I see you write this and then in another post give guys advice on how to play professional poker, what games to focus on, etc. What's "over" mean?

And how is there not a 10/20 game running anywhere in LA? There certainly seems to be everywhere else there are casinos, no? Perhaps it has something to do with everyone leaving the state but...I can't know for sure.

I wasn't aware that was still a viable grind.

(I recall a really favorable offering called "Flush Attack" years ago, which had a bank of machines which, upon some level of non-bonus play being logged, would go into a bonus mode. Grinders used to literally sit across from the banks of machines, waiting for the bonus period to start flashing.)

I thought Nevada casinos had caught on to that bonus-whoring practice and stopped offering it in whatever variation. Apparently, I was wrong.

What brands of machines still periodically offer a +EV play opportunity ? I might hire a few horses, as I like legal, passive income.

am worried my questions are going to be more standoffish than i intend them to be

would you cheat, purely hypothetically? if you were playing online do u consider using RTA to be amoral and wouldn't do it or is poker simply a vehicle to take money from the less prepared? what about using a mechanic at a home game? i guess im trying to determine where your boundaries are.

how many people do you think have made more than 500k playing poker in the last 5 years? am asking this because your thread leads me to believe you think the number is almost non existent in this era.

do you think public games would have longevity if regs were still as good as they are now but more social? (personally i think fish's loss rates in games with like 5+ regs in any reasonably sized game is just way too high at this point in time)

Mgm actually trespassed a bunch of people doing this a few weeks ago. Nuked all their comp cards as well.

I answer questions in the spirit they are asked, if someone asks, "how do i play AK?" my answer isn't "POKER IS OVER!!!".

there are some 10-20 in LA running privately but there is no daily fully public 10-20 game in LA that i k now of (someone said hollywood park has a game daily so maybe). There aren't FULLY PUBLIC 10-20nl games running "everywhere" daily in other places ( i just looked at wynn, bellagio, and aria and NONE had a 10-20nl game going) im sure games go sporadically. Poker is shrinking, period, and its not close, that is the answer. sorry about that??

No, I get that...and you're also talking strictly live. I will say this to you, though: Right now, the games are the softest I've ever seen them online. This whole notion that everyone got great and it's impossible to make any money is just some fallacy and I'm not even sure where it's coming from. There are massive, massive donators at all stakes. And some live venues (Texas) are set up with large stakes, deep stacks and antes. There seem to be some new variants coming about, too. I'm rambling now but I'm just saying the game is obviously much smaller than it once was but it's by no means on life support. Online for an American is infinitely better now than in like 2013. Infinitely. You couldn't even get money on and off sites easily back then lol.

Lol no. Just no.

I don't know how you can disagree with the entirety of that but w/e.

the only place games are softer than they were 10 years ago is private games. no point to derail the thread with this

Of course not. I apologize. I'm a much different person than I was back then and a much better player, too. I'm also experiencing my most growth currently, believe that or not. So, my vision is blurred.

read thread title.

limon, is beer pong and other drinking games for people who are not alcoholics? do you partake (without the purpose of keeping a fish happy, thus gaining something in return)?

1. no never. not even close. period. ive been offered great (and i mean great) cheating opportunities a half dozen times and declined. i have a spotless reputation over decades and have been involved in many millions of dollars in bets across all disciplines. i treat others as i would like to be treated.

2. hundreds maybe thousands of people have made 500k over 5 years. almost zero have averaged that PER YEAR playing poker. the real money comes from their endorsements and the casinos they run.

3. regs bieng moe social would be a big help. because being social also mean giving up small edges at times and being a "sport" and having respect for the man losing the money.

this is fine.

phil just texted me and told me hes working on it. hold tight comrade.

softer if you get "rake back" type deal. which means you are cheating with the host. what evs, it is what it is, buyer beware.

I dont drink out of cups with balls in them.

*******everyone should post any QUESTION they want on this thread and **** up mods should not destroy it. we will get 100k ACTIVE views in no time on this dead site and people will reopen their accounts (happening already) to be involved.********

"limon changes lives" - wayne chiang.

Yep every single word.

I was just looking over Bravo, and it seem possible that Commerce is spreading more mid- to high- stakes LHE games than all casinos in the rest of the country combined. Why do you think these games survived here while having died out almost everywhere else?

This is true. I talked about it earlier in this thread. It is a small semi-unknowns goldmine that is the remnants of a long lost era. The thing you can’t see is the average age is 65+. These games are literally, physically, dying.

I played 60/120 LHE today at the Commerce. Confirmed true.

Can you share some advice on beating live PLO games? I must be regarded because I can beat online 6max 1/2 but can't put together winning live sessions.

As someone who primarily plays 10/20 NL (and also 60/120 LHE) live, all I can say is..

the reports of their death in LA are greatly exaggerated lol!

I played $5/$10 and $10/$20 during a recent business trip in California and the games were better than $1/$3 at my local casino in New york.

It appears there's such an AP as 'progressive will hit by x' and they all scope out machines that are gonna hit by then. Also if people have left a machine at a certain stake where some of the bonus stuff is full up, but theyve gone busto and left the machine at that point. I follow some putz on TikTok who posts all these AP but it's all low stakes peanuts stakes and looks hardly worth the effort plus he's trying to sell you a sub to his Discord where he shares all the secrets lol.

There were about five machines that had bonus games that timed down or had a glitch that you could exploit based on the screen. Ocean Magic, Scarab, Alladin and a few others. Our casino took them all out within the last year. You weren't going to make much off any of them unless you could catch some higher denomination games and then you had to fight to get on them.