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Originally Posted by Lucy's Fur
Yes; it's roughly what I'm willing to bet.
I have an All In Leak; and I'm trying to temper my bet sizing by including it. It's rough estimate to keep ME in line and help close the leak.
It's absolutely stupid; but it keeps me in line, and it's proven to be useful for me personally. It's reduced my loss and in turn increased my gain.
I still need to go play live; because online doesn't tell me what I can do live. I'll be going this weekend, I think Saturday, but it's a 5 hour round trip drive. Probably play an hour or two, then I'll leave. If I win; I'll analyze why I won. If I lose; I'll analyze why I lost.
My range is going to be based on these charts; but keep in mind, It's not 1:1. The color pattern is which way I lean, but I also fold a lot of those call hands when out of position or the raise doesn't make sense for me.
I have a few comments about this.
1) The absolute dollar amount shouldn't really figure into your decision. The action and the stack sizes are much more important. Calling a raise to $20 and a 3-bet to $50, not closing the action, with an effective stack of $200 is much different from raising, and calling a 3-bet to $50, closing the action, with a stack of $1000.
2) These charts are way too loose. You have way too many completely junk hands (J2 off, weak offsuit aces, marginal suited cards) that you are willing to limp with, or call raises with - that can only get you in trouble if you happen to connect.
3) I can't even imagine what you will get out of your live trip. You will drive 5 hours to play maybe 50 hands. If you VPIP in 25% of them, that means you are really only involved in a dozen hands. Most likely, if you win it is because you got lucky, and if you lose it is because you didn't. This is a big reason why a lot of people play online - in the time it takes you to drive there and back, they can play 400 hands - and a lot more if they are multitabling.
If you do this, have fun, and enjoy the experience. I personally wouldn't drive that far to play poker, but if I did, I would certainly plan on playing longer.
What stakes have you played online? The only other post I've seen from you was about play money games - so I don't know what real stakes you have played, and how they compare to $2/$5. Good luck to you.