Poker at AC i.e 5/10

[macdaddy991]

I posted a couple months ago asking what the skill level for 5/10 in AC was like. The more creative answers included them being slightly more skilled then bowling balls, that it is not that much different then a 2/4 or 3/6 game. I have not ventured to 5/10, but I may tomorrow night. My buy in plan is 250 (25 BB's)
I have been on the quest to play 20,000 hands at .50/1$ on party, and have been doing this through the semsster. My PT numbers are as follows:

Hands: 14,890
VP$IP 18.06
PFR 7.89%
Agression 2.76
BB/100 3.18
W$SF: 34.6
WSD 34.41
W$SD 52.4

I don't know if this question can be answered, but are these numbers an indication of how I will fare at 5/10?

[wilsonkop]

you'll be fine but you should play the 6-12 at the Borg. Taj spreads 5-10.

[poker327]

The 5/10 at the Taj is known to be a rock garden. Play 6/12 at the Borgata.

[deathtoau]

By whom? I have never found a bad 5/10 game at the Taj in all my time playing there.

[miajag81]

Me either. It is more loose-aggressive in my experience; the 6/12 at Borgata more loose-passive.

[Swampy]

Same here. I cut my teeth on the 5-10 at the Taj and it's never been tight. Is the Borg 6-12 that much softer?

[TomBrooks]

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you'll be fine but you should play the 6-12 at the Borg. Taj spreads 5-10.

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I'm trying to wrap my mind around this. (I've just played Party .5/1 and never live.) Someone who is a proven winner at Party .5/1 will be fine playing in a $5/$10 or $6/12 live game? You woudn't say that mastering Party 1/2 is a minimum prerequisite? How many people see the flop on average at these 5/10 and 6/12 games?

[edtost]

while i've never played below 2/4 on party, the borg 6/12 is donktastic.

[MisterKing]

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I posted a couple months ago asking what the skill level for 5/10 in AC was like. The more creative answers included them being slightly more skilled then bowling balls, that it is not that much different then a 2/4 or 3/6 game. I have not ventured to 5/10, but I may tomorrow night. My buy in plan is 250 (25 BB's)
I have been on the quest to play 20,000 hands at .50/1$ on party, and have been doing this through the semsster. My PT numbers are as follows:

Hands: 14,890
VP$IP 18.06
PFR 7.89%
Agression 2.76
BB/100 3.18
W$SF: 34.6
WSD 34.41
W$SD 52.4

I don't know if this question can be answered, but are these numbers an indication of how I will fare at 5/10?

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This is a good question, and I'm sure there are lots of other people out there wondering the same thing. While your numbers at .50/1 look solid (even better if you can sustain them over 30-40K hands!), I want to sound a note of caution about dollar swings that can happen in either the 5/10 or 6/12. As someone who normally plays 2/4 and 3/6 (with some 5/10) online, I still found some of the dollar swings I took at the live 6/12 game to be a little jarring. Note that I was *never* concerned about having enough skill to destroy these games... that wasn't the consideration. Rather, it was that I'd just played 4 orbits of tight, decent poker and dropped $170. Variance... no big deal, and I've got the bankroll to handle this fine, but it will be all the more jarring when you jump from .50/1. The stakes are 12x as high. So just be ready for that.

Skill-wise, the 6/12 at Borgata plays a lot like 1/2 on Pary... sometimes 2/4. The 10/20 at Borg isn't much harder... in fact some say its softer on the weekends. I'd advise against the Taj 5/10, as others have. I've played it twice, and both times it was so effing rock-tastic that the blinds would chop consistently. Very few multiway pots, and just pure nut-peddling bullcrap. Maybe some profit to be had, but not NEARLY as much as the Borg's 6/12.

Other advice: buy at least two stacks of white to go with your red for the 6/12. I can't even say how awful it is to have people wanting to make change on EVERY BET. The 6/12 is probably the slowest live game I've ever played for that reason, and personally I buy equal amounts of red and white to make candy cane stacks of alternating red/white for this game. Its a bitch to deal with when I go to the NL games, but still worth it.

[Jeffage]

If they used all $2 chips for that game (ala CA), the game would move faster, they'd rake alot more, and the action would be EVEN better than it already is. Talk about shortsighted.

Jeff