Poker bankroll management, building and strategy – online poker guide

Stake deal

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 | Poker Articles, Poker Bankroll Building, Poker Projects | 6 Comments

This article belongs to the Poker Articles series.

I was approached the other day by my good friend MaddyUK who wanted to discuss a possible online poker stake deal. Maddy has previously grinded 1/2$ shorthanded cash games with good success and I know him to be an extremely disciplined player so obviously I was interested to hear what he had to say.

Turns out he is highly motivated to get back in the game but hasn’t started due to a lack of necessary funds to start up an online poker bankroll. Maddy’s timing was perfect since I have 1000$ of risk capital lying around perfectly suited for an online poker stake deal.

Here’s what we agreed on:

Starting bankroll: 1000$

Revenue share: 50/50 for the 1000$-6000$ profit interval

Limits:

• 1000$-1500$ :  0,25/0,5. If the bankroll drops below 500$ the project is stopped. Between 500$ and 1000$ Maddy will continue to play on the 0,25/0,5 tables.
• 1500$-3000$ : 0,5/1. If the bankroll drops to the interval 1200$-1500$ Maddy will continue on the 0,5/1 tables. If the bankroll drops below 1200$ he will move down to the 0,25/0,5 tables.
• 3000$-  ?           : 1/2. If the bankroll drops to the interval 2400$-3000$ Maddy will continue on the 1/2 tables. If the bankroll drops below 2400$ he will move down to the 0,5/1 tables.

Daily stop loss: 2 full buyins at any given level

I would not recommend people to do stake deals unless they know the person they will be staking really well. I have known Maddy for more than 20 years so there are no trust issues whatsoever.

You can follow the progress of the bankroll building project on Twitter (pokerBRBblog and MaddyUK) and I will also post regular updates here.

Wish us luck:-)

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Don’t Tell Me Your Bad Beat

Monday, March 30th, 2009 | Poker Articles, Poker Strategy, Poker and Life | 3 Comments

Submitted by Vic Porcelli, this article belongs to the Poker Strategy series.

“…so I got my full house on the turn and the guy gets an 8 of diamonds on the river for the straight flush and beats me.”  

How many bad beat stories have you heard?  Hang around a poker room for a night and you’ll hear plenty.  They will be offered to you.  You don’t have to ask to hear them.   As poker players, we remember those bad beats vividly.  We remember the suit and rank of every street, plus the hole cards involved in all of our bad beats.   Now let me ask you.  How many bad beat stories have you told?
We feel the need to tell these bad beat stories to anyone that will listen.  We even feel the need to tell bad beat stories to people who have not agreed to listen.  Why???  Let’s take an honest look at why we insist on telling everyone and anyone about our bad beats. 

The answer is really simple. To let everyone know what great poker players we are.  We didn’t lose the hand because we played it wrong.  That would never happen.   The planets lined up against us, the poker gods put a curse on us.  The cards came out to the benefit of an opponent and knocked us out of the tournament or at the very least decimated our chip stack.  So we steam out of the poker room to find a fellow poker player to plead our case. 

Keep in mind as you are telling your bad beat story to another poker player, he has had that and every other bad beat happen to him.  As a matter of fact, all of his bad beats are running through his head while you are telling yours.   At the end of the day, someone sucked out on you and knocked you out of the tournament.  Get over it.  It happens every day in every tournament in every poker room in America.  No wait!  Make that in the world.

If you have won a tournament or even just made a final table, you have sucked out on an opponent.  It has to happen.  Yet we don’t run to find someone to hear that story!  “Hey listen to this.  I just sucked out a flush on the river to beat this guy who had already flopped the nut straight!”  Why don’t we do that?  Well, that would make us look like a lucky player, not necessarily a good poker player.
The bottom line is, bad beats happen.  They will always happen.  They don’t make you a bad poker player.  They don’t make the guy who sucked out on you a bad poker player.  They just happen.  Trust me, no one wants to hear them.  

