Join Date: Feb 2019
Posts: 1,194
I want to save up about 5k to take a shot at the 2/5 game cause I thought that rake is pretty normal and beatable (right?). But was also wondering, might the 1/2 game be worth playing in the meantime?
10% rake sounds absolutely insane to me, but given how bad the players are, if you just play very tight pre, raise huge and only valuebet, this might be beatable? Or is it just not worth the time anyway? Could dedicate the time playing 1/2 to studying for the bigger game of course so there's an opportunity cost.
The games:
1/2 with 10% rake, 10 rakecap, 250 buyin limit.
The game is very loose passive, almost everyone is limping, even really bad hands (even before the 10% rake). If you RFI to 10 theres like 3 callers on average. Postflop also very loose passive.
2/5 with 5% rake, 25 rakecap, 1250 buyin limit.
I havent played this yet but cant imagine there's any (semi)pros or even regs who actually study poker / solvers etc. But probably not as loose as the 1/2 game just cause its more money at risk.