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Originally Posted by DalTXColtsFan
I play $4/$8LHE. I don't have the results to back this up (my loss rate over the last 5 years is about $6 an hour), but I believe that if someone reads SSHE by Sklansky/Malmuth/Miller from cover to cover over and over and truly puts in the effort to apply himself to improving his game, said person could make $8 per hour in the games where 4 to 6 people limp into every pot, 2 or 3 players coldcall an OOP raise, nobody raises without two pair or better and nobody folds one pair or any 4+out draw before the river. Games like those definitely exist.
SSHE is definitely the low stakes limit bible, that's for sure.
I booked $7.09/hr over 466 hours of 4/8 Limit. However, (a) fairly lol sample size, (b) our game was a kill game, so every ~10th hand was at 8/16 stakes which helps outrun the rake, and (c) our maximum rake at the time was quite low $3 + $1 BBJdrop (keeping in mind that every $1 increase in maximum rake probably takes upwards of $2/hr off your winrate if you're winning ~2 hands/hour).
Depending on all these factors, it's probably just *barely* beatable for popcans/hour. My guess is low stakes NL games (even shortstacking games) have the potential for a better return.
But I do recall having quite a lot of fun in those games as compared to NL (I think the "fun" in NL is measured in different metrics), so each to their own.
GimoG