Full Tilt Poker Report

Welcome to Full Tilt Poker Report where you can find my ongoing trials, beats, strategies and videos. If you do sign up for a Full Tilt Poker account use my sing up link below, then send me your ID on Full Tilt Poker and as soon as you qualify, you will get FREE access to my MTT5PAK videos. Full Tilt Sign up here.

Full Tilt Poker Report: Moving Up a Level

Moving up a level at Full Tilt Poker can be an exciting proposition but not one without peril. It may have taken you weeks, or even months of extreme patience and dedication to achieve a level of security in your bankroll that allows you to move up a level, but there are certain things you should do before making the jump. You can save a lot of painful money losing sessions by actually watching the games before playing on them, where too, you can start your note taking and profiling on some of the players as they have probably not been in your circuit and there will be a lot of blanks to fill in. As well, this will give you an accurate handle on your bankroll and the true pressure it’s going to be under.

Ram Vaswani, one of the more recent pros at Full Tilt Poker makes it deep in a recent FTOPS main event.

Since I first wrote this article Tournament Indicator, the only poker calculator designed for online tournament play was released and these profiling strategies are basically done for you while using the software.

It doesn’t matter if you’re moving from 5 buck STT’s to 10 buck STT’s or 10/20 hold’em to 20/40 hold’em, you will need advance scouting, and that demands you simply watch the tables you are going to be playing on. Watching involves thinking, analyzing, and guessing at each pot. Your job here is to develop your hand reading skills while being able to decipher who really holds a strong hand, or who is simply making a position play. When I watch games, I try to put the players on hands and see how many or how close I can come. The more you can do this, the more you save on calling poor bets. Money saved in poker, is money earned. After awhile, you will be proud at how many times you can be dead-on when someone turns over their hand. This is so powerful because when you actually do sit at the table, you will not be in awe, or be too sheepish to play your strong hands, and other players will know in short order they can’t run you over.

If you have the dedication to watch a few games, a few hours a night, for a week or so ahead of moving up, you will already be at an advantage of at least half of your opponents when you sit in. In addition, while watching you should absolutely be taking notes on the players. Full Tilt Poker has an excellent note taking option that has color codes labeled right on the player’s avatar. Get a system using 5 or 6 colors that mean something to you, like fish, pro, maniac etc. an use it consistently. You are going to be huge when you sit at a 6 handed table and 3 of them already have colors and notes. Make notes on players that play poor position cards, raise with questionable hands, and bluff too much. These are the types of players you will cash from and make your transition successful.

Your bankroll requirements are sometimes more theoretical than practical. While watching the swings that some of your competitors are taking, and realizing your bankroll may be swallowed in a session it may not be time to move up quite yet. I was offering such advice to a friend of mine who told me he was in a $33 single table tournament - even though his bankroll was only $120. I reminded him about not getting too anxious or greedy to build the bankroll to the extent of putting it at risk. He concurred, you should too.

These steps may seem far too tedious for you. They are for most, but most poker players lose money online. Be different, be prepared, and make the right move up at Full Tilt Poker.

 

 

Full Tilt Poker Report:

Where The Pros Play.

If you are looking for some big money action to watch, Full Tilt is the place because many of the resident pros connect at tables nightly where pots reach into the hundreds of thousands. Yes, you read that right.

A lot of pros play on the internet to kill time between big tournaments, live action games, traveling. Many have monikers that you won’t be able to associate with the player, but on Full Tilt, not only do they go by their own name they have a caricature to along with it.

The result of which are some of the biggest audiences (rail) for internet poker tables. The chat box just goes crazy when Gus Hansen or Phil Ivey sit at a table and you can also get a word in with some other pros who don’t mind chatting while playing. Chris Ferguson, Andy Bloch and Jennifer Harmon come to mind in that regard.

So where do they play? Gus Hansen likes to play NL and Limit Holdem as well as PL Omaha HL and PL/L Omaha. The betting ranges from 200/400 to 1000/2000! His tables are usually 6 seated, and here you will find those monster pots I was mentioning. These same tables you can find on occasion Phil Ivey, John Agostino and much more regularly, David Benyamine.

Erick Lindgren often participates in tournaments with bigger payouts and can be counted on to be a gentleman at any table and a great ambassador for Full Tilt.

Andy Bloch mostly sticks to the tournament action at Full Tilt, often participating and/or hosting FTOPS events, Sunday tournaments and qualifiers. He will generously chat with you as well even if you are on the rail. This goes the same for Chris Ferguson who in addition will play some low entry fee tournaments and some micro limit holdem tables.

We can’t forget about Mike Matusow, who until recently was online almost every day. During a recent interview on Poker After Dark he sadly admitted that he has lost 2.5 million playing online poker. So hopefully when he cures that situation he may return to some of these tables as well, because if anything else, he IS an entertaining player.

Some of these pros and action described here have been recorded and can be viewed at FullTiltPokerReport.com on the video page.