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Originally Posted by AKQJ10
First, aren't those very different stakes? I don't have any experience above 2-5 NL but would speculate
stakes stuff
I don't really put that much thought into it but depending on various factors, I'd estimate that a big bet game will play anywhere from 5x to 20x its limit stakes. Not counting permanent straddles.
Not really interested in getting into what I think winrates in general or mine specifically may look like but a very big and simple part of it is what someone mentioned earlier and that is that even a robust bb/100 isn't particularly impressive in bb/hr in some games. Additionally, it's not that unusual to sit in a $5 blind game that magically becomes $20+. I'm not going to sit in a 20/40 limit game, but if I do, it's never going to magically become a 1/2+ game.
If I just played 2/4 mix every day it would likely be bigger than playing various stakes big bet but playing as big as I can is really not my concern in life. If it was, I'd have regularly played significantly higher than 2/4 when crypto was booming, I was feeling good about poker and able to turn over winning hands, and there were bigger worthwhile games available. I quit online last year with the honest intention of just playing $5 and $10 blind nl and occasionally $20ish. As much as I'd like to retire, all I really need from poker right now is to be able to generate enough income to enjoy my life. From 2014-2016 that was accomplished by playing mostly 1dollar/2dollar NL online with meager volume so it really doesn't take much money. Unfortunately, no matter how much I try to avoid it, I am a degenerate and playing gamble games with cool people for lots of money is fun.
As far as the SD vs LA thing, it's pretty simple for me and really not about money either. I was living in a hotel and am now renting (splitting with one of my oldest real life friends who works at an LA cardroom) a house in LA and I own a house in SD. I have good friends in LA that I enjoy seeing, talking to and hanging out with at and away from a poker table, but my preference is always to be in SD for my own life happiness. I briefly forgot that when I was winning every day and that's how I wound up with the 12 month lease up there. While I do hope that my game in LA gets lively again after people are done in Vegas, I'm fine staying in SD if it doesn't. There are plenty of other games available but I'm not in a hurry to have to be in LA to actually play them. Down in SD yesterday and my poker day was playing a few minutes of 500 NL online and eventually heading to a casino and drinking to excess playing 2/3 (turned 2/5 and then 2/5/10) all night. A lot of my friends think it's weird that we can be playing 200/400 mix or like 25/50/100 nl one day and I'll just be plugging away in a 2/5 nl game the next day and it probably is. I guess I just like poker a lot more than I will ever admit to myself. Gotta grind out that rent money that I have been throwing into the wind for months and bags of kibble for my dog somehow.