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Originally Posted by ALL IN!
Because you never lost 3-buyins, nobody can?
I'm not saying you can't lose it. I'm saying 3 BIs is a lot more than you think at 1/2. If someone said to you "I only bring 20 buyins with me, that's my stop loss for the day," you'd think that was way too much and he should never be losing that. My number is a lot closer to 3. At 1/2 and 1/3 Vs' hands should be face up a ton of the time, you really shouldn't be losing 3 BIs that often. The only time it should be close is if you're topping off. I used to pull $1 chips out of my pocket and never be sitting with $299 or below. I don't do it anymore, sometimes against good Vs it's nice to more easily set up a low SPR. But w/o topping off, 3 is plenty very often.
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Originally Posted by ALL IN!
I'd be willing to bet that paying $1 with A8 from the SB is profitable and that paying $2 with it UTG is not profitable.
I guess you'd lose then. Position. If I were forced to limp one of those hands, I'd gladly pay the extra $1 to have position on 2 people (even 1 person if the SB is smart and folds) than to save the $1 and have position on no one. I get dogged in LLSNL for saying I fold almost all SBs, it's because of position not how much more I need to put into the pot. I forgot who on LLSNL said it once, could have been Spikeraw, "Preflop pot odds isn't a thing."
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Originally Posted by TheTyman9
If you don't make it out of 1/2 ASAP the rake and your life expenses are going to crush you. The attainable hourly at 1/2 just isn't high enough for anyone to live on unless you live at home and have almost no major expenses.
Really? Over a solid sample I had about a $16.50 hourly at 1/2. I thought it was a little low also. A few months I wasn't practicing hurt my hourly, there were 4 hands from $500 to $1600 I could retell card by card where I was at least 85% and lost while only 1 hand I was way behind and won... Anyway, that $16.50 hourly, play 6 days a week, play 6 hours a day, that's $30,888 for the year. You can't live on that? When my job paid $60K my expenses were only about $22K. $30K is plenty to live on.