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Here ya go Jovi, another blog! So, the story with this blog is that I have been wanting to play cash on FullTilt for a while, but didn’t want to deposit on yet another site, and didn’t want to scuttle the nice bonus offer they have there by depositing something like $50. I have played freerolls there for some of their promotions (like trying to qualify for the heads up championship), and thought it wasn’t bad. Along comes the BRM FT freerolls, so I registered, finished 5th for $3.07, and finished 15th two days later for $0.30. Without a lot of time to play more of these freerolls I decided to take a shot at playing cash, and find playing cash very enjoyable on FT. I find the graphics (the way I have them configured) easy to look at, and the buttons easy to use. After growing steadily up to $12.00 I hit a nasty day of bad beats and QQ vs. KK which shot me down, but am recovering slowly. I enjoy playing FT a lot more than VC (my previous freeroll challenge), so I am not in a hurry to go for broke, plus at my other sites I am playing for much higher stakes so they get the bulk of my available poker time. This challenge gets a few minutes of my time every morning as I drink my coffee, check out emails, BRM forum and get ready to wake everybody else here and get the day going, so don’t expect mega$ soon. Right now just looking for slow and steady growth so that I am not teetering on the edge of disappearing from FT. I play half-stack at $0.05 cash tables and will report every week on any changes. GL all!
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GL on your Quest mahdrof !
FT is my favourite, not only because there are a lot of USA players who play decent Poker (by that I mean NOT Donk Poker), but mostly also because of the "look and feel" of the tables. Set them up nicely and they are the best IMO.
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My man I wish you good luck m8! I think I see red Ferrari in your garage When I started to play on FT I enjoyed too, then after making first 20$ things started to be wild there... Hope you will have better luck cause I want test ride
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Well I deposited $30 at FT and usually with that amount I can build up a fairly good BR. But not to happen this time. Two hands took over 2/3's of my money. One I hit a A high flush off the nut and raised $10 and got called and I was thinking wtf. Well this cat calls my $3 raise on the turn. And then my $2 raise on the river and turns over a 6 here the donk caught a boat with that 6 Second hand one of those crazy flops all 10's and I got K's so I call a raise of $10 feeling what's the chances and odds of someone having pckt A's well they did and there went another $10 I will never ever fold a boat even if I lose to a bigger boat. And the suckass part is the next hand someone will win $8 or $9 for example with just a pair. That's poker I had good hands but they weren't meant to win that day thank you poker gods. GL trying to build your BR
Edited by crazyhorse99 (16 February 2011 @ 15:33 GMT)
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Posted by crazyhorse99: Well I deposited $30 at FT and usually with that amount I can build up a fairly good BR. But not to happen this time. Two hands took over 2/3's of my money. One I hit a A high flush off the nut and raised $10 and got called and I was thinking wtf. Well this cat calls my $3 raise on the turn. And then my $2 raise on the river and turns over a 6 here the donk caught a boat with that 6 Second hand one of those crazy flops all 10's and I got K's so I call a raise of $10 feeling what's the chances and odds of someone having pckt A's well they did and there went another $10 I will never ever fold a boat even if I lose to a bigger boat. And the suckass part is the next hand someone will win $8 or $9 for example with just a pair. That's poker I had good hands but they weren't meant to win that day thank you poker gods. GL trying to build your BR
Hmmm, I think you should start to use bankroll management... You deposited 30$ and you play on table where you can raise 10$???
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good luck mahdrof..have luck there too when i started playing..placing in some freerolls.but got killed in the cash tables.a lot of bad beats..haha..wish you'd fare better
agree on ft graphics too. very easy to navigate and look at..although stars still look the best for me.very clean. been playing on party and it's killing my eyes.the design's "too busy" ..too much going on imo. love their freerolls though.few players compared to the other sites
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On NL tables .5/.10 &.10/.25 sure you can raise that. Now I'm fairly good with my BR management but with the 2 hands I explained to me I honestly thought I had both hands. But the worst was my flush off the nut and have a chaser with 2 pr keep calling when he see's a flush draw and catches a 6 for his boat now that really sucks and other players at the tbl even got on his s**t. Damn both those hands I could of doubled up and that is what I was trying do and had the hands to do it just had bad luck welcome to the poker world. I'll say this they were both great hands and maybe another day I would of hit them both but the poker gods crapped on me
Edited by crazyhorse99 (16 February 2011 @ 18:51 GMT)
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Posted by crazyhorse99: On NL tables .5/.10 &.10/.25 sure you can raise that. Now I'm fairly good with my BR management but with the 2 hands I explained to me I honestly thought I had both hands. But the worst was my flush off the nut and have a chaser with 2 pr keep calling when he see's a flush draw and catches a 6 for his boat now that really sucks and other players at the tbl even got on his s**t. Damn both those hands I could of doubled up and that is what i was trying do and had the hands to do it just had bad luck welcome to the poker world.
