baronzeus
07-11-2005, 11:58 PM
I walk into the casino today and look around for a bit. The information desk dude says "Poker?" I nod, and he points to my right. I walk over, look over the limits, and decide on 6/12 for my first day.
I have the dude take my name down on a fairly long (15 or so names before me) list and I sit down at a chair. The whole place looks pretty nice from what I can see and the food court area looked like it had decent food.
After about 15 minutes of waiting, I decided to cash in for some chips. At first I was going to buy in for 300, but settled for 150 because I didn't want to withdraw any money from the ATM. I asked for all $3 chips, thinking that the blind structure was $3/$6.
Finally, after the wait, my table was ready. I sat down, and posted from the CO almost immediately. The very first hand there was only 1 limper, me, and the 2 blinds.
This was NOT a trend that would continue. From then on, the game played like Party 0.5/1 only slightly worse preflop and slightly better postflop (VERY slightly better).
At least 3 people at the table were drunk, and one dude was playing super tight because his aces got cracked by some fish who called down with J5o.
Overall there were about 5-6 players per flop, with almost every pot being raised preflop. I didn't even get a hand worth raising preflop.
Overall, I made a killing. I flopped 2 pair on a small pot for my first big blind and some guy called me with pocket 8s the whole way, with 3 overs on the board. Some dude capped 2 streets with me when I flopped top 2 pair again, and when I capped the turn, he looked at me and said "two pair eh? I have to see it". There was one hand where I had AQs and had to chop my TP when the board boated on the river, which cost me about 8 BBs /images/graemlins/frown.gif
the service was good overall and the dealers were great, save the last one who refused to pay attention to the game while baseball was on TV. The rake wasn't too bad, and the people were overall friendly and ridiculously fishy. I ended up about 20BBs in 1.5 hours, while playing only 7 or 8 hands the whole time.
Nobody at the table (except me) would fold for $6 on the flop. Almost nobody would fold on the turn. People limped in with hands like 34o on the CO in raised pots. This is NOT a joke. The overlay I had was huge, and there was MAYBE 1 decent player at the table.
Just out of curiosity for all you regulars out there, what limits do you find to be more profitable? I know I can easily beat that game for 3BB/100 +++ even with the rake and tip--it's literally worse than 0.5/1.0 at party.
Also, how are the tournaments? I'm considering playing in some of them but I'm not 21 and I have an ID but I'm not sure if it scans. I'm glad they didn't stop me today.
If you have any thoughts let me know.
EDIT: How are the NL games? More or less profitable?
I have the dude take my name down on a fairly long (15 or so names before me) list and I sit down at a chair. The whole place looks pretty nice from what I can see and the food court area looked like it had decent food.
After about 15 minutes of waiting, I decided to cash in for some chips. At first I was going to buy in for 300, but settled for 150 because I didn't want to withdraw any money from the ATM. I asked for all $3 chips, thinking that the blind structure was $3/$6.
Finally, after the wait, my table was ready. I sat down, and posted from the CO almost immediately. The very first hand there was only 1 limper, me, and the 2 blinds.
This was NOT a trend that would continue. From then on, the game played like Party 0.5/1 only slightly worse preflop and slightly better postflop (VERY slightly better).
At least 3 people at the table were drunk, and one dude was playing super tight because his aces got cracked by some fish who called down with J5o.
Overall there were about 5-6 players per flop, with almost every pot being raised preflop. I didn't even get a hand worth raising preflop.
Overall, I made a killing. I flopped 2 pair on a small pot for my first big blind and some guy called me with pocket 8s the whole way, with 3 overs on the board. Some dude capped 2 streets with me when I flopped top 2 pair again, and when I capped the turn, he looked at me and said "two pair eh? I have to see it". There was one hand where I had AQs and had to chop my TP when the board boated on the river, which cost me about 8 BBs /images/graemlins/frown.gif
the service was good overall and the dealers were great, save the last one who refused to pay attention to the game while baseball was on TV. The rake wasn't too bad, and the people were overall friendly and ridiculously fishy. I ended up about 20BBs in 1.5 hours, while playing only 7 or 8 hands the whole time.
Nobody at the table (except me) would fold for $6 on the flop. Almost nobody would fold on the turn. People limped in with hands like 34o on the CO in raised pots. This is NOT a joke. The overlay I had was huge, and there was MAYBE 1 decent player at the table.
Just out of curiosity for all you regulars out there, what limits do you find to be more profitable? I know I can easily beat that game for 3BB/100 +++ even with the rake and tip--it's literally worse than 0.5/1.0 at party.
Also, how are the tournaments? I'm considering playing in some of them but I'm not 21 and I have an ID but I'm not sure if it scans. I'm glad they didn't stop me today.
If you have any thoughts let me know.
EDIT: How are the NL games? More or less profitable?