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Old 04-29-2011, 12:53 PM   #46
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Re: ********Official Merge Network SNG Discussion**********

I'll look at a HH later today. The HHs are annoying as they are XML and are far from "plain English."

The tables DO have names, but also seem to have a reference number.

Could you PM your screenname? I think we may be playing against each other. Mine is obvious.
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Old 04-29-2011, 02:47 PM   #47
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I think it might be b/c we are in Super Turbos Ruse? HEM seems to pick up my 10 man/6 man non Supers for some reason.
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Old 04-29-2011, 03:54 PM   #48
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Yeah. Mine works but I don't play sups much anymore. I leave that to u luckboxes . Only issue so far is my 30s show up as 10s
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Old 04-29-2011, 04:08 PM   #49
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Re: ********Official Merge Network SNG Discussion**********

I'm interested to see people graphs from these sit and gos.

I am not sure if the games are gonna be much harder or slightly harder, but I def think harder

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Old 04-29-2011, 04:38 PM   #50
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Im only 1k games in, im gonna wait til i have more to start posting graphs. I think itd be too easy to start making assumptions about how the games are based on how youre running over a small sample. I think the dynamic of people starting to get their stars rolls are gonna change the games a lot in the next few weeks.

Ive had the client freeze up on me like 3 times the past few days. Im running HEM and the runbetterpoker ahk. Anyone had similar issues?
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Old 04-29-2011, 04:45 PM   #51
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What games you play Rusemandingo?

I've been playing the $5 turbos and super turbos. Bankroll is 250. So I feel ok about that. I'm gonna be playing a lot this weekend

I'm interested to see the graph when you get a good sample.
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Old 04-29-2011, 05:26 PM   #52
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5 superturbos. im wwkrzyzewskid. Im sure ive played against you the last couple days.
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Old 04-29-2011, 05:32 PM   #53
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Re: ********Official Merge Network SNG Discussion**********

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Im only 1k games in...
Lolz. At my rate, it will be 2014 before I get there.

I'm not sure a graph would say a lot right now anyway as I expect the sharks to move to Merge faster than the fish. So, it should be harder now, but may get softer as word continues to grow that there are places to play.
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Re: ********Official Merge Network SNG Discussion**********

I'll be playing a good few hours tonight. I'm redskinsfan07 with a WV logo.

I admit I am new to superturbos and my strategy has been to shove pretty wide on people, shove any blind on blind 3 round+, and other than that hope my flips hold up.

Being tight seems to be the wrong play in these, especially since you start with 10bb's so playing tight essentially makes it impossible to win.

I'd be interested in discussing strategy with anyone who wants to about the carbon superturbos. I am very new to these.



How many tables at a time you play? I can do 4 on my laptop anymore and I fear software bugs.
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Old 04-29-2011, 06:20 PM   #55
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Re: ********Official Merge Network SNG Discussion**********

Merge ST are pretty ugly right now. It's like an FTP reunion but somebody forgot to invite the fish. $20+ are all me, Gramps, youngjedi, woosewooo, heartbrand, supernovaGM, some cereus regs, & some regs I don't know that are prolly either leftover Merge regs or stars/ftp/cereus regs playing under different names. The super fast structure doesn't allow much edge as it is and w/ all these regs it's just brutal.

I think I've also had sub-optimal adjustments to the structure so far, which doesn't help. Is it sad that I felt my 6 man push/fold was rusty after playing HU SNGs on FTP in April?

As Stars & FTP players get their money refunded it will likely only get worse as the fish will keep their money & the regs will just deposit it into merge. I think a lot of the lower tier pros should start looking for jobs if they haven't already cause these aren't your pre Black Friday SNGs.
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Old 04-29-2011, 06:42 PM   #56
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Yeah HUB I noticed that those STs looked insanely bad. The Turbo games aren't any better. I definitely think the traffic will increase but I have a feeling we may be looking at the good regs from before 4/15 becoming RB pros and the old RB pros flipping burgers - at least for the foreseeable future.

My plans ATM are mostly to move to Portugal, in September, where I can get citizenship.
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My plans ATM are mostly to move to Portugal, in September, where I can get citizenship.
Ummm, that definitely does not suck as a Plan B.
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I'm questioning whether or not these $5 super turbos are very profitable
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The games here seem really reg infested at this point, probably will get worse. I am looking at options on either Cake or Bodog.
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Merge ST are pretty ugly right now. It's like an FTP reunion but somebody forgot to invite the fish. $20+ are all me, Gramps, youngjedi, woosewooo, heartbrand, supernovaGM, some cereus regs, & some regs I don't know that are prolly either leftover Merge regs or stars/ftp/cereus regs playing under different names. The super fast structure doesn't allow much edge as it is and w/ all these regs it's just brutal.

I think I've also had sub-optimal adjustments to the structure so far, which doesn't help. Is it sad that I felt my 6 man push/fold was rusty after playing HU SNGs on FTP in April?

As Stars & FTP players get their money refunded it will likely only get worse as the fish will keep their money & the regs will just deposit it into merge. I think a lot of the lower tier pros should start looking for jobs if they haven't already cause these aren't your pre Black Friday SNGs.
It'll get worse in the short term but as fish find out the new site to play it'll start getting better. Games will probably be tougher than Stars and FT for at least a few months and/or until poker is legalized. However, most pros should have some living expenses saved up. Unless a pro can step out and find a super high paying job I doubt many will be looking for work especially when they can still make $30+ an hour playing poker.

Now is a great time to take a vacation imo. I remember what Stars high stake sng's looked like after Party closed. Every sng pro with an ego thought it would be smart to grind as much as possible in November and December of that year. I'm sure some were +EV in those games but it's funny how bad some people table selected those games.
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