Hard work at Pokerstars

Since the beginning of the month I have spent a lot of time playing NL100 on Pokerstars. The goal has been to reach Supernova status in their rewards scheme before the end of August. I started off well but then have had one of my worst runs in ages.



Not pretty at all. Includes getting all in before the flop for $100 3 time against KK twice and QQ once and losing all three

I have to say that the level of play at the NL100 games on Pokerstars is a bit higher than I am use to on other sites. Most players are fairly aggressive and of course even though they might be bad players making poor bluffs at least they give themselves a chance to win the hand either by their opposition folding, or hitting their miracle card on the river. Passive players are a lot easier to play against as they have no chance of winning a pot against you when they fold to a bet or raise.

Over the last 6 months I have noticed that the level of play in no limit holdem on all sites is improving at a rapid rate. Players are starting to get more and more aggressive and while this is good when you are hitting your hands it can make for some very tough decisions when holding average hands and making continuation bets.

I felt that I needed to take a break from Pokerstars and have spent the week playing on a newish site called NOIQ poker (stupid name I know). It is part of the Ipoker network and as well as having a great bonus offer for July the level of play is certainly a lot worse and more passive than I am use to on Stars. This has resulted in me booking some good wins and I think that I’ll continue playing on NOIQ until the end of the month before returning for another go at Stars.

For users of Pokertracker you will be interested to know that a new program has been release called “Holdem Tracker”. It is meant to be better than pokertracker in many ways and a free beta version of it is available at holdemtracker.net. The program looks very promising and I’m going spend a bit of time with it over the next week or so. Pokertracker is also hoping to release a much needed new version in a couple of months time, so looking forward to that.

Saw a funny video yesterday Phil Hellmuth was suppose to arrive at this year’s World Series of Poker Main event in a race car to celebrate his 11^th bracelet win. But on a practice run crashed the car into a pole. View the video at Raw Vegas

Have a great day everyone and remember to win at poker raise more and call less.