Re: Live Vegas $1/2NL vs $2/5NL
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one thing i recommend if u r playin 2/5 is to play it in a casino where it is the smallest game available.
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Yes. I just finished a trip to Vegas where this is the case (Rio mostly). The players ran the spectrum of styles, but they were consistenly bad. Locals are just as bad, just differently so. Games ranged from 6 limpers every pot, to $300 in the pot preflop every hand, depending on who was sitting down. If you're an observant player, and can beat 2/4 online, you'll be fine. Just adjust.
Some examples of the variety ...
Tourist guy plays his hands blind to any any pf raise or almost any bet post flop b/c he's only "playing for fun". Checks his cards if bet >50 or so. Calls down any piece of the flop. Raises huge on the river if he hits 2 pair+, folds if he misses, and calls with any piece. Makes every draw and people pay off his big raises on the river. Leaves +2000 after 90 minutes when a (horrible) local starts insulting him.
450 pound local calls any raise/reraise preflop, donk bets 1/3 pot oop, and folds to any pressure. Folds one hand face up (offsuit middle connectors on a KJ2 flop).
Nit smooth calls with AA in position pf and folds them face up to a 1/2 pot bet on K68 rainbow flop. He put me on exactly KK. Nope.
Tourists consistently call 3 barrels (or their entire stack, whichever comes first) holding 2nd pair no kicker. They're the ones who buy in for $100 and reload 6 times.
Guy buys in for $500, sits down and asks what a blind is. He wasn't being ironic. He limped every hand, called every pf raise, every flop bet, and folded every turn bet unless he had top pair+. He won a few pots because the lagtards insisted on bluffing with air, but he was felted after 40 minutes.
My point is that 30 minutes at a 2/5 table and you'll know who's who. A little patience and adjustment and you'll kill 2/5. Less than 10% of the players I sat with had any skill to worry about. I was able to avoid any big suckouts and was up 3K in 20 hours or so of play. Only one or two big pots.
Oh, and I play 2/4 online and am a very (very) slight winner.
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