I applied for a consultant postion with BetonSports.com's Poker wing called BoSPoker.com a little over a year ago and was hired for a nice little salary to just play on the site 10 hours a week and give feedback in a weekly email and be present for a bi-weekly e-conference. Best part was that I got an amazing stock deal. With recent events and the stock plummeting, I'm selling my stock, tranferring what's in my poker account into the sportsbook with the football season starting, and saying "bye-bye."

It was fun, but I've been playing a lot of Full Tilt Poker (FTP) lately and emailing back and forth after applying for a position. After 4 IM interviews and a phone conversation, I just received an email saying that they're taking me on their team and I'm very excited about it. I'm not getting the deal that I was with BoSPoker, but much more stable and in what seems like a much more open environment (plus their sending me a bunch of geeky gear to wear at the end of laundry cycles, including a MIKE MATUSOW FOOTBALL JERSEY!!! They were out of Phil Ivey basketball jerseys and said that I could get one around X-mas.).

Poker Stars is still the best company in the poker world. No one cares about their customers like Stars and very few sites are like Ultimate Bet (UB) and FTP to follow in their footsteps and take as much player feedback as possible and make the effort to take large steps toward better ways to support their customers. Party Poker is still my favorite site for cash games, but they don't give shit back to the customer except constant reloads that keep the fish coming. That's great, but all that rake and the shittiest server and tournament structure? Come on. I'll use the site for juicy lo to mid-stakes cash games, but that's it.

I'm not spamming here, but a lot of people are looking for a new site to mess around with FTP should be on everyone's list. BoSPoker's a great site, but the other Tribeca's like VC should be on the top of that Tribeca list. A few friends of mine have signed up through here and have had great experiences with their customer service.

My third recommendation would be to find a Prima site with the best bonus running. Every online poker player should have a Prima connection. That's a network with rooms that are always, and I mean always, reaching out to their playing with extremely aggressive campaigns. Traffic is swingy. There are always a ton of juicy games or there are only a few going at each level. There seems to be no in-between. I signed up through Royal Vegas and without knowing that I signed an agreement that I couldn't have another Prima account. I recently asked them to delete my account and they did. Bet365 looks incredible. The promotions are pretty sweet looking over there.

So, FTP, Bet365, and VC (if you haven't already) would be my picks for people. If you're not much of a hold 'em player and you prefer Omaha or wanna try some other games, go with FTP or Bet365 for a wider array of game selection. The other 2 have too little action. Bet365 (Prima) has very juicy PLO action at almost all times and FTP's a good site for Stud variations.

If someone's completely new to online poker, go with Party Poker or Ultimate Bet. Party's the best place to learn with the softest competition. UB also has extremely soft micro-stakes as well with excellent software and the best tournaments of all kinds. FTP and UB do have tougher competition at higher end of the low-stakes, but still very beatable.

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Congrats dude your really a multi-tasker aint you business, poker player, poker jobs

Good on ya *****now just who in hell deleted my fav thumbs up smiley*****

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I'm also finishing up my degree right now. But thanks.

I was just playing a couple of Razz tables on FTP and I only got dealt 2 wheels in about 175 hands, so not rigged.

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Is this the trhead you recommended Alex?

Yeah. You can bang around on micro-stakes tables. $5 and $10 NL games against soft competition, but it's still competition to start understanding how to interpret the online game. Call it poker or whatever, that was another thread. What's undeniable is that it's a moneymaker and the best way for people to build a roll because of all the cheap games available where you don't break your ass fine-tuning your game.

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What you studying?

Oh yeah and whats a wheel just a straight or as i seem to remember from a certain poker film good enough to take the hi and the low?

Cheers

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Pre-Law. I'm finishing up my Theatre Studies minor with one class this summer. I started at DePaul University as a dramaturgy major in their conservatory and tranferred into their Liberal Arts & Sciences School after about a year and a half. I'm just a few hours short of that minor to graduate because I've been taking the minimum amount of classes to be full time for the last 3 years.

A wheel is a straight from Ace to Five (A, 2, 3, 4, 5). Best hand in Razz and usually good enough to scoop the whole pot in Hi/Lo Split, but always wins the lo half.

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Nice, so you don't wanna go poker pro then?

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No.

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Well I moved to FTP last night after being overly frustrated with PS during the last week or so.

The final two straws for me was having an JJ on the table with 2,3,J come up. I raise, guy went all in, I went all in - he had AQ and well 4,5 came up and that was that - this was a $30 SnG and I could not believe this guy would actually do such a thing (as in I see this alot on the 1-5 dollar sng's - but a 30 dollar?? Am I just being naïve??).

The other was similar in a $25 SnG, me AK, get 2d,As,Ks I raise about 5bb, he has a think about itgoes all in, I call, he flips over Js,9s - WTF? - chasing a flush draw - guess what - bang! Down I go, flush on the turn. Sick and tiredof getting chasers only to hit there outs on the turn and river.

So I decided to have a look elsewhere - and as such found FTP. Already I am enjoying it much more than other sites. Seems to be less chasers and more tight agressive types - even on the lower limit tables and tournies. Layout is very nice also

Now I know over time, that I will win more than I lose, against chasers etc, but it seems to be happening on a more than regular basis that I lose the hand on the river, so for now I just want to play good solid poker against good solid players, where I know that if I get beat then it is due to anything but a river miracle.......well at least some of the time.

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My FTP 1000 $1 SnG Quest:

Played - 45, Won - 8, ITM - 17

Total won: $20.80
Win %: 9.00%
ITM%: 37.78%