Sorry Mahdrof but I must reply on this You play on 0,10-0,25 with 30$ bankroll??? That is playing without bankroll since you have only 1 buy in! You cant be sure that pot is yours in poker, thats why you need to have couple of buy ins not just one!
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Careful of all the loose play at TILT.Sure loose play is what you want when building a BR,but sometimes it can also take a BR away. GL in your quest keep us posted.
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Have almost rebuilt up to my high point. This morning hit AA vs. QQ and doubled up. Funny thing is on Saturday, when I lost half of my stack, early in the session I was up nicely and was thinking of quitting and tackling my regular sites, but decided to push on. Gotta listen to that poker instinct more often, as I would be up around $18 by now and further away from the brink. Ah well, dat's de game!
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Posted by mahdrof: Funny thing is on Saturday, when I lost half of my stack, early in the session I was up nicely and was thinking of quitting and tackling my regular sites, but decided to push on. Gotta listen to that poker instinct more often
there's nothing harder than standing up and leaving the table when you're on a roll
that's my achilles heel when playing live.i had so many nights where i was up big..only to end up losing almost all of it in just a few hands. but as you said, dat's de game
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Very sweet this morning, nearly tripled up my stack on the first hand! Sitting with $2.00 in big blind, JJ, raise to $0.25 and get two callers, KJ8 rainbow on the flop, check-raise the flop, both called, all-in on the turn with two calls and babam! Nice to have JJ do something instead of crash and burn!
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Punched through the $20.00 level this morning in true SS fashion. Sitting in small blind with AK, everyone folds except for button who raises 3xbb. Sitting with 40bb at $0.05bb table. Figure he is bluffing the blinds so shove allin and he flips QQ. Flop is a miss but the turn is K, oh baby! I think soon this blog will get its first picture of a ferrari...
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good luck in your run hope it will be also sucesefull like over this sites users we have new blogers every weak and its cool if in the same way will be in futura at the end off this year we all will have best bloger nominations and i think award for the winner will be some extra brm points good luck and have fun
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I can not play at full tilts there soft is rigged I think even u play without rakeback in PS or Partypoker it is better then RIVER OF TEARS... everytime u get aces then someone will have a small pocket and u will loose it with aces. Everytime u have kings then u go face to face with Aces .. SUCKS
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I had my FTP account over $800. Was on a great roll. My best win was a win, 1st place in a $3.30 Omaha MTT. Took $525. Then placed in a few more tourneys to get past $800. Yep, that's when the bottom just split, every time I had best hand, it lost. I couldn't believe it, actually stopped playing for 6-7 months. It's a tough thing to lose all that money, and to lose it to bad beats. Why I will never ever deposit into a site again. I'll play freerolls, but no way on the deposit crap.
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Ugh. Me no like recent sh*t here. Ugh. Mahdrof bang his head against wall repeatedly. Ugh. Mahdrof feel like caveman with this downturn. Mahdrof take club to smash computer soon. Ugh. First up day in like forever. Mahdrof no post pictures of Ferrari yet. Ugh.
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Nearly got my bankroll snuffed out today. My recent run on FullTilt has been horrible, bad beats and card dead. I flopped full house yesterday when 9-9-4 came out on the board, two players had trip nines and I had 4-4. We kept raising and re-reraising each other until we were all all-in, and one of them hit full house 999tt on the river.
Was allin with my stack today with QQ when somebody called with KQ and I managed to stay alive until tomorrow.
I wish you good luck m8! I think I see red Ferrari in your garage 
GL trying to build your BR
That is playing without bankroll since you have only 1 buy in! You cant be sure that pot is yours in 
