what cities are good for B&M Casinos

[AKQJ10]

What stakes are you looking to play? What about your track record makes you think you can beat those stakes?

http://poker.wikia.com/wiki/Going_pro

Psych forum also talks a lot about going pro.

Plenty of places to play, say, $15/30 or $5-10 NL or higher on a regular basis: Vegas, SoCal, NoCal, AC, Chicago area, Connecticut. But it does you no good if you can't beat those games.

[p00ly]

very true, I have been studying the game for quite a while now and have done very well online as well as live. I usualy play the 5/10 dollar games.

[masman21]

I live in LA and there is tons of action out here. Do heed the other poster's warning about the transistion from small town to LA, Vegas or AC. I was killing online and home games and got murdered the first time in a B&M. Not saying it can't be done, it might be harder than you think. Good luck.

[p00ly]

cool, thanks

[Arbitrage]

Billings

[Mauricio Wilson]

Obviously LA has many casinos, but you should consider your life outside of poker also. Many of the casinos are very spread out and in horrible areas. Its hard to find a good, nice place to live thats also near casinos. I live in Brentwood (IMO one of the best places to live in LA) and the closest casino, Hollywood Park, is 11 miles away which would be ok if there werent traffic to and from every day from 9am to 9pm and other casinos are much farther and have worse traffic. I'm not sure what's acceptable to you as far as living conditions and commutes, but its definitely something to take into consideration.

[AKQJ10]

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Billings

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Very good answer.

Many of us learned from a recent thread that there's a $300 cap on pots there, but are there enough big games on which to make a living? I guess Ray Zee does, right?

[p00ly]

very good point. I was looking into Atlantic City which looks like it has 8 casinos and have heard from a lot of people that there are a lot of good games there. Anyone know about the living in Atlantic City?

[Warren Harding]

Norcal has many good options within proximity. Rent and cost of living are high, but you can get around via public transportation.

Fortunately, there are a lot of non-poker things to do in the Bay area. having lived in socal and norcal, I enjoyed the latter more.

[AKQJ10]

Well, outside the casinos, I find AC to be a small, moderately nasty city.

I'm sure you can find some moderately nice South Jersey town within driving distance, if that's what suits you.

Some of the cheap Absecon motels offer a weekly rate if you want to "try before you buy." In fact, you might run into me there one day.