Pacific Poker won't give you stats. I'm guessing your 400 hands is at the ring games and you are not counting SNG's?

It is great you haven't lost money with Pacific's nasty rake, and you have been clearing their bonus. Good for you! And congratulations for seeking help from this fun community.

I've been playing Pacific for about three weeks, mostly $5 & $10 SNG's and Nickle/Dime NL. I am nobody, a relative newby, and consider myself only a little smarter than the average bear, but ...
TABLE SELECTION helps me take money OUT of Pacific.
  • If I choose a table with more than 55% players per flop, I try to play more draws cheaply. A high PPF percentage is usually good, but Pacific is ridiculous, and too high numbers (80%!!?) may indicate too many bad beats and maniacs at that table (personally, I have to prevent the TILT.)

    My experience is there is usually about two Aggressives per table -- they have more money in front of them than the max buy-in. If you can ID them, move to their left, so you act after them and Raise/CheckRaise/ReRaise them when you have the goods.

    I try to find a table where nearly all the players seated have less than the buy-in, and I sit down with less than the max buy-in, so I blend in (others on FTR would disagree about this, but I do this so I don't scare the fish.)

    The rest of the players you can push around a little and they will usually call with junk and disappear. If they beat you, they have been underbetting (looks like slow play) or overbetting (not a bluff) their lucky hands -- hard to read, but try to ID which player is which -- under or over. Once they are gone, change tables -- don't mash it out with the sharks -- that is negative EV just from the rake.


Post your progress and good luck to you.