B&M Hourly rates for $2/$5 NLHE

[Pokrok]

I deal in Colorado. State law is five dollar max bet. My casino spreads games of 2/5 Hold Em, 5/5 Hold Em, 3/5 Omaha Hi/Lo and 1/5;2/5 7 Card Stud.

Cory

[ACPlayer]

Is this based on actual meticulous record keeping?

If so over how many hours?

[goofball]

i agree. every mick who wants to come play "allin poker" sits down at the bellagio 2/5 NL. It could be the most consistently soft game in town.

[mosch]

Yes.

Enough.

I'm not going to engage in a winate accuracy dick-swinging contest. I've been playing for long enough to understand the difference between a sustainable winrate and a heater. $40/hr is completely feasible in a good game.

[ACPlayer]

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[dogmeat]

I agree. The Bellagio $2/$5 NL is free money. $25-$50 per hour, depending on the number of WPT watchers at the table. IMHO, due to my rather lackluster accomplishments at the limit $15/$30 (>$30 hour), it is an easy decision to play the NL game, especially with a much lower variance and BR requirement.

In the long run, it is tough thinking that I need to get to $30/$60 AND improve to equal the $2/$5 NL or just a couple tables of multi-table online. MMMMMMMMM [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

Dogmeat [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

[MLerra]

I'd imagine that $40/hour is reasonable at the $2/5 tables. In Vegas, I averaged $35/hour at the $1/2 tables. This was over 34 hours in one week. I would estimate I got lucky, and a reasonable winrate expectancy would be around $25/hour.

For those interested, I took pretty meticulous notes after each session. All in all, I had AA only once, but was able to get two people all-in on the flop and not get outdrawn. My other big hands were one four of a kind (for which I received a bonus $25 on the wheel at Excalibur), one straight, one A-high flush, three pocket-overpair hands, two top-two pair hands, and one bottom-two pair hand. The rest were unnoteworthy hands of one pair or less, in which I won or lost a small pot.

Again, I was quite lucky in that I was only outdrawn one time - my two pair against flush draw all-in on the flop. I made around $1200 over this time, though I could have reasonably expected less had I got outdrawn as often as I should have... I'd estimate I'd have made $900 instead, which comes out to around $26/hour.

Though this was my first time playing in a casino, I did learn to practice some prudent table selection towards the end of my trip. And I NEVER played while under the influence.

So given a wholehearted attempt, if people say the $2/5 games average $25-50/hour... I'll likely stay at the lower limits. For one thing, people exaggerate, and if they say $25-50, they mean $10-30. I'd much rather play for $25/hour than $30/hour with the possible swings of $2/5 being $500 or more. The people, I'd imagine, are more fun too at the lower levels.