Anybody have any experience with playing on global?

i have. last year when they offered 1-2 day paypal cashouts. their sweeps model is a bit strange. no rakeback and pretty high rake.

played 2-4 PLO mainly. NL tables weren't as soft as you'd think & you couldn't multi table more than 4 tables at the time.

general consensus from my friends who play or played is ACR is the better alternative. (despite their bot allegations)

Haha man you know a site is a complete and total piece of **** if ACR is recommended more highly

lol

Alright I'll be making an effort to update this more often.

Live has been kind of a drag - been running like **** past couple months. As of writing this, I am up a whopping $629 in the last 228 hours (since start of April) of live. It seems every time I get some nice momentum I get rekt shortly after. I.e. +8k in Vegas last weekend of March only to drop $7.7k upon my return in one night of 5/10/20 in Sacramento - my single worst session of all time. Disgusted, I headed to San Jose the next day and had a +$16k week(!), only to lose $10k of it back in my return to LA these last 10 days or so. Overall my live hourly on the year is $68 thanks to a hawt start

Online continues to be rockin n rollin. I'm actually surprised I have played so little online this year given how good I have been running and the natural human conditioning to want to play where you're killing it or running best. Being back now, it's obvious I enjoy online a lot more - the hands/hr and style of play is so much more stimulating to me. 25-27 hands an hour sucks, duh!

Reflections - online pro to live pro back to online pro???
When I left online at the end of 2017 I was playing mostly 500nl and I felt I that in 5/5 live I would have a similar/higher hourly but without as crazy variance. Due to the way smaller wr's online compared to live, no doubt the worst-case scenario downswing online is much worse than worst case scenarios in live. Now that I am playing some 1knl in addition to 500nl, and imo I'm a much much better player than in 2017, I think it's entirely possible I make more online now depending on what my true wr's are. Depending on how things shake out the next few months, you guys might see me go back to something like a 65/35 online to live split. Because of that + variance minimization, I'm probably always going to have at least 30% of my total volume coming from live, ideally during the off-peak online hours.


Since last update:

Live:-$5.3k in 21 hours

Online: 9 hours

RIP ignition regs

this is probably the deadest thread in the history of PGC. Ok here - villain is 40/35/15 through 41 hands. What are you doing on this flop with our exact hand? Does it matter if you have the As or not - if so, how? What are you doing on this flop with the rest of your range and are you balanced?

what's going through my head here when I take this line?

IMO we want to be checking very close to 100% of our range on this board, having the As could obv become relevant on later streets, but doesn't change flop action for me.

just bet normal ish like half pot or so, villain not supposed to open 67s UTG much at all, 55 not supposed to either for 3x so we've got his range quite crushed

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So is ignition dead? How bad is the update?

I’m in....and the update is bad, real bad.

I think on that texture that we could get away with simplifying with range check. Depends on how tight we are too and how wide villain defends pre. If we are insanely tight we can just range for 50% in there. Go bigger pre for sure, like 70-75.

Even if we wanna have a betting range, I think AA should always be a check, it's better to use JJ/QQ as bets. Vs station people I like fastplaying all overpairs though.

Also I think most people open 67s/55 from utg

on the AsA with 985ss it's really close either and just depends on how you want to construct your ranges as well as villain type.

The tricky thing with these positions is it really favors our opponents, and for the same reason, we are near the top of our range. We don't have 67s or any of the sets, so realistically we need to be willing to go ham with AA and folding isn't really an option unless the board gets more ridiculously coordinated than it already is (4 to a straight).

If you opt to x I think I would opt to xr when facing a bet, which is also defending our x bet here on the flop

Going back to the villain type, a lot of these regs like pontylad are softer than downey and play a style of poker like they have a 2 buy-in roll. Obviously with those guys, x becomes a much better option as they are never blasting off when x to unless they got it, and we can def make exploitative folds vs nits like this even if we opt to cbet

55 yes, 67s no imo

Neither 67s nor 55 should be opened for 3x at any reasonable frequency, but Im pretty sure villains still do for some % (with 55's freq being way higher)

This board we can still bet quite aggressively I think (with AA being close to pure bet dependant on sizing), but if we decide to simplify and go for a pure flop strat, then range checking is probably losing the least EV.

Ofc this is all meaningless if villain is a fish.

subscribed, curious to see how the games are these days

Came for the updates
Left thinking ignition is still beatable
Can I play on it from Switzerland?

subbed!

More updates! I can’t wait to see how this turns out

Thread is already little over 2 years old but thanks sweetie appreciate the support

Hey how do ur preflop strategy change if ur playing at a game with timed rake every 30 minutes?

Say $7 every 30 minutes does that mean that $7 gets taken out of ur overall EV won, and you play every hand rake free?

Or does it mean u just take x amount of dollars out of each hand which is hard to calculate because u can just get dealt nothing for a whole hour and not play a single hand

So u lose on avg 1.5bb every 30 hands that means... well idk haha but it seems better then normal 5% rake esp if pots go MW

+rep_lol aka El Capo brought the bolded to my attention and so I want to correct it. The fact that this range so strongly favors our opponent's range DOES NOT mean we should be going HAM with AA. Often it means the opposite, and that we should absolutely be considering a x on flop. I think more so what I meant is not that we should be blasting hammers away with AA, but rather that we do need to defend AA pretty vigorously here unless the board gets even more ridiculously textured bc AA will be the top of our range on this flop.

I think a good strategy, at least on the flop, is going to revolve around checking our AsA holdings and betting our AA (no spade) holdings since AsA can easily call a turn bet if a spade comes out and thus needs less protection.

Hey - great question man. I'll be honest, I haven't given this much thought because you typically only see this in some 10/20+ live casino games, and that's not my usual daily game, although I definitely have played w/ this timed rake structure plenty of times.

But as far as what you are specifically asking, I think you should treat it very closely to as if there were no rake, with regards to the hands you DO want to play. Say they take that $7 every half hour, and it's Saturday and they took rake at 1:30 pm. Now at 1:40 pm you are in the big blind and are facing a raise and calling is extremely borderline, so borderline that it is normally in a fold only because the usual per-hand rake structure diminishes your odds just enough. Well now you would call with that hand because your odds for that particular hand are unaffected by rake since that $7 is already gone/sunken so you will not lose any additional money on this specific hand (if you win) and thus have better odds than otherwise. Overall though this is such a marginal spot, it's not worth spending too much time on imo because you should be weighing other factors in your call such as your postflop advantage vs the raiser or who else is in the hand... the inherent marginal nature of it means it's not going to be something I obsess over playing as big as 10/20 live (online would matter way more obv due to hands/hr)

villain was 50/31/17 but through just 17 hands, so virtually meaningless other than he isn't 100 vpip'ing I guess. What's the plan here, what do you guys think?