Which pays better, Party Poker fish or Pokerroom w/ bonuses?

[gametight]

I play on Pokerroom skins and collect bonuses at the $100-200 NL. I know a lot of people still play at Party Poker even tho there bonuses are few and far between. I make a lot off bonuses, so, does the extra "fishyness" of Party make up for the lack of bonuses. Tell me what you think?

[Jay67s]

I am in the exact same situation and was wondering the same thing. I only play party when there is a bonus. So I don't have alot of hands there in the last 4 months.

I think there are plenty of fish on ongame, table selection is key. I have switched back to FR because SH wasn't going well for me.

[djzcko]

I don't play Party anymore but i think you are fine at Ongame. The players there are plenty fishy--much easier to win a stack if you can deal with the extreme agression post flop. As such, I am camping out at Ongame and soaking in the bonuses...much better than Party in my opinion.

[andy-akb]

I think the players are fishier at ongame in general than they are at party, its just the average fish is way more aggressive. At party you run into more passive fish, at ongame the fish are maniacs. If you can deal with the variance, which can be huge in those games, Id stick to ongame, otherwise go to party.

[martindcx1e]

I am in the exact same situation and was wondering the same thing. I only play party when there is a bonus. So I don't have alot of hands there in the last 4 months.

I think there are plenty of fish on ongame, table selection is key. I have switched back to FR because SH wasn't going well for me.

jay, what's the deal with ongame sh? is it way more aggressive or what?

[benny999]

I find most of the ongame SH tables (played 50nl-200nl) pretty loose/passive, but some have maniacs...overall imo a goldmine for a tag/slag style.

I'm wondering more about Party's SH - is it similar in looseness/passiveness? My last downswing in June was at party 50nl FR, and since that I have only played ongame since it's where I've had a big upswing, so I'm a little nervous about going back to party...even though people say good things.

[Jay67s]

I am in the exact same situation and was wondering the same thing. I only play party when there is a bonus. So I don't have alot of hands there in the last 4 months.

I think there are plenty of fish on ongame, table selection is key. I have switched back to FR because SH wasn't going well for me.

jay, what's the deal with ongame sh? is it way more aggressive or what?

Its mainly my style of play and I ran real real bad for a week or so. I play pretty tight, then the bad swing had me too tentative. I believe that the SH are very beatable, I just need to regroup back in FR get my mind on straight and try again. At the 200 NL SH it is more aggressive then the 100nl, but still plenty of very loose (bad) players. But this leads to more variance also.

[andy-akb]

SH games there are absolutely nuts, most tables will have a VPIP of ~50ish, anything lower than 40 is unusual even at 200nl. A typical table will have one other decent player and then a range of maniacs and calling stations.

The players are fairly unpredictable there and sometimes make weird bluffs so its easy to get a little tilty after making a few incorrect calls when you had no idea what your opponent was doing. Because of how aggressive and somewhat unpredictable these players are, the games can be incredibly swingy and if you cant handle the variance id play somewhere else but they really are a goldmine.

At ongame I always sit next to the big stack and a huge portion of the time its a terrible player. Here is an example [read: brag] from earlier today:

-Converter messed up the action, so I just put in the raw history
Texas Hold'em $2-$2 NL (real money)
Seat 1: HERO [ KD,KH ] ($378.60 in chips)
Seat 3: Tom Logan ($237.00 in chips)
Seat 4: Outside0 ($471.60 in chips)
Seat 9: VILLAIN ($1,129.60 in chips)
Seat 10: bancone ($452.20 in chips)
ANTES/BLINDS
VILLAIN posts blind ($1), bancone posts blind ($2).

PRE-FLOP
HERO bets $7, Tom Logan calls $7, Outside0 calls $7, VILLAIN bets $16, bancone folds, HERO bets $63, Tom Logan folds, Outside0 folds, VILLAIN calls $53.

FLOP [board cards 2S,4C,JD ]
VILLAIN checks, HERO bets $100, VILLAIN calls $100.

TURN [board cards 2S,4C,JD,4S ]
VILLAIN checks, HERO bets $208.60 and is all-in, VILLAIN calls $208.60.

RIVER [board cards 2S,4C,JD,4S,9S ]

SHOWDOWN
HERO shows [ KD,KH ]
VILLAIN shows [ 5H,5D ]
HERO wins $770.20.

[Numbr2intheWorld]

i'd say that pokerroom is actually fishier than party.

[martindcx1e]

i played at party today for a bonus after playing at ongame for like 2 months straight and omg party is a nitfest compared to ongame! unless i came across like 10-12 really unusual tables at party's 25NL or something. i mean i could actually cbet b/c people actually folded. i was even able to...gasp...bluff sometimes. it was waaaayyy different then what i was expecting after hearing how people talk about it.

[The Izebox]

party has a reload bonus? Whats the code/bonus %?