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Originally Posted by DeadMoneyWalking
Did you play 10/20 LHE at the TAJ? I played it on a couple weekends in 2007. I can see why you became bankroll cautious, it was actually $50 just to see the flop.
Yes, I used to play 10/20 LHE & 10/20 7-Stud at the TAJ and Borgata. For the few years after and the Moneymaker miracle and before the brief shutdown of AC, NJ casinos, the games were quite juicy, albeit a little wild - especially on the weekends when all the tourists would flock down and just donk off racks on racks.
I had just gone back to work after the dot com bubble burst, so I wasn't playing as a full-time pro, but still tried to play it pretty close to the vest so as not to just donk off my own BR. As the old saying goes, if the table has gone loose, then you should tighten up.
I would play fewer hands, continue to the river less often, but if I got to showdown, I generally had the goods.
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Originally Posted by squid face
you are saying u have a 30k roll for 1/3?
As mentioned above, in the LHE world it is/was recommended to have a 1000 big bet BR + 3 months of living expenses set aside. So if you said, at the 10/20 level that you needed $20K to cover 1000 big bets and ~$3k/month to cover living expenses (rent/mortgage, utilities, car payments & insurance, food, etc.) along with maybe having ~$1k set aside for unexpected emergencies*, then $30k is not really that far out of the question.
My total funds is a pool from which all poker and poker-related activities are paid, i.e. not only session buy-ins but things like personal recreational (non-work related) trips to Vegas for a weekend to hang out with friends as per agreement with the wife regarding not using earned salaries to contribute/support poker BR.
It is also the source from which I paid for some online training materials, e.g. UpSwing's poker lab, which has yielded a good ROI as I went from being around break-even (OK, probably small loser) in 1/2 and 1/3 to now showing a more consistent, albeit modest win rate in these games.
* Not to digress too much into the financial lives of today's average American household, but since a majority are living paycheck-to-paycheck, most would be hard pressed to cover an unexpected $500 or $1000 expense or emergency.
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Originally Posted by feel wrath
aren’t you the same guy that tipped $60 in a hand history I just read? Great that you’re so generous but really tough to contemplate a 5-7bb an hour winner tipping like that while attempting to build a roll to move up in steaks
Yes, but like I said ~$50 was a result of being paid out an additional $532 from a promotional side jackpot (PSJ) for the straight flush - 5-10% toke for the dealer isn't uncommon relative to PSJs (yes, I am aware of the whole notion that since players are the ones funding PSJs, winning them is really only being rebated a portion of that money already paid, i.e. rake-back in another format - but that's a whole other thread I suppose). ~$10 was for the actual $1200 pot from table stakes of all players in the hand.
Even $10, while still less than 1% is/was a bit 'extravagant' when I normally toss the dealer a single or a couple $1 chips for more 'average'-sized pots won.
Moving up in
stakes (not
steaks*, like the dinner meal) from 1/3 to 2/5, isn't my immediate priority. Increasing hourly win rate at 1/3 is more my current focus, but doing so without external bankroll pressure/demands.
* I know it seems pedantic
Last edited by sam7595; 06-02-2021 at 01:38 PM.