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Originally Posted by skuzlad
At the moment yes. I would say 75% of my time is directed towards poker.
Currently my short term goal is to move up to 500nl (obviously)
Long term I am not really sure. I want to try complete 1million hands for this year and then reassess what I want to do with poker after 2018.
If all goes well I would like to move abroad for 2 years and grind both live and online and then hopefully have enough funds to reinvest that into a business when I return. I personally prefer playing online but the online scene is not so great at the moment. If Galfond's site is successful I will probably move overseas and grind that and try and compete with the very best.
Pokerstars does however look incredibly soft these days and would not be surprising if you saw me back over there (when Australia sorts out their online poker regulation). However I am just a little bit worried about playing and supporting a site that is going in a very negative EV direction for the overall poker environment
Where you planning on going if you don't mind me asking?
Yeah I play 50nl hu with very little cash experience and I'm beating it at 4bb/100, so you would likely crush on the site.
I think that's kinda debatable, Stars lowering RB obviously sucks (and sucks for me as I would probably have an extra 10-15% BR with decent RB), but in terms of other things, Stars is just SO much better than other sites it's not even close. Hell on PartyPoker zoom, you can't even take notes when you move to a new table as it removes the player's name (nor can you do it by looking at the last hand either like Stars), 888 has made no changes in years and neither site are really trying to do anything interesting, even taking feedback Stars is a lot better. Obviously there are issues with Stars, but Stars has just laid such excellent groundwork and other sites refuse to try and do anything really interesting apart from slight structure changes, increasing rakeback or just not being Stars, I think Stars still leads the market in a variety of ways (communication, taking feedback, software, MTTs by far and having big soft fields).
Just my 2c, but as an MTT player, I've tried talking to a few other websites about trying a few different things specifically when it comes doing Zooms and new Zoom variants, the way they brush me off and act as if changing blind structures from 10-12 minutes or adding 2k chips to the starting stack will somehow drastically change things for them, but adding completely new variants won't is just off putting, so while I completely agree that Stars has gone in a negative direction, they still get a lot right more than most.