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Title: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: asarge on October 17, 2007, 09:54:48 AM
Just wondering where everyone plays their online poker?!

I know the APAT runs all their tourneys through Blue Square, but I"m everyone doesn"t plat thier.

I play at Poker Heaven. Very easy to use and they treat me well there.

Where does everyone else play?!
Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: cabbie007 on October 17, 2007, 11:36:52 AM
Shhhh !

Don"t tap the tank, you"ll scare the fish  ;D
Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: RioRodent on October 17, 2007, 18:07:52 PM
If you play at high stakes I would keep clear of Absolute Poker!!  :-\
Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: Waz1892 on October 17, 2007, 19:24:06 PM
Blue Sq and Sky Poker - sometimes.  Have others but not on them at moment, Laddies, Hill"s,  Poker Stars, Virgin, and Betfair, which i hate
Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: Phil_Crozier on October 18, 2007, 13:52:10 PM
I generally play on my laptop, but occasionally i"ll use the pc.  ;D
Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: Ivydrive on October 18, 2007, 17:10:53 PM
Mainly play at Stars, Full Tilt and Party but have accounts with smaller bankrolls at pretty much every site online... It"d be easier to list the sites im not joined to :D
Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: DJKebab on October 19, 2007, 00:25:55 AM

Mainly play at Stars, Full Tilt and Party but have accounts with smaller bankrolls at pretty much every site online... It"d be easier to list the sites im not joined to :D



Ditto... DTD a lot recently...
Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: gnasher99 on October 19, 2007, 00:40:23 AM
almost everywhere 4 me.
love the fishes at betfair at the moment but the software is still rubbish, it reminds me of my spectrum from 20 yrs ago
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Post by: gerry5421 on October 19, 2007, 03:10:01 AM
played on most sites ,mainly stick to willie hills ,but like party poker too
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Post by: biffa85 on October 19, 2007, 06:32:36 AM
Hate party, but play pretty much everywhere else.....
Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: George2Loose on October 20, 2007, 14:29:01 PM
Pokerstars- easily best site for tournament selection

Full Tilt isn"t bad

HATE the British sites
Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: Maxriddles on October 22, 2007, 22:33:54 PM
Sky, Virgin, Blue Square, Bet Fair. Very new to Blue Square and only joined it because of it"s APAT and GUKPT sponsorships.

Enjoying Blue Square so far, found that Virgin can be a veritable aquarium at times.

Sky can be good fun and specializes in short handed tables and fast blinds, it can be pretty wild at times and in the main tournaments the standard is pretty good and very aggressive, mind you I am giving it a wide berth just now after a run of hideous out draws on the turn and river after getting my chips in while ahead.
Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: Guncraft on October 24, 2007, 15:51:36 PM
I"ll openly admit that I play mainly on PKR.  It is a nice little site, despite what a lot of people say or think.

I have been looking at stars, laddies and tilt lately though.  Although I am looking at making a lot more live play in the UK, so Blue Square might be a good option.
Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: PeteMac on October 24, 2007, 16:25:04 PM
Mainly on Blue Square and PartyPoker - be interested to know what is considered a "good" site (I know, I know - one you win on!!) ;D
Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: CrizzyConnor on October 25, 2007, 01:49:22 AM
Only Pokerstars... never played anywhere else.

Prefer to play live...

Thinking about joining BlueSquare for it"s satellites into British tournaments and also maybe PartyPoker as i"d like to try a satelite onto their Cruise next year, lol. I"m having problems trying to download BlueSquare just now though and am waiting on a friend to refer me for PartyPoker so I get some bonus money or whatever.

Can anybody tell me how Blue Square and Party Poker compare to Pokerstars?
Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: kinboshi on October 25, 2007, 10:12:14 AM
PokerStars is by far the best poker software (IMHO).

However, the cash games are a lot softer (at the low levels I play) on iPoker (which is the network BlueSQ is on).  So the software isn"t as good, but if you can win more - that more than makes up for it!

Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: janc on October 25, 2007, 12:13:29 PM
How do Blue sq and party poker compare to poker stars,
in short they don"t.
Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: TheMaestroUK on October 28, 2007, 23:06:23 PM
I play at Party Poker which is my personal fave. Poker Stars which I find the reality is not as exciting as the image (if that makes sense???) and Sky poker.
Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: duke3016 on October 28, 2007, 23:21:28 PM
Sky and this lot
Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: busman on October 29, 2007, 15:23:43 PM
pokerstars occasionally, pokerplex, bsq (discuss later on), poker heaven mainly,  gala poker. just got rid of VC , Dreampoker and Royal Vegas(chat ban last two due to talking about other sites?????). ##

right blue square---- does anyone else have this problem.  get a hand and the site boots you off.  seems to happen quite alot to me, been booted holding nuts countless times, as well as after betting a big hand like trips on flop, obviously loose as site doesnt like to reload that quickly, or access the tables fast. getting increasingly annoyed and peeved off with them, may just take my money out and go else where again.  got rid of VC due to thier link up with BSQ and software issues. >:(


RANT OVER.

cant wait till next live regional. ;D
Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: lukybugur on October 29, 2007, 15:44:26 PM

right blue square---- does anyone else have this problem.  get a hand and the site boots you off.  seems to happen quite alot to me, been booted holding nuts countless times, as well as after betting a big hand like trips on flop, obviously loose as site doesnt like to reload that quickly, or access the tables fast.

cant wait till next live regional. ;D


BlueSq software was working a lot better for me on Sat night than on Thursday. One question Ken, how much RAM do you have in your PC? I find that with 1GB / 2GB (laptop / desktop) I have less problems than friends running systems with 512MB / 768MB. I think this is the first thing to look at if the delays are lengthy enough to force you to fold a hand.

My BlueSq "delays" are usually between 3 secs and 12 secs which is still bad but still short enough that I can catch an affected hand. 12 secs has only happened a couple of times when I"ve been running my RAM hard with lots of work-related windows open at the same time.

See http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=502.0 for other BlueSq software related rants and more techy stuff on the disadvantages of playing wirelessly.

Hope this helps. See you on 10th! I promise to get your name right next time!  :-X

Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: scottyp on October 29, 2007, 18:06:45 PM
Im mainly a poker stars man myself due to the choice of tourneys and the reliabilty of the software. Love playing certain tourneys on PKR though - have to say its a lot more fun and keeps the interest in the longer tourneys.

Try the $30 deep-stack tourney on sunday afternoon at 3pm. Good standard of play, good structure and doesnt last a ridiculous amount of time.

Oh and btw, cash games are steal at the lower levels. So much dead money!!
Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: kinboshi on October 29, 2007, 21:53:41 PM


right blue square---- does anyone else have this problem.  get a hand and the site boots you off.  seems to happen quite alot to me, been booted holding nuts countless times, as well as after betting a big hand like trips on flop, obviously loose as site doesnt like to reload that quickly, or access the tables fast.

cant wait till next live regional. ;D


BlueSq software was working a lot better for me on Sat night than on Thursday. One question Ken, how much RAM do you have in your PC? I find that with 1GB / 2GB (laptop / desktop) I have less problems than friends running systems with 512MB / 768MB. I think this is the first thing to look at if the delays are lengthy enough to force you to fold a hand.

My BlueSq "delays" are usually between 3 secs and 12 secs which is still bad but still short enough that I can catch an affected hand. 12 secs has only happened a couple of times when I"ve been running my RAM hard with lots of work-related windows open at the same time.

See http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=502.0 for other BlueSq software related rants and more techy stuff on the disadvantages of playing wirelessly.

Hope this helps. See you on 10th! I promise to get your name right next time!  :-X




On my laptop, with 2GB of RAM I have zero problems on BlueSQ. 

Sometimes it can ISP issues, often it is memory issues with the player"s comptuer.  The only time that iPoker used to freeze for me was when I only had 512MB of RAM and I was running Poker Tracker.  Each time Poker Tracker imported the hand histories and updated its database, everything would freeze for a few seconds. 

Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: asarge on October 29, 2007, 22:12:29 PM

pokerstars occasionally, pokerplex, bsq (discuss later on), poker heaven mainly,  gala poker. just got rid of VC , Dreampoker and Royal Vegas


a fellow "poker heaven player"  ;D
Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: hi_am_chris on October 30, 2007, 00:13:51 AM
Used to be party poker but left it because of the drop in the prize money in all their tournaments when americans were banned. Now play on Stars mostly but also think full tilt have as good software. IMO they are the top two sites at the moment, will play blue square occasionally but dont think their tournament structures and value per tourny entry fee go anywhere near close to challengling the "big two".
Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: Ericstoner on October 30, 2007, 10:25:30 AM
Deep breath............................I play

Blonde...sentiments sake.

BLue sq... cos of fabby gukpt,other satts league,apat"s and lots more.

Pokerstars... though avoid any americans,cos their the winners with money still in there.

DTD,William Hill,Littlewoods..........like the game, and good daily sats to evening tournements

Paddy power,Mansion,Full tilt, Betfair,Golden Riveria
What an Online Whore I am.

P,S. I used to have Party as well, but i"ve got issues with them.....so there.

Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: duke3016 on October 30, 2007, 11:35:22 AM

Deep breath............................I play

Blonde...sentiments sake.

BLue sq... cos of fabby gukpt,other satts league,apat"s and lots more.

Pokerstars... though avoid any americans,cos their the winners with money still in there.

DTD,William Hill,Littlewoods..........like the game, and good daily sats to evening tournements

Paddy power,Mansion,Full tilt, Betfair,Golden Riveria
What an Online Whore I am.

P,S. I used to have Party as well, but i"ve got issues with them.....so there.




Good God Brendan do you have a bowl of water next to your PC to cool your hands down  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: Jango on October 30, 2007, 13:36:32 PM
Played on both Party and Stars and found Party to be more of a crap shoot with their aggressive blind structure. Stars gives you more opportunity to play as their structure is very slow. Fulltilt has some great functionality as well that lets you look at last 50 hands and give you live playing stats. Can't comment on the ring tables as only play the tourneys.
I mainly play at fulltilt as they run some great tournaments with deep stacks and slow blinds so loads of opportunity to play poker instead of just getting your chips in and hoping for the best  ;)
Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: busman on October 30, 2007, 17:06:02 PM


right blue square---- does anyone else have this problem.  get a hand and the site boots you off.  seems to happen quite alot to me, been booted holding nuts countless times, as well as after betting a big hand like trips on flop, obviously loose as site doesnt like to reload that quickly, or access the tables fast.

cant wait till next live regional. ;D


how much RAM do you have in your PC? I find that with 1GB / 2GB (laptop / desktop) I have less problems than friends running systems with 512MB / 768MB. I think this is the first thing to look at if the delays are lengthy enough to force you to fold a hand.


See http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=502.0 for other BlueSq software related rants and more techy stuff on the disadvantages of playing wirelessly.

Hope this helps. See you on 10th! I promise to get your name right next time!  :-X




obviously right in the mix then,   not  enough RAM and wireless at same time :-[

may have to upgrade ram on laptop or sit on my own upstairs on main PC, but like doing other things when playing as well............................

ideas on a postcard ;D



seriously though i do tend to be playing on two or three sites at the same time, so RAM is getting used quite hard....  also along with the games of othello, backgammon and scrabble running in background...... can you tell i get bored with one table..........

anyhow  see you on the 10th m8,   bob wasn`t it ???? ::)
Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: lukybugur on October 30, 2007, 18:12:25 PM
BH! It"s a NASA mainframe you"re needin!!

Attention Deficit Disorder I think it"s called. You still there Ken? Ken ... ? ;)
Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: duncthehat on October 31, 2007, 22:58:10 PM
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Dining Room Table on my laptop normally
Title: Re: Where does everyone play Online?
Post by: kinboshi on November 01, 2007, 10:23:29 AM

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Dining Room Table on my laptop normally


I sometimes play downstairs at my desk on my laptop, and sometimes upstairs in the office on my desktop. 

Now we"ve had the kitchen done, I might start playing in there too.