Clarkatroid made $250K, far from your million. Still amazing money, but it shows exactly where the limits of grinding lie. Remember he played over 1 million hands. That is a lot of hands. Perhaps I wasn't making clear what I meant by scaleable - I'm talking about a style of play and how it applies, and certainly NLHE isn't nor PLO. What I mean is, to do what Clarkatroid does, to take him as a very good example, he has to play a very different game from someone 4 tabling. This is, if anything, even more the case for PLO where the multi grinders play a very customised game. The EV they lose from playing like this, is somewhat gained back by simply playing many, many more hands. But what happens when you can't get the volume? And the game you have played the last two years is now exploitable so your EV shrinks further? Now being trapped earning $250K is not exactly an unhappy ending. But it has risks. Say the market contracts again and better players start coming into your stakes? Or as a greater risk, you simply burnout through the volume.
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Date: 2010-01-22 11:28 pm (UTC)cheers
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