General Update for May

Posted by icemonkey9 on May 22, 2009 in 6max, General | 5 comments

After doing a lot of calculations in the last post and then dipping my toe in the waters of another poker room, i've all but decided to move away from PokerStars.  Don't get me wrong, it's the best poker room out there in a general sense.  It's just for my amount of play and at my level, it doesn't make any sense to play against decent regulars while earning 12% rakeback return when I could be playing against below average regulars while earning ~40% rakeback return (MGR rakeback + bonuses).

Of course, moving to the new site was fun, I won a bit so as an underrolled person I decided to step up to 50nl and promptly got my tail whipped by a slew of sick beats including a couple of AIPFs with QQ and running into AA both times.

That led me to look at QQ this month because it had seemed that I had been running into KK or AA a *ridiculous* amount of times with that hand.

The math shows that I've had QQ an appropriate 0.55% of the time, and when I have QQ I have run into AA or KK a whopping 18% of the time.  At 6max, that's just more than triple what it should be, but my math is real sketchy so I might look into it.  However, I'm probably better off ignoring that for good mental health.

So, I'm going to quit playing at the new site until I transfer more money over there to be at least remotely appropraitely rolled for the levels I will play at.  In the meantime I will stick it out at Stars and play there. I don't know if I'll even make GoldStar this month, that's how little I've been playing.  June promises to be a much more normalized month so we'll see how that goes.  Of course, I have to leave you with one of my shitty hands from my new site