site, no Phil Hellmuth wannabes like at Party!

 

[Easy 10]

It's not an income, but it's enough to uplift my cash for the annual Disney trip!

Christ Hampshire, you LEGEND. Helping fund holidays from playing Poker, now thats damn clever. And there's me happy with a few DVD's. I doff my cap sir.

Know what you mean though - damage limitation, selective hands, tight patient play all the way, and reap the rewards. Whst size blinds do you normally play ?

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

Christ Hampshire, you LEGEND. Helping fund holidays from playing Poker, now thats damn clever. And there's me happy with a few DVD's. I doff my cap sir.

Know what you mean though - damage limitation, selective hands, tight patient play all the way, and reap the rewards. Whst size blinds do you normally play ?

Anything under the $3/$6 - pots are large enough without the fear of getting blinded out waiting for a decent hand. I go in with around $45. These are all fixed limit - a lunatic on a no limit table can wipe out profits in one stupid hand!

I try and play three tables at a time, but it can get frantic (need a nice big monitor to avoid folding decent hands by mistake!) I tend to leave the MTTs alone, everyone jumps on them thinking they are going to make the big one, so they play stupid hands - too many bad beats on those tables! SNGs are nice - steady players, you can stay tight without too much fear of getting rivered by an idiot!

Helping to fund holidays helps the missus cope with me playing as well! I started off injecting £25 a month, but I haven't injected cash for ages - and I have been taking out instead! I am never going to appear in Vegas on the final table, but I will always be able to balance out swimming with the Manatees!

 

[Bozza]

I struggle with staying tight and retaining my discipline.

Example: right now in a money tourney and down to 5 players. If I come 3rd I get 4* my stake, 2nd = 6 times and 1st = 10 times. Everyone is now so cagey as they want to get into the money and I'm now starting to bet on crap as I'm getting bored with it all.

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

I struggle with staying tight and retaining my discipline.

Example: right now in a money tourney and down to 5 players. If I come 3rd I get 4* my stake, 2nd = 6 times and 1st = 10 times. Everyone is now so cagey as they want to get into the money and I'm now starting to bet on crap as I'm getting bored with it all.

Then do something else at the same time. I have a browser window open (obviously!), I also have Media Player running with a set playlist (music which keeps me "up" rather than zones me out). Don't try and play the players - play the cards in front of you. All the talk about "tells" and "bluffs" online is pretty much crap - if you have anything in the range of AA, KK, QQ, JJ, 1010, 99, AK, AQ, then you have a hand which can be played - forget the suited connectors, A(Any), they will get you stuffed.

People playing for the bubble is pain in the arse - but you can make money here. Play some "non-premium" hands aggressively, and steal some blinds. Be prepared to get stung though - never bet more than you can recover in a couple of button revolutions!

Staying tight is hard to do when it gets boring, but it is what will get you to the cash and send them looking for the next table!

 

[Jello]

I've been playing a lot of $2.50 buy in tournaments with 6 players. Best to stay tight till the blinds build up enough that you can bluff people of them. Put £20 in last month but not made a real profit yet, ticking over as it's quite easy to win these games.

 

[Easy 10]

You're way ahead of me then Hampshire...I can't cope with more than 1 game at a time. I like to get a "feel" for the players to see if they're generally full of shit or not, and there's no way I could handle that over 2 or 3 tables.

 

[Bozza]

Hampshire - I know all that. I still get bored - even with everything else I'm doing.

Anyway, an update: I won the tourny.

 

[Easy 10]

Nice one Bozza. How much ?

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

You're way ahead of me then Hampshire...I can't cope with more than 1 game at a time. I like to get a "feel" for the players to see if they're generally full of shit or not, and there's no way I could handle that over 2 or 3 tables.

Too many players to get a feel for them at the lower limits - I play the cards, not the people. And most of the people at these tables are doing the same - they can't remember what hands you played or how you played them - generally bluffing only works when you are down to the last 2/3/4 people and the concentration levels are up.

I've just taken 3rd in a SNG by doing nothing but folding! Everyone else was all-in all over the place, got blinded out in the end, and only just lost out with an all-in of my own. Two tables left..

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

Hampshire - I know all that. I still get bored - even with everything else I'm doing.

Anyway, an update: I won the tourny.

Yaay!

 

[Easy 10]

Too many players to get a feel for them at the lower limits - I play the cards, not the people. And most of the people at these tables are doing the same - they can't remember what hands you played or how you played them - generally bluffing only works when you are down to the last 2/3/4 people and the concentration levels are up.

True to a large extent - but there are still some lucrative fools doing the rounds who never fold, play everything, and can be systematically raped at will. If you ever see Rambo85 or Coast50 at the table, you'll know what I mean. Cash cows ready to be milked.

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

True to a large extent - but there are still some lucrative fools doing the rounds who never fold, play everything, and can be systematically raped at will. If you ever see Rambo85 or Coast50 at the table, you'll know what I mean. Cash cows ready to be milked.

True - we had a girl who logged on with her cheating boyfriends (large) account, and capped out with every single bet, on every single hand. You should have seen the queue of people trying to get into the game! She gave away a couple of hundred dollars in about 30 minutes....

This is why I like Stan James - the betters slide their cash to the poker tables because they have watched poker on telly and believe they are Amarillo Slim - Pacific is the same because of the link to 888.com. The only drawback with the ones the play every hand is that at some point they are going to hold AA when you are jamming the pot with KK...