Your opinions on Partypoker please, esp from those currently active on the site.

#1 23rd September 2010, 7:48 AM

Hi there guys, hope you are well and the poker gods shine their light on your tables
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I have begun to play at partypoker and in order to get a free $50 bonus I must clear 100 partypoints.
I played four .01/.02 tables for an hour, made a little, moved to .02/.04, made a little more, after around 2 hours I'd made a neat $20.

Now I dont consider myself a good cash player, but things were going as I thought they should, playing decent hands in position and often raising to narrow my opponents and frequently betting half the pot on the flop maybe 25% of the time I did this with nothing. Taking down the pot.
The rest of the time maybe I had an overpair to the flop, tptk etc. It was working for me in that when I had a great hand and was called to the showdown and id bet half the pot on flop, turn river and built a decent pot, my half pot bets were representing value bets hopefully when I made them to single opponents and getting their fold on the flop or the turn.

In contrast to my mtt tourney play which id imagine is weak tight, (however successful enough and aggressive with the goods) I was playing somewhat strongly and in a similar pattern to that which makes me fold against these sort of moves at a cash table.
When im betting half the pot on the flop the likelyhood of two more half pot bets was stopping people from even checking out the turn without a good hand and im thinking im also not giving odds to draws.
Im sure this would be an exploitable strategy but it was working.
After 3 or four hours Id played heaps of hands, got $20 ahead, lost $10 after moving up a level to .05/.10 in a donk bankroll manuevre with a flopped straight first hand, to lose on the river to the bigger straight (in the hand my play wasnt the mistake I just shouldnt have been at the table, losing $4 would have been much easier to swallow) So follow that with another donk BR move and play just one more game before bed sound familiar? So not impressed with the cash games and my tail between my legs I buy in for a $1 no, $3, no, oh look heres an $11, 6 player no limit holdem. Well fortunately I got 2nd for $24 i think.

So at least off to bed feeling good and up, but after all this play I had made only 6 partypoints and I need to earn 100.

Crikey I cant manage to ask a simple question,

If you are playing on partypoker which games would you play with $68 if you had to make 100 partypoints in order to keep the first $50?

As I stated before Im not a really confident cash game player and I think that if I played only stt's I would have a chance to simply keep increasing the " $18 cash" that I have won over and above the $50 introductory bonus.
Losing it in order to chase 100 partypoints would be a shame, does anyone know how to break this down ito a value of pots i must play etc?

Can we "label" the play at partypoker? Most CCers it seems play FT and Stars, myself included, are there few differences or some important ones?

I didnt look any players up whilst playing, something that i will do on occasion on other sites for a little info.

I would not have played the tables, or in the same manner I think, if I was playing on pokerstars with my hard earnt. I will certainly not have enough time to make 100 partypoints at low level buyin stts.
Any suggestions?

Regards

Roy

#2 23rd September 2010, 10:13 PM

Party tournies I find impossible to play; the mix of "no foldem holdem" players with the "shove/call any two big cards" players seems to be too much for me.

I deposited $50 last summer, earned the bonus playing 0.05/0.10 (way above good bankroll management but I didn't care since it was only a tiny portion of my overall online bankroll). A year later the bankroll still sits at about the same; no, wait, I think I'm down some $25 after playing 20 $1 SnGs in a row without cashing. I just can't generate much interest in playing there.

#3 24th September 2010, 12:14 AM

best way to generate rake points is stud8 or other ante games. You are always in each hand. Hi lo generates bigger pots.

#4 25th September 2010, 10:59 AM

Meh, Ive played some poker before but jesus, Partypoker is incredible. For a start the tourney entry fee is quite high compared to ps and ft and the play awful.

I have been playing the most insane levels compared to my bankroll to try to find decent play. I played the $1, crazy insane play. I played the $3 crazy insane play. I dont think ive seen any hand get to the bb without a raise, once a raise goes in theres a reraise or an all in. So I play the $6, same thing, even the $11 stts are full of new players and donks.

I dont know how skill can compete with these bingo players, ive never seen anything like it. It really is like all in or fold once the blinds are 200/400.

Got 26 points and learned once i make $50 it can be transferred to another player, my partner has a party poker account so if I make another $20 I can send the cash to her then gamble with the free $50 without having to lose the "cash" ive made first.

Please, if anyone is out there whos making money on party poker give me some clues!

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