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Full Tilt Tournament Dollars - T$

Now that satellite win in your account can be turned into T$ at Full Tilt, allowing you to use the equivalent of the win to play in other MTT or STT games you would prefer. This is convenient for multiple entires, scheduling conflicts, or even bankroll building strategies.

Full Tilt Note Taking and Profiling

If you are a dedicated note-taker of your oppopnents you will be glad to know you won't have to open a table to read them anymore. If you see an opponent's name in the lobby window you can now see any previous notes you took before as your mouse glides over thier name.


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May 11, 2008
Final table recap of FTOPS event #9 hosted by Gus Hansen. Allen Cunning hamd was the last pro eliminated but he did make the money. I recorded the final table and you can watch the video on my Full Tilt Poker Blog.

May 7, 2008
FTOPS is underway again! Watch Gus, Clonie, Eric, and Allen and the rest of the gang as the pros join the ranks of the internet players and stretch out some serious prize money over the following week.

March 17, 2008
Am I coming to terms with the bad beats on Full Tilt? I can't really tell, but I am winning more often when I recognize a situation where I am going to be sucked out on, and am more apt to get the hell out, even with just more than a few chips left. I layed down AA with a board that had TJ9 T 8 and facing a bet from a reasonably tight player. I felt good about that one becuase I ended up coming back and winning the token. I have a video of this one.

March 16, 2008
After week off from playing due to a mini-NHL road trip, I came back to try and earn a few tokens. My bankroll is about $1,900 right now, after I withdrew recently, so I really prefer winning the tokens instead of paying the $26 to get in. I know I am cheap.

March 13, 2008
Checked in while I was Pittsburgh to see a hockey game. My son wanted to play a game so I let him roll with a couple of 2 buck tournaments, after I showed him how to win. he dumped a couple, while I watched the Spizter saga on CNN.


Using Sharkscope to Profile Your Sit and Go Opponents

A lot of players have often mentioned playing poker on the internet has the biggest disadvantage of all – and that is not being able to see your opponent across the table. That may be true if you are able to discern tells to the point of profitability, but many pros, including Daniel Negreanu say that part of the game is overrated. Some also concur that you should be using betting patterns rather than bluffs and tells to out play your competition.

Actually, on the internet you have tools that will give you an advantage over live play to track and monitor your opponent’s activities. Shark Scope is one of those tools.

SharkScope.com is predominantly a resource to find statistics on your sit and go tournament opponents. The information it provides is rather in depth, complete with graphs, recent games, ROI%, average stake and total profit. SharkScope also adds further analysis by adding hot, tilt, and super tilt labels to player who are either blowing or building their bankroll.

There are a lot of internet players that play sit and go tournaments exclusively. The successful players are generally tight and prudent with their hands during the early stages of a tournament and will be taking advantage of that time to observe their opponents. Many of them use SharkScope during that very same period and source out each of their opponent’s records.

Herein lies the difference between taking your poker progress seriously or not. The ones who are successful in the sit and go business rely on the kind of information that SharkScope offers up. Others who are not as serious probably wouldn’t know how to decipher it anyway.

I have researched players on opposite ends of the scale. There are perennial losers that constantly reload and are down thousands of dollars while the constant winners show ROI% above 10%, effectively out performing the DJIA! The scale would also show players who have played more than 10,000 sit and go tournaments as opposed to some who haven’t played more than 10. Who would be your favorite?

Uncovering Some Full Tilt Pro's Records at Sharkscope

Sharkscope also updates virtually immediately after a tournament is completed, so it is simply the most accurate source of player information on the internet. As well it includes databases for Full Tilt Poker, Poker Stars, Party Poker and all the Cryptologic sites as well, so it covers the mass majority of sit and go tournaments on the internet.

Next time you enter a sit and go tournament, help yourself to some free searches on your opponents. You will be surprised at how much you can learn, but the next step is actually using that information to your advantage.

Profiling Your Opponents

You have less than an hour during most sit and go tournaments to find out what your opponents’ playing styles are. In some cases you may have to discern that information in less than a few minutes! Surprisingly, there are actually ways to do this.

You may have read about player styles and how they fit into a quadrant first devised by a Ph.D. named Alan Schoonmaker in his landmark book, The Psychology of Poker. The matrix style grid I am referring to in that book, lines up on each axis a tight-loose scale compared to a passive-aggressive scale.

For consideration, a rock solid tight player would be 1,1 on the scale as he is the tightest and most passive of all, and a maniac would be 9,9 having the highest rating for looseness and aggression. You can view the poker profiling grid at this link.

Previously I have written about categorizing your players using an adapted version of Phil Hellmuth’s Creature Guide that includes Lion, Elephant, Mouse, Jackyl, and Eagle, along with my own Monkey player profiles. Seems to me a quicker way of identifying your opponents rather than having a grid number like 3,6 attached to player notes. That does not make the grid less valuable, but rather more helpful in placing your opponents more quickly on the grid while giving you somewhat of a double checking sequence.

For instance, if I have identified a mouse at my table, I can pretty much place him in the lower left quadrant as tight and passive. But if later you see him playing J9os in early position you may have to reconsider his grid position and hence his creature profile.

In sit and go tournaments you also have to keep in mind that all players will change their persona as the session progresses and players are taking more consideration of their stack, the blinds, and prize money. These factors can turn a mouse into a maniac, and a Lion into a Jackyl!