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  1. jintster jintster is offline

    London
    United Kingdom

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    Sep 18th, 2006 (9/18/2006 7:49am)

    So, I discovered a great website last Friday. It introduces players in London to various home games around the city. Even if you don't live in London, it's well worth a look as the guy who writes it has a great sense of humour.

    http://www.friday-night-poker.co.uk/index2.html

    After a bit of hasty negotiation with the missus, I rolled up for a game near me. This wasn't a home game as such - it was held in a working man's club. It was an 10+1 tournie with 57 runners. Although the buy in was small, there were clearly some good players (even a few semi-pros) there, having a laugh with their mates.

    I'd been playing badly the previous week and this tournie, my first ever live one, was really good for me. I played my best game and even though I didn't get big cards I was patient, tight and aggressive. Long story short, after 5 hours, including 50 minute roller coaster heads-up with a very good player I won the tournie for 250.

    I've been beating the $6.50s at stars for ages now but had always wimped out of moving up because there are so many holes in my game. But I took the plunge this weekend and wish I'd done it earlier.

    I really expected the $16s to be a step change from the $6.50s and I was amazed at how poor the play was. You can't tell much from a 20 game sample of course and it would be stupid to say that the $16s are worse than the $6.50s but it certainly seemed that way this weekend. Almost every table I played had 3-4 ultra loose (40%+ VSIP) players and I saw only 1 or 2 players who had the faintest idea of how to play the bubble.

    Frankly I was shocked, pleasantly so, but still shocked. For anyone else that plays the $16s, is my experience very atypical?
  2. coll28 coll28 is offline

    Alpharetta, GA
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    Sep 18th, 2006 (9/18/2006 11:11am) in reply to jintster

    Very beatable. I have been running bad the last couple weeks, but usually ITM40%. These usually dont take more than 35 minutes to finish unless you run into everyone else that is trying to take advantage of these limits also.

    GL to you

    YFIS
    Chip
  3. TheMayor TheMayor is offline

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    Sep 18th, 2006 (9/18/2006 12:22pm) in reply to jintster

    I moved up from the 6.50's to the 16's last month and I saw much of the same quality play that I had seen in the 6's. If you can beat the 6's handily with a 15+% ROI or better, then moving up and beating the 16's is just a matter of whether your bankroll is strong enough to handle it. As long as you are still comfortable enough in your bankroll should happen to lose 4 or 5 buyins, they are really profitable. 12-15$/hr while 4 tabling is pretty atainable. Just stay away from them during the early afternoon hours on the east coast (noon-3pm) I have seen sharks in them mostly during these hours. The early weekday evenings and weekend afternoons are best and full of fishies.
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