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45-Man Turbos $6.50 to $12 Skill Gap?

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  1. Fritters Fritters is offline

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    Oct 3rd, 2008 (10/3/2008 4:49pm)

    I've played $6.50 45-man turbos on stars with pretty good success over the last few months and am currently rolled for the $12 45's.

    I typically play 8-10 tables at a time and thought a good way to move into the $12 tables would be to play both $6.50's and $12's at the same time (usually 7/3 or 6/4 $6.50/$12). The downside to this is that while I'm playing I have no idea which tables are $6.50 and which are $12, so I play both the way I play the $6.50's.

    Is treating the $12's like the $6.50's costing me very much profit?

    If it matters, I play a TAG style and I think my Push/Fold ranges are pretty good - especially with 10-14 players left.

    ~ Fritters
  2. leftygrove leftygrove is offline

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    Oct 3rd, 2008 (10/3/2008 5:00pm) in reply to Fritters

    Hey Fritters. With 8-10 tables I don't see why you couldn't find time to make a pattern on your monitor to show you where each buy-in is. What I used to do is put 6.50's on the left side of my screen, and 3.25's on the right. It's usually very muddled, because sometimes I'll have 6 higher stakes/3 lower stakes games up, and the placement won't be optimal, but it will do the job. I also noticed you disabled your sharkscope stats. I think that might be hurting you, because usually if I check a person's sharkscope stats and they are disabled, I will give him credit for being a good player anyways. I can just check your OPR and see your 22% ROI anyways. If I were you, I'd reenable my sharkscope, and watch the buy-in chart to see how your stats in the $12 are. If you can pull off this mix and still get an 11% ROI in the $12 tourneys, I don't see how badly it could be hurting you.
  3. TheVillageGrinder TheVillageGrinder is offline

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    Oct 3rd, 2008 (10/3/2008 5:00pm) in reply to Fritters

    The only diff u should notice is that players go from awful to really bad. There are some regs in the $12 games and you'll notice them quickly. Same style should work fine.

    I did the same thing as you mixing 6.50 and 12's and I would have to open the lobby to know which tbl was on. so I don't think there's a significant difference.
  4. johncoltrane johncoltrane is offline

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    Oct 4th, 2008 (10/4/2008 7:57am) in reply to Fritters

    they're fairly close IMO, but $12 FT will typically have 3-6 pretty solid players, as opposed to 6.50 FT with 2-4. Avoid the multitabling regs probably.
  5. Fritters Fritters is offline

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    Oct 4th, 2008 (10/4/2008 8:55am) in reply to Fritters

    thanks everyone - all very good advice.

    I like the idea of keeping the two buy-in levels separate, but I'm playing on a 15.4" laptop screen and I need to keep the PAHud window visible so that I can make the appropriate changes when I get moved to a different table.

    Also, as far a sharkscope goes - I track all my info in PT2 so I don't really have a use for it. I do see your point about people assuming I'm winning big, but I usually assume players with blocked stats are either winning players or they're losing a ton of money.

    Incidentally, does anyone here use PAHud for MTT's and have an AHK script that takes care of everything when you get moved to a different table? That would be amazing.
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  6. rz133 rz133 is offline

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    Oct 4th, 2008 (10/4/2008 12:21pm) in reply to Fritters

    I usually just click the notes tab on the table and type the buy-in. So when it pops up i can just see it nice and easy.
     
  7. vladzhuk vladzhuk is offline

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    Oct 4th, 2008 (10/4/2008 12:52pm) in reply to rz133

    type it in the CHAT the buy in, or NOTES of each table as was said before, soooo simple
     
  8. Fritters Fritters is offline

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    Oct 4th, 2008 (10/4/2008 9:49pm) in reply to rz133

     
    Originally Posted by rz133 View Post

    I usually just click the notes tab on the table and type the buy-in. So when it pops up i can just see it nice and easy.

    That is brilliant! Thanks!!
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  9. Blackcab Blackcab is offline

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    Oct 5th, 2008 (10/5/2008 3:14am) in reply to Fritters

    I subscribe to scope and can still see the persons roi when disabled , I would say that 95% of players that disable their scope are losing BIG. Just what I see.
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