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I recently went to Vegas and was playing poker with the blinds at 2 4. Is it same to assume that these blinds are small enough to guarantee that the your not playing against pro's. |
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$2-$4 exists for the sole purpose of allowing people to play some poker with little risk. The game is unbeatable with a $3 cap plus $1 jackpot drop. (Boyd Gaming casinos have a $3 rake cap.) There are going to be few "pros" even at the $4-$8 Limit games. A solid "pro" win rate in this game would likely be around 2.5 BB/hr because even though the rake is beatable, it's still high. $20 an hour isn't enough to keep a pro happy when an $8/$16 or $15/$30 game can produce much more money with less rake being paid and still plenty of weak players. You really shouldn't worry about "pros". There are plenty of solid players who are not professionals. Early on your focus should be to learn and have fun. The gap between a bad player and a steady break even player is far great than the gap between a break even player and a pro. That small gap is the hardest part to master. Just have fun. What makes you say that this game is unbeatable? The last time I had heard that was from a guy talking the $4-8 limit game at Caesars Indiana. The rake was capped at $6 (much higher than this other game you are speaking of), but there was so much loose money being thrown around that this seems unlikely, at best. Turns out this guy had a lot of crackpot ideas. Rolf Slotboom, a writer for Cardplayer and part of the Dutch Poker Police speaks often of $1-2 PLO games out in Europe with a $20 cap (!) and yet says no such thing.
(Nov 17 '09 at 03:15)
Short Stack Hero
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