Anyone else noticed that the last 1 or 2 years there is an increase of 1000% of russian players in poker rooms. No offence but i really try to avoid them because 80% of them play poker like maniaks. I'm really carefull before sitting at a cash table to avoid them but you can't do it at the tournaments. I have the feeling i got cracked every F*****G time against marginal hands like Q9 J10.... Anyone else has bad experience with them?
P.S when i was writting this someone calls of my allin raise TT with A6 suited and hits his flush. Watched his profile and guess where he's from lol
Poker is enjoying a massive worldwide boom, and its attracted millions of people who've seen a couple of episodes of Poker after dark and think they can play the game.
Certainly at lower limits, sites like Pokerstars and Full Tilt are a joke. The standard is awful, and I've got to say this, many of the worst are German, American and Canadian..
They all have their own traits..
Germans will never fold and will raise with anything..
Canadians just go all in with any garbage and pray
Americans - hyper aggressive, massive overbetters, and overvalue their hands.
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Posted by teteban:
Posted by fcumred: They all have their own traits..
Germans will never fold and will raise with anything..
Canadians just go all in with any garbage and pray
Americans - hyper aggressive, massive overbetters, and overvalue their hands.
Meh...generalising per se usually gets you nowhere
yep not all Canadian dude ...ok a few but not me and look at the pca final table in the news section 2-canadian 1-german 1-russian guess your wrong I just hate them because they always end up 2 or 3 at my table talking to each other and I dont understand a thing .....very frustrating ...damn they dont even have the same letters then we do
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yes last two years russian players occupied all poker sites they play a lot off strange hands but there are some kind off great players and they play clever and win a lot i just saw that last some quite big tours on the pokerstars site at the final table is half or maybe sometimes more players is from russian great because they are ours neighbors just russians starts use more internet and just come to poker world hope some day one russian get WCOP because they are really big nation
just wait 2 or 3 years and u see how many we will have poker players from Chinese because they interesting on poker only start growing jet good luck all and be happy
Posted by ultraess: P.S when i was writting this someone calls of my allin raise TT with A6 suited and hits his flush. Watched his profile and guess where he's from lol
That's not a problem of origin, but a problem of donks.
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i have to agree that there are really a lot more russian players online than some years ago but i don't care about the origin , donks , fishes , sharks ,thight , bad and good players do you find in every country .
Posted by mazas: great because they are ours neighbors hope some day one russian get WCOP because they are really big nation
mazas, thank you for kind words. It is good to see that despite occasional outbreaks of nasty politics between our countries, reasonable people still respect each other. And believe me, it is mutual
Regarding the topic. We have a boom of online poker. It started 3 - 4 years ago when the TV broadcasts of WSOP were shown. About a year ago (may be a bit more) a major TV channel together with Poker Stars started a poker show. Via sattelites at PS one could gain a seat at this show. And you won't believe how many Russians want to show their faces on TV. The show still goes on. And this is in the country where poker (and other gambling) was prohibited last summer.
Thousands of Russians registered at Poker Stars. Some moved to other rooms. That's why we are so many. And when we are in a bunch we get nasty, obnoxious and rude (I don't know why). This is why reasonable Russian people try to avoid their countrymen at poker tables. Also when we go for a vacation abroad we choose a resort with no Russians But there is a lot of nice people as well. Three best Russian poker players Demidov, Kravchenko and Lunkin are all nice personalities.
ultraess, I am nice too and I play reasonable poker. Come play with me at Poker Stars
PS And, ultraess, forgot to mention. We lost to you at football, let us win at poker from Slovenians...
Edited by schmoyster (19 January 2010 @ 17:17 GMT)
lol, sounds like a whole lot of good "Russian Vodka" and poker going on in your country. I know I recently did a thread about people shoving pf with 30 - 45bb, I'll have to pay more attention to what country these people are from
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After a drink people think they are better and play more agressive with lower cards... And russian... likes to drink we can't say they not... and i am sure that much russian players drink and play ...
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its just that 20% or something of world population is russian federation, so it only looks that they play badly. the more players, the more donks. i think in my homeland Estonia we have also lots of bad players, but have you ever heard about Estonian maniac donks? no, coz there is only 1,5 million of us
And Schmoyster-when you are right, you are right. I only wish there were more Russians like you.
Edited by pokkerimees (20 January 2010 @ 14:29 GMT)
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[/QUOTE]P.S when i was writting this someone calls of my allin raise TT with A6 suited and hits his flush. Watched his profile and guess where he's from lol [/QUOTE]
Perhaps if you were only concentrating on your game rather than writing on bankrollmob you would bust them alot more ...
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i think bad players are everywhere and you can't just single them out on the basis of country/race. although the theory that they drink and play does make sense, lol
from my experience of online gaming (incl. poker) most of those jerks and maniacs are polaks and germans... PS. if u play drunk - u lose, so pray for drunk russians at the table
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Hi!!
Are you ready for the players from China? When they begin to play online poker in a serious way, in every table we will see 4 or 5 of them. Just like USA and Canadian players at night in FTP.
they play a lot off strange hands but there are some kind off great players and they play clever and win a lot 
