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The only thing better than winning a 4way PLO pot worth 72BB with overpair is winning a 4way 3bet pot with second pair, 5 minutes later.

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I was not able to play poker the last 10 days or so, and hence didn’t feel like writing a meaningless blog.

However before that I took a shot at 400NL during the first days of June that for around 6k hands is going pretty bad. I am behind like 7-8 buyins and the bad thing is that I am playing bad. Not sure exactly what are the reasons, but I will make a detailed session review these days and maybe even post some hands here. It looks like this month is going to be my first month in the red since I started playing 6max.

Not nice, serious actions are needed.

Meanwhile I moved to 200PLO, which over a small sample of full ring and 6 max is going great, so this is what kinda makes this month not so terrible.

I will play some 200NL these days make detailed session reviews and come back with more

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I completely support Andrew’s position on the subject.

We need stronger regulation from independent trusted sources and stronger player community to make sure these guys pay and such things don’t happen again. I never played on neither of those sites and I am never going to. However, these scandals are pulling down the image of the poker that has been slowly improving in the last couple of years. In such a manner they are affecting me and anyone who is playing poker either for entertainment or professionally.

Online, we posses the power that information for every hand played is stored, both on the servers of the poker rooms and as hand histories for the participating(observing) players. By combining all this information we can ensure that long streaks of cheating are virtually impossible. A peer-to-peer source of hand histories coupled with a statistical-based software will make it easy to detect significant deviations as are expected for superusers and bots. This might also contribute to ensure the integrity of the randomizing algorithms used (after some serious debiasing).

If by any chance you are still playing AP and UB, move your game out of there. They are still not regulated outside themselves and you would not want to be test subjects for their third superuser attempt.

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