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It's also more than that as I do intend to be putting more volume in than I currently am. I'd be doing an absolute minimum of 2000 games per month, which means a loss of £300 per month.
But then I do have to take into account that 2000 games, is 6000 poker points which is about £100 C4P per month. Still a big difference but then there's the added factor of how will changing to a larger site affect my win-rate.
It is a horrible decision because I really like playing on Sky and everything they do, but no matter how nice the shop keeper is, if my local corner shop is twice the price of Asda, I'll go to Asda
Firstly, players on 2% site will likely be using HUDs, so you have to decide if this puts you at a disadvantage in any way, and whether you'll have to invest in one and learn to use it yourself.
Secondly, the standard on 2% site - If the standard is higher on that site, then you might be better off paying 5% rake but playing against fish on here instead of sharks on there.
Thirdly, Sharkscope - As I know what 2% site is from the 'discussion' on the Forum DTD page, I also know that, unlike on here where most players will be on Sharkscope, most players on 2% site won't have Sharkscope enabled, so it won't be as easy to find fish.
The grass isn't always greener on the other side
I wouldn't worry about coming up against players that will take you to the cleaners. If that's what you find then at least it will improve your game. I don't want to be advising people to not play on Sky but money talks in the end.
Only joking. Yeah I understand your reasons for playing elsewhere, as obviously I've mentioned in several posts above. I may very well join you in the near future. If so, maybe we can get an ROI challenge set up for July or something (1000 games again)?
How you getting on with your games there? The few games I've played there have only been $3s and I've not noticed any difference in the standard of play, could change at $7s but I'm doubtful. Only observation is that there is virtually zero opportunity for game selection, apart from denying a rematch, because by the time you see someone registered in a game, it's full before you can even click on it lol.
By the way, do you multi-table your hypers? (I play 2 tables)
Yet again my winning session happened while I was at my mum's house. I'm not gonna put this down to any silly superstitions as it's much more likely that I happen to only be at my mum's house on Saturday nights when all the maniacs come out lol.
So I played 17 games and won 11 for a £20.75 profit. Nice feeling to be getting closer and closer to the black again
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Sky Games Played: 716
Sky Profit/Loss: -£51.60
Poker Points: 2195 (£26.34)
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??? Games Player: 48
??? Profit/Loss: -$55.90
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Ok guys, so it seems the ROI challenge has been a complete flop, but could we have some final stats, just to see how we all got on before we gave up on it?
So I played 9 games and won 6 of them for a £12.75 profit.
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Sky Games Played: 725
Sky Profit/Loss: -£38.85
Poker Points: 2222 (£26.66)
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??? Games Player: 48
??? Profit/Loss: -$55.90
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Last night's session meant that I'm down to only 30BIs for my level so I have begrudgingly admitted that I have to stick to the rules I set and step down to £3.15s until I get it back up.
Truth be told, I know I have an edge and can beat them, but not sure if I can handle the swings involved. As I say, I'll be carrying on til the end of June, then I think I'll give Hypers a go on the side on my other site seen as I got a 2nd bankroll to play around with, but on Sky will mainly be playing other stuff.
Also, tonight I decided to give 3/4tabling a go. I've found alot of the moves in Hypers very robotic apart from the odd opponent dependent situations, so seemed to be doing ok 3/4 tabling.
Results to come later.
Was still playing at £5s for the earlier of the 2 sessions, played 42 and only won 16, was pretty brutal variance-wise, I won't bore you with all the stories cos I'm starting to bore myself with how bad I'm running. The result for that session was -£60.50
That was the session which meant after repeated battering of my BR, I only had 30 BIs for my level so decided to step down to £3.15s. Played 19 of them last night and won 11 for a £6.15 profit. Shame I couldn't have done it at £5s but I know I gotta be strict with BRM cos these games could easily destroy a BR very quickly.
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Sky Games Played: 786
Sky Profit/Loss: -£93.20
Poker Points: 2397 (£28.76)
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??? Games Player: 48
??? Profit/Loss: -$55.90
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Pretty sick being that far in the red when I know I'm playing well. One day I'll run like god in return for all this nastiness I've had... until then hopefully decent BRM will keep a roll in my account til that happens
On the upside, I'm still well on target to get my expected £42 C4P which at the moment would put me at about -£50 which in the grand scheme of things is only actually 10 BIs, which is pretty small for a game as swingy as these.
Onwards and upwards.
