absolute bonus change?

[celiboy]

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It's hard to build a bankroll to start taking on 2/4 based only on poker. In a good month I might get 10000 hands in and at 2 bb/100 that is only 200 bucks a month. I guess it's time to take a shot at 2/4

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You'd made $800 if you averaged 2bb/100 for 10,000 hands of 2/4. I take it you are playing .5/1 right now?

There are still plenty of bonuses out there.

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Well I am beating the game at around that at OTHER SITES, but at Absolute I am break even. There was a thread about this on here that many found it tough to beat the games at ABS for any kind of a decent rate. Winning only 2bb/100 at .5/1 at Party, Paradise will not mean you will even break even at 2/4 Absolute.

I've made close to 3000 in 6 months from low limit whoring, so I guess for me the party is over and I need to take a shot at 2/4 with this roll.

I am in the exact same boat as you, but I think that I am going to take a break from whoring for a while and actually work on my game for a bit. I am also going to take a 10k hand shot at NL and then play a bunch of Sit and Gos.

I just did a test and I can confirm that between last night and now things DID change....

It is now 0.50 and NOT 0.25, I did some research and on my 50k hands at absolute at 0.50/1.00 and 1.00/2.00 and the following is what I found....

(all data based on 6-Max Limit Holdem, with a rakeback deal of 27.5%)

At 0.50/1.00
0.25 = 45% of hands raked
0.50 = 11% of hands raked (wow, didn't think that it would be that low)

At 1/2
0.25 = 72% of hands raked
0.50 = 51% of hands raked (works out to 2.55BB/100


Rakeback at 0.50/1.00 is 1.18BB/100

Rakeback at 1.00/2.00 is 1.06BB/100

Looks like the bonus + rakeback is going to be:

@0.50/1.00 = 2.28BB/100

@1.00/2.00 = 3.61BB/100

At these rates I don't think that you want to play 0.50/1.00 at Absolute anymore. The 1.00/2.00 is going to be pretty good, but by no means a great deal. I think that you can get better deals if you are playing 1.00/2.00.

Enjoy my findings :-)

Margon

[1p0kerb0y]

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In a good month I might get 10000 hands in

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Work on your multi-tabling skills?

If you can play 6 tables, this is only ~ 26 hours a month.

I play 8 and can do close to 500 hands in an hour. Others here play even more than that!

[Delzek15]

Anyone know what % of hands are raked at .50 and up at 2/4 full ring?

[MyTurn2Raise]

I can confirm it is changed

Anyone e-mail AP to confirm this?

[SomethingClever]

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Anyone e-mail AP to confirm this?

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They've confirmed it on their own forum.

Bummer. I can see why they did it, as I've paid less than zero rake there so far, but it still will probably cause me to play elsewhere for the moment.

[alimomoney]

Experienced the new bonus change today. Absolute won't be getting much play from me now.

[celiboy]

So for a former .5/1 whore where can we turn to next?

For now I'll 4 table 1/2 and see how the bonus clears at ABS, but I'm sure there is a better bonus structure at that limit somewhere. I guess the Crypto's are where I'll head. I dunno...ABS was an easy $200 - $500 a month for me in bonus.