I play at vc poker at the moment and I find the DON's there not at all profitable. I played a lot of Don's at party poker (to high of a rake) and pokerstars. Half of my bankroll comes from Don's and made some good cash there. But now due to a very good bonus I recieved, I'm playing at vc poker.
I started playing some Don's and I saw that 90% of them (full ring and short handed) there were still more (sometimes everybody) then half the players remaining when the blinds were 200/400 . because you only can play turbo don's on Ipoker I was amazed that after a while the Don changed into a push or fold game. I mean it was becoming just a matter of luck.
Why don't they just put regular Don's on Ipoker, because the turbo's are just a joke, and they need no skill at all, just luck.
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With the bonus/rakeback offers at Ipoker are good for that playing style, the games there are full of nits. So switching to slower speed games would not change that much.
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LOL funny thing u mention that. Yesterday I was playing in an don at PKR 5$ buy-in whit turbo blinds too, and during a hand 2 short stacks went allin because blinds were already 1,5k/3k with ante. In that hand, 1 had 77 the other AK. Board came quads so the guy with AK won cuz of A kicker. After that, the two chipleaders, with over 200k, start asking why wasn t it split pot I was like: " Wtf? the chip leaders by far don t even know the rules " showing that u don t really need any skills to win a turbo... It s just allin or fold at somepoint. All u gotta do is be lucky to have nice cards! Ah I tryed to explain them why wasn t split but they were so idiots they couldn t understand
hahaha typicall, get that all the time when I'm playing micro stakes PLO, they think they got the nuts but they don't haha. I just wonder what kind of Don's your playing, cause how can the chip leaders have over 200k the Don's I play in usually have a chip total of 9k or 15k ghehe .
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Posted by weakminded: I started playing some Don's and I saw that 90% of them (full ring and short handed) there were still more (sometimes everybody) then half the players remaining when the blinds were 200/400 . because you only can play turbo don's on Ipoker I was amazed that after a while the Don changed into a push or fold game. I mean it was becoming just a matter of luck.
Why don't they just put regular Don's on Ipoker, because the turbo's are just a joke, and they need no skill at all, just luck.
I don't agree with you. I think you shold know that DON's are profitable when you are a good player in the push or fold fase. If you have a good ICM game, you should be a winner player.
Posted by weakminded: I started playing some Don's and I saw that 90% of them (full ring and short handed) there were still more (sometimes everybody) then half the players remaining when the blinds were 200/400 . because you only can play turbo don's on Ipoker I was amazed that after a while the Don changed into a push or fold game. I mean it was becoming just a matter of luck.
Why don't they just put regular Don's on Ipoker, because the turbo's are just a joke, and they need no skill at all, just luck.
I don't agree with you. I think you shold know that DON's are profitable when you are a good player in the push or fold fase. If you have a good ICM game, you should be a winner player.
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Posted by DaneMitic:
Posted by Plexo:
Posted by weakminded: I started playing some Don's and I saw that 90% of them (full ring and short handed) there were still more (sometimes everybody) then half the players remaining when the blinds were 200/400 . because you only can play turbo don's on Ipoker I was amazed that after a while the Don changed into a push or fold game. I mean it was becoming just a matter of luck.
Why don't they just put regular Don's on Ipoker, because the turbo's are just a joke, and they need no skill at all, just luck.
I don't agree with you. I think you shold know that DON's are profitable when you are a good player in the push or fold fase. If you have a good ICM game, you should be a winner player.
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I play a lot of Turbo DON's and find due to the nature of the game there's quite a few swings - win 10 in a row, lose 6 etc sometimes - nature of the beast when you're going all in so often, but in general yes they're profitable in the long run as long as you keep to solid push/fold play and don't get caught up in multiple pots or all ins early on unless you have the nuts- always try and wait for other players to knock each other out.
* and if everybody is playing so tight that they're still all ther at high bllinds, it means you can steal blinds more easily - tighter players call less often so steal a little earlier in these situations to gain an edge, even if it's just one more round it can make the difference.
Edited by ChitStripper (19 October 2009 @ 15:43 GMT)
because you only can play turbo don's on Ipoker I was amazed that after a while the Don changed into a push or fold game. I mean it was becoming just a matter of luck. 
" showing that u don t really need any skills to win a turbo... It s just allin or fold at somepoint. All u gotta do is be lucky to have nice cards! Ah I tryed to explain them why wasn t split but they were so idiots they couldn t understand 
hahaha typicall, get that all the time when I'm playing micro stakes PLO, they think they got the nuts but they don't haha. I just wonder what kind of Don's your playing, cause how can the chip leaders have over 200k the Don's I play in usually have a chip total of 9k or 15k ghehe 
