Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 728 Location: Manchester, UK
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 11:27 am Post subject: Anyone played at PKR?
I ask this as I'm thinking that PKR will be over populated with donks and fish. Given its flashy graphics, 3D and customisable characters (rather than avatars), etc I would expect it would attract more than its fair share of casual players who treat it more like a video game than a real money game.
My theory is based on a massive sample of one, being one of the directors at my (soon to be former) company. He thinks he knows what he's doing, but when quizzed on the complex and high level topics such as pot odds and c-betting was suitably flumoxed. But he enjoys the odd $10 - $20 sng and maybe an hour or so of NL25 or NL50 and plays these on PKR. he chooses PKR for the reasons mentioned above.
Given that the PKR user experience is more like a video game than the other sites (from what I've heard) I expect that this would be the site of choice for people like the aforementioned director. Does anyone have any experience that can back up or disprove this theory?
I'll be watching this topic, although I have no good information to add to a disccusion. However, I'm very interested to see if flashy graphics effects the number of fish at a site.
Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 4793 Location: Warrington/Wolston, England (but Scottish!!)
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 3:01 pm Post subject:
It's fishy, although maybe not as much as you'd expect.
however what I would advise is to get in now for the PKR Live event. It's qualify online only, $75k event in London, so is likely to be filled with players who have never played live before. Got to be value.
Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 728 Location: Manchester, UK
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:28 pm Post subject:
fatshaft wrote:
It's fishy, although maybe not as much as you'd expect.
however what I would advise is to get in now for the PKR Live event. It's qualify online only, $75k event in London, so is likely to be filled with players who have never played live before. Got to be value.
Sounds good, but I have personally only played live a handful of times. That said, once was in a GUKPT side event where i got pwned by some whizz kid, and another one I won .
Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 344 Location: Daventry, UK
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:24 pm Post subject:
I'd say it's pretty fishy, I do pretty well there in sit-n-go's and tournaments. The software is horrible for multi-tabling and so it's not good for a serious grind but it's certainly pretty enough, and as you say, this is why lots of the players play there.
My normal tables are the crypto sites and stars and PKR is much softer than crypto (but without the great bonus/rakeback). A little softer than stars too, though it's harder to judge as I play in much bigger fields on stars tournies so getting in the money seems to be much tougher anyway.
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