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Originally Posted by adastraperaspera
Hm, i didn't know that. Maybe i will try ACR i don't know.
Right now the 10NL Zoom table on Stars is playing with 17% players per flop, which is actually a high number for Stars. But the 10NL Blitz table on ACR is playing with around 25% players per flop, which does indicate a significantly looser and therefore softer game. So if you insist on playing fast fold cash games, it might be worth giving ACR a try and see, if you can do better there over 100k hands. Personally I gave up Zoom years ago, because I was doing way better on regular tables. But of course it is important to be aware of the effects of variance.
You started out with a big upswing over the first 35k hands, which might have made you think, you were crushing the game, but then reality set in over the next 40k hands. And it might as well have been the other way around, so you are kind of lucky, you have never been significantly in the red. My 10NL Zoom graph looks pretty much like your 35k-75k sample (top picture), and I think, I gave up after 27k hands or so. But who know. Maybe I was also a close to break-even player, who just started out with a downswing. My 5NL Zoom graph looks much more like your 10NL graph starting out with a big upswing and then giving back most of the winnings later.
For me though I just kind of decided, that fast forward cash games are not the format, I am going to play. I think, its to difficult to find significant edge, when you cant table select or get a proper read on opponents. And the format also tend to help bad players fix their biggest leak, which is playing to many bad hands especially from early position. According to my PT4 database there is way more limping on regular tables than similar stake Zoom tables, and these whales are, where a lot of the easy profit comes from.
After giving up Zoom I tried 888 Poker but found, that cash games there were not significantly softer than on Stars, and after that I moved to tournaments and have only played a minimal amount of cash games since. I find, that online MTTs is the format, where there is most money to be made, and the only drawback is the time committment and ever larger variance. But SnGs can be a solution to that, even though your ROI is always going to be lower compared to MTTs, and the upside potential is more limited.