I think I played with 3 of the slowest players on PokerStars last night. It was a standard $20 SnG. As an aside: these take a *lot* longer to fill than the $10 or $15 ones, that is going to suck as I try and move up buy-in levels. Every. Single. Time. These. Players. Waited. Until. 15 Seconds. To. Act. Basically it sucked. I tried searching to see if they were multi-table masters and this table was getting divided attention- but nope, just the one SnG. PS blinds already climb pretty quickly, and adding near a minute to each hand just gets it to crap shoot levels. I ended up bubbling after losing a race and getting severely short-stacked- but when it is four handed and the blinds are already $200/$400, it does not matter much. Oh well.
I am actually doing quite well in my personal SnG series. I won a $20 on Sunday, and moved much closer to the next level.
As I mentioned above, I might need to move to another site with more players at the 20-30-50 levels because Stars just does not have the saturation of players at that level. That probably means Party, but I have not really done any research into that.
Non Poker: I played golf with a few people yesterday, we played 2 man teams, best ball skins. We had an 8 skin lead after 9, so we upped the ante to one skin for 10,11,12, two skins for 13,14,15, and three skins for 16,17,18. We were still up 8 after 12, but then we pushed 16. Luckily I made a big put on 17 to get the hole and the halved skin from 16. That put us up 14 with 3 to go. But damn, was it hot yesterday. I got fully baked. That is what you get when you tee off at 12:20.
The Party SnG is not really poker, more like Bingo, I hated it. Stars SnG’s are better, I think UB’s are the best for a good player, but they take a long time to finish. And even longer to fill than Stars. Teh best SnG players are probably on UB.
I like the Full Tilt SnG structure, but the 6 minute blind levels kill it for me.
Who won the heads up match ? (you and Trip)
Thanks for the heads up on Party. I’ll check on UB and FT as well. Right now, I am content on Stars. We’ll see where I am in a few months.
Technically I won the HU match. However, Trip’s cable went out and he never made it. We are going to try and schedule a match (we meet again, for the first time, for the last time) soon. (heh, that is two seperate Space Balls references in one blurb, nice.)