As the few people who actually bother to read this already know, I play 98% of my cash poker over on Grandslam for BadBeat as a trainee trader. The premise is simple, after you have shown you are a winning player online and are accepted, they give you a $100 a day limit to play cash, and you get 50% of any profit you make. You play 40 table hours a week, and your target is $300 in profit over the month. You get mentored regularly, and have access to many training utilities. Should you hit your targets, your limits go up and your targets also go up. Top players are rumoured to be on obscene amounts of money per day, but I'm not privy to that information, just what I've heard. All in all, for a solid player who is struggling with a bankroll (which is what I consider myself), then it's a good deal.
Anyway, I've been with BadBeat for a few months now, and I enjoy playing for them. I do always worry though, as the computer I'm on is a bit rubbish really, and I have a lot of trouble multitabling because of it. This often means that I struggle to make the table hours needed, which worries me as they could easily use this to kick me off their scheme, which is not something I want. Thankfully they haven't, yet, and so I'm gonna make a concentrated effort to put more time in, or fix the computer so I can multitable properly!
One thing I have noticed recently on iPoker is the large amount of "shortstackers". These are players who will buy into a cash table with the smallest amount possible (normally 10-20BB) and sit til they get Ace-rag or some pair and shove pre-flop. If they lose, they rebuy for the min. If they win, they immediately disappear, giving you no chance to win your money back. If anyone has any ideas on how to play these guys, then by all means let me know...otherwise I just wish they would all sod off and go play each other.
Right, I was gonna make a massive post...but I'm falling asleep. I'll write one in work tomorrow...it's not like I do anything else anyway!!
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Thursday, 28 February 2008
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I couldn't agree more about the shortstackers. I hate them, and have stopped playing on ipoker because of them. You just can't beat them in the long run because they know exactly what they are doing.
How's it going with BadBeat? Are you nearly a full trader? I was considering it myself, but I'm not sure, plus I read some bad press about people not getting paid on their forum, although that could be out of date now. John Tabbatai seems to do ok out of it!
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