Being charged for parking or not will not affect the games any... this is Las Vegas and on any given day/night you can walk into any given room and find amazing action or terrible tight no action games at any moment. That's the beauty of Las Vegas tho, what we lack in overall great games we make up for in casino/game/table selection!

If you don't wanna grind the 75 or so required hours to get your own free parking (if that's the real concern here) then pick the closest room you like to play in and have that be your home spot. As Whey said, he likes to park at Belagio. It's just a short walk to the tram in the back corner of the Belagio and you get dropped off at the top of the escalators next to Aria poker room.

If you are diamond and wanna valet at Ballys or PH, you can do that and walk across the street and have the same free tram ride as well. It all comes down to what is best for each person. But again as far as game quality, I would say Aria specifically has plenty of opportunities to find good games at 1/3, and that should not change.

I need to be more degen so I can whip out dat' Diamond status

Grind hard at Caesars (or Rio 2/3NL) for first two and a half months of 2017. Enjoy Diamond benefits through the rest of 2017 and all of 2018. Easy game.

Or wait for a tier credit boost and play only during that time to accomplish the same.

Been a solid week at the tables still on heater status, I've gotten behind a bit on the vids bc some big changes taking place but will have some nice time to work on those soon. Not having any like gross +$1500 sessions but just practically never losing and getting paid off in some very fortuitous spots.









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O and obvs I've become fond of abusing the seat change buttons

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do have a recent vid up I havent posted itt though

Buy-In Question:

If playing $1/$3 with a #300 Max Buy-In ....... Should you always buy-in for the Max at these stakes/games ?

What about if playing $2/$5 that does Not have a Max ?

Thanks

With CET and The Cosmopolitan joining MGM (not sure about Wynn), there will be no more free parking on-strip outside of Hooters, lol. Guess ppl need to decide which rooms they prefer and start earning tier credits there. Also makes suburban casinos like RR, SP and GVR more appealing to locals...should see a spike in attendance.

This is a complicated question. For a novice or a player not yet totally confident/comfortable in post flop play, a shorter buy in can actually reduce their disadvantage at the table. It allows them to play a more range based heavier preflop strategy that is harder to exploit by better players postflop. There is definitely a different ideal strategy for a $75-100 stack, a $120-150 stack and a $200-300 stack so regardless what you choose you should be aware of those differences and how to employ them when at the table.

If you feel you will be among the better players at the table, however, you should always buy in for the max for those same reasons. You will have far more sizing/line options open to you postflop and can exploit weaker players by forcing them to make more costly errors later in hands.

With my more limited 2-5 experience I would say I like to have around 200bbs ($1000) on the table. Obviously that is not a choice at say the Bellagio with the $500 cap buy in but at most other places I can do that and it just feels like an adequate amount to set the lines I want with the sizing I like. For someone with no bankroll considerations they may want to buy in in a no max table for up to the amount of the biggest stack at the table so they can maximize their potential to be made in any one hand.

Wynn hasn't talked about it yet, but Steve Wynn is already on record about poor people: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/07/steve...or-people.html That should trigger paid self-parking sooner rather than later. Venetian, Tropicana, SLS and TI have been relatively quiet.

Thank you for the Reply ,
Really appreciate it

Helps put perspective on being selective with stack size

Hi wheydacheese ,

I had a few questions please, that I'd like to ask you and get your recommendation and knowledge on

1. To play $1/$3 NL Live ...... What Bankroll do you recommend

How about for playing $2/$5 ?

2. Do you Ever SlowPlay ...... AA, KK,QQ
And what would be your Ceiteria For and for NOT Slowplaying ..... Position, action that has been taken before it gets to you, etc. ?

3. Do you ever Base your Decisions on the Outs and or Odds in a hand ?

4. In your Videos , you are wearing a Camera , and showing us your Hand / Action ....... Do you record this via a Hands-Free GoPro camera ? Or is it a tiny Camera inbedded in a pair of glasses ?


Thanks for your time and help
Your thread and videos you've posted have been great, in helping me run through the hands I play Live

I'll likely have more questions in the near Future, but these are the main ones for now

Thanks again

I need to shoot another Q&A vid but gotten behind and I'm home sick today so

1. Keep in mind the aspect that noone talks about much in regards to bankroll is personal play style, higher the variance (spazz factor *I'll refer you to last videos Q2dd oop open line) the higher roll you should hypothetically need. $1-3 live assuming you have some other supplemental income paying bills ect you can play comfortably with as little as $2-$3000. For a full time attempt without another income would recommend $9000 +several months of living expenses.

$2-5 u will want moore (in relation to 1-2/1-3) in my opinion b/c you will often be playing in deeper games (to maximize value) and also I feel like (this is just opinion) it's hard to flat out crush $2-5 so better to be more comfortable and ready for downswings. So something in the ballpark of $25000 +expenses. I'm a bankroll nit though, their are players grinding away at $2-5 as we speak with less than $5k roll.

