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Originally Posted by trade2win
Yes it's really the case. Not only that but if you are a winning player you are more then willing to take on a little more variance in exchange for a higher ROI when you make deep runs.
Well, as a winning player, I'd much rather make a set amount of money a day with the option of hitting it big after a deep run to make big time profit, after I've already made my daily quota. This is why I miss DONs so much, free money, make your x per day, then spend some on a tourney and try to hit it big.
The DONs/SNGs are your bread and butter and the tourneys are your Christmas bonus. As it is I'm playing tourneys trying to turn a daily profit and snapping up any SNG I can be so fortunate as to find. It ain't as easy as it used to be, and there's no reason for it to be this way with 50/50s just begging to be posted on this site.
I don't know if my "slow-and-steady make a little bit every day and let it total up as the weeks go by" preferred method of building up a bankroll makes me a rec, a reg, or a grinder, but that's my style, and it seems nigh impossible because the SNGs are so rare. The deep runs need not be the only way of making money in poker, but they seem to be in ACR. When I was down after the DONs were cancelled and JPP ate up about 10 buyins the only way I got out of it was playing maybe .550 in HU and SNGs and then hitting first a couple times in some big tourneys. Since then I've learned to crush the 4man and 6man SNGs so I could do a lot better than .550 if only they'd pop more often, so OD games are still the only reliable opportunity, but with a lot more variance than the old SNG glory days.
I still think ACR is drunk off the teat of JPP and endless rake and they're reluctant to improve SNG games for this reason.
Last edited by ccisbeast; 07-19-2015 at 11:25 AM.