I don´t have too much experience with other sites, so my opinion isn´t too much useful. I have just played at FTP, Titan, Prima. From those sites the one i prefer is FTP.
The principal reasons of why i prefer FTP are the graphics, the tournaments´s structure and they have razz and HORSE.
If you play NLHE, you´ll find low buy in tournaments every day. They are constantly running $5 and $10 buy in tournaments, but i think that just once a day they have a $1 (i hate the $1 one because the level of play is exactly the same as the freerolls. $5 and $10 buy in is still very low quality, but at least you won´t see players pushing every hand with nothing.) that pays more than 1 spot (which tourney did you see Dogs?
).
In relation to SNGs, the lowest buy in is $5 + 0.25 heads up (and not $5.5 as Dogs said
). The only problem with SNGs is that games like stud and razz fill up very slowly (omaha is well accepted, althought i was surprised today when just around 30 players played a $10 tournament). But a high point for SNGs in my opinion is the chips/blinds structure.
FTP is a great place to try different games. I agree that there are too many satellite tournaments, but i´m sure that if you sort the games by the status, you´ll always find a cheap tournament.
Now in relation to ring games, the lowest level is 0.05/0.1 with $2 as min buy and $10 as max. There is where most players spend their freeroll winnings, so it´s a great place to go fishing. If you play at limits like 5/10, you´ll often have the chance to play with a pro.
In relation to the pros, they have so many that almost always you´ll see at least one playing. The problem is that of course they often play at high limits, but if you don´t have a big
bankroll you may be lucky and find one at micro limit tables. Phil Ivey and Phil Gordon played at 0.05/0.1, Ferguson, Richard Brodie, Seidel and Perry Friedman played at play money games, and you´ll see often any pro playing at tournaments with less than $30 buy in. Ah, and if you bust any pro at a MTT you´ll get your buy in back and a "i busted a pro" tshirt (i almost busted Erik Seidel at a Stud Hi/Lo MTT).
In relation to that the SNGs go dead after 12am ET, well, i can´t give my opinion about it, because generally i play from 13pm ET to 23pm ET, right before 12am ET......
Now i must tell that all that stuff of "cards are strange at this site, there are more bad beats here than other sites" aren´t valid arguments to judge a specif site. I don´t believe the site is rigged. Bad beats happens everywhere, but you´ll see more online because of the fact that the players are looser. To most players online money seems "less real" and they have the opportunity to join any game when they want, so that makes the game more loose than in a live game, and that makes that less quality hands wins and bad beats happens more often. Also you have to consider the factor that you´ll see more hands per hour than in a live game, which obviously means that you´ll see more bad beats per hour. It´s obvious that at low limits games you´ll see lots of fish playing any cards, so there the only solution (very profitable) is to play the extra tight-extra aggressive style.
That´s my view on FTP, but as i said before i can´t compare it with too many sites, so maybe what i think it´s great it may be 10 times better at another site.
