[marchron]

Before I ever played a nickel's worth of poker online, my only experience with limit Hold'em was at a $5/$10 table on a casino boat outside of Chicago.

I got eaten alive.

I'd never played limit before, and the subtle differences between no-limit tournaments and limit ring games were lost on me. But thanks to experience, Small Stakes Hold'em, and you goobers here (I mean that in the nicest way), I'm confident enough to march back in there and get my money back and then some.

I'd still like to know more about what I'm jumping into, though, before I take an amount of money roughly equivalent to every penny I've scratched out at .50/1 these past few months and put it on the line at a table with stakes ten times that high.

Obviously, if any of you have specific advice for the games on the NW Indiana casino boats, that'd be great. If not, here's the situation:

—So far as I know, these boats are the only place available to play actual casino poker within at least 75 miles.

—5/10 is the smallest game they spread. If I remember correctly, the house rake is $3 with a $1 jackpot drop.

—The last time I was there, a couple people were at the table who were waiting for a seat at a 10/20 game to open up.

—I am a borderline maniac at .50/1. PT has me as a SLAA, but that's after a limited sample size. I steal a lot of blinds and try to swipe a lot of pots that look to be uncontested. I usually finish sessions with a winrate of between 3 and 5 BB/100, but occasionally I'll drop a whole buy-in if the cards don't fall.


So, how should I adjust my strategy? Should I follow the SSHE requirements down to the letter? Or even tighter, just nut-peddling? Or can my aggressive online game win there?

Or should I wait until I can beat, say, 1/2 regularly before I take a shot at these guys?