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I will reply here as someone who has played millions of hands (both on- and offline) and works in the gambling industry for 10+ years now. It is fine to have free holdem on a site like bga for the very recreational players. Anyone who has played at least a bit of online poker before will never reall...

I played a few games - all ended in narrow losses. Safe to say the engine overall probably beats the best players on BGA, especially when any time is applied. I also have to say I dont like the app at all, as the view makes it a lot harder to plan things compared to the circular view of pieces here....

I'm not the best Patchwork player on BGA (Perhaps one of the best real time, maybe) but I'm a solid 800 rated player.

For science I will invest the money for the app and try on the hardest bot and will keep you updated here

I should be somewhere in the top 5 for games played and very likely top 3 for total XP in patchwork.

I'm currently @ 348k XP and 7000 games played.

I know dchin888 has over 11.5k games played and MaxCostello is currently around 7.8k games

Voted! This has already costed me way too much karma...

I have written some strategy things on BGG some time ago. Perhaps you can find some useful stuff here?

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/279498 ... eginnerint

Yeah, fair points. One could only wonder what would have happened to the game if Stars would have picked it up years ago when they were still dominant or if the WSOP had picked it up back then. One thing is sure: it is very unlikely we will see it happen in the current climate of online poker. GGPok...

While rake can be incredibly high on some apps (also depends on club/circle) I personally have seen more issues with bum hunters. On Pokio, the now closed app I used to play, that was the case at least. I only play OFC live now during poker festivals so im not sure what the situation is now online, ...

Problem why it ‘died out’ is actually pretty simple and the exact same thing happened with HU ‘regular’ poker games: there is a lot of bum hunting going on. Regular players fully exploiting recreational players and completely refusing to play with other regulars. From a professional point of view it...

It is perhaps a small pet peeve of mine but I don’t understand why it is set up that boat mid repeats FL. While I know there are occasional apps where this is a thing as well, the qualifier is imo to easy to get in progressive and is not that balanced. I have never seen it be a repeat FL in any liv...