Differences In Poker Sites

It's been a while since I've posted anything so a bit of backstory to my question. My father and I both play at Fulltilt, NL Holdem 9man SnG mostly. Unfortunately neither of us has much free time. At best I'll get three hours a week, my dad has more, probably about ten and we've been getting frustrated seeing our little time wasted playing morons and losing.

I know that variance is part of the game and as I've seen said in so many places, best you can do is get your money in when your ahead(you think). We keep doing that, and keep being beaten by a worse hand(at the time of the call).

Anyway, all that to ask this, should we move to another poker site? Is every site filled with people that think 10 5 off is a good starting hand and somehow always seem to win? Or am I/we so bad we can't beat very bad players?

If you're not beating people who think T5o is a good starting hand, moving to another site will not achieve what you're hoping for. You want to be playing against these guys.

If you're playing SnG's, take a look at your strategies for preflop - if you're seeing flops w guys who are playing T5o, you may want to review how they're seeing those flops when you're in the hand (i.e., are you using your stack to leverage optimally).

Don't get me wrong but sometimes we should try to understand that playing with bad players sometimes means having a unique play situation in poker. Most strong hands and play strategies in regular poker games cannot work in irregular games where there are bad players involved. We have to adjust strategy and know what common hand and play behaviors common bad players have. They tend to make patterns that damage regular good plays by strong players. But when we understand and analysis correctly these patterns, we can see what poker hands work against them successfully.

You may want to see how well your assumption about getting your money in ahead stands up to scrutiny. I know players who are convinced they do so, far more often than not, but who don't, alt least not when they sit at my table.

If you are getting in good, there are still further considerations. Like how good. And how hard do you press small edges? It's not necessarily bad, but the harder you push small edges, the more big pots you'll play, and the more you'll lose.

kidnik said:

Or am I/we so bad we can't beat very bad players?

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This one.

Some of these posts are just ridiclous, If ur getting it in good a high percentage of the time, and ur not a winning player, ur big bet % is in the negative, i would change sites. I have a good friend that plays on fulltilt, 5 hours a day, over the last two years he is up over 100k playing 1-2nl.

because you have less time in plaing poker,it is hard to explain why you think the start hand T 5 can be different in different poker site,i can only say that in different site,people play the start hand like 9 T is different,some are very often and others play very less times.

So just as a summery of the replies, I stink. Well cant say I didn't know that already.:hmmmm2:

I have been doing better, have been very lucky in the cards, still I'm amazed every time K K manages to win a hand versus Q 10. I've gotten my BR big enough to move to the 2+25 games so hopefully I don't go completely retarded and loose enough to force me to go back to 1+20.

Also I've been thinking of switching to Matrix games, I seem to do better in them but that could just be a short term thing.