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Hi, Well I have a pokerstars and fulltilt account, im going to deposit $110 for 20 buy ins at $5.50 sit and goes and hopefully move up limits. Im wondering which site is the best for sit and goes and which has the softest competition. I dont have rakeback on fulltilt but I might try and ask full tilt for rakeback.. Cheers
 
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Hi, Well I have a pokerstars and fulltilt account, im going to deposit $110 for 20 buy ins at $5.50 sit and goes and hopefully move up limits. Im wondering which site is the best for sit and goes and which has the softest competition. I dont have rakeback on fulltilt but I might try and ask full tilt for rakeback.. Cheers

Hey Salami, 20 buyins might be a little lean IMHO but if you get off to a good

start, you might be ok. General consensus suggests 40 buyins is probably a little

better. The $3 STTs on stars might be ok with that bankroll.

Stars and Fulltilt are much of a muchness personally ive done better on FT

than Stars but i just put that down to variance. One thing about FT vs Stars

is FT doesnt have antes at 100/200 where as stars does so adjustment in

strategies needed there GL.
 
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20 buy-ins is fine to start out with, if you can redeposit. I started with $100 on Hollywood Poker, and never had to deposit again. However, if this is your only money for poker, I would start at a lower level.

If you are going to play turbos play on Stars. If full or 6 max regular speed, I would play on Full Tilt.
 
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poker stars is pretty good for Sit n Goes purely because of the fact that you can FOLD even when you should check.
Also their sit and goes are more varied.
 
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I like fulltilt for sit n' goes the blinds are structures are better.
 
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PokerStars has better traffic from my experience, which is pretty important for tournaments.
 
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I tend to favour Full Tilt for SnG's at the lower levels, they have less choice of games (no stud, very little razz and stud, no HOSE etc) but far more variations of what there is. i.e. omaha and Hold Em in 6,9,18,27 seat etc.
Once you get to $5 though, both sites are very similar. Stars have a lot of $1 games, then not much else 'till $5. There are a few $3 but the play isn't excellent.
Maybe try the $5 double or nothing games, could put an easy 25% on your bankroll once you've played the 20 games.
 
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sng probleably better is ftp, becouse pstars is tournament poker and there is maaaaany those tournaments, and not so many low/high sng`os. i prefer better ftp. :p
 
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both the same, I suggest to flip a coin :)
 
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Either or.

I'd play with a few more buy ins - if you have a downswing early on you'll still feel comfortable with a large portion of your bankroll still intact.
 
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Im not too sure about stars as i rarely play their, but i can tell u that the oppostion at $5 SNGs on Full Tilt is extremely weak that by just playing ABC poker u could easily cash in these SNGs 2/3 times (given cold decks and variance etc.)
 
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I've played both. I haven't played on FT for awhile but at the micro levels, ($5 and under) most of the time I found the play at FT totally rediculous. I think too many of them tried to learn by watching T.V. Things I saw were all ins with 6 9s after a raise from UTG and a reraise from the button, then thinking he was right to move all in on a bluff.(when he sucked out, the ends justifies the means kind of players) Just dumb shit like that.

While the play on stars micro isn't much better, most of the players seem to have atleast a better grasp of poker. Not quite so much overly agressive play. (to the point of stupidity)

Just my opinion, but I like playing on Stars better, even though I think FT would be more profitable for a decent player.
 
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I would defently choose full tilt over pokerstars for SNGs because on stars there is not a lot of low stake SNGs and full tilt has a wide variety of SNGs for you to participate in.
 
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I'm not to sure how their S'n'G's are but their ring games are just full of aggressive idiots, if their S'n'G's are anything like the ring games I would recommend Poker Stars.
 
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Well i played both and much preferred FT over PS. Seem to win on FT and not PS.

Plus the graphics and format of FT is hell of alot better then PS.
 
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Graphics, what have the silly cartoon like graphics got to do with it, actually that is one of the reasons I dont play there much, they hurt the eye's.....:p
 
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Set up ur table view differently then !!! I do not see much of the cartoon characters any more :D
 
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I started on PokerStars, its where I stayed. Tried FT once and all the cartoon avatars got on my nerves!

That's just my opinion though, don't take my word for it. =P
 
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I 've done better on full tilt than on pokerstars. I'm not sure if there's a particular reason for that, is just a fact.
 
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Hi, Well I have a pokerstars and fulltilt account, im going to deposit $110 for 20 buy ins at $5.50 sit and goes and hopefully move up limits. Im wondering which site is the best for sit and goes and which has the softest competition. I dont have rakeback on fulltilt but I might try and ask full tilt for rakeback.. Cheers

My suggestion since your just starting out would be to play on FullTilt. They'll have plenty of games to choose from at the lower limits, and you'll have an opportunity for up to 27% rakeback, which is really helpful when you're just starting out. If you havn't made an account on FTP yet, go to a site like thisisthenuts.com and register through them to get rakeback, its SO helpful.
 
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Pokerstars over FTP any day !!!

I prefer pokerstars because I happen to run better than on FTP. I do well on both but I just enjoy playing on pokerstars more, I don't really like the way some people play on FTP. If I where you i'll stick to the $3.25 SNG's on pokerstars, besides you got rake back on stars why not start a BR on there. I think if you dep. $50 on stars you get $50 for free if you put the code stars50. BEST OF LUCK TO YOU :D
 
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if you are to deposit thinking like you are , you should atleast (acourding on what ive read on Pokerstrategy etc) always have 30 buyins.
If u can do this i suggest you do .. You will also receive a larger bonus then which isnt bad at all during your "down swings"!
In the choice of which poker room id say SnGs definately FT because of their grafic is much more what can i say.. I atleast focus ten times better at FT then stars. And i would also say the opponents are better in Stars considering the ammount.
Although if u were to also do some tournaments at the side you should go for stars 100% .. Gaining a good bankroll by SnG is hard ive tried alot of times failed misrebaly i must always do different things such as go CG/tournys.
Back to why you should choose stars now , their tournaments is better in all ways. It is ALOT more to choose from and alot more all day long .. Bigger price pools etc etc, The list goes long of what stars can create whit a bigger atmosphere.

My opinion // Ludo :)
 
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I personally Like Pokerstars over full tilt poker anyday. I think that would be a good site for buy in's. I wish your luck in building your bankroll.
 
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Well i played both and much preferred FT over PS. Seem to win on FT and not PS.

Plus the graphics and format of FT is hell of alot better then PS.
Yea, i tend to do better over at FT than at PS.
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I'm not to sure how their S'n'G's are but their ring games are just full of aggressive idiots, if their S'n'G's are anything like the ring games I would recommend Poker Stars.
At FT, hummmm would they be playing, like it is play money:p
Poker stars seams great, for games.. If you get on late, at night there is more tight play, going on.:cool:
 
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