Regarding the games are **** this year comments:



(this is a random brag from a lurker who gets killed at 2/4 )

Not really.

Suppose you get paid $20/hour, but really would be willing to work for $15/hour. You're "profiting" by $5/hour in an abstract sort of way.

Suppose your company would be willing to pay you $25/hour. Then they are benefiting $5/hour also.

Add this up and there's a $10/hour consumer surplus with you adding value to the company and them adding value to your life.

Now look at the company's customers and there's a similar surplus. Taken in the aggregate, any voluntary transaction is likely to benefit "society" since everyone in society is making transactions like this all the time whether they're hiring an employee or buying a sweater.

An exception would be if you buy something and find out it's junk and not worth the money you paid, but this is a very small minority of transactions.

Consumer surplus on answers.com.

Yeah, are the games always this good? I sat at every 5/10 with an empty seat while waiting for 10 and 15 seats to come through, and I ended up keeping half of those tables because they were so much better than all but 1 of the 10/20s. I'm thinking of 9 tabling 5/10 instead of 6 tabling 10/20. I think I'd make more per hour.

Me too. Sigh. gg 5/10. So now all 3 of us are playing this as well as a bunch of the 10/20 regs that moved down. 10/20 Stars is just ridiculously difficult on average right now.

Now, if I can just get all of the 10/20 regs to move down...

This is fantastic news

From what I've seen, a lot of them are being replaced by the high stakes regs. Say Tryp playing 10/20 last night.

Trypt, elo, p12, efficacy, dalla, boc, wolfman, etc. There are plenty of nitty regs still, but it ain't great when a bunch of mid to high players are playing low mid.

Limit is dead, I suggest you all stop playing. Joking aside, it's not much better on the European sites that I have access to either.

It's still pretty easy to get 3 or 4 good tables running. It's just adding more than that, and sticking to $10/20+ that's proving difficult.

Ya I know, I just want to be spoiled and not have my good table end up with a few LAGTAGs on it like it always does.

I dont think the 10 and 15 games have been bad at all tbh.
Then again I dont have any ambition to reach SNE, so I dont have to sit at 6+ stars tables all the time, which probably makes a huge difference.

wat
I wake up to see all of you T/20+ guys talking about moing donw to 5/T
I was afraid that this day would come one day. Pretty scary
I wonder how far the highstakes guys would be willing to move down before giving up on LHE

I qualify a good table as: Fish, me, anyone, anyone, anyone, whoever. But the fish has to be a real fish. 40+ VPIP, 10- PFR.

It makes a huge difference indeed! If I don't get SNE in 6 months, it won't be from not playing enough. It will be from playing too much on other sites. I still play a little on other sites when I don't have enough good stars tables. And I'm keeping my Iron Man. And yeah, there are still some great games. Just not enough. Not for enough hours, anyway.

I put up a complied version of Kittens fix for your PS notes here. You can look at the whole thread for more details. I also tried to include some instructions for the non-computer savvy. You'll need to know how to create directories and copy files on your own, but I cover the rest... I think.

Good luck. I was so tilted yesterday by my dog-slow client yesterday.

This, and another 15% are actually harming the world. (numbers made up from thin air, ldo)

My girlfriend told me when I decided to play poker full time that I need to put in charity work. My reply: "no u". I guess she feels that doing bikini waxing improves the quality of the world, and I guess it does in some way. Not much more than what I do though.

A few years back, before the economy collapsed I tried to become a mortagage broker. My job was to cold call people and try to refinance them into terrible loans. Still feel like an asshat to this day over that one.

screenname or it didn't happen.

+1
who the other guys are matters very little as long I have good position on a decent size fish

6 months is still 1M VPPs right?
Why not use 9 instead og 6 months. Could be a very +EV change if it means u can drastically improve table selection. no?

No one is allowed to move down to 5/10. I said so.

Who the other guys are influences whether the table is good or great. But a table with one fish on my right is definitively good.
Yes, and I very well may do it in 9. I want my free WSOP buy in this year, though, not next. I could just buy in this year w/FPP and sell most of my action (which I'm planning on, anyway).

What if I play a little 3/6 first, so technically it's moving back up to 5/10? meh. f-that. I'd have to play like 15 tables to make up for the opportunity cost. hmm... prop bet?

one of the few times we totally agree about something

bostich00 on stars

We must have played a good amount together. Have we (dcook77)?

Only about 500 hands. I am proud to announce that im up $3 on you lifetime.