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Originally Posted by PointlessWords
Game selection is great when you don’t have good strategy. If you need to game select at 1/3 or 2/5 you suck.
You speak as if you live down the street from a cardroom with hundreds of mouth-breathing bad regs who have their wallet open, begging you take their money. Maybe this is true, I played a bunch at the Commerce back when I lived in SoCal, so you may very well have that luxury.
I'll chill with the sarcasm. Sorry
Game selection
is the strategy, for me, at least.
I have 1/3 and 2/5 games running about an hour away. Against these specific sets of players, it is not worth it to drive 2 hours round trip, accrue 150 miles of wear and tear on my car at the IRS suggested rate of .60 a mile for maintenance costs, pay X for gas, pay X for tolls, pay X for valet parking (I'm injured), just so I can sit down and make on average, what? $20-$30 an hour?
Years ago, I was in Denver but ended up spending the entire weekend in Black Hawk. It was clear within about 30 seconds of sitting at my first table that I was the only sober one there... and it was like this all weekend, everyone was drunk and stoned and I turned $200 into $3,000 quite literally by nut peddling. Had these games been a bit tougher, I would have probably went hiking, or actually went outside and enjoyed some fresh Colorado air, which is a win in itself. I only drove out there to check out the games and go on the trail, but the games were soo good, I ended up playing poker all weekend.
Contrast that with my local cardroom which, no offense, is a bunch of OMC promo grinders who sit around and literally talk poker strategy to each other. They aren't bad players, and these games aren't hard.. they are just boring AF and not worth my time and the games constantly break and the games are super slow, etc etc. More than one way to look at game selection.
I'd love to go back to Denver and hopefully be the only sober guy at the table again, but that was probably me just getting super lucky.