Re: $1k/day at MGM 1-2 NL?
 

I think you can do about 25-35 if it's uncapped. Maybe even more.

Re: $1k/day at MGM 1-2 NL?
 

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I think you can do about 25-35 if it's uncapped. Maybe even more.

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I've run at about $23/hr for the last year in my uncapped game....

Maybe He's just playing 40 hours a day to make up that $1000?

Re: $1k/day at MGM 1-2 NL?
 

I have played that game I play it or the 2/5 when in vegas about 1or 2x a month. you can win 1k in that game but not every day there is no way to do that every day the deck has to hit you upside the head and you have to avoid the suckouts. I have seen 1k won in that game 3 times between me and my friends and everytime we floped multible sets and str8 and didn't get suckedout on. I did howerver see a guy with a 8k stack at the table but he had been there like 50+hr's.

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I did howerver see a guy with a 8k stack at the table but he had been there like 50+hr's.

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I was there for 3 days in Jan and one guy never left

Had a big stack but looked like death. Fun life.

Re: $1k/day at MGM 1-2 NL?
 

Is there a game with higher variance than $1/$2 NL? I can't imagine there is.

If he can sustain $1K/day then he is obviously a really, really skilled leather-ass with more than a few bad beat stories.

Re: $1k/day at MGM 1-2 NL?
 

The times when I go to Vegas, I find it pretty easy to make $300-$500 in an 8 hour 1/2 NL session at the MGM. Most of the players are really bad.

Re: $1k/day at MGM 1-2 NL?
 

its not possible

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but he insisted he averages around $1k/day!

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Lots of players 'insist' that they can do such things.

But if you actually talk to them about it in greater detail perhaps you will get them to say something like,

"Well...yeah, I USUALLY average AROUND $1k/day.
Yesterday I made $740 so that pretty much counts as my $1k goal.
A couple days last week I took bad-beats and lost $400 each day...but the beats were so bad and that's really unusual so that doesn't count."
etc etc.
Stuff that just doesn't make sense like saying "I average AROUND $1k on MOST days" clues you in about them (much less the sillyness and braggyness of the original claim).


However, if the 1/2 NL game is uncapped it can sometimes play pretty deep-stacked and wildly and I would not be at all surprised if 10BB/hr or higher were possible in such a game.

I'm not an NL expert...just getting started on the game actually.
But I believe there is a big difference between 1/2 online with a cap...and 1/2 live with no cap.
And because of the no-cap I don't think that online win-rate considerations necessarily apply.


$1k/day is an outrageous claim for 1/2 NL though (even with no-cap and deep-stacks all the time) as he would need to win $2k for each day where he only breaks-even.

But I do think it's possible to win more than people may think in the right games.
With no-cap on the buy-in, some 1/2 NL games can play more like 2/5 NL or higher (some guy always wanting to open for $30 or something and then getting multiple cold-callers from all the $1k+ stacks).

Re: $1k/day at MGM 1-2 NL?
 

you know, probably two of the four golfers i've played with who told me beforehand they were low handicappers (say a 5 and a 7) were sitting 5 off the first tee in each case (actually i think 7 in each case, but you won't believe it or you'll scold me for letting them hit that many tee shots - no one was behind us).. so these guys shot 150+ at least and they claimed they were low handicappers.

anyhow, they said they were low handicappers and they were 7 off the first tee.

met at a guy at a casino who told me he was a professional poker player and made good money then he watched a 4-8 table from the rail for 10 hours. (in fairness, he wasn't full of himself or suggesting he does amazingly)...

people are often intentionally full of it... or they don't even realize that they are... like microbob said, the definition of averaging $1000 a day can be so far off. that is probably his best days (like 10% of them)

Re: $1k/day at MGM 1-2 NL?
 

So if he plays just 250 days a year than that means he makes a quarter mil a year playing live 1-2 NL

His claim seems reasonable enough to me.



(Bolded parts to be read in a rising "Norm Macdonald-like" tone.)