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Originally Posted by wj94
I make a lot more than $20/hr playing 1/2 and I have a real job. By the time I'm done with my real job for the day, driving all the way to the strip and back, dealing with traffic and the long walks from parking garages to the poker room seems like a hassle when I can drive 5 minutes to Red Rock and park right next to the poker room and already have reads on every reg that plays there. Believe what you want, the RR 2/5 game is awful 90% of the time. When the game looks good I play and have about 150 hours in it since November at $59/hour, but it usually sucks. I just play for fun, not as my main source of income.
More illogical stuffs coming out of you. I'll just point them out.
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Originally Posted by wj94
I make a lot more than $20/hr playing 1/2 and I have a real job. By the time I'm done with my real job for the day, driving all the way to the strip and back, dealing with traffic and the long walks from parking garages to the poker room seems like a hassle when I can drive 5 minutes to Red Rock and park right next to the poker room and already have reads on every reg that plays there. Believe what you want, the RR 2/5 game is awful 90% of the time.
1. You don't want to drive extra 15 minutes to play a wide selection of 2/5 because you rather play the same 1/2 regs that you know.
You claimed that you won $59k in 1/2:
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Made a little over $59k in 2013, mostly at 1/2. December was pretty up and down, had my biggest downswing of the year, then got it all back and more last week of the year. 2014 off to a good start with a $656 win last night.
You know a handful of players crushing the same game:
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A $1/2 game with $300 max BI and $4-5 rake should be beatable for 15bb/hour by a good player. I know at least a handful of friends winning more than that.
Red Rock, a casino in Vegas off the strip, multiple big winners are crushing a small pool of 3 to 5 1/2 games with the same regulars day in and day out.
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2. You don't want to play 2/5 in Red Rock because there are 3-4 tough pros.
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Originally Posted by wj94
Probably, but the $2/5 game at my local casino is usually horrible with 3-4 solid LAGs that play for a living, 3-4 super nits, and the occasional fish. In the $1/2 game everyone sucks, so it's like going to the ATM with no variance. Life expenses also make $2/5 downswings suck a lot more.
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Yes there are 3-4 very solid players that are in the 2/5 game there almost every day. Mostly play at red rock. Anyone who plays there should know who they are. One has $1M+ tourney cashes, they're all rolled for and play 5/T, and are all very good at playing deep and putting you in tough spots. None of that happens at 1/2. There's actually at least 5 now that I think about it. The "icebox" from Matt Moores Another Kid Another Dream post has also been playing there regularly past few weeks. Heard she never folds and plays super aggro but I'm sure there's a method to her madness.
They're well-rolled for 5/T, one of them has 1mil+ in tourney cashes, and yet they choose to be regulars in a small casino playing 2/5 amongst each other, not to mention the sharks in 1/2 that are crushing the game for 15bb+/hr.
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3. You play for fun, and poker is not your main source of income.
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Originally Posted by wj94
I just play for fun, not as my main source of income.
You claimed that you won 59k last year:
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Originally Posted by wj94
Made a little over $59k in 2013, mostly at 1/2. December was pretty up and down, had my biggest downswing of the year, then got it all back and more last week of the year. 2014 off to a good start with a $656 win last night.
And yet, your poker income on top of your main income is still not enough to cover both your life expenses and downswings in 2/5:
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Originally Posted by wj94
Probably, but the $2/5 game at my local casino is usually horrible with 3-4 solid LAGs that play for a living, 3-4 super nits, and the occasional fish. In the $1/2 game everyone sucks, so it's like going to the ATM with no variance. Life expenses also make $2/5 downswings suck a lot more.