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Old 01-10-2005, 12:27 PM
IsaacW IsaacW is offline
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Default Re: What is a good/bad session at a B&M????

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Most recent was +62BB in six hours at Turning Stone 3/6.

I find 3/6, 4/8, and 5/10 casino games very easy to beat, much more so than on line. The truth is that I've never had a negative session at B&M playing limit HE. Maybe I've just been lucky to get involved in incredibly soft games.

NLHE is another story. I don't stink at it but I can't seem to make the profit that I make at the limit tables. I may not be able to deal with the swings as well.

I haven't really considered moving up to 10/20 or above.

A while back I posted a question in a similar thread and got no responses so I'll do it again. I've continually read about how making 1-2BB/hour is considered an appropriate win rate. My B&M experience with so many bad players indicates that such an estimate is far too low. By way of example, if I played with my 12 year old son and his friends, I should win far more than 2BB/hour. So the question is - What is a decent win rate at lower limit B&M in the current poker climate?

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The online games play tougher than the B&M games at equal limits. $2/4 at Party is way tougher than $2/4 at Foxwoods.

A good B&M dealer will get in about 20 hands in a half-hour sitting if your table is not acting too slowly. At 40 hands an hour, 2 BB/hour is 5BB/100. That is about what might be sustainable for an excellent player at micro-limits online (say 50c/$1 at Party). 1 BB/hour is of course 2.5 BB/100, and this is the winrate of a decent player at the micro-limits online.

Therefore, I am not inclined to think that a winrate above 2 BB/hour is sustainable in a B&M environment, because of the slow rate of play.
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