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Originally Posted by jdoury
6 bb per hour is decent; you arae beating the game. Move up in stakes if you want a higher hourly. 1-2 is very difficult to beat because the rake is such a hi percentage of the pots, relative to higher stakes.
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The poker club hours are rake free. games play shallow (50bb) and generally only go for 4 hours a night. SINGLE TABLE ONLY so you either play or go home no game selection.
The casino has a 4+1 drop, 1-2 tables of 1-3 on the weekend, games are generally shallow and tight passive. All games are dead during the week. Sometimes the games are really good
The big poker gamblers come to almost exclusively play the 5-10 no cap on fridays and saturdays. So when they show up a good 2-5 game will run for 3-4 hours while they wait for the 5-10 to start. If they don't play the game turns into a nit fest with even shorter stacks. Nobody plays deep stacks @ 2/5. Almost everyone loves leaving after they have over 200bb's. Sometimes the 2-5 will have 2 tables and the games will run for 12+ hours but its not every weekend. When that does happen, it completely kills the next days action. I ****ing hate it. Where is poker in Oregon?
For example, yesterday I drove to casino (60 minutes), played 2 hours @ 1-3 while waiting for 2-5. 1-3 game was too shallow (6 players, 3 had less than $70,) and it looked like it was about to break so I got up. I waited for another 2 hours waiting to get on the 2-5 which actually looked good. I didn't recognize 4 players out of the line up and they had 80bb stacks. so good. I get on, and the game ****ing breaks down. 2 guys double through and leave, a reg leaves, and the game turns into another short, tight shallow game with no list.
It costs me $10-15 gas each trip wherever I go. Combined with shallow stacks, not enough hours and lots of travel time (30-60 minutes one way) its frustrating as hell. My timing has to be absolutely perfect in order to make money. In my limited experience, finding a good game in Oregon is hard. Simply waiting around and refusing to play in bad games, and burning up my time and money on travel and gas seems like a bad way to go. Especially when I could be pumping gas for ~$9 and not have to spend it on travel and waiting time.