Live Lhe.....

[Chris-LFC 0]

I'm going to a casino in a few weeks for the 1st time ever :)the money i have for it is about £350.....if i lose it all i wont be mentally crushed or anything like that lol, im looking to play some LHE but when i play online im used to 6 max and im not sure they do 6 max in the casino im going to. my question is what sort of style should i play,i used to play full ring and played pretty tight but now i play 6 max im pretty laggy, what sort of strategy should i go in with? and whats live LHE like compared to online,i hear its pretty loose and people dont know how to fold loloh and what sort of stakes should i be playing with £350......im willing to play any really even if i havent played that high before,, possibly 3/6-5/10? lol thanks guys

[Chet Chetterson 0]

I would think you should give yourself at least 50 big bets, especially if you are at a table which will 4 bet light. So I would probably play 1/2, 2/4, or 3/6

[Chris-LFC 0]

I would think you should give yourself at least 50 big bets, especially if you are at a table which will 4 bet light. So I would probably play 1/2, 2/4, or 3/6

i was thinking around 50 big bets too but from what i hear the pots barely get raised pre flop so i think i could probably be okay with 400,not too sure,i think i will have an edge in atleast the 3/6 games so i mgiht stick with them

[GeneralGeeWhiz 0]

don't chase out of position. play tight and only big hands. bet hard when you hit a good hand and don't be shocked when you get 6-7 people calling raises.

[MovingIn 0]

3/6 and 4/8 is suitable for 350 pounds. Buy in for 100 and have the other 250 ready just in case. And the others pretty much hit the high points w/r/t how to play. Just play solid and charge people to draw.Oh, and if you're not going for a few weeks, reading SSHE might be a good idea.

[HighwayStar 8]

I'm going to a casino in a few weeks for the 1st time ever :)the money i have for it is about £350.....if i lose it all i wont be mentally crushed or anything like that lol, im looking to play some LHE but when i play online im used to 6 max and im not sure they do 6 max in the casino im going to. my question is what sort of style should i play,i used to play full ring and played pretty tight but now i play 6 max im pretty laggy, what sort of strategy should i go in with? and whats live LHE like compared to online,i hear its pretty loose and people dont know how to fold loloh and what sort of stakes should i be playing with £350......im willing to play any really even if i havent played that high before,, possibly 3/6-5/10? lol thanks guys

There's a casino in the North of England which does live LHE?! (I haven't done much research other than that none of the ones in Newcastle did it when I was there)Whereabouts are you going?I'd be interested to find out what it's like.

[antistuff 0]

try to not to play the lowest limit or two because the rake can be that bad.

[TheCinciKid 0]

don't chase out of position. play tight and only big hands. bet hard when you hit a good hand and don't be shocked when you get 6-7 people calling raises.

This is way too simplistic and really kind of off for live low stakes LHE. If you want to be successful at small stakes limit, but you need to play quite a few hands, but you need to play the right ones and you need to play them well. You want to be limping with any suited Ace, a lot of suited connectors and one gappers (mostly in later positions though), small pocket pairs and some of your bigger unsuited hands (i.e. KJo, ATo). You need to be raising with big pairs (Jacks or better for a beginner, probably 9's or better once you have some idea of what you're doing). You also need to be raising with hands like AK, AQ, AJ, KQs, etc. Generally, you don't want to be hanging around with less than top pair unless you're getting the right odds to draw to a 5-outer (essentially, you need to treat a hand that's lower than top pair as a weakish drawing hand). You need to know how to read the board and count your outs and you need to know what odds you need to draw to what number of outs. You should be paying attention most to things like pot size and position. That's a very short cliff notes version of what you need to know, but if you want to do well at low stakes limit, you really need to read SSHE.

3/6 and 4/8 is suitable for 350 pounds. Buy in for 100 and have the other 250 ready just in case. And the others pretty much hit the high points w/r/t how to play. Just play solid and charge people to draw.Oh, and if you're not going for a few weeks, reading SSHE might be a good idea.

If you really want to be a winner at low stakes LHE, SSHE is pretty much essential.

try to not to play the lowest limit or two because the rake can be that bad.

While the rake can really hurt you at levels like 2/4 and 3/6, profit can still be made b/c the play is so bad. Play what you're comfortable with based on how much you can afford. As others have said, I think I would recommend having something like 40-50 BB available.

[antistuff 0]

While the rake can really hurt you at levels like 2/4 and 3/6, profit can still be made b/c the play is so bad. Play what you're comfortable with based on how much you can afford. As others have said, I think I would recommend having something like 40-50 BB available.

if you can afford 5/10 or up the games aren't much harder and the rake is much lighter. if somebody is really serious about playing live lhe i wouldn't recommend they play less than 5/10.

[strappazon 0]

It is a little bit off topic but i have a question too. When we play online it's easy to know exactly how much there's in the pot, so we know immediaty if we can call on a flush draw or something. But how are you doing in real? Do you guy always count exactly how much there's in the pot? I always wondered this because wrong for only $2 you could make a bad call ....see what i mean ?

[TheCinciKid 0]

if you can afford 5/10 or up the games aren't much harder and the rake is much lighter. if somebody is really serious about playing live lhe i wouldn't recommend they play less than 5/10.

I certainly understand the point you're making here. There used to be a 6/12 game in Cincinnati that was extremely profitable and I played that all the time. If I could find a game like that again, I would be playing in it all the time. But, the reality of the situation is that there just aren't many live LHE games above 3/6 or maybe 4/8 available in most places these days. And, keep in mind SSHE was written for games in the 3/6 - 4/8 range, so those certainly CAN be profitable.

It is a little bit off topic but i have a question too. When we play online it's easy to know exactly how much there's in the pot, so we know immediaty if we can call on a flush draw or something. But how are you doing in real? Do you guy always count exactly how much there's in the pot? I always wondered this because wrong for only $2 you could make a bad call ....see what i mean ?

This is fairly simple, it's just another thing for you to concentrate on. You simply count bets. If 5 people are in before the flop for no raise, then there are 5 small bets in the pot. If someone bets the flop and two people call and it's back to you, then you're getting 8-1. The beauty is that this method works no matter what stakes you're playing for.