Effect of Bonuses on Absolute MGR

[rhizome]

Well, I'm glad (somewhat) to see that I'm not alone. However, I wish an affiliate would be able to offer more information.

[uncleshady]

What if, in an effort to clean up their accounting, they decided to subtract bonuses from MGR?

[StacysMom]

I havent verified stats with PT, but absolute mgr numbers seem low to me also.

[bottomset]

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I havent verified stats with PT, but absolute mgr numbers seem low to me also.

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yeah mine as well, like less than half

[StacysMom]

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from what i know they do not subtract bonuses from MGR. however, about 2 or so months ago a few affiliates were complaining that the way they calculate MGR is very 'screwy'.

-ryan

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Exactly how do they calculate MGR? Or claim to...

[Sniper]

There have been a total of 4 pokertracker patches this month to deal with changes Absolute has made to their hand histories.

Make sure you are running 2.08.03D

This was specifically noted in regard to the last patch, but if you were not keeping up with all the patches, you may need to do this starting from an earlier date...

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FIX - On Oct. 18, Absolute had another format change where they started including "Player X - returned $NN : not called" in their new hand histories. PT was not accounting for this line so it was causing incorrect data to be loaded. Amounts won and lost were wrong along with the pot size and rake amounts.

To correct these bad hands, use the Utilities/Export Hand Histories To File window to export all the hands played since Oct. 18, 2005 to text files. Then go to the Utilities/Database Maintenance and Options window and delete all your sessions played since (and including) Oct. 18. Then reimport the files you exported in the first step using the File/Import Hand Histories/Tournament Summaries window, Select Files To Import button.


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Its also worth noting that these patches are still considered beta and there may be other issues that haven't been identified and corrected.

[MyTurn2Raise]

thanks sniper...I didn't realize I had to go back and export and reload

[StellarWind]

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Exactly how do they calculate MGR? Or claim to...

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Their affiliate page says it is the total rake divided by the number of seated players. I assume they intended that to mean players dealt cards and not include sitouts.

There are several standard deductions for chargebacks, etc. but no deduction for bonuses.

[silencio]

I am also seeing discrepancies between my expected MGR and the actual one my affiliate reports to me. After playing over 6000 hands there my affiliate says that their absolute stats show only 2000.

Absolute has a stats tab in their software which also shows that I've played much more than 2000 hands. I guess they do subtract bonuses from MGR in some way. It is either this or they are ripping their affiliates off (my affiliate is a respected one).

I asked Absolute support how I could poaaibly have earned 2600 Absolute points playing $2/4 and $3/6 while only contributing $110 in rake.

No response yet.