What are extra good good tips for playing live poker in casinos?

Like the biggest adjustments you look to make?

If you’re a decent online player, you should not have to adjust much strategy-wise. Play a solid strategy but adjust much like you would in a low level micro game (like a 2NL). This is a generalization and may not hold completely true in your game, but live players tend to play passively. There will be a lot of multi-way limped pots. Players will call too often, fold and bluff too little. A fairly straightforward strategy, with some implied odds type hands should work well.

Where you should really be more concerned is with rules and game mechanics in casino poker. It’s not that hard, and you will quickly get the hang of it, but there are differences that you don’t need to worry about online that can be costly. A few examples:

1. Always keep up with the game and make sure to act in turn. Mistakes happen and usually it isn’t a big deal, but if you act out of turn often, it usually won’t be good for you (and you’ll probably piss off the dealer and the other players). Rules differ from place to place and in different situations, but out of turn actions typically are required to stand unless action is changed by the skipped player. It could be very costly; for example suppose you’re 3-way in position and the first player to act shoves. You call out of turn and the skipped player speaks up (which you should do IMMEDIATELY in such a situation) and calls the shove. You are required to call, even though you likely wouldn’t have done so had you acted in turn and the middle player called.

2. Always be aware of the action and your options. You are entitled to know how much a bet is, even if it’s all in and the player didn’t push the chips in. You are NOT entitled to a count of an opponent’s chips that he hasn’t bet. Stacks must be kept visible and any high denomination chips must be in plain sight, so you can estimate stack size.

3. Understand the mechanics of betting and raising. As a beginner you may want to verbally declare your intended actions until you have more experience. Just some pitfalls:

what exactly commits you to bet? In some rooms there’s a hard bet line- chips released over the line are considered to be bet. In others chips moved forward are considered to be bet even if not released. In such a room if you hold a stack of reds in your hand, move your hand forward and drop 2, your bet is not $10 but the whole stack.

All bets and raises must also be made in a single motion. This is overridden if you declare an amount verbally, but you may not put chips in then go back to your stack for more to increase your bet.

A single oversized chip is always a call, not a raise, even if it is large enough to make a legal raise. A single $5 chip placed in the pot in a $1/2 game is a limp, for example, even though a $5 raise would be a legal raise. (You’d have to say “Raise 5” to make a $5 raise). The same is true if there are multiple oversized chips but removing one would make the amount insufficient to call. For example if a bet is $6, two red chips is a call.

4. Always protect your hand and your action. Dealers usually are pretty good, but mistakes happen. If you think a mistake is made - your action was skipped, the dealer tried to muck your hand when you did not fold, etc., speak up immediately. The longer you wait, the less likely it is that the mistake will be correctable.

The best strategy you can adopt that I've noticed from a couple hundred hours of low stakes casino live poker is to remove a lot of bluffs from your range because villain tends to over-call while holding dominated hands.

Instead of bluffing certain spots, you can always find a better spot where you can get 3 streets of value vs their sticky top pair.

I tend to tighten up my range a LOT, play 3! or fold from every position (there's a case for flatting suited connectors, small suited aces and kings, small pocket pairs on the button), and be wary of how large their raise sizes are. I tend to defend a tighter range in the BB because they are raising to 5-6bb.

I've made the move from online to live NLH a few months back and I endorse everything here. No earbuds. Pay attention when you're not in a hand. You'll get to see someone check down with a combo draw or bet three streets with 3rd pair. Lots of exploits out there you can take advantage of.

Not sure what stakes your play online or live but 1/3NL live probably plays like 5NL or 10NL online. A 200NL online winning reg can def beat a 5/10NL live game, bankroll allowing of course.

Play tight