"has dropped around 10k hands since BF"

"volume in general 1/3 of what it was before"

"winrate is lower now and games a bit harder but I haven't been playing for long"

"same as before BF, just found diff. sites and play diff. stakes though"

"It's much harder to get action than ever before. More regulars spaced between less fish. The fish are significantly better than 1/2 years ago also."

"I usually PTR search my opponent before joining. I play anyone who joins my table if I have the time"

"I'm a bumhunter"

"most of my volume comes from arranging games on 2+2 with winning fullring players (to try and get better), however because there are hardly any fullring tables going i usually sit at my own heads up table and play whoever sits as long as they don't buy-in ridiculously short"

"some table selection at 100, none at 50"

"Playing everybody, except when im really tired I don't play aggro regs"

"Play anyone most the time, unless they have supernova status"

"I only have money on stars right now. But its not that hard to get action. I have everyone marked who doesnt play. So i just sit with everyone who i have noted that plays or people without any notes. I can usually find action pretty fast. If i dont get action i will play HU SNGs sometimes and they are super soft. I dont even sit and wait for games anymore. I never get any action doing that anyways."

"I want to improve my game by not only playing complete donks"

"play anyone at .5/1 and 1/2, select a bit at 2/4 and 3/6 atm because roll isn't as big as it was."

"i open sit tables and tend to get enough action at 100-200nl to not regwar"

"only deny people if i have enough action already or if finishing a session and dont feel like playing a reg"

"I play on sites with mostly bumhunters so my table selection is only partially by choice."

"I don´t play tough ppl at 1/2 and 2/4. I hate nits."

"If no fish are around I'll join a reg. Makes for a more fun, though less profitbale game"

"I will play worse regs than me if they are weak/passive and I have no other action at the time"

"I play losing and sometimes break/even regulars. I don't play winning regs, sometimes I do at 100nl, but rarely at 200nl+"

"usually arrange games with regs so that we can actually play a decent session without them quitting really early"

"Like i said before, waiting for people to sit with you is pointless, its so rare. Just sit with everyone and u'll be okay."

"Usually I wait for them to sit down with me, but I sometimes also sit down with them myself. I never refuse to play anyone for the sake of improving my game (and ego)"

"95% of my hands are vs regs, only seek them out and rarely wait for action"

"if i dont have action and they dont have a sick ptr"

"This doesn't happen a lot now because it's all the same guys depending on the time of day/night. Most of them sit me out right away."

"I did try to sit regs until I figured out it was too annoying to deal with. Most regs either won't play or respond in chat, or play 3 hands and leave. This tilted me too much so I stopped. I do scroll through and sit with people I know will play though."

"90%+ won't play, a surprisingly higher % will 1 table but very few will play 2+"

"There is little point sitting regulars; they will often play their button and quit, or mostly just quit anyway. As such I've given up trying."

"i just play against anybody, i alway ask to the regs to 4 tables but they just leave."

"I prefer to try and organise games over skype or twoplustwo if i am going to play, that way you don't have the issue with dickhead regs accusing you of hit and running or anything like that."

"why play regs is there are more profitable games to play?"

"because of the rake"

"I used to play any regs that would give me action but I had huge swings and a small winrate"

"Most 50NL regs are actually terrible. More often than not they don't sit me ."

"It's frustrating if you lose 10buyins HU to a reg and then have to wait ages to get action off another reg to try win it back. One bad session vs a reg can ruin a weeks worth of bumhunting."

"You often get hitn run either way even by regulars so it is often time not worth it starting to play."

"Mainly because I feel like the rake is so high so it's hard to determind if I do have an edge. Also it's hard to get a long game running therefore they often quit before I get enough reads etc to get an advantage."

"My hourly playing fish @ lower limits is higher than playing regs"

"Honestly, none of these answers fits for me. There are plenty of ****ty players at my stakes, anyway. It's not too hard to get games...although harder than pre-Black Friday. When I choose not to play them, it's usually due to a downswing. The only other reason is for only a few guys at my stakes, and that's because I do think they are better than me. (This is not the majority of reg's at my stakes.)"

"If I don't play a regular it's because I don't want to deal with thinking while playing."

