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Originally Posted by dboy23
OMC, where are you choosing to play 1/2 or 1/3 instead of these promo rooms?
I feel like if you are full time and can't yet afford 2/5 this is probably your best bet for making the highest overall hourly but I don't have much experience yet in non promo rooms to fully commit to that statement.
Something we all forgot to mention earlier is the great gift wrap up points at caesars poker rooms. Normally you earn 100 pts/hr but they had a promo about a month ago for 10x points so I averaged about 450 pts/hour over my play so far.
If you can find a time when they have that 10x multiplier promo going that is worth about $6.66/hr extra for 1/2 I'm pretty sure. The catch is you can only cash in those points a couple times per year at the end of each year.
That 10x GGWU was for just one month, and attracted a lot of grinders to C's for 2x on that 10x. But did it make the games worse? How much of that $6/hr in bennies was lost to a drop in game quality? Do you have any awareness of how much it costs you to have someone in the game off whom you won't earn? As I said, I put it at about $4 an hour. You don't have to use that number, but come up with one and include it in your calculation.
The market is fluid. If one place really, really has a decidedly better promo, it will correspondingly attract grinders and nits and their presence will kill most of the promo's EV.
If you're a low-limit grinder, play everywhere, find a place you actually like, for access, for the dealers, for the food, maybe for some grinder friends you've made,
then pot commit (you probably will want to settle on one joint for the home court advantages that go with being a reg).
I'd say it's like this: to the extent you are a true grinder and can beat the game outright, seek out the best games with the lowest drop.
To the extent you're a nit (I say that gently; hopefully it's just a starting point), play the low-variance high-drop promo games and then play the freerolls to get the promo drop, and hopefully a bit more, returned.
Just recognize that the cost of playing the promo grind, including the cost of spending time at poker tables but not really playing (more like communally folding), can be taxing.
Being on the clock can be taxing, too. I once checked my hours, it was 13.5 for a 13 hour freeroll, told that to a grinder, and he said I was a half-hour dumb; he was right.