Life is going well, man. Hope things are well with you.

LHE is alive and well in the Southlands

But maybe you're passionate about poker and you'd rather make your living doing something you love. I mean, it's obviously not for most people - and maybe not even for some of the ones that do it successfully - but it fits me like a glove. I've been playing full time hours for over five years now and I rarely get burned out and even when that does happen, I'm usually ready to get right back in the thick of things after a couple days off. I truly LOVE my job.

I think it's possible to make a living playing solely LHE in certain areas of Washington, California and Colorado - and probably in Vegas too... and those are just the areas I've experienced myself.

this caused me to laugh irl =D

We're all dying. Poker's dying. Everything that is living is dying. That guy that was badly burnt in Austin Powers is dying.

The game has been dying for years, say the doom and gloomers. Then I sit in and see "winners" flat MP opens and raise J86 flops with AK.

Yeah, but they really are dying. The game has some time left, and one nice thing is the online is not really breeding new limit crushers, but the age of the players in my limit games is disconcerting.

Fifteen years ago, I was always the youngest player in the game. Today, I'm usually the youngest in the game.

this line can be ok in some circumstances.

pro opens utg, fish in bb. you can flat AsKs np. Flop Js8c6d it's completely reasonable to balance your flop raising range by including AKss. so yea, maybe you saw me do this in the commerce 40/80 and I'm your fish LOL. If you're not also flatting with Aces in that spot sometimes then it's pretty poor

Nah, but funny I nailed your board . Assuming one has really done homework, it's one thing. But most of the people I see who do it just don't raise AK pre because "drawing hand"

yea agree it's usually from awful players =P

In a 20/40 game, maniac raises UTG, nine handed, I have AhQh UTG+1, lots of loose callers, one newb who's calling anything suited, anything connected behind on the CO, I flat call. I think this is okay. 3-betting sucks all the value out of the hand.

Yes, it's worth pursuing.

Lol'd, now that I remember, it was actually 40/80. Plenty of money in the banana stand.

You probably don't need convincing to listen to this guy, but yeah, what he says.

Yes, and I do occasionally flat with AA, or a mid pp, action is too underdeveloped to see if a small pp is worth two bets, though tempting because the game was pretty juicy. Also flatting KQs. 3-betting JJ,QQ,KK 100%, flatting AKs,AA,TT-77.

Total maniac actually had AA that hand, I flopped second pair of queens, and simply called down, which was the best line, imo. One cold caller behind, the before mentioned uber-loose. Blinds folded, KQXr, bet, I call, fold. Then it ragged out, and I called down.

AA runs better multiway than people think. There's only a real drop off when you go from a 2-way pot, into a 3-way pot. Against 5 or more players, it still gets tons of value.

Against a maniac, I'd 3-bet. Against a tight player where you're slightly behind their range, then I'd call and let it develop multiway with loose players.

Considering half the table in a 20/40 LHE game are fish, I would say yes. As opposed to a 2/5 NL game where you are lucky to get 1-2 bad players. NL players are actually trying to win money, most limit players are trying to give it away. Unless you live in Boston or Scottsdale, where the games are just horrendous; I would say limit is worth pursuing.

Lol, I thought they are/were some of the softest games in the world, can't imagine what good games are like then (there are some very tough players for that limit though, it's much different than other 20 games as the best players are to good for the limit but the action players you don't see to often in other games).

+ you are starting st like $15/hour compare ls to comic becusse of take

Scottsdale eh? Is that a Talking Stick reference? My wife and I are giving serious thought to moving to Arizona in 2022 and I'm definitely a LHE player.

Same. My wife and I are actually on the same time table for a move to Phoenix area.

What's the rake like at CAZ?

All the big money in San Jose CA is at the limit tables..20-40, 40-80 and 80-160

There's a 10/25 NL at M8trix on WF.

So two days a week there's a bigger NL game at one table? OK, the other 5 days limit is king. Even those two, better get a seat.

20-40+ its amazing ($7 time even at 250-500), 8-16 not so much (5+2 or something)

"Limit is king" true
"All the money is at the limit tables" false

The SF Bay Area is one of the few places where playing LHE may make sense financially, for sure.

The NL ain't too bad, either.