Joined: Oct '09
Location: Spain
Age: 60 (M)
Posts: 2851
I signed up day before yesterday to Fast Poker. Got the $10 bonus, and was happily surprised to see that I had €3 in my account from WAY back when i played there a bit. (freeroll winnings?)
So I started playing and it went quite well the first day. Micro limits of course with that BR.
Built it up to €12 the first day and cleared half of the bonus. By 01h00 in the morning, there were only about 20/25 people left, so it became "Slow Poker".
Yesterday I tried again and the whole thing played differently. I will get a bunch of stupid comments probably, but the East Europen countries had now gotten involved.....
Remember, this is basically "Cash" play in a Fast Poker setup.
And the whole thing went to hell! All-ins, ridiculous 25x raises, etc etc.... Very sad.
Went down to €2 and i thought I would end up broke. with such a small BR, it goes down fast because they are all 6-man tables, and with all those ridiculous raises and all-ins, it´s tough not to lose your buy-in to the blinds. Tightened up MUCH, and was able to save it and build back to €9. The bonus is almost cleared.
I just find it sad thet the East. Europeans ruin just about every game in the micro/low levels. (and no, I don´t mean ALL EE, but in general it´s a fact)
First day I had great fun. Second day a lot of players with names like Ru Ru, vlad35... etc, and the fun was over. No use raising, no use putting money in the pot unless you are prepared to go all-in pre-flop or after. pfffff..............................................
Not planning to deposit there yet, so I´ll have to play those limits until I get some more cash built up. Whether it will be possible or not with this nonsense...who knows?
After that there is a €200 bonus ready, but harder to clear. We´ll see...
Joined: Mar '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 44 (M)
Posts: 6714
FT was the same when it started, lots of people unsure how to play, it will level out, also I guess a lot of people there are donking off the free $, but over all these game are over aggressive, and that's fine IMO, people will run in to you and call your AA shoves, nice easy game, but quite swingy so yer, having a small BR there makes it hard. GL to ya.
Joined: May '08
Location: Germany
Age: 59 (M)
Posts: 6786
There is no rule that people have to play propper poker. So if they like to play bingopoker, you have to adapt, or you must go up in stakes, where they respect your raises.
Joined: Oct '09
Location: Spain
Age: 60 (M)
Posts: 2851
B1gfoot:
It´s just that they are not free $. You have to deposit to release the bonus. So they are "donking" out with their own money.
Shokaku:
If you read it again, i said i will not deposit there. i just had a few € still there from way back. So i do not have the option to go to higher limits, and I´m dangerously close to losing the small BR because of the "bingo" play. Just a shame, i liked it the first day it started. Now it´s changed to Bingo and it sucks. Very close to releasing the €10, but I might "just" not make it due to this kind of play. Too bad...
Joined: May '09
Location: India
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 4873
same reason i didnt take this offer, crazy play increases variance and you need good bankroll incase things dont go your way. maybe things will calm down in few days
Joined: Aug '10
Location: Germany
Age: 52 (M)
Posts: 2219
The microgaming have a fast software and so it is good that they offer this new speed game. And the best is, that brmob offer the new leaderboardfreeroll series ar unibet. So you can use your freeroll winnings for the new game there.
Joined: Oct '09
Location: Spain
Age: 60 (M)
Posts: 2851
Great!
These morons succeeded in completely destroying the Beta of Fast Poker on Unibet. It´s now come down to raising 4 times the pot or all-in. (if they were not all-in already pre-flop)
They chased away most players yesterday when this ridiculous stuff started. It started with well over 100+++ players, down after this to about 50. It´s not FAST poker anymore, and comparable to play money games.
Thouroughly disgusted.
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appears I was wrong. the bonus money can be played.
So I guess it´s dorky play money for most. Too bad. Was fun the first day when people played seriously.
Joined: Oct '09
Location: Spain
Age: 60 (M)
Posts: 2851
4 days of this garbage, and I went from €22 to just a few cents just as I cleared the bonus, lol.
After 2 days, I opened up an SnG table on the side just to compare a bit. I cashed in ALL snG's except 1.
The thing was, The flop s kept coming up 1. 3 suited cards 2. trips 3. 1 pair on the flop 4. AAK, QKQ, 227, 656, etc etc... What a joke. The Party tables flopped "normally", the "Fast Poker" tables flopped this other stuff all day long. And I'm talking FLOP, not that fact that this is Rush type of Poker and people play only good pocket pairs, reulting in better hands post flop. Ridiculous. Guess they aren't using their regular RNG, because I played Unibet a long time ago and it was normal.
So I'm now officially a Rigtard, at least as far as the Fast Poker Beta is concerned. Ending up almost EXACTLY at 0 at the end of the Bonus, lol.
Lost all KK, yes, ALL. ALL QQ, and most AA. Got 4 of a kind so many times I can't remember. Got SO many Full Houses, losing most of them to 4 of a kind.
I played Rush quite regularly on FT, and so I roughly know what to expect, but this? lol Was fun and frustrating, but I will NEVER touch this game again. I'm sure it will become regular once it's running, but I prefer to wait for Rush on FT to come back.
It was funny to see the Party tables hitting all sorts of flops, and the hands I stuck around for on Fast Poker Beta hit trips, pairing up all the time, and same suit flops, one after the other.
Joined: Feb '10
Location: Suriname
Age: 47 (M)
Posts: 1189
I do not like to play fast poker much, because I lost a huge amount of my bankroll when I was playing Rush poker, so I decided no more fast poker for me ever.
I applied last week and I'm waiting to clear the Security check....guess they don't believe I'm me. Just one question, does one have to play the Fast Poker format with the NDB or can other games be played as well. ie Sng, Don, BI Tournies?
Joined: Oct '09
Location: Spain
Age: 60 (M)
Posts: 2851
Posted by rbdflyboy: I applied last week and I'm waiting to clear the Security check....guess they don't believe I'm me. Just one question, does one have to play the Fast Poker format with the NDB or can other games be played as well. ie Sng, Don, BI Tournies?
The NDB is only for Fast Poker. In fact you have to log into a Browser session, as they don't have a downloadable client yet. It's totally apart from the regular Poker client for the moment.
Thanks, Island Jack...still waiting for security clearance . Haven't heard back yet...although they're sending me promo emails like I'm already approved. Strange.....
