Pokerstars owns Full Tilt.

Just created my first pokerstars account yesterday and deposited $35, and I'm already almost up to $100. I played a SNG today and someone pushed all in with Ace ten. I called with AQ, and something very good happened, my hand held up and won. It's very rare for that to happen to me on Full Tilt. I'm sure if I were playing on Full Tilt instead of stars the AQ would have flopped a str8 or full house or trips Qs. The flops and hands seem a lot more like live poker in PS than on Full Tilt. I don't see nearly as many players flopping nut flushes or nut straights on PS than I do on FT.

You have just been on a lucky run, that's why your hand held up. Give it a few more days and your AQ will no longer beat AT. Why do you think people call that site Jokerstars?

yes, you're right, full tilt is rigged. stars is legit. sample size of 1 day = expert

no no they're both rigged, stars is just giving OP the usual week-long boomswitch to lure him in.

Funny, i just deposited to full tilt, damn jokerstars

This is like the Nintendo-Sega debate of the 90s. Some people swear PS is rigged and love FT, others say FT is rigged and love PS.

Personally, I know neither is rigged, but I do prefer PS to FT. I've played at both enough and I find for some reason that (like OP said) the hands for me on PS seem more like what you get live than on FT. Even though there isn't really a difference, sometimes perception can be enough.

FT is crap. i have sattellite connection and time out every hand before i see my cards.

Pretty quick put assumption on your thoughts OP, but it is your opinion. I always looked at Pokerstars as the "Wal-Mart" of the poker industry. And no I don't like going there.

Bentheman87 said:

I don't see nearly as many players flopping nut flushes or nut straights on PS than I do on FT.

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I don't want you to take this the wrong way, but you will need to learn to overcome several key concepts in order to become a successful poker player long-term: selective memory, results-oriented thinking and statistical sampling.

Trust me, you'll be glad you did.

I made quads on FT but not on Stars. Thus, FT is better than Stars.

beanaddict said:

Pretty quick put assumption on your thoughts OP, but it is your opinion. I always looked at Pokerstars as the "Wal-Mart" of the poker industry. And no I don't like going there.

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Why do you equate Pokerstars with Walmart? I don't ever go to Walmart, but how is Pokerstars remotely like it? I prefer pokerstars mainly because of the software, just cleaner I think. Also the one time I did Full Tilt I blew $300 chasing a 100% deposit bonus. I've thought about depositing at Full Tilt just to try to break even and collect some of the deposit, but I haven't, and I have until mid January I think, probably won't do it. Pokerstars has also deluded me with the fact that in a few years of earning FPPs I'll have a Porsche and a buy-in to the wsop ME lol.

on another note partypoker has some weak ass players, 50 bucks on it today has proven very fruitful - almost double now

Monoxide said:

on another note partypoker has some weak ass players, 50 bucks on it today has proven very fruitful - almost double now

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Do they allow US players?

nope zach, they don't

No they do not, its too bad really it would increase their traffic.

Or maybe thats a good thing, softer fields perhaps from that.... a usual S&G stt is like 4 canadians, 2 germans, 2 swedes and a frenchman :X

MTT also easier to end up on the FT when yer ITM, i only played 2 today and got rather close each go at it

yeah i def. dont think there is any differenc in luck between any poker sites....you could just be lucky at one site than the other just like at a casino you could be winning nicely tipping the dealer then be losing later at another....think about it.

I win coinflips all the time with a quarter, yet I always lose them on PokerStars
A quarter > PokerStars.

Comeon now. Last night on PS, I lost to KK twice in 5 hands.By the same person no less. Both times he made a set on the river.

KK are rags! why would you play them you want a hand like 42o to have a real shot at winning.

jeez some people just never learn lol jj

I feel less heavy after doing number 2, therfore I see no need for number 1 anymore!

Biffle16 said:

Comeon now. Last night on PS, I lost to KK twice in 5 hands.By the same person no less. Both times he made a set on the river.

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Well I guess I'm getting your luck. Pokerstars a few weeks ago, I'm multi-tabling, and apparently so is someone else. Because I flopped a set of kings vs. AA simultaneously (as in the beginning of the second hand was before the end of the first one) against the same player. I guess I'm the chosen one at pokerstars, and he certainly is not (as I was thinking "wow, wouldn't it be hilarious if he has aces again" and he was probably thinking "he can't have set against my aces both times").

But if you want to avoid the suckouts, get your money in when you have the worse hand (Someone had a sig like that, forget who). I've never been sucked out on when I open shoved 27o.

I was comparing to Stars to Wal-Mart because they have an "everything you need concept". Don't know why that's just the feel I get from it. Except they have no casino.

With all this greatness you get every single kind of person there is.(Let alone you can get all of them at one table.) I know this can happen everywhere, but it seems like I find it more on Stars. Also I see this more often directed at players there than anywhere. It can be more annoying than the person timing out. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
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zachvac said:

Do they allow US players?

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Thanks goodness no...I lost plenty there when I used to make depositing 50 bucks a month my entertainment budget. Heck they even sent me a jacket for supporting them so much.

Oh and to bean addict...try cleaning the shotgun on the porch when the dates come, with 3 daughters my husband either did that or took to sharpening the 10 inch buck knife if he couldnt get the cleaning kit out fast enough.

I like party poker too, because it feels more um, ... Partier.

(Party Poker) Where else can you get confetti and people whistling and clapping, while those pp 2's hold up on a big pot.

To belladonna: Great advice, will do.lol