robilaruk Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Hello All Have been away for too long, but am back and looking forward to playing a bit of poker and chatting to the great people at PL. I would really appreciate some help in starting out again, so picking a good site to play at, understanding the best deals, and how poker is played now! I have £50 to deposit and play with and am interested in playing low stakes SNG's and micro cash tables, so I am obviously looking for sites that offer a welcome bonus with achievable targets as well as the usual value freerolls with which to play for free and maybe win a few quid. All help and advice is welcome and feel free to suggest anything to get me going again. Kind regards Damian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bart(UK) Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Re: Starting Again Welcome back Damian & good luck. At the moment we have exclusive $5 weekly leagues running on both Stan James ($650 added value) and GCasino/Grosvenor (over £1k added GUKPT main event seat), so these might present a good option for you. The leagues are running on a month by month basis so can't guarantee that they will continue into 2013 and/or others may be added at any time, but setting up an account with 1 or both of these would enable you to take part in the leagues, assuming they continue next month of course. Most sites tend to generally stick to a 10% Sit & Go or tournament fee, but there is a tendancy now for the smallest buyins to be 20%, eg. $1+0.20, $2+0.40 before $3+0.30, $5+0.50 etc. Does vary, but to be honest some networks are so fishy you can still net a nice profit even with the higher rake so don't let that put you off. I personally have recently been grinding small tournaments on the Ongame network (Betsafe, Betfair, Bwin etc) which seem to be very soft or I'm just on a heater or perhaps both. GCasino do have "3-2-1 Giveaway" 10 seater SNG's which are free to enter (not sure if you need to have deposited or not?) and pay out £0.03, £0.02, £0.01. Useful if everything goes wrong with the bankroll and/or further deposit isn't available. It's obviously a bit of a grind, but with the next step up being a $0.10+0.02 SNG, it's possible (but time consuming) to grind back up from nothing. With £50 available I would suggest a 50 buyin or ideally a 100 buyin BRM for Sng's, i.e. you'd probably be starting on $0.50+0.10 or $1+0.20. Turbo's are also available for just 10% fee. Standard clock > £0+0 - 321 Giveaway > $0.10+0.02 > $0.20+0.04 > $0.50+0.10 > $1+0.20 > $2+0.40 > $5+0.50 Can't really advise you on cash tables I'm afraid because I suck at cash :unsure and so tend to avoid going there :D Others will I'm sure give you some options there. Once you have decided, if you can sign up via a Punters Lounge link, it not only helps to generate a small income to help cover PL costs but also helps to secure us additional value/promotions for members in the future. :ok Sorry whaffled a lot, give me a shout if you'd like anything clarified further or if I can help in any other way ;) Bart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robilaruk Posted December 18, 2012 Author Share Posted December 18, 2012 Re: Starting Again Cheers Bart for your advice - I will have a look at the PL links and sign up for Grosvenor (so I get to play in the NYE special!) Am looking forward to getting back 'into the saddle' and playing some poker And many thanks for the warm welcome Cheers Damian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teaulc Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Re: Starting Again good to see you back Damian, see you in the league games :ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avongirl Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Re: Starting Again Welcome back, good to see you. (still some of the same old faces here :p) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robilaruk Posted December 20, 2012 Author Share Posted December 20, 2012 Re: Starting Again thanks all will see you all on NYE for the PL special if I don't catch up with on the tables sooner off to get my Grosvenor account sorted Cheers Damian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robilaruk Posted January 24, 2013 Author Share Posted January 24, 2013 Re: Starting Again been a good month of playing for me, ponied up £20 (about $30) at the start of January on Stan James and have steadily made it to $106 grinding the 1 euro STT's - their latest STT gimmick the 'secret agent give-away' has really helped as every numpty is multi-tabling the 1 euro games to get a chance of a tag-heur watch :ok, I am showing a $40 profit for this last week alone! I am going to treat myself to a few 2.5 euro games to see if I can step up and grind them for a larger hourly rate Cheers Damian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckboxnemo Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Re: Starting Again gl mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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