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After taking more than a year break from online poker (quitting as a winning micro SNG player), I got the bug again and deposited a few bucks on Ultimate Bet. Well, enough to be rolled for 6-max 10NL. After a few thousand hands or so, I haven't seen any real spewing and I don't have my deposit bonus, wich means that I can just pack my things and go somewhere else after cashing my rakeback this month.

Have things have changed so much throughout the last two years that abc nits have taken over the entire internet poker scene or is UB just a nitfest ? I'm a winning player after 10k hands, but my edge isn't that huge and the SNG/tourneys/general interface have me on monkey tilt. I want to be called by K5o when raising from the button for the 10th orbit in a row damnit.

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bodog is pretty soft, however if you like multi table sngs, they take for ever to fill.
 
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UB is a nitfest. Do some research...Bodog is pretty soft, but don't spread the word...

Sites which are notoriously soft from the research I've done:
-pacific poker
-Bodog
-Players Only
-Aced Poker
-Sportsbook Poker
-party poker

The smaller sites tend to be softer, as well as the casino sites. With softer players though, you're also going to be getting some real bad beats and your raises are going to need to be a little higher.
 
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Ultimatebet is a nitfest. Do some research...Bodog is pretty soft, but don't spread the word...

Sites which are notoriously soft from the research I've done:
-Pacific Poker
-Bodog
-Players Only
-Aced Poker
-Sportsbook Poker
-Party Poker

The smaller sites tend to be softer, as well as the casino sites. With softer players though, you're also going to be getting some real bad beats and your raises are going to need to be a little higher.

I think this ^ assessment is pretty spot on.
And yes, 10NL FR is pretty nitty on alot of sites (Fulltilt & Stars anyways),... but not so on sites like Doyles/Cake, Pokertime, etc.

Personally though, I don't like playing on most of those sites & instead much prefer Fulltilt but I also prefer playing MTTs (& sng).
 
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FT and Stars are out of the equation, at least for me. I have already an account on FT wich doesn't have rakeback and I won't get a deposit bonus*. Same thing for Stars, but they don't even offer rakeback, only VIP promos.

After seeing how much I paid in rake over a relatively small sample size of hands/tourneys, rakeback is a necessity for me. I'll probably give Bodog a chance next.

* I know FT puts you on a waiting list if you had rakeback in the past or want rakeback on an existing account. Not willing to wait for them as they are notoriously slow.
 
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yeah alot of sites have gotten softer, for some reason its not the same anymore
 
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do not go on UB use Full Tilt, a wider range for micro stakes players, or go on pokerstars and go on the $0.01 sit n go's LOL, cant say your taking a risk.
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Bodog for sure has soft fields in micros but I can't that site. It's terrible in my opinion. It is the only site that causes computer problems for me and know I am not alone in this (freezeups, etc... very frustrating and found I have zero confidence while playing on there and won't dare enter other games on other sites at the same time for fear of f ups happening as I've experienced it quite a few times.... have heard of this happening to many others as well).
Honestly you couldn't pay me to play on there. I suppose if Bodog shipped me a few hundred I'd put in a few hands on there but it'd be painful.
 
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