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Originally Posted by rickroll
1/3 game
No flop no drop
all flops +1 for "free food & drinks"
all flops +1 for high hand bonus IIRC it's every half hour or so
5% rake with $13 max drop (add on the surcharges and it's $15 max)
they are offering free hotel room (if I bring a roommate) + $30 a night for playing during evening hours and food/drinks would all be free if i ate my meals while playing
considering it because I'm winding down self employment and going to start seeking regular employment and this could be a nice paid or break even vacation
theoretical downside - need friends who actually play poker profitably (taken buddies with me to Macau before and it never ended well)
actual downside - rake seems unbeatable, especially so if there are a lot of cbet folds on the flop where a $20 pot gets the $1 rake at 5% taken out then tripled via food/beverage and high hand fees
99% of live play was in Macau back when the games made considering rake a needless exercise - hence my idiocy in these matters
this is in Panama City IIRC, would have to consult the emails again from a few months back - assuming the offer still stands but don't want to initiate contact again if it's a no go
I'm down to travel and all and understand that worst case scenario, a losing session at 1-3 probably cheaper than hotel room and food bills would be anyway, but would tilt my face having to reach my min hours if i got there are realized how unbeatable it was - i would be absolutely miserable flying down there and then finding myself just folding and listening to audiobooks wondering why i got involved in this - don't want to become one of those miserable prop players clocking in and hating life
If it's a decent game, I think that's a solid deal.
Obviously, you theoretically get the high hand promo drop back. Not sure how much if any they skim. The food/drink will be break evenish depending on quality and appetite. But, one of my fav parts of travel is eating, so I'd probably wouldn't get full value, as I'd want to eat elswhere.
5% rather than 10% softens the blow.
I play in a game like this with a freeroll. I adjust by making bigger raises pre in many spots. Particularly, raising over limpers. I want to take it down now, or play a bigger pot.
I complete the sb much less often, very rarely limp and call fewer raises in the bb.