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9/x But the main problem with downswings isn't even the money you lose playing. The real problem is that they set off a chain reaction. Your bills don't stop coming because you're in a downswing and every month your life BR gets smaller. And as much time as it takes to go on a downswing it can take even longer to get out it. Meanwhile your life BR keeps shrinking and you're faced with a tough choice - deplete your poker BR and drop down stakes, or stick it out and hope it turns around before you go "broke"

Coin Poker is no longer paying commission to affiliates on players it deems as “net withdrawers” on their site. It’s a really bad situation for affiliates who have focused mostly on their pro networks and it’s understandable why Coin Poker would do this for sustainability purposes. My take is is it should be on the affiliate level, not the player level. Affiliates live off of a few high volume players usually…think 80/20 rule. 80% of your rake will come from 20% of the players in your affiliate downline. Losing players don’t typically rake much because they lose quickly. They don’t come back as often either. High volume winning players usually live off of rake back and have a much higher lifetime EV to an affiliate. This makes it completely unfair to an affiliate who has a player come in and lose $5,000 without much volume and then has a player win $5,000 (rakeback included) with 10x the rake and affiliate gets $0 of that rake when their affiliate downline took net zero liquidity from player pool. I like the idea but the execution is done poorly by choosing to do this at a player level.

Maybe i speak only for myself, but if we are going to bring online poker all the way back... a site needs to offer a gigantic 1r 3x turbo, a gigantic 3r, a gigantic 5r, and a gigantic 11r daily that gets even more massive on Sundays. If you werent around for these on PokerStars I dont expect you to understand, but these were what made the game great back then. There are very little in lobbies now that can completely change a players trajectory, maybe the 33mb on wpt.

Time to bring some prestige back to poker tournaments!! There are too many tours, festivals, and tournaments these days and consolidation is needed IMO. I once had a list of events I considered majors and but what do you think if you had to pick would be the “majors” of poker?

Caesars just posted a $123M Q3 loss. Poker rooms have always been one of the lowest profit/square foot areas in a casino With Caesars being sold to Fertitta it could be a bad sign for Live tournament and cash poker. Of all the Fertitta properties only Downtown Golden Nugget has a poker room ( total 3 properties with a poker room, 5 without. Hope I am wrong and poker booms... Thoughts?

For the past three months, @QQPKOFFICIAL has been my main poker room in terms of volume. I’ve played around $40,000 in tournament buy-ins and lost $35,000. Now it turns out that I may have been getting crushed by bots that, at the very least, appear to have been sharing hole-card information with each other. Yesterday, QQPK credited my account with $90 in compensation. I don’t have any illusions about receiving meaningful compensation at this point. But what concerns me is that thousands of the accounts flagged by @MTT_Data_Review still appear to be playing at the tables. I hope we, as a poker community, can bring more attention to this issue and encourage QQPK to take game integrity seriously, properly investigate the accounts identified by @MTT_Data_Review , and take appropriate action.

Is there an anti-staking marketplace? Where you can bet against certain poker players in big tournaments?

1) Volume Is King One of the biggest mistakes poker professionals and aspiring ones make is simply not playing enough. “Never miss a Sunday” is a fun mantra, but that doesn’t allow you to skip other days of the week. MTTs are a high-variance format. Even great players can go through prolonged stretches where their results don’t reflect their ability. The great equalizer? Volume. Every hand is another opportunity to realize your edge. The more you play, the more opportunities you get to see that edge translate into actual profit. During this challenge, I played 562 tournaments (Excluding rebuys) in 6 days. For some MTT players, that’s an entire month’s worth of volume. You can’t control short-term variance. But you can control how many opportunities you give yourself to overcome it.

The Venetian is the first poker room on the Las Vegas Strip to switch to slide dealing. Instead of throwing cards across the table, dealers now slide them across the felt. The goal is to stop cameras from catching a quick glimpse of a card during the deal. South Point was already using this method, but now The Venetian is bringing it to all 50 tables. The WPT Fall Festival starts there on October 28. It’ll be the first major poker series on the Strip using slide dealing. Poker rooms are changing how they deal just to keep the cards hidden.

GGPoker Security Update We’re introducing new measures to protect our community, including new client security features and a ban on all third-party poker software and automation tools. Full details here 👇 gg.gl/new-security

Was paying off my mortgage with poker winnings awesome? Yes. Was firing the FPC as a reward reckless with the state of my bankroll in a downswing and putting so much on my mortgage? Also yes. Back to low stakes online to rebuild, hope to see you in the live streets by Jan.