I learned this early when I had the pleasure to interview Antonio Esfandiari.  I wanted to tell him about this time I flopped the nut straight and my opponent put me all in.  Of course I called and he ended up with a full house getting an ace on the river.  I started telling Antonio my story and he stopped me and said, “Wait a minute, is this a bad beat story?”  There was a long pause and I sheepishly answered, “Yes.”   He then stated he didn’t want to hear it.  He did joke about it and didn’t make me look like an idiot but I got it.  Right then and there.  I got it.  Poker players don’t want to hear bad beat stories.
Bad beats will always happen.  The true test is how we handle them.

Do you jump out of your chair and berate the player who just sucked out on you?  Maybe you just tap the felt and say, “Nice hand.”  That will the subject of my next column,  Tableside Manner. 

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Pokerlistings.com review

Sunday, March 29th, 2009 | Poker Articles, Poker Tools | 3 Comments

This article belongs to the Poker Tools series

Introduction to the Pokerlistings.com website

Almost every online site about poker, from the smallest blogs to the biggest online poker guides, is involved with affiliated promotional deals in one way or another.  Affiliation deals are one of the primary ways of converting online traffic to an income.  Basically, online sites selling a product or offering a service will pay other websites what’s known as a CPA (Cost per Action) for each person referred who buys a product or signs up to a service. This basic principle of generating an income is also utilized at Pokerlistings.com. 

What sets Pokerlistings.com apart from the jungle of online sites promoting poker sites is the sheer amount of relevant and qualitative poker information they offer. Pokerlistings.com is basically a complete online poker guide and one of the largest of it’s kind.  Additionally, due to their size Pokerlistings.com are able to offer better poker sign up bonuses than other affiliation sites.

In this review I will focus on the features I like the best on the Pokerlistings.com website and also mention some of the annoyances I experienced while navigating the site.

Pokerlistings.com features, Market Pulse

The Market Pulse page keeps track of the online poker performances of 3645961 (and counting) poker players. Here’s a list of some of the information available on the Market Pulse page:

• Browse the top 100 online poker winners and losers sorted by day, week, month, year, poker room, game type and stakes.
• Check the online poker traffic report to find out which sites are most popular
• Find the biggest pots won online sorted by day, week, month, year, poker room, game type and stakes
• Use the Real-Time table finder to find exactly the cash game, poker tournament or poker freeroll you are looking for
• Check out how the famous players are doing on the tables
• Use the Online Poker Player search to find information on your opponents (players are divided into 9 categories: calling station, bomb, rock, shark, mouse, warning, maniac, red fish and green fish)
• Browse the Market Pulse player statistics section to find information on Highest BB/100 players, Lowest BB/100 players, Highest VP$IP players and much more

As a fun side note I entered my online nick in the Online Poker Player search and found some data on my early fixed limit days on Party Poker. Turns out I’m a green fish only slightly higher rated than the calling station. The advice presented to me was to “grow some balls”…LOL. I hope I have improved since then.

Pokerlistings.com features, Poker Players

The Poker Players page features a database of 15346 high profile poker players. Each player profile features:

• Detailed biography
• Recent tournament placements
• Player statistics
• Player analysis by Barry Greenstein
• Player photos

My only encounter with poker stardom was on the Carribean Poker Classic 2008 where I played in a couple of tournaments where Juha Helppi was also playing. I have heard that Gus Hansen trained for his boxing match against Theo Jørgensen in a small boxing club on Østerbro (Copenhagen, Denmark) so perhaps I will bump into him one day if he decides to enter another fight.

Pokerlistings.com features, Live Tournaments

Very extensive live updates, blogs, interviews and TV from all the major live poker tournament events.  I especially like the Pokerlisting’s Live Tournament Coverage calendar which gives a fast overview of upcoming tournaments.

