Joined: 28 Dec 2003 Posts: 290 Location: Mississippi
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:08 am Post subject: broad question and seeking advice re current state of poker
I posted regularly on this board years ago. I appollogize for spelling in advance
Due to family and business commitments I've played virtually no poker for the last 2+ years. Other than a few home games where they insisted on playing no-limit with predictable train wrecks for most players. Didn't take the losers long to figure out they were getting outplayed.
I am now sticking my toe back in the water and the games look totally different.
At on-line, limit, NL or SNG (all low limits) I have gone from being one of the best 2-3 at the table to the bottom 2-3. And there seems to be no really bad players like back in the day. At a turbo SNG everyone seems to be playing the same style and it turns into a luck box in the late rounds.
Limit games seem funner, but harder to come by, especially in casinos unless you want to play 2-4. I played some 4-8 in Tunica and the overall play was bad, but my game was off with stuff like missing a value bet on the river and later betting the losing hand on the river. It also struck me how much the rake and tips suck off the table over time. Has play overall evened out so much that any edge most players have gets eaten by the rake?
Are my general observations correct? Have yesterday's marginal players become today's fish? Assuming that I don't have the time or desire to put 20 hours a week into poker, should I let it go? Or play in MTT's and hope to get lucky?
I'm heading to Vegas next month and want to play some fun games if there. Any reccomendations? NL at certain casino? play the Caesar's tourneys? It looks like the casinos spread mostly no limit with a few 2-4, 3-6 tables for gooffing around in? So you almost have to play no limit? How are the players in Vegas cash games and medium ($500) buy in tourneys?
The play at Vegas casinos is horrendous. You should be able to crush the $1/$2 NL tables and do well at $2/$5 NL, as well as the mid-stakes limit games.
The online games have improved a lot. To win, you need to study consistently and have natural skill. The limit games up to maybe $1/$2 are still pretty soft.
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