How many platforms should I play on and what tools to track them?

[miklcct]

I started playing real money online poker in October on GGPoker, unibet and pokerstars, but unfortunately I lost everything apart from PokerStars, especially I had never an adequate bankroll on GGPoker (the most I have had was $30 with minimum 0.01/0.02 on GGPoker or €20 on Unibet with 0.02/0.04). On PokerStars, some bad bankroll management resulted in my balance down from $65 to $25, and I would like advice on how I should continue.

1. Should I play mostly on one platform or multiple platforms for real cash? It doesn't matter if it is a freeroll, but should I pay real cash to play on only one platform or multiple, if I have money in all of them? Should I treat the balance on each platform as separate bankrolls and play at the appropriate level, or treat them as a whole?

2. Among all the three platforms I play, Unibet has the lowest rake for cash games and it runs a lot of fee free tournaments. However, its minimum stake for cash is €0.02/€0.04 compared to $0.01/$0.02 on GGPoker or PokerStars. Should I play Unibet or PokerStars if I choose one platform to play cash?

3. Which software do you suggest that can import my hand history and track my winning in terms of BB / 100 hands? I am not looking for any GTO analysis at this level. I'd prefer using an Android App, but a linux desktop application is also good for me. Furthermore, Unibet doesn't allow downloading hand histories (they deliberately don't include this feature to keep the user base soft, alongside other features like having multiple identities per player), so what do Unibet players usually do?

I have a holiday coming the next few weeks so I would like to test my setups during it with my existing data, then make one deposit for a proper bankroll if needed and play responsibility from that point.

 

[Viking26]

1...and study IT well

 

[TeUnit]

You should play on every site you can. If the TOS allows use HEM3 or Pokertracker, and an ICM tool like Icmizer. Review your play after each session for ICM errors.

Once you have a good sample size it will allow you to prioritize between sites based on your results.

Playing multiple sites also allows you to enjoy more promotions, rake races, etc. Its also good to diversify your risk of individual sites going under.

 

[miklcct]

I am getting disappointed with PokerStars because of my previous problems of setting limits, and now I have been locked out because a wrong limit is applied instead of the label shown in app (the app shows 0.01/0.02 which I think it means 0.02 big blinds, but the customer service sees that I have set it to 0.01). GGPoker has the best playing experience among the three platforms I am using but I don't really want to return to it with real money because of its high rake (especially in Hold'em).

I am using this website for comparison, which clearly shows that Unibet leads all other sites by a huge margin in terms of rake. However, Unibet doesn't allow downloading hand histories. How do you value a platform which has made a deliberate decision not to offer hand history downloading?

 

[Tadi]

I play exclusively on PokerStars and I like that platform. The decision on whether to play on one or more platforms must be made by yourself based on your own experience. You can play on more than one if you play free tournaments because in that case you do not lose money, you only spend time.

 

[austral]

I operate on multiple real-money platforms to maximize my edge and volume.
PokerTracker 4 (PT4)
Hand2Note (H2N)
Holdem Manager