Pokerlistings.com features, Poker Strategy

A poker article database containing 386 poker strategy articles (the pokerbankrollblog has 200 articles now for comparison:-)) written by poker pros. The poker strategy articles are divided into the following categories:

• Beginner poker strategy
• General poker strategy
• Cash game no limit hold’em strategy
• Poker theory
• Psychology of poker
• Seven-card stud strategy
• Cash game limit hold’em strategy
• Tournament no limit hold’em
• Bankroll management
• Omaha
• Poker math

I think I might read through the Cash game section one day when I have time as I feel this is the weakest part of my game (my friend Artur will definitely agree with me on this one; he was appalled by my lack of cash game skills on the Caribbean Poker Classic cruise)

Pokerlistings.com features, Blogs

Being an avid blogger myself it was fun to read through some of the poker pro blogs on the Pokerlistings.com Blog page. In addition to their own team of poker pros, Pokerlistings.com also have a number of guest bloggers including Anette Obrestad. Anette is famous among other things for winning an online poker tournament with tape across her computer monitor so she couldn’t see her own cards. You may ask why I’m interested in Anette Obrestad. Here’s the thing. Recently I made my own Twitter profile and have become quite the Twitter aficionado. I noticed that Anette also has a Twitter profile and have added her on several occasions. Not once has she returned the favour and added me to her Twitter followers!!! So Anette if you are reading this I just wanted to let you know that I’m very disappointed in you for not following me on Twitter, especially since you speak so highly of Twitter in your latest blog entry.  

Pokerlistings.com annoyances

I really dislike the entire top part of the menu below the header on the front page:

I get that Pokerlistings make money by promoting poker rooms (and in fact their poker room reviews are actually quite good). What I don’t get is why they think it’s necessary to use most of their top menu space to display the same poker room reviews organized in 8 different ways. All they achieve by doing this is adding to the unorganized feel of the page and increasing the difficulties navigating around.

This leads me directly on to my main critique of the Pokerlistings page: the information overload. It’s a double edged sword, because the massive amount of (mostly good) information on the site is also what sets it in a league of its own. Nevertheless, there is so much information crammed onto their site that it takes a couple of hours to figure out where the good stuff is. My personal taste is that I do not like websites that fail to present their information in a clear manner. Having said that, the pages I have mentioned in this review are actually quite well made and easy to navigate, so if you stick to them and don’t get lost in the poker room review jungle you should be fine.

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Winning Daily Fantasy Baseball Contests: Part I (The Basics)

Friday, March 27th, 2009 | Poker Articles, Sports and Fantasy betting | 1 Comment

Submitted by Alex, this article belongs to the Sports and Fantasy betting series

Alex Zelvin runs three websites.  Draftbug offers daily fantasy sports contests.  Draftbug Millionaire tracks the progress of a group of fantasy baseball enthusiasts seeking to ‘go pro’ as fantasy sports players.  The Waiver Wire  contains general fantasy baseball advice.

This is the first in a series of articles on winning at daily fantasy baseball contests.  For those who aren’t familiar with them, daily fantasy contests allow you to pick a team and win (or lose) based on the results of that day’s games.  They’re perfect for those who like fantasy sports, but don’t have the time to maintain their team throughout the season.  They’re also a great (legal) alternative to sports betting.  The most common format for daily fantasy contests are ‘salary cap’ contests, although some site also offer a ‘live draft’ format for those who like the feel of a traditional draft.  This article will cover some of the basis strategies needed to succeed in these contests.  Future articles in the series will look at some more advanced topics.

Look for bargains – This is kind of obvious, but the salary cap limitations in these contests means that you’re not usually going to be able to use an all-star type lineup.  You’re going to need to search out some undervalued players and use them.  One common source of these is players who will have an expanded role today due to an injury to another player.

Check the news – Check the news to make sure that you’re not using anybody in your lineup who won’t be playing today.  Lineups in these contests typically lock in after starting lineups are announced, so ideally you should make sure that your players are actually in the lineup.

Understand the rules – This goes for any format of fantasy baseball – you should always know the rules thoroughly.  In particularly, the scoring system vary in different daily contest formats, and you should make sure you’re selecting players who fare well in the scoring system your contest uses.  A player like Jason Giambi is a pretty valuable if your system uses walks, but not so much otherwise.

Larger contests require more risks – In a two person contest you should just go with the best possible lineup.  In a larger contest (say 100 people), where the prize payouts are typically very top heavy, you’re going to need to take some chances to have a shot at the top spot.  Play for 1st place…not 10th.

Take opponents into account – When you evaluate players for your team, consider who their opponent is today.  For pitchers, how strong is the opposing lineup?  How strong is the opposing starting pitcher?  For hitters, how strong are the opposing starting pitcher and bullpen?

