From Hellmuth to Lederer

I've decided to leave ultimatebet.com and move to fulltiltpoker.com.

I initially joined UB because Phil Hellmuth's "Play Poker Like the Pros" book pushed the website so much and at the time, Phil was my favorite player despite his table antics. But now that I've seen him play in several big tournaments, he no longer is my favorite player. I'd say Howard Lederer, the "Professor" of poker and Phil Ivey are my top 2 favorites now. Although Phil Gordon and Doyle Brunson are tops picks too. It just so happens that Lederer, Gordon and Ivey are all Full Tilt .com supporters.

One of my biggest complaints about UB is that, although you get big sign-up bonuses and referral bonuses, you do not get the money right away. You have to earn "UB points" to get the bonuses. This is pretty standard for poker sites; however, they limit the UB points to ring games only! Meaning, if I play in sit-and-gos most of the time, I don't see a dime of the bonus points.

Full Tilt is different. They award points for every real money game you play. This is great for me because I grow tired of $3-6 tables, and I hate seeing only $5 a day of the $100 "bonus" that I was supposed to get on UB.

Anyway! Moving on! Not that any of my readers really care about online poker... not that I know of anyway (BECAUSE NONE OF YOU LEAVE COMMENTS)... but to Howard Lederer I go! If there was any one player that I could totally emulate my game after, it'd be him. He's very sportsmanly, calculating and selectively aggressive. If there's any opponent I would avoid though, it'd be Phil Ivey. Okay, now I'm babbling. Better cut out.