I haven't played at FT since last weekend, wanted to give the updates a chance to maybe work well, but I'm jumping back in tonight for the weekend. I had updated my HEM to 14a, now I see it's on 18. But I read some reports about HEM lagging on v. 18, and people going back to v. 17. Which version of HEM should I update to?

beta 18a works fine for me on FTP

Anyone else having a huge difference on FTPs on July 18th so far? I am assuming they are way behind on there iron man page, but I need to know how far along I am in the mid year lol.... vegas tomorrow wanna get as much of that done as possible

wow your opponents got lucky, sucks majorly. don't get me wrong, those hands are brutal, but you're obviously just on a sick swing

I would love to think it is a swing, but it is like over 50k hands I keep seeing it happen lol. I am not sure how long downsings can go but I guess its possible?

swongs happen

that is a nice chart there I appreciate lookin at it, but it still seems like your swings are much smaller in timeframe then mine. looks like your downsings last about 10-15k hands or so

It's not CJ or anything, but play till even none the less

Look at the start of his graph....

Then look at hand 88k or whatever.......

while his downswings may only look like they last 10-15k hands, he's got close to a 90k break even stretch going there

he also goes from 600 to negative 400 in about 45k hands... assuming all 50NL that's a 20 buy-in swing right there as well.....

Either way, i'm sure it's quite annoying for him just as your brutal raping is for you.

Keep with it though, eventually things have to even out provided you are a good winning player who refuses to tilt .....

then again, I'm playing NL2 so what do I know haha.

At every level, including NL2, there are some good players just without the bankroll. Maybe you're one.

I think I am looking at this a lot differently then yourself. I see this as he had 2 downswings.... one from about 43k hands to about 51k hands played and it was a brutal brutal downswing. The other from 70k hands to about 78k hands which was another very bad downswing. Other then those period he was rather consistent with winning and then at the tail end had an upswing where he made a lot of it back from about 85K hands to the end.

Also like I said I appreciate that graph because that is probably about as bad as I am running myself, so it is reassuring that the big upswing could be in my future. We shall see how things go I won't be able to play online until august 5th because of vegas tomorrow afternoon for 2 weeks muhuhuhahaha. Lets hope the upswing happens there :-)

While I ran pretty awful over much of that stretch I'm not gonna deny that a lot of my losses (in the region of $1-2k!!!) were from tilt and spew fuelled by running bad. It's easy to get into a total mess and lose a lot very quickly like at 45k and 70k hands on my graph... being breakeven over a long period can be really frustrating and it's very important to try to control your tilt as well as you can.

The upswing at the end is almost all this month after I put a lot of work into eliminating my tilt/spew problems, which hopefully goes to show that being patient and having good self-control can bring you back out of the worst downswings.

Anyways, gl and run better and have fun in vegas =)

I already temporarily switched. I hate PS though.

I like Pokerstars way more then I love FT, but I am a rakeback whore

I have RB at FT, it really does help your monthly income if you play a lot like I do.

I don't like stars because I got doomswitched as soon as I put money on there. Went down a quick 10 BI in a few short days. I'm just NOW getting positive, like 10 minutes ago.

lol there are no such things as "doomswitches when making a deposit" or "doomswitches when making a withdrawl"

Rakeback is just to nice to give up, altho for high volume players PS is a lot better I believe

Didn't CMAR have a downswing/BE stretch over like a 100k-200k hands (if not more)? Think I saw the garf somewhere but can't find it now

This is not getting near enough love. I'm proof that you can have pretty goods stats and still be a mediocre (barely winning) player. Having people look at your stats and say, oh you need to do this more and that more is just 10% of the work that needs to be done. The other 90% is finding the right situation to make those changes work. Trying to up your aggression or increase your 3 bet% can turn you into a spew monkey if you're not paying close attention to the situation. We always have to be searching for the why behind what we are doing.

Tilt changed the clearance date to August 31 for the midyear Bonus according to my Ironman Page so I don't think you need to kill yourself trying to clear.

According to the checks thread in the Zoo seems like they moved on to the next processor and thye are back up and running.

AA vs QKs, lost (all in pre)
straight vs flush on the river
QK vs QJ, lost (all in pre)

and no action with any of my big hands

Poker is such a luck game

Requested my latest check on the 3rd or 4th and received it the 16th. Deposited with no problems.

[QUOTE=CaptVimes;11931394]Tilt changed the clearance date to August 31 for the midyear Bonus according to my Ironman Page so I don't think you need to kill yourself trying to clear.

ya that really makes me feel good because now when I get home I will be able to clear the last 1k points that i wasn't able to get because I will miss the rest of the month. Thank god for Full Tilt switching that up due to their horrendous start to the month.

From what I've read, below supenova, FT is better. SN and SNE is better than FT RB.