Take park factors into account – Where is the game being played?  Ideally you want pitchers to be in favorable pitchers’ parks and hitters in favorable hitters’ parks, although there are plenty of cases when other factors may override this.

Fantasy betting at Draftbug.com

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Poker is not a card game with people, it’s a people game with cards

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 | Poker Articles, Poker Strategy, Poker Tournament | 10 Comments

Submitted by Vic Porcelli, this article belongs to the Poker Strategy series.

Poker is a game of information.  To borrow a phrase from 1983 World Series of  Poker Main Event champ, Tom McEvoy, “…Poker is not a card game with people, it is a people game with cards.”  So how do we gather information about our opponents?  The first thing to learn is to not over think it. 

Let’s look at information that is a little less intricate than observing how your opponent breathes after he makes a big bet, or if the vein in his neck is protruding after looking at his hand. (both of which are parts of gathering information in the form of “tells”) 

Let’s start with some much more basic information.  Just listen.  Believe it or not, sometimes the information just comes to you.  Let me give you one example. 
I was playing in a tournament at a local casino.  The buy in was anywhere from $50 to $70 with 60 people in the tournament.  About an hour into the tournament the player to my left goes all in pre flop after some raising and re-raising action.  His hand was A Q.  He was up against A A and was knocked out of the tournament.  After he walked away from the table, the guy two seats away to my left leaned into me and said, “That will be the day when I put my tournament life on the line without a made hand and it better be Aces or Kings.”   I didn’t respond.  I just gave him an approving nod. 

Sure enough two hours later, at the final table, that same guy goes all in on me.  My hand was 10 10.   Normally in a situation like this I would give you much more information about the situation like table position, stack size and calculating “M.”  However this is just a lesson in gathering information on opponents.   My thoughts were: “Final table. I’ve already cashed.  There were only six people at the table making 10 10 a very strong hand.”   Then my thoughts turned to the opponent who is now raising me all in,  “That will be the day when I put my tournament life on the line without a made hand and it better be Aces or Kings.” 
I made my decision.  I was going to lay down my 10’s.  But I wanted to be sure I was making the right decision.  I wanted to see his hand.  So I chatted with him a little before I folded.  “I have a really strong hand here.  This is a really tough lay down.”   I turned up my cards to show him I was laying down my 10’s to him.  And he proudly showed me his pocket kings. 
A few positive things happened to me on this hand.  First of all and most important I saved my stack.  I was still alive.  Secondly I got immediate respect from the entire table for laying down pocket 10’s.  Getting credit for a “great read.”   A tight table image was immediately solidified.  By the way, a few hands later a player who had been aggressive the entire tournament raised from the button and I had the same hand, 10 10.  I re-raised him and he folded.

Getting back to the subject of information on your opponent, I used information the player offered me, totally unsolicited.  Pay attention to everything players are saying.  Sometime they may just offer up some valuable information that you use against them later.
The end result of that tournament for me.  I went out in third place after taking a bad beat, but I’m sure you don’t want to hear about my bad beat.  That will be the subject of my next column, “Don’t tell me your bad beat.”

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100$ MLB (Major League Baseball ) fantasy bet freeroll

Monday, March 23rd, 2009 | Sports and Fantasy betting | 9 Comments

Draftbug.com hosts a 100$ fantasy betting Major League Baseball freeroll starting April 5th. There are 200 seats available and currently 106 have been taken.

The freeroll involves picking a team of 10 hitters within a salary cap prior to the start of the season.  Points will be scored based on how many home runs your team hits during the month of April. 

 It’s free to sign up to Fantasy betting at Draftbug.com.

Tags: Sports and Fantasy betting

An introduction to fantasy betting

Monday, March 23rd, 2009 | Poker Articles, Sports and Fantasy betting | No Comments

Fantasy betting is a big deal in the US, but not so much in Europe yet (most likely because sports betting is not illegal in Europe). I like the community aspect of fantasy betting so much that I decided to devote a page on the pokerbankrollblog entirely to Sports and Fantasy betting. Hope you enjoy the first article about fantasy betting, submitted by Alex.

