April and RIP cake
April has come to a close. I ran pretty good this month and really didn’t help my “play more hands” cause. It was nice to run above ev for a month. At EV, I ran about 4.5ptbb (in EV, the real number was more like 6.5 but that’s in outer space and just me being a luckbox) and felt like I was playing some of my best poker yet.
Here’s the graph…
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Graph is like 90% 200nl, 5% 400nl and 5% 100nl. Also about 1.5k in coaching which made for a nice 5 figure month, which was much needed after a very mediocre start to the year. I’ll go ahead and do a plug right now. I have room for a couple new students (3 or so) so if any of you guys are interested in my coaching services, please contact me. Enough plugging and awesome end of month bragging.
So I was looking through my 2p2 pms today, looking to see if I had spoken to a particular reg I ignorantly insulted in the forums. I was trying to confirm if I was as stupid as I thought I was. That’s a whole nother story. That being said, I came across a few PMs I swapped ages ago with a player named “LOLgingers” from cake. He was definitely one of the best cake regs and I played with him on a fairly regular basis last year. I laughed alot at the posts because essentially it was him asking me “how can you run 5ptbb while being so horrible postflop?”. At the time, I gave some ridiculous excuse about my style playing low variance and just being smart in tough spots. Obviously looking back, I realize just how much I sucked a year ago. That’s not really the point i’m getting at here.
So I look at his recent posts to see what the guy is up to now and if he was still crushing. The very first post I see is him posting in the high stakes regs swap thread asking for 40k swap to FTP. I’ve heard alot of things about cake dying out and one of my very good poker friends just moved from there to FTP himself. One of the last converts I suppose.
I remember leaving cake when the games turned to total crap and I couldn’t win. That was mostly due to the fact that I couldn’t beat regulars. I figured that that was likely the same kinda scenario as to why gingers wanted to leave Cake. I pulled open my cake client and after loading the countless updates I’ve missed, I realize that there’s 1 200nl game going. The time was 9:50pm EST. I pronounce this as the time of death of cake poker. I’ll personally remember the good times, Cake. Thanks for the 5ptbb winrate while I still wasn’t good.
I am looking forward to cake regulars on FTP though, and I hope gingers sn on FTP is easy to recognize cause the kid is solid. Also shoutout to mcbadass1 for hooking me up.
Grats on the huge month man. If I still played any sort of online poker regularly and had some spare $$ to throw around I’d gladly hire you as a coach. I really hope you are wrong about Cake dying but if you look at the pokerscout report it’s a real ugly line going down. I think the industry needs competition and in the US basically we have Stars / FTP / Cereus, and nobody really loves Cereus so I’ve always been rooting for Cake. I guess the only real thing that could happen to create better competition and spread out the regs is actual legalization.