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I started grinding 4NL on 30th Sept as soon as it turned midnight when I still had about 9700 points, I saw that Zinfan was also going nuts for the promo playing about 24 tables iirc and knew she'd be in Prio (and I knew DTM was going for the low stakes non-prio) and so I decided to just keep going til I got to like 9995 points and stop until midnight when it turned to 1st Oct.
I can only play about 15 tables on my laptop really, anything above that and I'm not playing, I'm spending all my time clicking the 'I'm back' button all over the place... not even cos I can't physically keep it, I find that bit quite easy, but once I get to that many tables whether it's my laptop or internet connection I dunno but it starts to lag like crazy so I never end up getting my full time bank to make actions because half of it is gone by the time I actually see what's happened.
If I was 15tabling 4NL, so actually able to make proper decisions then I'm 100% confident I would finish above break even easily over a decent sample, but I didn't think 15tabling was gonna be enough to win it so at times I was playing more like 20 tables and just accepting the fact I was donating 6p per orbit for the most part (I did get to play some hands).
Anyway, I knew I wasn't gonna keep up with Zinfan's 24tabling, so decided to grind up to the point of 9995 points and go for the non-prio one. The only other person I could see on the tables at midnight trying for it was Curt360 but I thought he wasn't gonna be a threat as he said he was only gonna play about 8hr per day. Annoyingly holding off on Prio meant I had to stop at 3pm so gave a potential half day lead to him which he obv took advantage of cos the scores on leaderboard were my 8k hands to his 16k hands.
Pretty annoyed that Sky decided to remove the hand counts in the next day's leaderboard cos I have no idea of the gap and whether it's worth trying. It is probably an attempt by Sky to put people off thinking 'meh he's miles ahead, I won't bother' but in my case it's done the opposite... if I was close I'd have tried, but as I don't know I'm not wasting my time to find out, cos this is such a top heavy promo that me grinding like 200+ hours to make 2nd place money would just be a complete waste of time.
I knew I had some catching up to do from the first day so I got some kip late on 30th Sept when I couldn't play anyway (for fear of making Prio), woke up a little after midnight, and played almost non stop until the following midnight. That's right, I played almost 24 hours straight, virtually never less than 15 tables, and I still wasn't top of the leaderboard today!! Obv cos Sky didn't include hand counts I have no idea how close I was, but if that kinda grind wasn't even enough to get me back on top then I just cba trying to repeat that ALOT over the next few weeks.
Having wrote this... might steal it for my diary now lol cos was about to update that.
So looks like the seat is guaranteed to be Curt's now, he can probably chill out and halve his volume now I'm gone, gg and enjoy the package.
although I think the suits missed a trick doing it that way tbh. more people multi tabling but completely nitting up = less rake especially at micro/low /mid stakes also leaves it slightly open for cheating (not that I am saying there is people cheating in fact im sure there isn't) I mean it would be easy to load like 20-25 tables at micro's playing complete abc poker and double teaming with a mate, would be impossible to spot,
maybe im just an old sceptical g!t
regards
IAH
Can somebody confirm exactly what this is? Thanks.
Yes, I'll C & P the reply I gave on the regular Punta Cana FAQ thread a while ago, hopefully that will answer your question.
"......Effectively, you win a package which includes the Hotel room, food & drink as part of the package.
The "Hotel Package" includes, within it, $1,500 of "Resort Credits", which are for various "Dominican Experience" trips & activities, such as day trips to adventure locations, golf, spa, massage, & the like. These tot up to a maximum of $1,500. There is NO CREDIT OR CASH ALTERNATIVE available for these. You either use them, or not, it's up to you.
Think of it like a Room Mini-bar which is free to the room occupant - its up to him or her if they use that Minibar. Obv, you don't get that particular freebie, I'm just using an analogy.
Hope that makes it a little more clear......"
It'd be good to see, we've had points totals up for other recent promos so don't see there being anything that stops them being published...?
regards
IAH