Poker ramblings

 

Last week Full Tilt Poker was shut down after losing its gaming licence in the follow on from Black Friday in April. Unlike Pokerstars it did not reimburse the American players money, and following on from this i cannot see how the brand can "bounce back".  There was talk of some European buy-out but i personally think the brand Full Tilt is dead in the water.  The actual software could be a good buy as there was nothing wrong with that (2nd only to Pokerstars imho) but the whole thing would have to be re-named etc etc.

I thought it was a clever move by Pokerstars to offer a $100 reload bonus the day Full Tilt shut down in order to sweep up any players who played on full tilt and were now looking for a new home in which to play poker. It seems to have worked as the traffic on Stars has increased ever since.

Pokerstars have recently improved there player note taking system and you can now assign loads of colours to player notes. This couldn't have come at a better time for me as my HUD will not work with 24 tables up and to be honest i sometimes feel like it gets in the way and you need at least 500-1000 hands minimum imo for the stats to be meaningful anyway.  So I use the table scanner on Holdem Manager to first off see how many tables someone is playing at (useful to initially find out who the regs are) and then once they have played over 500 hands i assign a colour to them dependant of their player type. I have used these colours for years anyway on various Huds/databases etc so i didn't have to get used to learning what each one meant before i played.  Its definitely easier to see a player type instantly when multi-tabling than having loads of stats/numbers flashing and changing all over the place when your 24-tabling.