It occurs to me that if I can play 2500 hands of 10nl zoom per day, then I will be putting the same amount of money into play as if I played 125 hands--or 5 to 6 hours--at $1/$2 live, only with a smaller rake, lower variance, and without tips or transportation costs.

Today I'll see what 2500 hands at zoom entails. I'll try to squeeze in a tournament or two while I'm at it.

The next step up is 25nlz, which could be the equivalent of $2/$5 live.

My ads are all over the place. Apparently I'm an elderly gay type who is mostly interested in 5M US+ real estate

Or in Hong Kong terms: flipping small to mid-sized apartments.

Looks like I can play close to 500 hands/hour zooming the two table max, but do I want to?

I'm not the first person with this idea. That figurative incandescent bulb lit up for many around 10 years ago, approximately 15 minutes after Full Tilt invented Rush poker, and a large segment of microstakes rakeback pros rejoiced that they no longer had to squint at several screens filled up with 24 tiny tables.

10nlz is tougher than $1/$2; it may only be lunch money, but bad players lose their lunches here very quickly, then they generally move on to other, more gamble and bankroll sustaining games like double-ups and jackpot sit n' gos, leaving a bunch of regs of varying abilities and only a few whales playing the zoom.

I'll have to play well, and I'll need to move up to 25nlz and beyond fairly quickly. If I want to have 30 buyins at 25nl, I'll need to spin the $400 I left on ACR up to $750. Seems like an obtainable goal and a good first test.

GL, but just to let you know 25NL Blitz basically never runs. You will want to roll up for 50z unless you want to play 25NL reg tables instead.

You are correct about that.

25nlz runs on Ignition, but I'm in Nevada which unfortunately is one of the few states from where that skin won't let you deposit or withdraw. Today I downloaded WSOP.com, but they don't run a zoom game--they have an icon for fast fold tables, so the software is has been developed for the skin and is conceptually available, but they haven't offered any zoom games on New Year's eve, so it's apparent that they don't offer the game.

Checking with Gambelina to see if it runs on Betonline.

I believe I played a dozen hands or so with you at 10nlz today. Did you play for a while or did you just jump in for a few?

After a few thousand hands, I think that I overestimated the player pool. Overall they're not great--better than $1/$2 live players, but that's a low bar. I haven't played a lot of $2/$5, but it seems like 10nlz has the feel of a shorthanded game at that level, only with more 3 betting.

I started 4 bet bluffing a bit: 3 times in 900 hands. I got one fold pre, one fold on the flop, and on the last one I had to fold to a 5 bet.

I played my 2500 hands today, and I'm not entirely worn out. I have the same sort of adrenaline plus endorphin hangover that one gets from playing a difficult but occasionally rewarding video game for several hours on end. Given that people pay good money to game publishers to induce this effect/affect, I ought not to feel bad.

I ended up 5 tabling 3-4 hours, but yeah, for about the first 1/2 hour or so I stopped a couple of times for a phone call and something else. I do remember seeing you a few times at the beginning and thought about saying hi, but that's hard to do 5 tabling.

About the pool, it's a mix of mostly weakish regs and nits, a few good regs sprinkled in, and of course, the rest are some type of fish/whale.

I don't use the chat on ACR. The font is too small for my middle-aged eyes. I know I can detach and expand the chat menu but I can't be arsed.

You doing any job hunting?

Eww.

Sounds like a no.

Pretty sure he considered the question a micro-aggression.

So how's the Blitz grind been going SJ?

I kind of lost interest in it in favor of trying to hit a home run in a tournament, which obviously hasn't happened.

I played one live session at Red Rock and won $140. Today, I'd like to poke my head into the Venetian room and maybe play my very first session in that venue.

Red Rock Station: 4 hours:
+$140

OMG you still play poker!

Happy New Year to you, Mr. President.

This is not a poker blog. This is a blog with poker.

Happy New Year AF!

I'm looking forward to getting jabbed with a needle some time this year.

Something for the ratio. God these ladies rock.

Would this be due to the recent passing of the V's owner?

I played once at the V. It's a nice poker room. Spacious with plenty of 1/2 for a small stakes guy like me. I would play there again if I was in Vegas.
Adelson or no Adelson. I don't think all the guys avoiding playing there all those years had any impact on Adelson's wallet. They just probably missed + ev opportunities.
Anyways, just one man's opinion. Happy New year!

Think they switched to $1/$3 increased the rake, not what it once was.

I wrote a long and detailed answer on my phone while I was waiting for a table at Red Rock, but then they called my name and I tapped the wrong button and it all disappeared.


Without getting into politics, which I'd dearly like to avoid in this thread (drop into the 4L Trump/Shaq Infinity thread and I'll be happy to spar with anyone in there...maybe, or maybe I'll decide not to engage if it's tiresome...come in with something fresh and/or funny would be my suggestion) Adelson did everything in his power to crush online poker when it was at its weakest point, just after Black Friday.

He could have gone the Caesars route and tried to compete, but he didn't; instead he used his wealth and connections to throttle any safe, regulated, legal national online poker industry, and that, I think, was bad for the game.

Nowadays, we have GTO bots and real time assistance destroying the online game, but poker in the early 2010's would have been much better served by Adelson's absence, and thus the game today would likely have been much better. That, I think, was reason enough to avoid raking him any of my dollars.

Venetian was also one of the first Strip properties to introduce 6:5 blackjack and triple zero roulette. Both of these things are abominations, and the more I think of it, the longer I still may avoid the Venetian.

I like Red Rock. It's fairly close to me, there aren't any Strip or Fremont Street Yayhoos masklessly milling around outside the doors, and the game has always been good.

I played Red Rock today and realized that my banter game has suffered greatly from isolation. My jokes and my attempts to engage all kind of fell flat. I was a better conversationalist back when I was getting the frequent practice. Today I think I just came across as a weirdo.

Two hands of note: one of them difficult; one of them a meatball down the middle for an easy home run, but the easy one went a long way towards illuminating the prior difficult one, as they were both against the same villain. I'll try to cover them tomorrow.


Red Rock Station: 3.5 hours:
+$448