Many statistically minded sports fans are tempted to try their hand at sports betting.  After all, with a solid understanding of Sabermetrics, baseball handicapping should be pretty easy to beat.  Right?  Oddsmakers set the betting line based on the beliefs of the ignorant public.  How hard can it be to pick winners better than the public?

Unfortunately, achieving a positive expectation in sports handicapping is not so easy.  All it takes is one person with better information than you, and you’re facing an uphill climb.  Not only is the best handicapper likely to be betting the maximum amount allowable at any sportsbook they frequent, but differences in the odds from one sportsbook to another are quickly eliminated as line shoppers arbitrage away any significant differences.

So if you’re a sports expert who wants to profit from your knowledge, are there any easier ways to do so?  The answer is ‘yes’, as a new form legal online sports ‘betting’ has emerged recently.  A number of new daily fantasy sports sites have launched, and they all share a number of advantages over traditional sports betting.

-They are completely legal.  Thanks to fantasy sports being specifically excluded from laws affecting online sports betting, these sites are not illegal in any way.

-Money can be deposited via credit card or Paypal, and easily withdrawn via check.  There is none of the jumping through hoops and uncertainty found when transferring money to and from gambling websites.

-Because contests are based upon the performance of individual players, a much wider variety of contests are available.

Don’t get the wrong idea though, these are not traditional fantasy contests.  Rather than tying up your money for the full duration of the season, most of these contests just last one day.  You pick a team for the day, and results are based on the performance of your players that day.  Contests can range from heads up (two players) up to 100 players or more.  The sites that host the contests have the look and feel (and the business model) of online poker sites.

Some of the features that differentiate these sites from each other include:

-Widely varying user interfaces

-All sites offer ‘salary cap’ format contests, some also offer ‘live draft’ contests where player selection resembles a traditional fantasy sports draft.

-Varying rake, from as high as 20% to less than 10%.

-A variety of sports available.  Most sites offer baseball, football, and basketball.  Some also offer one or both of hockey and NASCAR.

-Chat features give some sites more of a communal feel than others.

Two of the more popular fantasy contest sites are Fantasysportslive.com and Snapdraft.com.  Fantasysportslive was the first to launch and at this point offers the highest limit contests.  Snapdraft is the first site to be heavily advertised, and features the highest traffic at this stage.  Unfortunately, Fantasysportslive has done little to upgrade their product during the past two year, and Snapdraft has 20% rake, which eats away players bankrolls very quickly.

One recently launched site of this type is Draftbug.com.  Draftbug is part of a network of sites that operate on the same platform and share the same contests.  It has a more modern user interface than some of the competitors, and a reasonable 10% rake on most contests.  Traffic has been light so far, mainly because the launch took place in the slow season between football and baseball.  However, early sign-ups for a $100 freeroll baseball contest show the potential for a large traffic spike over the next few weeks. 

Draftbug has a few features that set it apart from other daily fantasy contest sites:

-Live draft contest format is available as well as the typical ‘salary cap’ contests
-A chat area allows players to get to know each other and engage in some friendly trash talking
-The contest ‘engine’ is very flexible and can support contests with a variety of scoring systems, roster configurations, and durations.

 Fantasy betting at Draftbug.com

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Tags: Poker Articles, Sports and Fantasy betting

PokerBRB poker freeroll/MTT tournament league; page overview

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 | Poker News | No Comments

To those who might be interested

As you may know, we are working hard behind the scenes to be able to launch a poker freeroll/MTT tournament league on the PokerBRB.com site (the is also the main reason for the lower activity on the pokerbankrollblog). I though you might find it interesting with an an update on the new pages we have planned for the revamped PokerBRB.com site.

Changes to the PokerBRB front page:

• New design, still to be finalized
• Will contain table displaying the PokerBRB Tournament League leaderboard 
• Will contain table displaying the PokerBRB Monthly league finals

PokerBRB Monthly League Finals

• A page displaying the monthly league finals available to our monthly leaderboard top 20 players

PokerBRB Tournament Overview

• An interactive page where you can search for all the tournaments that will count towards the PokerBRB Tournament League Leaderboard

PokerBRB Tournament League Leaderboard

• A page displaying our league leaderboard. Will contain information on player rank, player top 5 results, player monthly points, player monthly prize money, player total points and player total prize money.

