25nl bovada has a lot more open limping that gets through. 50nl open limps are attacked more often with humongous raises so I recommend if you're going to play pocket 3s at 50nl, make sure to raise... There is also more bluffing at 50nl. Why not just start at 5 or 10nl btw?

I am pretty much starting at 10. I am just taking 25NL shots when the games look good. I also have 5NL to fall back on if my game needs more work.

Its also not about money. It is more of a time thing for me.
I have some experience playing full ring though.

Alright well best of luck to you man, 1k br is more than enough for 25nl so you shouldn't experience any crazy downswings.

first 9k hands or so is me playing 6max zone. The format was a pretty big difference from what I'm used to and the players are pretty nitty so didn't go that great, just really slow in general and people made tight folds pre and post. Started playing 25 and 50nl regular 9max to work on my live cash.



Online: $820
Live: $3629

Took the bus to Hollywood Casino. When I got in I just got this overwhelming feeling of happiness being in a casino, it reminded me of being in the Hollywood Casino in Toledo (I really miss that place). Unfortunately they do things differently like you can't vape inside. The place in general is a lot less friendly like the dealers won't spread the pot for you and are pretty quiet in general. When you can't do something as simple as spread the pot for me, you get no tips rofl. Also you can straddle on your button and it's not even 4 at the 1-2. They make straddle's 5 so it's "easier" which is bs. You can also buy in for $400 at the 1-2 which is annoying when ppl are constantly straddling essentially making it a 2-5 game. Anyway I was happy when I got there, but I was actually HAPPY when I ended my 24 hr session down $150. I literally had the worst run of my life live where I hit 0 flops, made absolutely no draws, and had to constantly bluff or just give up post since there was so much multiway action. At one point I was in for about $1000. I was tilted when I was down $600 just thinking in my head with ak or any playable hand. "Yeah yeah I fold I missed once again, but your j7 hit I'm sure". I frequently held my hand near the muck just because I was like fk it. The point in which things turned around was with qto (my favorite live hand which has come through for me soooo much). straddled pot gets raised to like 15 pre, I call with qto and we're 6 ways to the flop. Board comes 8t2 two spades, pfr raises I flat and 2 more call. Turn is a Q of spades completing any flushes. Pfr (this guy who was on a heater, but just recently began to tilt because he spewed away $900) bets like 60 and I shove with the thought my line looks so strong I can get straights, low flushes to POTENTIALLY fold. My image has also been really tight. Guy to my left looks horrified and begrudgingly folds showing our neighbor what he had. Other folds and pfr calls. River blanks and he shows JsTc and I take the pot with 2p. Guy to the left said he folded a low flush bc he thought I had the stronger one *phew* Next one I got a bit lucky otr with queens. I just had queens a previous hand and folded 3 ways to a cr otf so was somewhat tilted from that. This hand I had 3bet queens to about 35 after utg opens to 12. Utg was also a really lag bully and had brought his stack to about $1400 in the course of 30 mins. Flop texture was terrible for me, but I just stick in $100 wanting to end the hand there. He puts me all in and I just call and sigh knowing I'm pretty much dead to a queen. River is a queen... A lot of bad play happened tonight due to tilt, but worked out for me in the end. I had another hand with him holding ak on 5hkc2h where he rr me otf and I shoved knowing his range would most likely be fds with his line and he started raging at me and telling me "I'm the law around here". Brought my stack up to about $850 by the end and I just wanted to go home at that point and get some rest. I don't like this place as much as the one in Toledo.

Online BR: $820
Live BR: $3479

So tonight was un****ing real. After tonight I don't think I can play poker in any other game because this was as juicy as it ****ing gets. I just found this poker club that operates with no rake and just a $20 fee to buy in to the cash game. Game opens at about 6 and goes until 4 am and oh my god I've never seen anything like it and I doubt theres another 1-2 game around that's the same. Max buy in at the start is about $300 and then you can buyin or add on to about 75% of the chip leader at the table. It was a 10 handed table and we started short, but basically that $3000 from everyone ended up to about $8000 and yes this is 1-2. By the middle of the session we were basically playing a 10-20 game where almost every hand was straddled and people would make it like $40 to $60 to go. Every hand got called by at least 60% of the players who would show up with junk from 23o to 95o for the $60 raise. Crazy crazy action post flop where people were gii with like 400bb deep with tpwk like T2o. There is a bar right next door and people kept going over there for a drink and coming back to the table. I can't even explain to you some of the hands because I'm still in shock and don't even know what to say. End of the night I was actually the short stack at about $831 in for $380. And just man that game was ****ing action city and no one had fold buttons. From now on I just can't go to any other 1-2 game bc this place is a gem. No offense, but I'm not saying where this is although I'm sure you might be able to figure it out. The players were really friendly too and bought me a drink. After the game had ended and the club was closing up 4 of the players at the end were betting like $100 4 ways blind and then did some $50 dart throwing bets. Had a great night and a really fun time and I'm so glad I decided to check it out tonight. End of the night most people were cashing out for about 2g+