2. YES! more often than not but it's a very bad idea until you get to the point you are more comfortable postflop than preflop...I have no problem limping these hands and flatting opens BUT ***lets say I limp KK utg b/c I strongly believe an aggressive player on the button is going to raise but noone does....we go to the flop 5 handed and its 5-7-9 rainbow I check, utg +1 bets $10, someone raises to $25...I'm dropping this sooo fast when it comes back to me...possibly even if it's not reraised. You can't let these little experiment hands get too expensive or no amount of post flop shananigans value will make up for the -$$$.

3. Of course, every decision should be based entirely on the odds (this does require a basic ranging to know what your outs ect are) THEN you factor in history with the player, reads, suspected implied odds. You pretty much want to know how to do everything right so THEN you can go and do everything wrong later

4. I just catch the occasional hand with the phone, it's pretty unobtrusive. Inevitably some dealers and I suspect players and floors have more or less caught me but never raised the issue (guess I'm well liked enough brag brag) Truth is some of the staff in the rooms I play have even mentioned the videos they just don't seemed super inclined to nerf me unless I guess if someone was like "hey that guy is filming at the table" they would sort of be obligated to. I have however taken a break from the in game hands for the next episode or 2 at least b/c other poker 'Vloggers; if you will have been allegedly getting flak for it and I don't want to potentially contribute to a problem until that settles down. I do have something in mind though I may do soon that will actually be much more beneficial to players who actually want to improve (vs just seeing my sometimes suspect antics in hands)

Awesome man, Thank you for replying
Sorry you're not feeling well, hope you get to feeling better soon

1. Where I play ( Tunica ) , there is always at least One $1/$3 game running 24/7
This game has a minimum buy-in of $100 and a Max of $300

Then the $2/$5 are Only held on the Weekends ( Fri. - Sun. ) i believe
With a minimum Buy-in of $100 ? And there is NO Max

I as of right now , have $10,000 sitting aside for my Bankroll , and will grind $1/$3 for the first few months of the Year, and if win $500+ on any one game playing $1/$3 ...... I'll then take that $500 in profits , and buy into the $2/$5 games over the weekend



2. Great reasoning behind folding a ha d like KK on that 5-7-9 rainbow flop , when it's 3+ players seeing the Flop , and it's bet and then get's raised ..... Fold all day Long , Unless we're last to act, and 3 of the 5 players who initially called pre-flop, have now folded on the Flop, and the actions to you with just 2 players now in the hand ?

Given the forementioned Hand ........ if someone bet $15 and then next player raises to $25 , what type of hand would you put them on given this flop ( and the fact that they just called Pre-flop ) ...... Trips ? an Overpair like AA, QQ or JJ ( In which cause we're basically a coin flip to win the hand from the flop to the River if the hand goes check - check ) ?


3. I have a good understanding of the Odds and Outs during play , just wasn't sure if you would change your action/decision in a hand, based solely on the Outs you had and or the Pot Odds ?

4. Yeah man , I'd definitely be interested if you have something in mind that'd be beneficial and would help Improve myself and other players following your thread ..... Please let me know

Thank you again for taking the time out to answer and reply to my questions ,and a Big Thank You again for posting and sharing your videos

Get well soon

well you have to understand the original intent of the limp in early position was to get raised preflop from an aggro player, at that point we would re-pop it to isolate that raiser. If he folds fine, probably got as much or more than if we had opened +avoided oop. If he raises that's stack dependent put often going to jam. More often than not he will call then I'll likely check-call down in a lot of scenarios (repping a hand like missed AK) and let him fire away if I think he's capable of doing that.

In the situation you mentioned, if it was not raised pre and goes to the flop and we get this action, naw its not gonna be hands like AA KK ever at 1-2, people often call any two cards in a limped pre pot so when the fireworks go off on a 5-7-9 your going to see mostly 2 pairs and things like bottom set with the rare flopped straights and sometimes a more aggressive player will bet something like open ended top str draw here but the point is...if we failed to get that raise (for us to then raise) preflop with a hand like AA KK, and it went 4-5 handed to flop and there's action there's rarely a reason to continue out of position just muck it and watch the entertainment. If losing small amounts often bothers you with hands like AA KK though then for sure always bring them in for a standard open in any position and of course hope to get raised.

if someone spazzes and we see them win a big pot with A9 vs K9 or something after we pitched the overpair just laugh it off and take a mental note

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Could you, at some point, sneak a GPS tracking device onto trooper ?

Way ahead of you, put one on bottom of Starbucks cup while he stepped away from table. He carries those things around getting refills for weeks.

Trooper double up, barreled into a turned full house w/TT. Hes back to being +$240 or so. I'm -$115

are you shooting for hours to make freeroll ?

Does Trooper recognise you?

Ya just pmd me on Twitter so we got da stealth convo haha

Hell ya I'm freeroll whoring like a boss this week

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freeroll whoring dawg ain't beneath you

would be funny if you and troop at same freeroll table (bally's)

Could certainly happen. Doubt we would clash much though, too many effectively empty seats to wait out dawg