man on a mission

[sharky21222]

sharky2323...do you play on full tilt ,i need someone to trasnfer me money,and i can pay from stars

[prodonkey]

yes, but I don't do transfers with people I don't know.. especially on full tilt.. got too much there to have them lock my account for some retarded reason lol

[sharky21222]

here ya go donkey http://arcatum.net/startracker/qp.php

[BradleyT]

I played about 30 of the $6.50 turbos today. I think a higher ROI is definitely possible in these compared to the $6.50 turbo NLHE for a variety of reasons. Can discuss more tomorrow.

[sharky21222]

after day 4 205 tourneys 525 profit,on pace to achieve goal of 3k

[prodonkey]

guess I've been slacking and getting wasted the last 2 days.. you will have some competition from now on.

[BradleyT]

Some reasons I think you can get a higher ROI in PLo/8 vs. NLHE:

Players chasing low for all their chips vs. multiple opponents.
Not knowing hand values and the values of draws they may be against.
Not knowing how to control pot sizes.
Playing nut low, no backup, no high and raising and reraising on the flop.
Playing the bubble too passively when short stack is in the BB.
Playing the bubble too loosely when you're 2nd or 3rd in chips.
Passive ITM play when blinds are high.

I played against one guy who according to that startracker site is a winning player over a few hundred PLo/8 $6.50s. This guy had no clue about bubble play. I was chipleader, he was 2nd in chips and one guy had 1800 chips and the short stack was 800 chips (2.5BBs). Before the hand started his chips were worth $18.02 real money. Had he doubled up they would have been worth $23.27 - a gain of $5.25. Instead he busted and lost $18.02 on that hand. He had absolutely no clue about what his hand was worth in real $$ or what he stood to gain in real $$ by playing the hand.

[prodonkey]

These reasons are all going to dissappear in higher buy ins than the micros though. I've found most people know what is going on in the 30's. I think the $16's are prolly beatable for 15% or so.. but above that you're going to get in a lot of 50/50 situations with people that know what they are doing which should massively increase your variance.

[sharky21222]

that is true,i have also figured something else out.A lot of the good o8 players are losing or have really really low roi in the 32+3 turbo,one reason,higher rake,on the 15+1 ,you get 45 invested for 3 bucks,in the 32+3,you only get 32,so thats 13 more money in prize pool you get in the 15 tourneys

[prodonkey]

I agree with you there, the extra rake does hurt.. I moved up to those for awhile, and unless the table was pretty crazy it always ended up being 7 players left at 100/200 level which turns it into a total crapshoot.