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BoondockSaint
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09-17-2004, 04:05 AM
Post subject: Interpoker players !!!! Question?
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Indiana
Posts: 1,844
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Whats up guys. I just signed up for interpoker because of their lucrative bonuses. Have a couple questions for current players.
Is there anyway you can check the # of raked hands you have so far?
Do you have to have money in the pot for it to be counted as a raked hand?
What style of play do you tend to see at these tables. Looks like there are only a couple tables at each limit so I figure you are playing with a lot of the same guys.
Any advice about the site you would like to share would be appreciated.
Thanks
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jmrogers7
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Full House
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Boondock - Here is what I have found from my experience thus far:
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Is there anyway you can check the # of raked hands you have so far?
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Plain and simple, no. There is an instant online help chat available by clicking the "Help" tab at the table where you can ask an online support person how many raked hands that you have played thus far. They are usually pretty quick to answer. Although I have had occasions where no one ended up answering my question after about 5 minutes so I just closed the chat.
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Do you have to have money in the pot for it to be counted as a raked hand?
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As far as I know, so long as you are dealt cards, if the hand is raked it counts toward your total.
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What style of play do you tend to see at these tables. Looks like there are only a couple tables at each limit so I figure you are playing with a lot of the same guys.
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The majority of the players on this site are European. It has been my experience that they are VERY liberal with their money and have no problem throwing their entire stack into the middle of the table at any time with as little as bottom pair. I have seen many players throw their stack in on a stone cold bluff. The US players on the site are definitely tighter than the European players, but the overall game at each table is extremely loose.
You will notice many of the same players when you play basically because since the UK is 5 hours ahead of us (assuming that you are in the Eastern Time Zone... do the math for other time zones) when we here in the US get home from work and start playing in the evening it is already well into the night/early morning for the UK players. The games are MUCH looser if you can play there during the day and you will find many more tables available to play on.
Hope this helps! Good luck!
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"The urge to gamble is so universal and it's practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil." - Heywood Broun
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BoondockSaint
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Indiana
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Yep!!! That helps a lot. Thanks. I had heard somewhere before about euro players being very aggressive but wasn't sure how much you actually ran into this at the tables at interpoker. Sounds good though for my style of basically playing only the premium hands.
For future interpoker players. When I signed up for my account I didnt deposit right away and after about a week or less they sent me an email giving me 20 free on my first deposit plus the normal 100% match up to 90. There are no strings attached at all to the 20 you just get it straight up. Pretty sweet deal. Keep it in mind.
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jmrogers7
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Full House
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Glad it helped! Yes, if you are a disciplined player you can make a killing here with how liberal people are with their money. And, you simply cannot beat a 100% monthly matching bonus.
The only bad thing that I will say about this site is that the software is a bit of a resource hog (not a big deal if you have a fairly new PC, but I am currently running on an old laptop so I am unable to run more than one table at a time without completely bogging down. Although, I can run one table at Interpoker and play at another table at another poker site that is less resource intensive.). Also, the games are pretty slow. I would say 45-50 hands/hour on average. Sometime less. But that really isn't that big if a deal and I'm just knit-picking now! 
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"The urge to gamble is so universal and it's practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil." - Heywood Broun
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twosevoff
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Flush
Join Date: May 2004
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Interpoker is a Cryptologic skin, so you can bonus whore around the different cryptologic sites and get some extra money for playing on the same tables.
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BoondockSaint
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Indiana
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JESUS I have been playing on interpoker and I decided I can't stand it. I never thought a poker rooms colors would drive me so crazy but I hate it looking at it. Also they are going way too slow for me.
JM how long did it take you to get your PIN number in the mail from them. I have decided to cash out from there and they wont let me because I dont have a PIN and they said they send it in the mail. Also its weird because I was playing 2 tables for over an hour and asked how many raked hands I had and they only said 5. I just can't stand the speed and colors of the poker room though. Off to full tilt I will go.
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twosevoff
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Flush
Join Date: May 2004
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Took me 2-3 weeks to get my PIN in the mail.
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jmrogers7
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Full House
Join Date: Feb 2004
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I got my PIN in the mail 5 days after I signed up. And, I have cashed out without incident from there twice now.
I will definitely agree with you (and I think I may have even mentioned it somewhere) that the play is slow. I think it is partially due to the fact that the software is a resource hog.
As for the colors, they could defintely be better. But, i don't have as big a problem with them as I do with PokerStars. Now there are table/room graphics that I just do not like.
As for the 5 raked hands in 2 hours thing, maybe send them an e-mail and ask the support people for that information. That's obviously incorrect.
On another note, how did you do there? Did you find the action as loose as I have experienced it?
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"The urge to gamble is so universal and it's practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil." - Heywood Broun
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BoondockSaint
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Indiana
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Yeah you did warn me about the slow part. I think a lot of those people are on 56k or something in europe. Funny I don't mind the poker stars format at all. This one drives me nuts. I didnt get a whole lot of cards but I did love the action. You were right for sure. I saw lots of extremely aggressive & loose play. I ended up like up 15 bucks or something. Seemed like people were betting everything and anything. If the pot was like 20 bucks someone always bet it. Did flop a full house once and got about 20 bucks off of it. Was hoping to get someone all in but didnt happen. If this site had like the empire poker format, colors, and speed I would be playing there all the time.
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