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I see some tables in FT which are displayed with red color instead of black and at those tables there is also a player in red. Anyone knows why they are marked red?
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Posted by Mober:
Posted by watoba: red marked a pro players
Are you sure? i see some of them playing at 0.02 and 0.05 cents limits Or they are just starting their career?
See this is the great thing about FTP. I have said this before in other threads. FTP Pro's can be seen pretty much everywhere. Unlike Poker Stars who's Pro's only play high stakes games. At FTP you can win all kinds of prizes for eliminating a pro. I see pro's playing low stakes all the time. Most of the time they are there chatting it up about different hands. Chris Ferguson is the most famous for doing this. Believe it or not, he does like to sit and chat with people. So Mober, next time you see a Pro at a table have a seat. Watch out for them in 90 man sit&go's. They are there to give away FTP T shirts. Good luck playing them. This is the shirt I won playing ferguson over a year ago.
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The first thought that came up in my mind about that was that as all you said they are pros. but then i was keep seeing some guys (which names havent heard before at 0.01/0.02 cents in both holdem and omaha) and thought, pros with all that money and they play here? lol. nahh that cant be it. But now with what you said BMW it makes sense.
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They send you an email. You simply verify your address as per the one on your FTP account.It has to match. Both my packages came from Venice California. Not sure where Europeans would come from.
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Red players are full tilt pro players. I saw one of them on a 50/100 play money table, the waiting list had almost 200 players. At pokerstars the situation is the same but they don't have a red name, just the pokerstars logo near their name. On both this sites some pros play at the lowest limits, on pokerstars two pro that are regular at low limits: nanooko and clarkkent99. I don't really know how these guys became pro players and never watched them playing but they must be good.
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Posted by BMWman:
Posted by Mober:
Posted by watoba: red marked a pro players
Are you sure? i see some of them playing at 0.02 and 0.05 cents limits Or they are just starting their career?
See this is the great thing about FTP. I have said this before in other threads. FTP Pro's can be seen pretty much everywhere. Unlike Poker Stars who's Pro's only play high stakes games. At FTP you can win all kinds of prizes for eliminating a pro. I see pro's playing low stakes all the time. Most of the time they are there chatting it up about different hands. Chris Ferguson is the most famous for doing this. Believe it or not, he does like to sit and chat with people. So Mober, next time you see a Pro at a table have a seat. Watch out for them in 90 man sit&go's. They are there to give away FTP T shirts. Good luck playing them. This is the shirt I won playing ferguson over a year ago.
not not really right you see negranu playing small stakes often, he was in a $3 sng the other week and he took it down lol must of been a good boast to his BR after the thumping he got from isildur
Thanks for answering this question, i always wanted to know why the red names were everywhere, should of known really I think full tilt is one of the best if not the best.
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yeah red tables are with Pros. And you always recognize them early as they have special pictures.
I dont know why they play micros. Two possibilities: a) Challenging themselves just like Ferguson did once ( 0 to 10.000$) b) Forced to by Fulltilt. I mean for us it is somehow special to be able to play Pros. So what Fulltilt does is telling some Pros they gotta play a little at the micros so people see that they really can play against Pros at FT and decide playing there.
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a pro players from the ft poker pro school who was not the real ft poker pros from black gruop they are all chasers for black gruop pros they are red pros and they playing all the limits games from 1 to 100 buy in $ worth its funny to play against them and if u ll bust him u can get 1 -10 $ reward for it :S good luck and have fun
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Those avatars don't come with a pro status, i've seen a lot of low stakes pro that have regular avatars. If you check the Full Tilt Store you can see that the custom avatar is bought for no less than 1.000.000 full tilt points(you can find it at luxury). They advertise that palying on full tilt you can play against the top pro poker players, which is actually true but you need to have a $1.000.000 bankroll. Since 99.8% of people can't afford that they had to make some more low stakes pro so everyone could have a shot against them. You can't see pros like Phil Ivey palying at 0.5/1$ tables.
I think full tilt is one of the best if not the best.
