My Online Poker Idea: Action Tables

Posted by icemonkey9 on Mar 19, 2009 in 50nl | 0 comments

Having been slumming it at 50nl the last few days on Stars has me thinking about just how absolutely nitty all the levels have gotten. It's straight up ridiculous how tight people play ... what's put it into perspective for me is that I've started a little roll on a "donkey" poker site (aka NOT a mainstream site) getting rakeback and a bonus. The idea is that the action there is looser at 50/100/200nl and I can diversify my lineup at the cost of VPPs at Stars. Anyways playing at this other site ... OMG ... it reminds me of how things were in 2005 when all you really needed to know is how to push the all in button when you have top pair top kicker on the flop. It's that crazy.

Anyways, I think that action on Stars and Full Tilt has gotten too nitty. It's not "fun" which is why I find myself pining to play 6max so often (which I am worse at!). Anyways I was thinking what these sites could do to inject some more action at the tables, so I thought up "Action Tables" for all the limits. Consider this an open solicitation for all sites to adopt:

No Limit Hold'em Action Tables
- 50BB Minimum Buyin, 200BB Max
- Fast Speed
- Increase the animation speed for dealing
- One-Half Small Blind Antes (all players)
- Two Big Blinds (or maybe even 1 Small Blind and 2 Big Blinds)

I think that would really create some ridonkulous tables where VPIPs and PFRs are huge and there's lots of action from a full table. I'd be interested to read what others might think of my idea.

Anyways, this was all inspired by the play at this other website (I might mention it later) where the play is fast and furious. It's a lot of fun, and I deposited $500 (healthy bonus + rakeback coming) with the intention of following a 14/9 BRM rule where I will move up a level once I have 14 buyins and then move down if I only have 9 at that buyin. Currently I am playing 25nl but I am hoping to get up to 50nl very soon, but we will see if the fates and my abilities will allow that to happen.

I didn't post my last rounds of ridiculous beats on Stars. Went something like this:

- Omaha HL SNG. 4 left, 3 are ITM. We all have identical stacks. I get it in with a flopped Full House. Villain calls and hits quads. I am cripped and go all in with AAxx next hand, same guy calls, I hit a full house, and he rivered quads (again). Wow.

- 50nl ... flopped Flush under Flush. Lost a Stack. Flopped trips with J kicker on KK4 board, villain shows Q kicker and takes a stack. More stuff like that.

So the slide kinda continues although I put in two consecutive winning sessions today with extremely modest wins, but the momentum is at least in the right direction.