Online BR: $840
Live BR: $3930

It's 4:22 am and I'm exhausted. + 538 from tonight's session so booked another win. Was down about $200 at the start. Utg who is a total spewmonkey raises to $20 pre. He had been raising every single hand and calling every single reraise/raise and magically hitting every board with garbage rofl. I had 10s in mp and thought that I needed to iso him huge to get heads up with intention of shoving the flop on pretty much any board texture. I didn't want to call and play multiway with 10s when I know I can make the stronger move and just iso him here. Also there was a lot of loose action at the table so if I flat we're getting like 6 callers total most likely. I repop it to 80 and a tight guy around my age ships it in for 200 which I know I'm pretty much dead to my 18%. I had already committed myself with like 70 behind and I'm facepalming myself. Another random guy ships his 200 (???) and the pfr calls the ship so easy call on my end. Aaaaaand the utg pfr flops a straight with his 67o lol. Basically he kept making these terrible calls and hitting the board super hard, serious serious gambler that chases everything. End of the night he was up to about 2k in some ridiculous pots with ridiculous hands. I'll go over some hands I played later, I'm just so exhausted right now.

Online BR: $840
Live BR: $4468

Here's a few hands from last night. I'm the bb and guy to my left straddles for 4. He just came to the table, but from my perspective he's somewhat aggressive and has bluffed a river in a previous hand folding to a rr. Overall seems willing to get in it. Folds to me in the bb (crazy based on how action the table was) and I make it $17 vs straddle. He calls and flop comes 755 I cbet 1/2 and he insta calls. Turn is a king I x he x back. River is a 7 I x he bets out for about $55 and I snap call and he tables 38o lol. Other hand I had about $280 with qjo oop. I don't play live the same as online where like qj would usually be a fold to a pfr oop, but the adjustment to the game was to actually call because their ranges are more like q7o j5s type garbage so qj is actually pretty strong and I know they will pay me off when I hit. It's limped to the spewmonkey and he bumps it up to $20. Gets called by a few ppl and I call the $20 and we hit the flop 6 ways. *Bink* flop comes 9TK rainbow. I x and a shortie shoves for about $70. Spewy repops it to $200 and I shove for like $260. He calls and I hold he shows k8o or something lol. Other hand is this kid about my age who is somewhat drunk and willing to really get into it. He just lost a hand set vs set (calling in the dark lol) so he was slightly tilted. This hand it's limped to him and he makes it $75 in the dark (yes this is 1-2). I have queens and I know I can't reraise this to like $200 because spewmonkey will snap call and get it in with his gutshot garbage so I needed to super iso the $75 blind bet. It's folded back to him and he looks at his cards and tanks for like 2 minutes and keeps sighing he has about $450 behind and I covered him. After moaning it out he calls and we both don't watch the runout. He misses and shows ak and my queens hold up.

Dendritic nice to hear your story. I quit my job 2weeks ago as a electrician making $25/hr. And my bankroll is up 3k in 2 weeks playing live cash in Vancouver Canada. I know how you feel man. Keep running good

Thanks for sharing man, good to hear others are thriving at the live cash games also. -$400 tonight. I played poorly and folded the best hand way too often because I forgot a lot of these ppl overvalue what they have and aren't aware of my range when I do x lol. Got tilted and just gave another $200 away so bad night. I have to take a break for a day or two and just rethink my game. A lot of spots I could be making more, but instead I just play bad. Really upset with myself right now and theres a lot of improvement needed on my end.

here's the hand that tilted me. It's limped to me in the cutoff and I have queens. I make it 17 to go with a fairly tight image and get called by ep and mp. Ep I thought was a decent player who generally had it when he would get it in (I folded queens to him last night vs a flopped set where he xc flop xr shoved turn). mp is tilted and loves to call/gii with draws and tries to run it multiple times. Flop comes 459 two tone spades. x'd to me I make it $30 and get called by both. Turn is a 6 flush doesn't complete and I make it $70 ep reraises all in and mp instantly shoves. It's $130 more to me and I tank for a bit and just figure I have to be beat with ep's line. I wasn't afraid of mp because I thought she'd do the same with a spade draw or even a turned sd or pair. I figured since he limp called his range would have a lot of sets or random 2p or straights who called flop with a gutshot. I fold and they show JJ and As6s. I didn't say what I had, but my blood was ***** boiling. Like wtf do you think I have when I bet 17 pre 30 otf and 70 ott. I respect turn reraises so much and it's just frustrating because I'm so used to online play that from experience I know what turn reraises usually mean, but it doesn't apply here. I'm really upset with myself and when I saw what they had I literally felt like slamming my head into the wall. I've been blown off queens by people overplaying jacks so many times it's ridiculous and I'm just sick of being ****ing horrible at poker. If I made the correct decisions all the time I'd be at like $9k right now, but I'm not because I'm a garbage player. I didn't win that pot because I don't deserve to win. I'm not smart enough to win and it's so tilting. I feel like I need to take a break and come back to poker when I know what the hell I'm doing because I'm just trash. Nothing makes any ****ing sense right now and I'm just playing scared.

