Great stuff, thanks for the effort.

How do you manage your W$ inflow and outflow?

W$ doesn't exist anymore.

As for T$, since 3rd place pays cash and not T$ I actually run out of T$ all the time.

What's your take on the W$ > T$ conversion? I know about the problems you had on the day of the conversion but overall I think it was a pretty strange move by Stars.

I don't really care either way, it's probably a good thing overall because they just had too many currencies before (W$, T$, FPPs). Obviously they should have handled the conversion process better but it all got taken care of in the end, so no worries.

This thread is great, possibly the best well ever on 2+2.

George, do you think you would win more at SNG's if they were winner takes all? I suppose you would find them more boring, as they would be more similar to shortstacking cash.

And, please, could you tell me how much do 6-max hyper-turbo last in average?

Thanks

I think winner-take-all is a lot worse because the strategy is just way too easy to learn. There's lots of weird spots that happen in satellite type structures that just don't happen in winner-take-all sngs.

The average time that I last in a hyper is about 5 minutes according to HEM. How long the average one takes I'm not sure, maybe 7-8 minutes or so?

Jorj, how often do you look at your bankroll? Also, what's the number 1 skill needed to play as many hypers as u do and as succesfully as u do?

If by bankroll you mean how much is in my cashier on stars, I probably look at it almost every day at some point.

Number 1 skill needed in hypers? Oh I don't know, maybe being able to quickly and accurately estimate your equity at any point.

hi jorj

you told me hello the other night and busted before i had the chance to say hello back to you. just wanted to wish you my best


also had a question:

you have a lot of cash flow online, do you do much backing? i am hesitant about posting the question because I don't want you to get spammed with 384748375 PMs but i'm just kinda curious

I used to do a lot of backing but I'm basically quitting it now, and it's probably the best decision I ever made. It was just way too stressful and time-consuming, even though I did make decent $ from doing it. I'll still buy pieces of people in events because I enjoy having sweats, but I'm almost certainly done with long term makeup-type deals.

How long each day do you spend playing online ? and how many days a week ?

do you have stop loss on any given day ? or do you just keep playing your 1k + games everyday ?


sorry if this has already been asked.

Jorj you should make audio interview with daleroxxu or mediocre poker(they probably will
make the same interview two weeks later anyway).

What would you do if online poker will be banned in the US?

1[ ] Find a day job.

2[ ] Moving to live poker(your going to kill yourself playing 20 hands per hour instead of 50 per hour online).

3[ ] Leaving the US?

^^^
Hi Jorj,

also:What do you think is going to happen with the legal side of online poker in the US.

gl in the HTs

I dunno, how much I play depends on so many things. The last month or so I've probably put in 40-45 hr/week on average, but like last year I probably averaged about 20 hr/week the whole year.

I don't have a stop loss...I barely even pay attention to whether I'm up or down anyway.

Jorj I keep trying to find threads that relate to the W$ conversion thing that others have mentioned in this thread. For some reason I don't see any information about it. Could you steer me toward that info or tell me what actually happened?

Actually daleroxxu asked me to do an interview probably 3 months ago now and I said I'd get back to him in a week and I completely forgot about it until I read this post. So sorry daleroxxu.

As for your question, no way in hell I get a day job unless it's the best job ever. Of the other 2 options, I'd most likely leave the US, with the London area being the most likely destination.

So hard to say what will happen when it comes to politicians, but I think a really good sign for the future of poker in the US is taking place this weekend in that Stars is sponsoring a tournament in Vegas.

And ya I'll be there, but I'm sure I'll make my usual day 1 exit.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/61...terday-644531/

enjoy the dramabomb.

George,

You may have noticed me playing the hypers the last few days. I'm taking my shot at grinding these.

I've run at around 5% ROI for a few hundred games so obviously I have no idea what my long-term ROI will be, but I thought I read earlier that a good player would run around 5% given the current structure. I'm assuming then that a good player is 1st or 2nd 37-38% of the time and 3rd around 16-17%? If you run those same numbers with only top 2 getting equal payouts then the the ROI is actually 7-8% vs. 5% as it is now. If you pay 1st more than 2nd and no 3rd then a great HU player would have an even better ROI. I'm guessing you could consistently run at 10% given that structure.

With all that said, what payout structure would you like? Do you like it how it is now? They would probably have to add regular "non-satellite" hypers to have payouts like this, other than a few of the satellites that only pay top 2. Would you even want them to add regular hypers? Thx and see ya at the tables.

5% in hypers would be a insane ROI.

5% roi is impossible to sustain unless you play the lowest limits and 2-table or something. Also your sample size means absolutely nothing. Come back when you've played 10k games or so and it might matter a little.

I like the current payout structure but I'd be willing to adjust to whatever comes up in the future if they're different. I kind of like the different ones because I believe I can adjust to the structure quicker than most people.

Regular sng hypers would be cool; I mean the more options the better, unless it dilutes the current player pool. I don't think it would too much though, worst case the sng hypers would get a lot of action and I'd just switch over to those.

I wish they had lower stakes versions of these hypers (that actually run), I've played a few of them but I'm not really rolled to grind them but damn they're addictive.

Anyway.. Do you think that these would become less profitable if they introduce straight cash versions of these? I'd assume the satellite aspect would attract a lot more fish than a regular cash version would.

You mean like winner-take-all structure? Not exactly sure what you mean by "cash version". Ya that would definitely be less profitable I'd think unless people just played really poorly in them because the strategy would be ridiculously easy to learn.

i think he means buying in in cash and getting paid out in cash, versus buying in with T$ or cash, and getting paid out in cash or T$ or a tournament ticket, and having them run at funny times in a weird location of the lobby.

The main reason I did not try to learn hypers (and I believe I could have) is because I couldn't find them! I didn't even really know they ran consistantly.

hello Jorj! i've read a few pages of your well and i'm impressed. I guess i'll have to come back later to read it all but i have a quick question or two , sorry if they were already asked:

1: i'm planning to move from 45/180s to the hypers because of time time purposes. Could you tell me when do the 22$(or whatever they are) run?

2: Is a simple push/fold wiz training enough to have a + roi?

once again i'm sorry if there are answers to those questions in this well. Good luck!