cut out a few hundred you plan on losing and just concentrate on bleeding away the chips over a few hours or however long it takes to woo this young lady.

Yeah why?

Obviously. But statistically speaking, overall, if all players are of the same level, this is correct. In practice there is usually more then 1 winner at a FR table (though at a raked game this is less probable as now if everyone plays at the same level potentially everyone can loose) and the level of players is practically never identical.

Just to be clear, this was merely said to make a point.

Walk in and demand to know what the max buy in is. When they tell you, demand that they raise the stakes to 10/20 or you wont play. They will refuse and then you look cool.

Hold on, you don't even know what city the game is in? When you talk to the girl on the phone you can't tell what she's saying? Something smells really odd here.


That said, you've only been playing for a month and are playing penny stakes online? You're going to get crushed. You need to have enough for at least three buy-ins so you should plan on walking in with at least a thousand dollars, although 1500 would be better. So you need to be comfortable dropping that amount of money. Are you?

Also, if you've only played online, you're going to look like a newb when you show up. You just are. It takes a few sessions to get used to the nuances of live play.

You need to try and find a comfortable, tiny stakes game, preferrably with some friends. 10 cent/20 cent blind levels or maybe .25/.50 where you aren't talking about more than a hundred bucks or so at risk, and get comfortable playing live. Or maybe some small buy in tourneys.

Eh, some of us live in major metropolitan areas, where two people can be "local" to a central location but still 90 miles apart separated by dozens of cities and towns.

Ok. The tone of the whole thing was striking me as odd, which was leading me to suspect some sort of level, but maybe its just the whole "I'm a super-inexperienced penny stakes player, thinking about playing in a 500 dollar buy-in game in order to be cool" thing sounds perilously close to a level to me to start with. Although, of course, there is a chick involved and all caculations of reasonableness therefore go out the window.

So, yeah, I'll give the guy the benefit of the doubt and a serious answer (i.e. yes you'll be throwing your money away to play in this game), but I read the following, and go, c'mon are you at all serious?

Fixed.

I cant believe he plays .05/.10 LIMIT

I would rather shoot myself


More to the point, why is everyone assuming this guy is going to get crushed? With the amount of variance in a standard NL cash game he's not destined to win or lose. Just cram using the great NL strat posts on this forum and play some NL on stars to get acclimated

Because I don't believe a player can go from being pretty much a complete newb to even competently bad at NL in a few days, particularly without a coach, and at stakes that are going to be very large for such player.

Is it possible that he could pick up some strategy like buy in short, wait for AA-QQ or A-K and push PF, and possibly come out ok? Yeah, but not too likely either that he'd come to such a strategy or be able to stick with it, and even then, he may not win.

And it is, of course, possible that he gets hit so hard with the deck that he can't help but win.

But the much more likely scenario is that he gets crushed.

Also, I remember my first live session. Free bar tourney. Nothing to win but some points. And I couldn't keep track of the action and my hands shook everytime I got involved in a pot. And I'd played over a hundred thousand hands online at the time.

*Shrugs* That said, I'd like to hear the trip report. Maybe he'll prove me wrong.

I have to admit that I too think this is a level based on some of your phrasings but I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt. Now you need to provide us with pics of you at this game and your hot 'lil asian cutie.

I'm assuming that you are going to ride with her since you don't have a car? So no matter what happens to your stack you'll still be leaving with her. OK, so here's what you do. Play super-nit tight (as posted about earlier) and with the game winding down make sure to donk off as much as you can to her. Hopefully she'll feel so bad about taking all your money that she'll throw you a bone in her Mercedes. It wouldn't hurt to make sure she is drinking.

GL. And remember...pics or it didn't happen. lol

[ ] happened, ever

LOL this is the funniest thread I've read in a LONG time

Pics or it didn't happen.

sTRIP POKER FTW

It seriously sounds to me like she already knows OP is a sucker and is manipulating him to bring dead money to the home game.

bonita isn't really an Asian name, imo

Are u sure she's not a Mexican?

What are you getting yourself into?

[ ] her pants

But seriously, just go and give it a shot. Be aggressive with premium hands and try to play the opposite style of the others around you (i.e., if they're tight, play loose, if they're loose play tight), since that's probably your best chance to win in a game where you think you're otherwise overmatched.

Because Asian people always have asian names?

Some Asian girls I know:
Elizabeth
Grace
Lily
Jane
Crystal

*waits*

(Hot) Girls like to **** winners. people that are good at things. Watching you play bad poker is not going to get her hot. If you managed to pull off some pity/loser **** it would be a miracle and probably means she wasn't worth chasing in the first place.


more good advice, make sure your ride home is drinking. also, make sure she is drinking or she probably won't **** you. that's the kind of confident thinking that will pull many quality women.

This thread wins

wow man just ask her out, or get lessons quick

Laotian

I'm not gonna do it. sry to disappoint.