you're just a pussy.

we all know how much sethy hates pussys

i totally am!

walked right into that one.

i like how u make fun of people who dont play 2485729448 tables at a time

Not making fun of him. I just don't think everyone maximizes their $/hr which is fine, especially if you are studying planning to move up. I also did not realize he played on a site other than stars.

yeah because only wanting to play vs fish is burning money

"this isn't worth my time" so classic

Uh, not when you make 8$/hr and work 15 hours a week. I also like the no stress factor. I also like that I don't have to continuously study my job and strive to get better. With poker it's a constant grind, it burns me out playing all the time, and I have to keep getting better. I just like to play poker for fun and to get better here and there when I have the time.

I don't think I'll ever really take it "seriously." Obviously I want to move up a little higher, but I like where I am and I don't want to be a pro or anything.

havent had the time to get started yet huh?

Not complaining at all. I do the same thing. I never play on tables with 5 other competent players. Game selection is hugely important, but if you wait for the PERFECT table, you are not going to be playing very many hands.

I've played against him, and he's a monster. I don't really know you. Perhaps that colors my reading of your posts. It is totally like this thread to have a "dude could do so much better" post about one of the strongest 5/T regs on the whole site. Could be you're right, but I'd need some convincing.

Find a guy who runs > 2BB/100 in a huge sample - doesn't maximize earn
Find a guy who breaks even but makes $100k in RB - can't play, rb whore

Gotta love the interwebz...

both can die imo

I would rank jph as one of the best 5-10 regs on stars. I think his point is only that cubsfan plays well but may not play in games that he's a favorite in, but may only win .5BB, and after rakeback winning $7 hour is better than waiting for games that you can beat for 1BB+.

Exactly. I have a ton of respect for cubfan and his ability but he does pass up some good spots. Obv I have no idea if there are better ones on the other site or he has other reasons, just making an observation.

except that if your after rb win is 7$ that means you are losing pre rb which means you have monster swongs = lots of frustration which also may degrade your game too and make you feel worse in general, even off the tables.. so that $7/hour might not be worth it for everyone, if you can still make good money with very tolerable amount of variance. it's a tradeoff but imo piece of mind >>>> $7/hour
not mentioning that sucking up the swongs of 5/T for 7/hour is ******ed when you can easily make that kind of money with 1/10th the swongs at 50c/$1

I do as well. we both have different approaches to the game. I play alot of huhu whereas i don't think jph plays much at all. Its hard to play multiple huhu tables and have 6max or FR tables open too. I try and make the best decisions with the games that become available to me. Sometimes it may seem as if i leave a +EV games , which is true , but this is mostly due to the fact that i have another game going that i presume is better. Alot of times when games are really good its hard to drop one and go to another but if i don't ill end up playing like 8 or more tables (which is very hard imo) of huhu , FR , 6max variably mixed. If i have 2 huhu matches i usually drop all other games or sit out.

but jph likes this approach which is fine , he is crushing. 30k month was sick btw. stars is like burger king you can have it your way.

I definitely see your point daq when it comes to questionable spots. The spots I am referring to is if you have a >.5 BB/100 edge at the table. You get >$7 of rakeback, and >$5 of earn per table. If you have 4 tables of that, you are now > $50/hour. Far from a negligible amount of money. If all we counted was total money won post rakeback (and maybe we should). Kala is the biggest winner at 5/T this year. Obviously he plays a ton of hours but still. Pretty crazy.

Also I can definitely see how huhu can throw a wrench into things. I have just seen cubfan leave a table in position on a 65/5 and was blown away, but your reasoning totally makes sense.

i dont believe you

Kala now has 1.37 million VPPs. He is going to end up with 2 million this year. That alone is $230kish. Take away his losses which will likely end up being around 40-50k and he is at $180k. I don't know about sledge or cubfan, and I might get reasonably close to that assuming I make SNE but I think he will likely be the biggest winner in pure post rakeback $ terms.

dont make me page TheHip41 to this threat

I meant to say a winrate of $5 per hour + $2 per hour rake back (may be higher just making an example). If you can extrapolate this over 5-6-7 tables, then you can have a very good hourly despite having a lower winrate, which is nice when you are waiting for a seat in the great game. Obviously Thai requires the ability to win while playing several tables and constant monitoring if the lobby for new games forming (I have 1 monitor for just the lobby and Internet).

I'm sure cubsfan could do this if he wanted as I also think he plays very well but see why he doesn't if he is playing mostly all 2-3 handed games where it's very hard to play several tables at once.

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