A few of my readers have asked about this, so I'll make a quick post about color coding players. The screen shots I post, indicate that I take a lot of notes on players. While the notes are important, for me the color codes carry an added benefit, especially since FullTilt started publishing them in the lobby.
As far as I'm concern, the #1 benefit this feature gives me, is the advance knowledge of knowing the player's skill level, and in the context of HU SNG's, this is very big. If I open up a HU SNG lobby, and see the player sitting there has a color code indicative to me that he's a shark, then I'm not going to play him. At the end of the day, it's about finding the 'edge' and winning money that counts. Sure I can sit, and take the challenge, but I'm not really interested in doing that, when there are plenty of poor players out there. In fact, for those that do play these games, you'll rarely see the 'shark's playing against each other. You'll see one waiting at one table, and another at a different table. I mean if they really wanted to play, they could play each other, right?
In the context of MTT's, having the color code is really helpfull. Obviously when a table first opens up, if you have no info on the players, you need to play for a while, before you start understanding who's who. Now imagine if when the tournament starts, all or most of the players at your table are color coded....thats a big advantage. You know who you want to take hands against, and who not mess with. You understand which players are capable of making plays, and which players don't have a clue, so as to not make plays against them. I can't tell you how invalueble having this is, especially when you play the 45 man SNG'.s At this point, I sit down in these, and have over half the field already color coded.
I've been tagging players now for quite some time, so one thing I recommend is that after every session, you save the notes files. I put it on a USB drive, and take that around the several computers I have, and that I play poker on. You'll find that file in the root of the Fulltilt program directory, and it's called 'yourFullTiltname.XML'. Just make sure the client is closed before copying the file.
I've been running a bit sour the last few days, nothing you can do about it, especially when your getting your money in good, and are getting outdrawn. It happens, and we all have to deal with it. Sucks when it does, thats for sure.
I did manage another 2nd in one of those 45 man SNG's last night, so that help minimize the damage:
Colorfull lobby huh?
2BA