Paul
Played 28 games and won 15 for a £1.80 profit.
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Sky Games Played: 814
Sky Profit/Loss: -£91.40
Poker Points: 2453 (£29.44)
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??? Games Player: 48
??? Profit/Loss: -$55.90
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Small profit but as I've said previously, I'm just happy to make slow and steady profits at the moment. Just short of £30 in C4P now.
Really enjoyed Blackpool, got off to a VERY slow start, just wasn't picking up any hands or hitting any flops from about 2pm til about 6pm. Was down to about 11k, won a flip AK v 66 to put me up to about 20k. Then when the blinds/antes starting getting to a decent level I started crushing it, table was very weak apart from a few good players like MacMonster.
Got up to 60k (just above average) just through constant blind stealing, with about 50 players left. Blinds I believe were 600/1200 with 100 antes, guy open shoves in early pos with about 35k, folds to me in late position, I re-jam with QQ. Was speaking to TommyD about this after the hand and I think there's no way he open shoves that big a stack with AA/KK cos he's losing so much value, so it's worst case scenario AK, or much more likely alot of smaller PPs that I'm crushing. It was worst case scenario, he had AK and he hit trip Kings
That would have put me up on 100k and bagged my first bounty, as it was, it put me on about 25k with no bounties. This was just before the end of the first day, so after a few more orbits I ended up going into day 2 with 20k which was 7BB once the blinds increased for the start of day 2. Got a few shoves through in day 2, got up to 25k, then blinded back down to 20k, blinds were 1500/3000 with a 300 ante at this point. Sikas min-raises in early pos, it's folded round to me on the BB, I only have about 7BB and the blinds are going up next hand which will leave me with 5BB (and on the SB) so I decide to reshove A6s knowing I have no FE. He shows KQ which I'm quite happy about, flop comes 789, loving it by now, he turns a K, and the river didn't bring a 5, T or A
Finished 26th so I guess it's still a decent run but could have been so much better.
Won 4 out of 8 in one session for a £1.20
Then won 28 out of 56 for a loss of £8.40
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Sky Games Played: 878
Sky Profit/Loss: -£101.00
Poker Points: 2581 (£30.97)
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??? Games Player: 48
??? Profit/Loss: -$55.90
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Another thing I've realised is that me posting up results after everysingle session just puts a bit of pressure on me to win and be able to post up a winning result. I know myself that sometimes I've been down for the session, and carried on playing to attempt to get back in the black so I don't have to post a bad result, which inevitably results in more losses. So I'll still keep up the posting on here, but will lay off on posting session results non-stop. Will probably post results every week or so, or every month or something.
Will carry on playing, just floating about on various games, whatever takes my fancy til the end of June, then I'll try and think what I wanna do.
One thing that has crossed my mind, is that I play the game almost entirely for fun (plus making a small amount of money) and I enjoy live poker a million times more than I do online. So I have considered, withdrawing most of my Sky BR and just using it to play live. I'd still leave a bit in and play bits and bobs, but yeh just one potential plan so far...
On an unrelated topic, made £8.30 2tabling 10NL for abuot 1hr 30 tonight
Only need to play 75 games @ £3 to earn enough C4P and I just played 30 tonight and made a £7.50 profit.
Now up to 2934 points for £35.21 in C4P.
Decided I'm gonna give that DYM challenge another go seen as it's some cheap fun, and I did set it up so should probably take part. Playing my 60p game now.
63 poker points to go
I carried on my DYM challenge tonight, beat the £2.25, £3.30 and £5.50 games tonight, so next up is the £11 game.
Then I played 19 Hypers (still going for my 3k C4P) and won 10 for a big 15p profit!!
Then I played one of Irene's snogs, pick up AA very early on in the BB, 2 shoves in front of me, I make the call and see Q4off (lol) and TT. The TT manages to river a straight which leaves me with 300 chips. Next hand I jam 33 into 88
Up to 2986 poker points now (£35.83) so just need to earn 14 poker points tomorrow night, 7 hypers or a mix of something else.
So sick... we were on the bubble for absolutely ages, everyone up and down, stacks were all fairly even at 200/400 so no-one particularly comfortable. Everyone just making a steal every now and then and not much really changing. Then the below hand happened...loving it when the cards turned over but no such luck.
Shortly after we split the pot above, this hand happened... I assume it's safe to say that this is 100% an easy jam?
I'm done now so finally I finished on 3010 poker points for just over £42