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The world series of poker is down to 214 players now; Greg Raymer is doing really well and while I don't think this yet qualifies as one of the greatest poker accomplishments ever, it's pretty impressive.
Even more impressive is the volume of comments that Pauly's blog is generating -- holy smokes, he's up to over 200 comments on his latest update post. That's about as many comments as I get in six months!
If you are looking for some non-WSOP reading, I recommend pokernerd's updates on his quest to make money playing $50 sit-n-go tournaments -- 8 at a time to do 1,000 in a month.
Logistically, I'm playing four sets of eight each weekday night and five sets each weekend day. With the new blind structure and eight-tabling, each set is taking or close to taking a full hour, with bathroom/eyeball break. Hitting these targets every day for this month would be 1,072 SNG's, so I have some leeway...I'm trying to accumulate more at the beginning of the month, because I remember being pretty burned out at the end of February, when I played 600 4-tabling.So far he is up just under $2k after 355 tournaments, which is about $5 per tournament, or $40 per hour playing poker tournaments, a solid win rate for just about any professional player. My win rate when I was playing $30 sit-n-go's "seriously" was $2.20 per tournament, but I don't think I could have kept that up playing eight at a time... and kept my sanity.
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Personally, I am glad to see that Party is taking a fairly unequivocal position one way or the other on the subject of assistance programs. I'm ambivalent about their use -- I think some retrospective analysis programs like PokerTracker should definitely be allowed, while others that do collective data mining and inline odds calculations I'm less in favor of. However, I'm not at all ambivalent about poker sites staying quiet about them. I think they should either explicitly allow or disallow them, but they should not stay quiet on them.
Certainly an anti-software policy of any kind is impossible to completely enforce, and will result in an arms race between software producers and online poker rooms. The folks who rely on these programs to make a solid living, and have a lot of time and energy to devote to thwarting detection, will succeed. But sites like Party don't have to succeed in stamping out 100% of people violating their terms of service to make a huge difference. Even a small enforcement policy will greatly reduce the number of users who use these programs, as well as moving some of those who do to other sites.
Why is that good for poker? Applications that help professionals play many more tables at a time than they could unaided - and turn a signficant profit - are not great for the sustainability of the online poker community. Applications that help professionals in ways that an average player with a great memory and a calculator would not have access to such as massive hand databases are even worse for the sustainability of poker.
I have used PokerTracker and think it's a terrific application for understanding the holes in your own game. I've never even downloaded an odds calculation / inspector app, not because I think they're unfair, but because I play poker online only to improve my live game, and I think having access to a real-time odds calculator would hurt it. But if "Party policy" is anti-software, I have no problem following that policy.
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