Would you play a ring game where there is a pro ...

Would you play a ring game where there is a pro thayt drops in every now and then. I sat in on a table on fulltilt where it says that a red player(pro) will sometimes be tutoring lessons on theis table and the play may be recorded(omaha hi-lo 50-1$). I played for a while then got out..I felt the man was being backed by fulltilt hence having an unlimited br...I know this is not possible it was just how I felt.

Yes.

I fail to see how this is possibly an advantage.

And yeah, I've played with a few pros before, and I'd do it again. They tend to attract fish, and often they're not very good themselves.

for some reason it seems like the red pro's run really good-that or they really are extremly skilled and deserve being red pro's

Why wouldnt you want to play with a Pro? Is the question I would ask. Maybe you might learn something or really test yourself. You cannot get better beating bad players all of the time.

You dont need to be the best player at any table just better then enough of the folks to make some money.

Sure, if there are also bad players at the table.

If the pro is good, it's easy enough to avoid big confrontations with him and look to get involved with other players instead.

Yeah, I'd like to try my skills against a pro. It'd be a good learning experience! Like someone already said, you can't get better playing bad players all the time.

Bad logic IMHO

i would love to play with pros ..online i played a freeroll with ferguson(not same table though)
then i play a satellite with one pro(i was taking his chips )
live i played with Minh Nguyen at commerce casino (i beat him out of a pot with the nuts) was so great....

This is a good question.
I would love to play a pro heads up as long as its within BR management to see how I compare.
That way if I get destroyed it doesn't hurt too bad

YES! I would love to play with a pro and get to chat with them while playing... obviously they dont listen to rail players... the only thing is watching some of the big time pros in FT they are nuts with their money... but it seems the smaller players are good and don't donk off chips

I would love to play a pro, to test my self.... How sweet that would be, who knows if you beat them, maybe they will work out something, and get you in the WSOP..... but thats just a thought...

I would play just for experience. I just would be extra tight , If I had a small roll. Yeah they might bluff you out of some pots but just play your best poker and beat them. That's what's great about poker any can do it.

I would play with them at any given opportunity. And I would not play tight per say. I would play my normal game and if I won, could you imagine the braggn rights. LOL

I played with Mark Seif on absolute a couple years ago at a 2/4 NL table. It was fun, he doubled me up (he had a sick stack of like $4K)

yes for the experience and if i beat him in a big pot it would boost my ego

I played in a 5.50 36 man heads up tourney almost two years ago and went against Chris Moneymaker on the last table and beat him. He called every ace he had. In the end my ak against his ace10 was good.

In fairness in the match i recieved quad tens to his boat so couldnt really blame him.

Other than that its really the only time ive played with a pro.

If i had the roll on tilt ill tell you who i would love to play

Durrrr

I know everyone on every site thinks this guy is god, and i also know most think iam a garbage player but Iam absolutely sure heads up with the roll id give that donkass a run for his money.

Only call him a donkass not because hes a winning player but if u watch his heads up matches he plays absolutely out of control cards

Playing against an unlimited bankroll is a good thing.
The fact the he is a pro is a bad thing, as it means he's a good player and you want to play against as many bad players as possible.

You will not learn a lot against a pro in one session.

Metagame-wise, I wonder what the return would be if you played like a complete idiot if you knew that the video was going to be shown to people learning poker? I know when I started watching videos, I'd search out the donks I saw in videos. So losing a couple buy-ins in the video could send waves of people to your tables who have seen that you like to stack with second pair and stone cold bluffs.

Yes I would play in a ring game against a pro. If I had the money to buy in. Anyways I think I slow play him and double up or at least take some of his money.

dont get to big-headed when i say this but out of all the responses to this question, your makes the most sense. play loose and crazy, lose some money. and when the fish come bitting, bite back. imo its freakin genius. i would have never thought to approach it this way.

Absolutely!

and i'd be quite excited about the opportunity

Played on fulltilt in an omaha game with several pros and it is nodiffrent than playing with all the other donks.

yeah i think it would be a good experience and one i hope to do someday

I would love to play with Clonie Gowen!!

How many people actually watch the videos and/or actually seek out donks in them though? Not to mention the fact that the people who would search out donks from vids care enough about poker that they probably play pretty well.

i would love to play with Vanessa Rousso live, that would be one to write home about

I'd rather not. Plenty of juicier games imo.

I have played with several pros online... in the mid to low stakes cash games... and I have also been on a few tournaments sitting at the same table as a few pros...

they are human, not machines.. and yes they might play a little better then you... but it's a great place to learn how the pros play and adjust your play...

if the pro is playing only on that one table... then he is playing very Aggressive... and playing more the situation then his cards...

if he is playing more then 2 or 3 tables at the same time... this guy is a pro that is playing the cards... and not the situation...

Best you can do is play your best game...

Best of luck at the tables ;-)

playing a pro is what you want to do...did you get nervous? As far as thinking fulltilt would cheat or as you say (back) thats not benifical to them trust me they make to much money for that sort of nonsense. Just my opinion tho....i guess strange things have happend before.

I've never played against a pro, but I would if given the opportunity, just to watch how they play a given hand, I've watched on some of the teaching sites how they play hands, ultra aggressive, yep they play the table not their cards more then I do, but it would be fun just to play in a game with a pro, I wouldn't change my game I'd play the same. I tried playing that style seems I get thru 3/4 of the field then I donk out, can't play to aggressive when the quality of play starts getting better

I agree with the playing for experience, but I wouldnt change me game any. The pro would more than likely not have a clue about my style of play so there would be no reason to change it. I would observe for a little while before I sat down to see how they were playing at the table and if my BR could take an aggressive pro.

+1 I do not think it's ever a good investment to drop $50 - $100 in hopes of a future feeding frenzy. Often wondered how those 'educational' tables worked. Like do they really offer you good feedback. Agree with SavagePenguin, probably not a lot to be learned in 1 session at a full table.

a fair amount of them are kinda bad..

like vitaly lunkin on 200nl, i hear hes a loser there lol

but yeah would i play someone like durrr or PA? not at a significant stake lol

Me too, but I'm not talking about poker

lol no you don't get feedback. They are educational in that sessions played at those tables may be posted on FTP's Academy page.