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you 'only' won 15/27*100 = 55% of your games today.
to improve your win percentage you would have to win more than 66.7% of your games today.
had you won 19 games of the 27 you would have achieved this
Ouch!!!
Tonko just hurt my %!!! Lost 6-3!!
VWP Sir!!
......anyone weaker fancy a game??
funny, i just had the same experience.
first he was insulting about those he played earlier and then called me a moron.
he did win one game of our three. well done him.
you have a valid point there.
i had another series of games against a well known reg and i won 5 out of 7. he said that as he said he didn't want to play me i should not register to play against him anymore. apparently "it's etiquette", he said. he said that there are many weaker players i should choose instead. then he called me a cxxt
is it not my choice who i play? and is it not his choice to register and wait for any opponent?
ps. i stopped playing him but watched his next game. the other player was away and he min raised every hand in his absence. i guess etiquette is a fashionable thing. here one game, gone the next.
that's is all.
thanks ted, that's my thinking too.
first off, as you are not a [husng] 'reg' it doesnt matter what you do.
basically recreational players are FAR more likely to sit second. this means that being able to open sit is a huge advantage when there are only two lobbies available. regs might agree to share lobbies so that they share the recreationals that stray into their waters. sometimes someone new comes in and might have to prove themselves to the regs that it is in their interests to share lobbies.
it would be bad ettiquette to sit someone that you had a sharing agreement with. with the low traffic, it's not so bad here, but on the bigsite there are queues for the lobbies [managed by a 3rd party registration software]. this has lead to the mid-high-stakes players forming collectives to protect their lobbies and prevent people from lower stakes bumhunting by open sitting, or moving up in stakes easily.
basically, if you are not in the collective you get sat by all the regs.
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with your reg it is probably an ego thing. if you sit him you are basically telling him that you believe you have an edge, whilst at the same time preventing him getting x games an hour in v passive recreationals.
blimey, quite a murky world
thanks for explaining.
On the plus side i have found a far more enjoyable game than the DYMs i was getting so bored playing.
Heads Up here we come on a far more regular basis. Just got to iron out my very loose river calls then onwards and upwards.
Good luck to everyone who makes Top 16.
It's depressing reading this and knowing that I went on crazy monkey tilt last night and ruined my chances of making the top 16
Good post J.
To be fair I mainly carried on after 50 or so games as I didn't think 66.27% was gonna be enough and didn't want to come 17th and get knocked out without trying to improve. Instead I have found these games far me interesting and keep my concentration levels up for the hour or so I play a night.
You say you beat the epic donkey but I lost 4 in a row to what I thought was one and he was hitting all the miracle river cards. Sheeez I must be a mega epic donkey. I just need to be abit more patient perhaps.
the variance is huge, and i wouldnt be surprised if someone posted an 80% winrate
to note, the VERY best players in the format, and ones who have made MILLIONS from the game have ITM rates of 52%. that's in hypers and on another site where the rake allows profit with smaller win rates, but it goes to show just how much luck is involved over the short span on a hyper turno HUSNG.
i really hope you lads carry on playing HUSNG's they are a great variant of the game.
i've posted some strategy in this thread that might help you guys:
https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby?action=show_static&page=poker_community_forums&plckForumPage=ForumDiscussion&plckDiscussionId=Cat%3a2e4f51cb-c64c-449f-a843-8db9c5fe7283Forum%3a596e7081-fff1-4103-8428-5d4d19736b09Discussion%3a214221db-3b07-41df-a2b3-d909c6821814&plckCurrentPage=0
It's not uncommon to wait 30 minutes+ even at peak time for a £10.50 turbo/speed game.
You've experienced long waits even during a month where a lot more players than usual are playing the HU games, imagine it on a normal month. The much discussed rake here is almost double what it is elsewhere, which is a big contributing factor.
I think the action at £5.25 and below is reasonable though, as long as you're playing a turbo/speed/hyper format as opposed to the snoozefest 'regular speed' games, if 2 tabling I think you'd be able to get around 12-15 games an hour.
ROIs will vary from a max of 2/3% @ hypers up to a max of maybe 10/11% at micro stakes speed/turbo games.
The reason i carried on playing as i was playing well and wanted to increase my % to above 68% but just as my sports betting is i started chasing my losses then it carried on from there.
With £ 10.00 DYM i play 4 tables at a time and only play a max of 8 games a night.
In the same time at the mo i am playing 2 tables of Turbo and Speed together. (Dont ask me why) and playing about 12 - 15 games in the same time. To be fair i only earn about £ 16.00 per month in C4P. As you can see its not about the money just the enjoyment.
As Dohhhhhh says i am finding the tables are pretty constant at £ 5.00 Turbo and Speed HU and hopefully will stay like this after the promo.
I dont really care about Rakeback as i enjoy Sky Poker far more than the 3 other sites i have prevoiusly played so the amount of games i play this isnt a major factor to me.