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Oh, and here is how to read your opponents at low limits. 95% of the time they call they have a crappy hand and are hoping you are bluffing or they'll hit miracle runner runner by the river. The other 5% of the time they are slow playing their "monster", top pair decent kicker or bottom two pair.

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NH sir.

Basically, low limits in Los Angeles are beat by creating volume. You are not looking for soft games. You are looking for games with 7-8 loose players(ie most weekend low limit games at Commerce), who will call with hands that have zero or next to zero chance to win. In that manner, you may only have the 2nd or 3rd best hand to start, but even those will show a profit because so many others are playing so loose. And in the situations where you do have the best hand, you can raise freely, there by creating huge volume. You do not need to put opponents on hands as often since the pots will be so huge that you *have* to call with a very wide range of holdings.

The reasons pros eschew these games is that #1.) The amount you win....even if you make 1.5-2 BB per hour, is not that much, #2.) The variance is huge.