Does no-one want to play poker anymore?

Apparently they don't. Whilst hunting around various sites trying to find the best SNG value one thing stood out EVERYWHERE. The words TURBO and SPEED. These seem to be the only games filling. I mean, I can understand it at $50-100, but even at $200 & $500 for example on Party Poker a regular paced SNG will rarely fill. On Betfair people are playing $200, $300 & $500 short handed turbos (just sick), but try and ever start a $400 regular structured sixpak and you'll be sat twiddling your thumbs. It's the same everywhere.

Why? Can people not even sit down for 35-40 minutes to play a SNG now? Do they have to try and squeeze in crapshoots in 15-25 minutes instead? The players who play the higher stakes are generally pros and grind them all day long, so why not play a game where the skill can outlast the luck a little more, especially at $500.

Don't get me wrong, I DO play turbos, speeds, thunders, whatever you want to call them. But they are a small supplement to my playing online. They don't represent a significant ROI and they actually suit my style. But do I want to sit there playing them all day, everyday? Fuck no. I mean, if that's all you can play how can you even have the patience to then hit an online MTT, nevermind a slow-structured clock live in a casino? It's totally negative on the mind in the short and long term. However I am now forced to play the majority of my SNGs in this format, because I can't be arsed waiting 90 minutes for a game to fill, I just keep it a little smaller i.e. on Crypto I play £90, £120 and £200 sixpaks. If I'm forced to play turbos, I'll hit the £50s. But I am beginning to get really frustrated with it all especially after 350 games of bullshit 74o pushes hitting approx. 90% of the time over the course of a week. It is incredibly infuriating to continually make the correct reads, generally play excellent poker and get a big stick shoved up your arse for the trouble, but I guess I'm used to it (not the stick part). But perhaps therein lies the answer of why speed SNGs are so popular these days as they present the best chance of the weaker player to win (although the weak player probably doesn't know they're dead money in a regular structure). However personally I feel it's just impatience and the "give it to me, give it to me now and quickly" mentality. But what winning players don't realise is they could make the same, probably more playing half the games in less time in regular structured single table tournaments, the only people who win are the corporate suits gobbling up the rake in double quick time, especially the sad sacks at PP and Stars who don't give rakeback. Ho-hum.

And yes you may have guessed, I am running REALLY bad, but I could have given you the shortest odds ever on that being the case after the horror that was Las Vegas, Sod's Law and all that.

Toodle pip
JPK

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