Help - FL Poker B&M Questions

[youngestyoo]

B&M

First time poster, long time lurker:

I have some friends in FL I want to visit and I want to play cards during the day. I talked to the Palm Beach kennel club and they said that they have a 2-3 max buy in $100 cash game. Is this the highest cash game stakes in FL? Any advice on where to play poker in FL would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[JulioYalil]

everything here will be 100 max buy in at least for the next few weeks. as for the blinds the biggest u'll find is 2/5 at the hard rock casinos.

[youngestyoo]

Sounds like a push fest with lots of bad play...Im used to 300 max buy in for 1-3, and 1k buy in for 2-5...any advice on how to switch my style up for this structure?

[soulvamp]

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everything here will be 100 max buy in at least for the next few weeks. as for the blinds the biggest u'll find is 5/10 at the hard rock casinos.

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FYP

[CybrPunk]

Just adjust for stack sizes. Implied odds are not there until you have some deeper stacks at the table, which does happen after some time, but until that time drawing hands go way down in value and big pairs and big aces go up in value significantly. That pretty much means you should pump the pot preflop with what you figure to be the best hand and be prepared to commit on the flop. Hands that flop top pair and overpairs are probably best in most cases until the stacks get deep. You'll often see flops with 3 to 5 other people and find yourself with just about a pot sized bet in most raised pots that see a flop due to effective stack sizes.

Try and see some cheap flops with position and good drawing hands in unraised pots if you can. Doing this occasionally in raised pots isn't entirely awful, but I wouldn't get in the habit of doing it every time otherwise you'll find it eating up all of your profits. Again, in raised pots you'll find the pot is about the size of the remaining effective stacks and it won't show a profit long-term until you're playing much deeper with other deepstacked loose players.

Florida has some really juicy games. It doesn't take much to get paid off by the second, or even third best hand. I saw a guy call a flop shove for close to $100 with A6o. He had a backdoor straight draw, backdoor flush draw and an overcard. He didn't have a pair. I saw another put in nearly 200 big blinds with ace rag when he was checkraised on the flop in a (preflop) 3bet pot versus a set. Making money here isn't difficult at all as long as you can survive the variance of playing poker vs guys playing bingo.