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Originally Posted by justDgmt
b/c 2nd and 3rd table session positions are not random, but heavily weighted towards sb and btn
every time you sit out (for w/e reason) more often than player pool average you lose some ev
I don't really get why there should be any weighting of seats at any point.
For it to work better, it should just be that all positions are random at any point, whether you are a new entry to the pool or not. So sometimes when you join the pool you should
not always be in the BB, but this will be countered by you sometimes starting and getting the BB two hands in a row etc.
If it is a pure random start, you couldn't really exploit it by taking some free IP seats and quickly leaving the pool because sometimes when you get the BB, you will stay to get your IP seats and you will be rewarded with another BB straight after due to random chance etc.
I guess it could still be possible to game the system in a slight way, but then Stars could always monitor whether people are playing many short sessions of Zoom where they play lots of 2 and 3 hand mini-sessions dipping in and out of the pool whenever they don't start in the BB, and banning those players after warnings etc.
Frequent ratholers that would want to rathole at 110bb's+, would be playing lots of mini-sessions, but those mini-sessions would frequently be 20+ hands and only very occasionally 2 or 3 hands, of which some of those 2 or 3 handed mini-sessions would correspond with starting in the BB still, so you wouldn't be gaming the system playing like that as a frequent ratholer.
So yeah, it seems like you can't have a pure random and equal distribution, whilst also locking in that new entrants to a pool must always start in the BB, (although of course maybe fish don't always have to
). It feels like it must all have to be completely random to work properly.