Taking my life roll to vegas. Follow as I degen into oblivion or make it big! 3/28-4/2
03-31-2014
, 02:22 PM
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Also, whatever advantage you enjoy in your hometown games, that advantage will be much smaller or even nonexistent in Vegas. They play MUCH better there as a rule. This means that the skill of game selection is just about the most important factor affecting your win potential. You probably aren't used to having dozens of playing options and multiple tables to choose from wherever you go. In Spokane (or wherever), you might have a single 1/2 NL game to play in, or go home. This might see you playing with four or five almost dead people when in Vegas, you would never sit down at such a table in the first place, nor would you need to.
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Also, whatever advantage you enjoy in your hometown games, that advantage will be much smaller or even nonexistent in Vegas. They play MUCH better there as a rule. This means that the skill of game selection is just about the most important factor affecting your win potential. You probably aren't used to having dozens of playing options and multiple tables to choose from wherever you go. In Spokane (or wherever), you might have a single 1/2 NL game to play in, or go home. This might see you playing with four or five almost dead people when in Vegas, you would never sit down at such a table in the first place, nor would you need to.
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Sigh. 
No, I didn't. I did say, in fact, that it was possible to find good games there. But I stick to my original assertion that killing the Spokane game is no indication that you'll survive, much less thrive, in Vegas.
In any event, asserting that all those Vegas players are just fish who you in your awesomeness can run over at will seems to be a matter of ego for you, and there's no point in arguing with that, so I'll just concede that indeed, sir, you have the poker chops to rape Vegas and leave it whimpering for mercy. But the OP, the Sultan of Spokane, may not.
No, I didn't. I did say, in fact, that it was possible to find good games there. But I stick to my original assertion that killing the Spokane game is no indication that you'll survive, much less thrive, in Vegas.In any event, asserting that all those Vegas players are just fish who you in your awesomeness can run over at will seems to be a matter of ego for you, and there's no point in arguing with that, so I'll just concede that indeed, sir, you have the poker chops to rape Vegas and leave it whimpering for mercy. But the OP, the Sultan of Spokane, may not.
04-01-2014
, 09:37 AM
I lol'd at hamplanet.
Also, what's with all the finger-wagging and beef ITT? OP, do what you want and keep us posted
Also, what's with all the finger-wagging and beef ITT? OP, do what you want and keep us posted
04-01-2014
, 05:22 PM
04-01-2014
, 05:53 PM
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Well, you undoubtedly suffer from confirmation bias...and it's also unlikely that you have enough RECENT experience in BOTH venues to make an accurate evaluation...but in any case this is a thread hijack of sorts. I don't think that the OP's successes in the lion-infested arenas of the inland PNW are much of an indication of future success in Vegas--but he is one of many, many, many to think so, and more power to him if he's in fact correct.
Tell you what--I'll concede that the games in the PNW are much, much, much tougher--virtually unbeatable--if YOU'RE there.
(Oh, and to answer your question, I've played extensively in the coastal PNW, Reno, and Vegas in the last few years. Also a wee bit of Arizona.)
Tell you what--I'll concede that the games in the PNW are much, much, much tougher--virtually unbeatable--if YOU'RE there.
(Oh, and to answer your question, I've played extensively in the coastal PNW, Reno, and Vegas in the last few years. Also a wee bit of Arizona.)
How do I suffer from confirmation bias and you don't? As to my RECENT experience, I'm not sure why you'd think it's "unlikely" I don't have any. I play 2-3 nights a week in Portland, and play the inland northwest games when I go back to visit family in Idaho (multiple times a year). I also go to Vegas at least twice a year, four times last year, and have been once this year.
I'm not saying that OP or anyone else crushing games outside Vegas will necessarily succeed in Vegas. The only reason I engaged you is because this statement....
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They play MUCH better [in Vegas] as a rule.
Your passive aggressive responses are really unbecoming, by the way.
04-02-2014
, 02:50 AM
04-02-2014
, 05:12 AM
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Recent experience in VEGAS. Please read the posts you respond to. You've been there once this year, evidently making you an expert on the games there.
By coastal PNW I mean not the inland PNW. Vancouver, BC, Puget Sound, Portland, and yes, that rocky ol' Oregon coast. Not Idaho. Not Spokane. Not South Carolina.
But I don't see what you're still yeeping about. I conceded that you are the studly stud of the great PNW. I truly don't understand why you don't swoop in once a week (in your private jet, paid for with poker winnings) to loot, pillage, and plunder the terribly, terribly soft games of innocent Las Vegas, where the games are so soft that the players don't even look at their cards before betting.
At any rate, I won't respond to your next retort, because this is so ego-driven a topic for you. In point of fact, I lived in Vegas for eight years (mostly before the big poker boom), and the number of players, even then, who had beaten the games back home in Dirt Falls and had convinced themselves that they were poker geniuses and that Vegas was a ripe, juicy apple ready to be plucked could have filled a football stadium. Or, more precisely, their corpses could have.
The OP (oh yeah!, that guy) seems to be a cut above the normal hometown heroes. I truly wish him well.
By coastal PNW I mean not the inland PNW. Vancouver, BC, Puget Sound, Portland, and yes, that rocky ol' Oregon coast. Not Idaho. Not Spokane. Not South Carolina.
But I don't see what you're still yeeping about. I conceded that you are the studly stud of the great PNW. I truly don't understand why you don't swoop in once a week (in your private jet, paid for with poker winnings) to loot, pillage, and plunder the terribly, terribly soft games of innocent Las Vegas, where the games are so soft that the players don't even look at their cards before betting.
At any rate, I won't respond to your next retort, because this is so ego-driven a topic for you. In point of fact, I lived in Vegas for eight years (mostly before the big poker boom), and the number of players, even then, who had beaten the games back home in Dirt Falls and had convinced themselves that they were poker geniuses and that Vegas was a ripe, juicy apple ready to be plucked could have filled a football stadium. Or, more precisely, their corpses could have.
The OP (oh yeah!, that guy) seems to be a cut above the normal hometown heroes. I truly wish him well.
You do realize it's pretty silly for you to take your 8 years in Vegas pre poker boom as ANY indicator of current game status, right?