Degenerate Diaries: The Chronicles Pt. 2

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... thanks.

I only played because I went to dinner with a few friends pre. My intention was to kill an hour or two before playing some cash. Ended up going quite deep for some reason, so decided it was worth going for a decent score instead. Chopped it 4 ways for £330 each, and got a free cup of tea. Can't say fairer than that.

[tight4better]

got a free cup of tea.

• +EV

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February! How much fun you were! Another successful month; I'm very happy with the way things went overall. I made more regrettable decisions this month than I have before, I think, but having pretty much made the complete transition to 1/2 I was bound to be playing differently and experimenting a little more; and I had some long sessions, at the end of which I was definitely making some mistakes. It turns out the long sessions were worth it, the rakeback from selling my seats turned a decent £2k month into an impressive £3k month. The bad news on this topic is that Dusk Till Dawn have ceased with the cash game bonus (and final table bonus as well, I hear.) This is a big shame, as I obviously quite like playing at Dusk, especially given its alternatives. It's very hard to justify paying that much rake without some kind of incentive though. As in the amount of rake being paid over 150 hours at 10% with a £7 limit versus 5% with a £5 limit is phenomenal. To get £1k of that back justifies the hours put in and the loyalty to the club (basically I would have played a good 100 hours elsewhere were it not for the bonus and I'm sure others feel the same.) Rumour has it that something else is in the pipeline, so I'll stick around and find out what that is, but (and here's the good news) I might end up going back to Gala three nights a week which will also allow me to flex my literary muscles.

Hours: 146.23
Profit: £3,228
Wage: £22.08/hr

Tres happy innit.

Here's graph for lols

[cambridgealex]

Sucks if they don't replace it with something else

[edgascoigne]

At the risk of getting flamed here....the problem with such schemes is they offer the greatest reward, in the vast majority of cases, to winning, rather than 'recreational', players.

Whilst said group of players 'facilitate' the game for the casual punter who comes in, they also undeniably 'drain' the liquidity of the player pool. Iin disincentivising winning players DTD may actually expect to increase revenues as recreational liquidity circulates more before any 'withdrawal' is made from the liquidity pool.

What they actually need to do is reward said recreational players. As an example I'm sure you chaps would happily foot the transport/hotel/dinner bill of the Doncaster lads if that's what was needed to get them down for a game....

[smashedagain]

Just posted on the Dtd site that they have decided to keep the promotion running for fear of losing Mr Belton to Gala 3 nights a week

[DMorgan]

Pretty sweet month, wpwp

I hear that they still do this rakeback thing on the internets. Just saying'

[JK]

Nice to hear your gonna support your close friends cardroom by going to the shithole down the road.

[zerofive]

Nice to hear your gonna support your close friends cardroom by going to the shithole down the road.

Run a cash game sometimes.

[JK]

Youve been so wrapped up playing at DTD youve failed to notice we run a cash game almost every night we open. However, I will forgive you for that. Maybe.

[zerofive]

Had a crack in the 2/5 last night. Was a decent lineup and felt like it was a good spot to take a shot. I lost £100 or so but had one or two gross hands so I'm happy to have such a small loss. Let's see how I do when I'm on the right side of those hands.

[cambridgealex]

Easy boy

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Easy boy

Was there meant to be a comma in there somewhere?

[cambridgealex]

Easy boy

Was there meant to be a comma in there somewhere?

Nope

[SuuPRlim]

At the risk of getting flamed here....the problem with such schemes is they offer the greatest reward, in the vast majority of cases, to winning, rather than 'recreational', players.

Whilst said group of players 'facilitate' the game for the casual punter who comes in, they also undeniably 'drain' the liquidity of the player pool. Iin disincentivising winning players DTD may actually expect to increase revenues as recreational liquidity circulates more before any 'withdrawal' is made from the liquidity pool.

What they actually need to do is reward said recreational players. As an example I'm sure you chaps would happily foot the transport/hotel/dinner bill of the Doncaster lads if that's what was needed to get them down for a game....

Sorry Ed I'm going to slightly disagree with a bit of this, from my experience in regular live games the primary thing that drives it is "pro money" people like Mitch/Alex etc, because those are the people who play everyday and will (usually) always have money to with, keeping the games liquid and there presence means that there will always be a game for the casual, recreational player to play in - this in itself is the biggest draw for the recreational player imo, as your average non-pro (and a huge % of pros) really hate to start games.

If DTD offered nothing to the alex's/sean's and mitch's but bent over backward for the donny lads and other random punters then what happens when they go off on on business, have a holiday with there family or do a few grand too much one month and decide to take 3 or so weeks off poker? The games would prolly be extremely poor.

I've played in games with only a small pro player pool before and they ALWAYS, and I mean ALWAYS fizzle out (often they restart again) but there is no longevity to games like this which is what DTD want commercially.