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ranma187
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Silver Level
There's a reason why lots of people complain about the lowest live stake: you either have total nits or super aggro and loose passive players. Time and time again you can sit their all day and see bad players rake in a fortune and lose it all a hand later.
One anonymous author of the book "confessions of a poker pigeon" argues that it's impossible to make any profit at no limit holdem, simply because at the low stakes... People call your raise on any street with anything and your equitable tight starting hands go down in equity with every extra caller. If you've ever sat down with Kings UTG and raised to 25 instead of your standard raise because you KNOW you'll get to many callers.... and have had 7 callers anyway (groan)... You know what I mean.
Back onto the topic: In calgary one lady who deals at a different casino goes to cowboys to play poker. She only buys in for $100 each time and jams any pair or draw inside and out on the flop or turn. she does this even when she's way past her 100 BBs mark. Every time I have made the trip to the city, I've seen her go down more than $1000 every time. And here I get depressed if I lose one buy in for 200!
I've seen an asian guy make 3 flushes in a row going crazy with every flush draw. Luckily I got my share from him from my TPTK hands.
The same day I saw a guy go all in preflop with every single suited hand. at the end of the day he was down at least 600.
The next morning I saw some kid call an all in preflop bet with a air of 3's because according to him: He hits hits set with 3's 80% of the time." sure enough, he hit his set and busted a guy holding some big broadway pair.
One anonymous author of the book "confessions of a poker pigeon" argues that it's impossible to make any profit at no limit holdem, simply because at the low stakes... People call your raise on any street with anything and your equitable tight starting hands go down in equity with every extra caller. If you've ever sat down with Kings UTG and raised to 25 instead of your standard raise because you KNOW you'll get to many callers.... and have had 7 callers anyway (groan)... You know what I mean.
Back onto the topic: In calgary one lady who deals at a different casino goes to cowboys to play poker. She only buys in for $100 each time and jams any pair or draw inside and out on the flop or turn. she does this even when she's way past her 100 BBs mark. Every time I have made the trip to the city, I've seen her go down more than $1000 every time. And here I get depressed if I lose one buy in for 200!
I've seen an asian guy make 3 flushes in a row going crazy with every flush draw. Luckily I got my share from him from my TPTK hands.
The same day I saw a guy go all in preflop with every single suited hand. at the end of the day he was down at least 600.
The next morning I saw some kid call an all in preflop bet with a air of 3's because according to him: He hits hits set with 3's 80% of the time." sure enough, he hit his set and busted a guy holding some big broadway pair.