Online br: $840
Live br: $4068

I would fold in that spot too. So it's not a bad play. However when I have QQ and KK I usually bet big to force the action to go heads up. So in this case I would have made it $22. And than would have bet $44 on flop. On the turn I would've check/fold or check/raise here. That turn completes many 2p.

Anyways I made $200 in 30 minutes today and am recycling to another casino 5min away. Wish me luck

I do have a question tho what casino do u think is the softest in Vegas. I've never been. For low stakes such as 1/2 or 1/3

Well the truth is in this game I'm playing in even if I made it 40 straight pre these ppl would call with j7o because they just love to gamble and get into ego battles with an "i won't fold" mentality so there really is no pushing people out of pots. I haven't played in vegas yet so I don't know, but I hear the games are pretty soft since they have a constant stream of tourists playing. I just started playing live about 2 weeks ago so still finding my footing in how different these games are.

Do you just double up and leave? I generally find it better to play deep at any 1-2 game since people will generally pay max value when behind so I'd say stick around. That also doesn't really fly if you're in a club and is generally frowned upon, but not sure if that is what you meant.

I reevaluate the table when I double up. If it's full of good players than i table change or recycle. I had set over twopair yesterday and the casino I was at was very nitty so I decided to go to another one downtown. So what city are you currently playing at. Sounds fun

Also my style of play involves a lot of semi-bluffing and it's easier to get it all-in with over pairs and twopairs ott. So I like to recycle. Also I'm just starting to build my bankroll up so I'm taking less risks

The casino you play at doesn't have another 1-2 game you can just request a table change for? Idk unless I'm leaving I never rack up because playing deep will always be profitable and I think you'd lose a lot of value if you didn't stay.

I usually stay but the 3 tables in that casino was all nitty. But anyways what city are you playing in. I'm thinking of going on a poker travelling trip. I've never had a chance to until now

+160, but god was that session tilting. Started off -$400 because this one guy just played every single hand and hit every single flop with 2p sets and runner runner straights etc. I left the table and came back to another table and made the $400 back from one guy then made $360 on top. Came back later and only table open was with the guy who was running like god. Got some of it in with him and he just didn't miss a single flop. If you had a set, he had a higher one etc and he'd be 3betting like pocket 4s and hit. I decided I'm not going back to this casino because I've just run like aids every single time and it's just not an environment I like. I wish I could go back to the other casino I started off in. Staff were really friendly (this one the staff is lousy) and I became friends with a lot of the regs in general. Once I get a car I wouldn't mind driving 2 hours away to play for a day or two. Also tilted some money away online trying to play online like it's live lol.

Online BR: $775
Live BR: $4228

+259 not much to say. Got it in with some shorties and made an iso play with ak about 150bb deep at one point. Decided after about 3 hours of play that I just wanted to cash out and go home.

OnlineBR: $775
Live BR: $4487

+259 not much to say. Got it in with some shorties and made an iso play with ak about 150bb deep at one point. Decided after about 3 hours of play that I just wanted to cash out and go home.

OnlineBR: $775
Live BR: $4487

+372 tonight. Once again not much to say, just hit some good flops and got paid off. Solid session overall. I've been noticing myself become more okay with leaving ahead after 4 hours of play. Generally I'd stay until I can't keep my eyes open anymore, but booking the win is definitely the safe play. Not sure if this is a good or bad thing or just a reflection of me in general. When stacks get deep It can kind of get to the point where I just want to protect and not get it in even though it might be the correct play at the moment. I won't be leaving with the crazy $2k stack at the 1-2, but I won't lose it either. I don't know, could be something to re-evaluate. Really thinking about it right now I think it just shows how conservative I am. My intention isn't to go home with a huge win, just steady, small wins over time. I'm sure you guys know this quote - "You can't lose what you don't put in the middle. But you can't win much either." Not sure why I state it, but it perfectly reflects my thought process right now.

Online BR: $775
Live BR: $4859

+445 this session. Played in a $65 buyin tourney and cashed in third for about $190. It was a pretty small tourney, but unfortunately the hand before my last (I was short with aj vs ak aipf) the chip leader flopped a straight and the other guy had a pair + sd and they actually chopped it up. Considering playing all of the $65 buyin games because the competiton is fairly soft and I like going back to my sng roots. Afterwards I hit the cash game tables and played pretty solid and slowly chipped up. I noticed I was a lot more comfortable and was willing to make looser calls than usual with equity in the hand and came out ahead. I know my image vs the regulars though is pretty tight so for the most part I had to be trappy to get my value since theres too much respect for my raises post. Also played a few sngs before hitting the live tables and came out ahead as well winning a 6max turbo for around 40ish

Online BR: $809
Live BR: $5304