how is absolute? leaving ft

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As for FT, I'll say this: I have accounts at four sites. Full Tilt is where I've had the most suckouts and bad beats of all of them and the site where I've had (until recently) to reload the most. But now, enough! Therefore I won't be reloading much more there any more, as I've simply had enough of seeing pocket Queens etc being beaten by 5-7off. all in preflop, etc. Too many sharks at FT too; i.e., the poor players are very much in a minority on Full Tilt which of course makes it even more difficult to win consistently despite the said proliferation of suckouts/bad beats. Just check out the fact that any table with more than 2 fish swimming will have a waiting list of over 8 sharks within as many minutes. And I won't mention customer service, which could well have better things to do with their time than serve customers... (& are best left to do whatever it is that they do best, of which, as a customer, I've frankly no idea what that might be!! )

My favourite site is pokerstars, albeit for frequent players the fact they've no rakeback is, of course, unattractive. Some of their bigger double stack tourneys have 30 minute blinds - now that's getting closer to how the game of poker should be! Needless to say, "turbo" nonsense is for crapshooters, thrillseekers, maniacs & those who've got better things to do with their life than play poker (like maketh the love with the babe of one's dear life etc.). The next rakeback site I'll be joining is pkr.com if only to test my rig's capabilities in the graphical 'benchmarkathon'... and something akin to at least average luck would be quite a bonus if my rig can take the hardware req's pounding.

A good point was made about ultimate/absolute, insofar as don't be too sure of the presumption that only high stakes tables could be fleeced as no one would (allegedly) be bothered with the low stakes games.Absolutely not true - because steady fleecing is steady fleecing and a profit is a profit so surely it makes more sense to do it at the lower stakes where no one would be particularly watching/suspecting these, as the majority of persons wouldn't even think that anyone would be bothered with anything less than high stakes - which is, naturally, the ideal cover for relentless hocus pokus! After all, what would a thinking cheat chose? A couple of thousand a day with a 90% chance of being eventually caught, or, a couple of hundred every day with a 10% chance of being eventually caught!?? Reason declares the latter the winning proposition for all but craved lunatics.