"Only good regs will give me action"

"Very little incentive to play them but I would if it was KOTH."

"The bad regs won't play me and my hourly is too small vs the better ones"

"I will sit regs if I wait more than 20 mins"

"If I don't get action I will sit people"

"I play full ring while waiting"

"I play lower stakes if I wait too much"

"It depends on how low I sit. I've taken to sitting between 100NL up to 3/6 (5/10 before black friday) because of scarcity of action. I also play 6max now to get more action, so it might not be accurate."

"not sure with sample size, so far i'm up, but i'd expect us both to be down to the rake over a larger sample"

"I'm really not sure. I think that when I play my A-game I beat them fairly well. But sometimes (e.g. when I'm not thinking straight or playing with scared money), it might be better not to play them because I'm likely to lose on average."

"Probably a winner, but I am a bigger winner if I just bumhunt and I don't mind the waiting time since I can do other stuff that I consider important as well."

"I don't understand why this whole ordeal is a problem; I kinda see that it is, but it wouldn't have to be if only the friggin' sites would change their ways: You either do away with visible screen names altogether and instead of getting a random SN every time you login and/or sit down at a table, your only designation is your seat number. So all you see is seat numbers. Which means that if you're multi-tabling, you could be playing the same person spread across different tables but you wouldn't necessarily know it because on one table he/she might be visible as 'Seat 1', and on another that same person is 'Seat 7'. This would work for both HU, 6-max and FR. That would also render all tracking software obsolete which would be GREAT! Or, another way would be to simply limit the amount of tables that are open; There would always only be ONE (1) table open for seating at all times at any given stake, and once two people have occupied (in the case of HU) that table, another one opens up for another player to sit down. So if you open up the lobby and see that there's a player sitting there that you don't want to play, then perhaps you should move down in stakes, because there is NO reason why we all shouldn't play each other at our normal stakes. Hell, if I get beaten on a regular basis by some other regs, I simply accept defeat and move down. Case closed!"

"from the regs i have played i dont think they are great but most dont play"

"This is against all regs, not regs that will give me action. It's hard to say I think I can crush a lot of bad regs for way more than 8bb/100, but will be breakevenish or, at some stakes/times, worse, against those who DO give me action at significant stakes."

"vs the people who I would consider regulars at my lowest limits I would think I have an edge. However vs some of the ones at the higher levels I doubt I have an edge."

"I don't know about these things, I just want to play"

"I don't think it helped at all"

"I wish all sites would implement limited table spawning/opening. At some sites the amount of tables where players are waiting for action is just silly and demotivating."

"the main problem with euro sites is that people sit a million tables. imo this would put a fish off from playing me but id be interested to know if they get more action. i dont keep too much on each site after BF so i just sit 1 or 2 per stake. i think that sites should limit the amount of tables per stake and if you refuse action you give up the table."

"I love anon tables and think they by far get the most action on party. I think people like not being afraid of losing money on their account name. I also like it because I will actually sit people there and I know they will play for more than 3 hands. I don't have much experience with the limited spwning tables but I will definitely defend that table more or sit with people more once I get to 5/10 on party where it's capped. Fast tables, of course they're going to increase hands played"

"a strict koth is the only system that works... unfortunately no site has it"

"Only currently have money on Stars which has, imo, done very little"

"Other than fast tables, the sites are ****ing up HU as much as they can (PS is a great example)"

"I spend more time working on my game"

"sad really. i just wait around and think i should add some 6max games but never do."

"The nature of online poker is such that the games are always getting more difficult. You always need to expand your poker knowledge regardless of the current state of the games. Once you stop learning your falling behind. I just talk about stuff with people and i think about the game."

"I've gotten coaching and played some 6m but because I wanted to get better, not because of the state of the HU games. I think people wrongly feel they are entitled to having good games all the time. If you aren't getting good games, then either start playing every reg that sits with you or move down a stake or two to get more action. Complaining accomplishes nothing and it's tilting when those people could be doing something about getting their hands in. I only play on one site at the moment and am able to get the 1k-1.5k hands in per day that I can handle before my mind melts :]"

"Constantly looking for a coach that is a good price/quality ratio. Learning PLO."

"worked harder on my current game, played more regs"

"I am considering branching out to playing live."