PokerBRB Tournament Results

• On this page it will be possible to search our database for all your tournament results and give us feedback if there are any discrepancies.

PokerBRB League Sign-up

• On this page you will enter your different poker room usernames, so we can automatically track your tournament results and display them on our leaderboard

PokerBRB Tournament League Rules

• A page displaying all the rules of our new league. The page is actually online now but we still have to add the rules we have made

PokerBRB Article Database

• All the best articles from the pokerbankrollblog categorized and displayed in a clear and easy to navigate format (at least we think so:-)) 

The time frame  for the completion of the new pages and relaunch of the PokerBRB site is a couple of weeks from now. Hope you enjoy it when it’s up and running!

Best Regards

Mark and McTap03

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U.S. Waves the Hoover Flag

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 | Poker News | 3 Comments

Delik James is back again with his Rags for Riches series, keeping us updated on what’s going on in the Poker World. Welcome back Delik!

Rags for Riches:

U.S. Waves the Hoover Flag

If you’re like me, or say, millions of other people across the globe that live and breathe poker, than you probably hold a subscription to a poker ‘rag’: a magazine or publication built around us – poker players. Hidden beneath the covers of these rags are stimulating interviews, intriguing concepts and news that – along with a good time, can bring a little perspective to a world of 52 cards… and some riches to boot!

Here’s what you should know this week -

How bad is the economy getting in the US? Perhaps the best gauge in determining just how dire time are getting, we must look to lawmakers nationwide that are now jumping aboard with House Banking and Finance Committee Chairman Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), who has been a staunch advocate for overturning the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act (UIGEA), which restricts Americans from gambling online legally. 

So why now, after all this time, is the will of the conservative right breaking down? Has the argument calling for the freedom of people to do as they please with their own money changed in some way? No. Have the moral police changed their views on gambling? No.

In fact, nothing has changed – oh, except for that little thing about the economy tanking and record breaking deficits growing by the minute. Now suddenly the voices of the people are being heard, their rights recognized and a glimmer of light appears at the end of the tunnel. The change of heart truly comes from the $52 Billion dollars in tax revenue that would be available if the UIGEA were to be lifted; a figure that has lawmakers drooling.

From coast-to-coast, States have decided that they won’t even wait for Washington to lift restrictions. California, for example has decided to create their own ‘in-state’ internet gambling laws that would deem that federal restrictions unenforceable.

So what can we take away from this situation?

Well, as I see it, conservative lawmakers are quick to judge and restrict the rights of their people based on their supposed morality – going so far as shabbily attaching the UIGEA to the Safe Ports Act of 2006 to confuse the public and further their agenda. But what it comes down to is what it always comes down to in the end: Money! We gamblers know that fact all too well.

Amidst the beginning of the Great Depression in the 1930’s – an empty, turned out pocket was referred to as a ‘Hoover flag’ (a false kudo to President Hoover). I say tuck in those Hoover flags Washington – give us what we want and in-turn we will all be better off because of it.

Wishing you Big Pots and Bigger Flops,

Delik

Source: PokerNews.com

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It happens to the best of us

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 | Poker Articles, Poker Tournament | 3 Comments

Submitted by Dungbeetle, this article belongs to the Poker Tournament series.

I find consolation in the fact that other and better tournament players also experience unbelievable misfortune. On a positive note it looks like Dungbeetle’s 2009 results are coming around.

Sigh…

I have been active, surprise surprise, and have been consistently taking down small pots. I find KK on the button – perfect. I raise 15k of my 150k stack, and the big blind shoves for 70k with KQ. I obviously snap call, and am in the best shape possible.

First card is a King ……10…….J…….5……..ACE.

After this hand I am dumped to about 3rd last. I keep fighting, but on the final table bubble shove AQ over an early raiser for my 100k stack. He calls with JJ and I get no help.

So annoying…..I win about $800, leaving me with a modest profit for the evening.

It’s so important getting to the big prizes – even 6th was 2k or something. I hate spending 5 hours and getting rogered like that.

Next time perhaps, if I can summon any motivation to play them again

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