Benchmarking - Moving into March 09

[GaF]

March is starting at midnight tonight (honest - it is - trust me :tongue2). The March benchmarking will be split into 5 weeks, as follows: 28th Feb 09 - 6th March 09 7th March 09 - 13th March 09 14th March 09 - 20th March 09 21st March 09 - 27th March 09 28th March 09 - 3rd April 09 I will be adding an extra level and will now be benchmarking 12c/25c as well as 5c/10c. I will provide summary stats for both levels, weekly and at the end. I will endeaver to provide all stats that are specifically requested by players. The extra detail of drilling down into the data each week and at the end of the month, may only be for one of the levels (depending on where most of the focus is). In a change to the original proposal for benchmarking, players are free to choose for themselves what level they wish to play at. I am not going to try and impose any kind of conditions before you move up. I would urge caution. THere is no pressure on players to move up, or to "keep pace" with the group. Play where you want to play (which should be where you feel you can generate the maximum return, over the long run). Similarly, players are free to play at both levels over the month if they wish to dip their toe in the water at the higher level, rather than dive in head first. In a further change to the original proposal - I am going to remove the reference to the requirement to play 5000 hands. This did put a number of people off participating in the first month, and as it has turned out, the requirement seems rather unnecessary. So from now on, players just play the number of hands they are comfortable with. I reserve the right to exclude stats of players from reports where I deem their hand volume to be insignificant if I think including their stats is misleading, but beyond that, there will be no difference for players if they reach 5000 hands or not.

[Player07]

Re: Benchmarking - Moving into March 09 My first impression of the new level (.12/.25 euro) is that play is noticably tighter. Fewer donks, but they still make the odd appearance.