THE COME BACK TO POKER AND WHAT I PLAY NOW
hi all
after quitting poker for a while, it never really kept me going.
i started realizing there is no other game that is comparable.
what i enjoy about POKER always was the idea of "play more, earn more".
- you can decide how good you want to be
- environment and community is full of smart people
these points give a huge feeling of control to the own poker travel.
what also caught my attention (but i never managed to get to this points):
- free choice of where to live
- possibility to be your own boss
it might be also nice to know that i never felt like an extrovert, an entertainer, who seeks the big stage.
poker also worked for me for exactly for that reason. just my workspace, my laptop, and the vibes i enjoy most.
i can sit there for hours, grind, study, while listen to a documentary...
END OF 2023 I DECIDED TO GIVE POKER ANOTHER CHANCE.
first, i logged in to my old pokerstars account. i was shocked, what pokerstars became.
- player traffic, even on the weekends, was so far from what i remember back in the days.
- most games was frozen. no 50/50s, no husngs, no 180mans, WHAT WAS HAPPENING HERE?
soon i realized that pokerstars was no longer the best poker option to go.
so i started searching 2023 poker content on youtube. i realized that ggpoker is now, what pokerstars was before.
the traffic on ggpoker is huge. the client seemed nice and the support was very helpful and fast acting.
i decided to give it a shot. big question was, which games should i play there?
the poker environment switched more and more to lottery games.
sit and gos seem to be very dead today and the sites also had to react to the hu sng cartels.
GERMAN LAW
as mentioned before, german players are only allowed 4 tables at a time.
when thinking about going pro, the possible options are limited now.
option1
rush & cash (zoom) would give enough action in 4 tabling.
but it would mean that had to learn cash game first.
option2
spin and golds. lots of recreational players in there and the trend goes to lottery games more and more.
+ lots of heads up action so 4 tables would also be enough.
all other options on ggpoker seemed not to be profitable when only grind 4 tables.
mtts was always interesting to me but i still think 4tabling mtts is not really +ev.
i started watching some youtube videos about flash spins and zoom cash.
also i played some sessions of both options.
after all, i decided that my personal preference was more the spins action!
FIRST THOUGHTS ABOUT SPIN AND GO FLASH / SPIN AND GOLD
the more i thought about it, i decided to give the spin and gos (spin and gold on ggpoker) a shot.
they start with 15bb which means preflop ranges are very important here, felt like home
anyway, i knew that my postflop game had to be better.
i read a lot about the games and figured out that rakeback was a huge part of the profits in the games.
for me, grinding rakeback would be ok. play more, earn more. i was thinking "how hard can it be to break even"?
after some research i found that a chip ev of 20-30 per game should be really ok in the flash spins.
so i started figuring out, how good i was on the lowest limits.
i put $25 in my ggpoker account and decided to grind c25 spins now. not for the cash. not for the rakeback.
just for the learning. for studying the tendencies, for finding out what the default spots look like.
so i played 5000 spins of c25.
soon, i will share insights of what came next.
my c25 spins graph: