Been away from the game for 12 years, are low stakes casino games still the same?
Hello everyone
so basically life gets in the way , and I haven't played for 12+years (I know it sounds insane but it is t
I recognize the screen name from way back in the day when you posted hands fairly regularly.In my experience playing live, the passage of time isn’t always as important as location. I moved a few times in the last 12 years and I found game quality varied quite a bit when I moved—some better, some worse. So I’d hesitate to comment as I’m not in your location.Also, Garick—there v
Oh my god it's great to see you again Vernon. You have always been a valuable contributor to this forum.
So I played a few hours at the 0.5/1e game and it was a total nitfest. It was so bad that half of the table were old Greek nits, and out of the other half 3 kids were actually watching poker videos while playing. Almost everyone were tight. And most of these people were short-stacked.
It was far worse than any games I had played back then. In the end I won some tiny pots and cashed out about even at the end.
I will check out the 2-5 game later and hopefully the game would be better.
Rake is always an issue but it should be beatable. The rake has increased for me from $7 to $8 but my winrate has not suffered.
Just learn the correct starting hands to play in each position and 3b ranges - and you should have a major edge over any low stakes player.
One thing i've noticed a lot of low stakes players do is open 4 - 5x preflop which is just crazy bad. If they limp a lot and all of a sudden open $20 in a 1/3 or $30 in a 2/5 game they have a pretty big hand so I have avoided a lot of coolers/going broke by just flatting with hands like JJ or QQ vs that sizing. The amount of times they had KK+ and I only lose like $100 or less with QQ is quite astonishing. A lot of poor low stakes players will pretty much tell you what they have if you pay attention.
