18-24 man Hyper-turbo Ko's----Beatable?
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18-24 man Hyper-turbo Ko's----Beatable?
YoYo,
So I have been dabbling with $5 and $10 games they have on Stars. Has anyone here actually beat these for a decent sample?
First of all, the $5 games have 10% rake. The rake does get lower as you increase the buyin. With only 10bb starting stacks + antes, with blinds progressing like this every 2 minutes: 25/50 - 35/70 - 50/100 - 200/400 -300/600! (With huge antes) And big stacks calling you with almost ATC in order to get a KO, the variance is insane. Somehow I still want to be able to grind these out, they are fun and full of fish. I don't mind formats with small edges and crazy variance.
Anyways, I have played around 6k of these and have a combined ROI of about -3%. I have been a sng pro for many years, and have always prided myself with having one of the highest ROI's.
Would Stars ever put out a game that wasn't beatable? What can I do to get better at these? I feel ICMIZER alone isn't enough as I think there is more to discuss about winning strategy. Things like negative EV overcalling allin early in order to get a stack and multiple KO's.
If anyone has any knowledge of these, or could recommend a coach for me, that would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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I'm not too familiar with these exact games but I'll try to answer what I can.
Seeing as Stars has branched out into running Casino games, I would say they likely would have no issue with introducing a poker format that converges on gambling and may (or may not) be beatable with only the slightest edge.
With a structure this fast it may actually not be possible to beat the games enough to compensate for 10% rake. Even non-KO 6-max hypers would start players with 25BB and increase blind levels every 3 minutes as well as a little more incrementally; there, some regs were certainly beating the games, but potentially only due to there being more of an edge to be had against any fish in the games.
At the multi-table Hyper KOs you described, edges will likely be thinner and the rake may simply be too high to be beat.
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