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Originally Posted by dev123
Probably play on Stars this week then try to get things setup to see what the Party Poker 40% RB grind is like. Lets goooo
I was reading over this thread last night:
Stars confirms new rewards program: Chests
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29...hests-1667675/
Some cliffs were that the Chest bs has rolled out in Denmark already and one person reported his rakeback equivalent from the chests as being around 1% others were reporting not much better. As I thought the Chests VIP system just looks like another way to hide rakeback cuts and is just a money grab really. Not sure I like the idea of variance in rakeback but I could have lived with it if the rakeback % was a guaranteed minimum for whatever your VIP level is. That clearly is not the case.
Party Poker
I am looking at the Party Poker lobby right now around 2pm on a Monday, obvs not peak hours, there is 3 tables of 50NL Full Ring running and 3 tables of 100NL FR. I also checked on Friday and there was about 7 tables of 50NL FR and 5 100NL FR running then. There is maybe twice as many tables running for 6max, only problem is I have practically zero experience of 6max.
I played on Party play money tables just now for maybe 10 to 15 mins to see the software. It seems you cant resize the tables any bigger than about 1/6 of the screen. I got disconnected 3 times in the short period I was on, ranging from about 3 secs to 10 secs before it reconnected, pretty sure there are no problems with my broadband.
You can set 4 colour deck in the settings and you can use F1 F2 F3 hotkeys for fold, call, raise and I could easily remap them to whatever keys using AHK I reckon. There is an option to edit screen name which I am guessing is to prevent bumhunting and to make HUDs less useful. What concerns me there is with so few tables running at FR there obvs arent many fish to get tables going. Then if you can change screen names how many hands are you going to have to play every table before working out that everyone is a 12/10 nit from Belarus with a new screen name and there are no fish in the game?
Timex was on Chicago Joeys podcast and hinted that Party have new software coming and maybe they will make a big push to take over from Stars and get more recs signed up in future.
Right now I am pretty confused about the way forward.
1) Stay on Stars and let them fcuk me over with their new VIP system and expect practically zero rakeback.
2) Play on Party Poker and make an attempt at 6max in order to get enough tables to be able to meet the # of hands required for the 40% rakeback. (I might end up breaking even doing this and not any better off than had I stayed on Stars with no rakeback.)
3) Maybe put more time into learning a new DFS sport like golf or baseball while football season is finished. Poker future is looking bleak and when I look at the Golf lobby there is a GPP coming up where 1st place is $1million.
4) Maybe try all of the above and keep my options open.