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Originally Posted by StarGrinder
Which begs the question, why play on ACR at all? I'm not trolling, it's a serious question. I just don't understand why someone would want to bang their heads against the wall to make pennies per hour when you can easily go to BOL, Merge, Ignition, etc and play tons of fish and actually build a bankroll. To not seek out the most profitable games is just irresponsible and unprofessional because long-term winning poker is, has and always will be about sitting with players worse than you.
This is a great question. Here's the deal: I can't play on Ignition because I'm a New York resident. They only take old grandfathered Bovada accounts from New York. They haven't taken new players from a few of the big states in a couple of years or more now. I have a Horizon account (used to be Intertops) and it's the best deal. If you take the software, the 36% rakeback, the VIP program, the regular redeposit bonuses which are easy to clear, etc - It's great. The one thing is that there's virtually zero traffic and the site doesn't seem interested in boosting their poker traffic. It's been this way for ages.
So, this leaves BOL and WPN. BOL has no rake back but it does have a progressive rake race, although until you're at 25NL+ you really don't have a chance at landing a spot on the leaderboard. The software has been updated recently and though that did make it drastically better, it's still not anywhere near on par with WPN. WPN is the closest to Stars that it gets for a US player. BOL does not support PT4/HM2 without a converter and even then it's buggy. DriveHUD is a great HUD, but this requires learning everything about two huds on two different networks. Not the worst thing but I'd rather just use PT4 for everything. Lastly, you're really not learning proper poker and plugging your leaks in the micros on BOL. If anything, you start getting away with too much and developing bad habits. As such, I wanted to put in a good 25,000 hands or so on WPN 2NL before going back over to BOL. The plan is to go back to 4NL 6max there, hopefully crush it (as I was even a year ago) and get to 10NL as soon as possible. Soon thereafter, I'll hopefully be able to bump to 5NL on WPN.
You're right, though: Ultimately, the roll will be (and has been) built on BOL. You can legitimately just print money in the micros there and I'll go back to doing that soon. I just wanted to dig into the game deeper than ever and numerous WPN sessions with extensive post game analysis is serving me much better than the fish farm over on BOL. Further, they usually have redeposit bonuses on BOL once every 3-5 months. I'm waiting for the next one, will put some more money down, and then just grind it out on there.
I would do anything to just be able to access ROW Stars and never look back.
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