Official pacific poker regulars thread

[Pummi81]

Not really.
Sample size?

[koxx]

just 27k

[Vovochka84]

Is it normal? Dont care anymore about the number of buyins, but dynamics sucks

[koxx]

1700 preflop AIs in 500k hands are nitty. I've played 300k hands this year and gone AI 1600 times already.

[Vovochka84]

nitty or not depends on your style, any way 45 degree descending graph sucks

[koxx]

Originally Posted by Vovochka84

45 degree descending graph sucks

Agree, my graph has a similar gap between the two lines that accelerates towards the end. Wouldn't mind if these lines swapped places.

[tucniak]

preflop wars are overrated

[Largus]

As my friend said: "If anybody ask me is 888 rigged I answer more likely yes than not. But to answer this way and to play here looks like a delirium so I say — nope, it's ok".

[Big_Mick00]

Originally Posted by Panthro

Settings > Notifications

then check Hide bankroll balance

is this for 888 only? cant seem to find it on wsop

[koxx]

Originally Posted by Big_Mick00

is this for 888 only? cant seem to find it on wsop

Minor skins are often neglected on this network and usually only 888 receives updates.

[ShortstackCat]

I said this like 2 years ago. 888 has the worst software/support and the only reason anyone played there were the soft games. Well the games got worse and the only way for them to keep them going is to keep the fish alive and the only way they can do that is to rig the games. But they are greedy so that wasnt enough and t hey also had to rig it for coolers and action flops. I ve been on Party for a while now (300k sample) and I m all in like 3x less than I was on 888. I asked PTR to do some kind of stat analysis but nothing yet. Why do you think their CEO left? A new poker scandal is on the way

[Gerv]

Pstrategy also ended their relationship with 888 as of yesterday. The only times they ended partnership was with a shady Merge Skin & when Pokerroom closed its doors..

[Demetroid]

Originally Posted by Vovochka84

Is it normal? Dont care anymore about the number of buyins, but dynamics sucks

Wow, this definetely looks abnormal. I've been studying this question for some time and even ended up writing a program that calculates pure "luck factor" from hand histories.

The idea is simple. Suppose you are in a coin-flip situation, and win, then you get +1 luck point, if you loose, you get -1 point.

Then suppose you lost the pot after all-in where you had 75% equity, that will evaluate to -2 luck points. And so on.

When you sum up these numbers over many hands, you get your "total luck". It can go way above or way below zero even with a completely honest RNG, but then you can calculate the probability with which an honest RNG will lead to your total luck being what it is.

For me this probability was about 18%, which is totally reasonable, so I don't have any reasons to complain (eventhough I'm running worse than other 82% of hypothetical players).

I'm actually thinking if this "luck factor" can be added as a custom stat to PokerTracker.

Another, even simpler thing to look at, is just compare two numbers - your average equity when you go all-in, and percentage of the time you win the pot afterwards. Over the large enough sample these two should pretty much be equal and not differ more than 1%. Even 2% difference would be a severe statistical abnormality.

[B1ingB1angB1aow]

Thats what standard deviation is supposed to show iir

[Demetroid]

Originally Posted by B1ingB1angB1aow

Thats what standard deviation is supposed to show iir

Standard deviation is a different thing, it's just a square root of variance based on your results - which doesn't tell anything about how lucky/unlucky you are.

Variance can be measured without equities, and it is non-zero for hands where there were no all-ins. It depends on your and opponents style of play.