Going out on a bit of a tangent here, but I only recently begun playing a little bit on GG Poker, and yesterday I had a quite funny experience. On PokerStars there was a SnG reg playing under the name Pikefinder. He mainly played Fifty/50 SnGs, and since I also played these a lot for a while, he is still to this day the player, I have far most hands with in my database. Its more than 50k. He first played from Ukraine, and then from Poland, and when PokerStars left Poland a few years ago, he obviously stopped playing.
I often wonder, what became of him, because for sure poker was his main source of income. He was a full time grinder. And now I think, I know. Because yesterday I was playing some $10 Battle Royal on GG Poker, and one of my opponents, who was playing from Ukraine, had the exact same picture of a dog on his profile, as Pikefinder used to have on PokerStars. This player had around $0.5 mio. in cashes in Battle Royal, so definitely a grinder, and I am pretty sure, its the same person, although he picked a different user name on GG Poker.
My point is, that its not like, GG Poker is some sort of hidden secret, that no strong players have discovered. If you play there, you are going to be competing will full time grinders just as much, as you do on PokerStars and other sites. So unless there is some kind of other reason to play there, then why not try out some smaller sites and keep the competition alive?
I did some NL5 session and did pretty good but still want to pratice more to not burn step ^^
