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Originally Posted by Tom Dwans Son
Thanks for the information.
I like to valuate all of my future earnings and use that to set attainable targets for the future. Given that, i would also like to know about 5/10. My vision for it is that there are like 8 pros , all frothing at the mouth waiting for the whale to sit down. These guys are the best of the best in Oklahoma...Oklahoma's version of the Big Game (Oklahoma Dolly, Barry, Antonious, Benyamine, Giang, Harman, Seed, and Oppenheim) all waiting to take my moneys. Is this a fair assessment of 5/10 at Winstar? Is it the pinnacle of poker there?
I *used* to play 5/10 a couple of weekends a month, then only once in a while, before I stepped down to 2/5 due to bankroll issues and me only being an average player. My experience was nothing like you are envisioning.
It has been a couple of years since my 5/10 days, but at that time, there were always 2-3 5/10 tables on Sat and Sun afternoons. The first one was the main table and the other 2 were "must move". So, think of it as a Sat or Sun with 20 (if really busy 30) folks playing 5/10, and a waiting list, working their way to the main table. Many more people busted out than made it to the main table by late evening. And after several hours, the 1st must move had become the 2nd main table because people were not cycling through quickly.
Yes, there were a handful of solid regulars that always made a profit every single weekend that I played. However, there were also the regulars that did ok, and some regulars (like me) that were winners one week and a loosers the next, but there were FAR more people cycling through and donating to the rest of us.
Like I said before, this experience was like 2 years ago and things are surely somewhat different now. When I go up to play 2/5 (pretty rarely this entire year) I still see a few of those solid regs. However, I don't recognize many of the faces. So, it could be a pretty different dynamic these days than what I have described.
Maybe if you go play, you can post about your experience / assessment about how things are now. Either way, good luck.