How to play 2/4 Limit in a Casino?

[boyd81]

lol..funny responses...

In foxwoods i tried playing 2/4 Limit after 5-6 hours of nl 1-2 which i was up around 350 and i never have seen such retarded play in my life (maybe when i saw the Red Sox)...people calling 3 bet rasies before flop with queen 4...


After 25 minutes i went on tilt and in a hour i blew 100 bucks...

[Mygtar]

Boyd I started at FW 2/4 and moved up to 4/8 after I got about a year's experience of live play. The 4/8 is much more profitable if you have the basics down. If you can afford to move up you should. I find that SSHE is an invaluable tool for this game.

I am a beginner (about 2 years), but I am up about $1300 over the last 5 sessions of 4/8. See you at the 'Woods.

Best of luck,
Mygtar

[rageotones]

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Boyd I started at FW 2/4 and moved up to 4/8 after I got about a year's experience of live play. The 4/8 is much more profitable if you have the basics down. If you can afford to move up you should. I find that SSHE is an invaluable tool for this game.

I am a beginner (about 2 years), but I am up about $1300 over the last 5 sessions of 4/8. See you at the 'Woods.

Best of luck,
Mygtar

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i wouldn't put too much thought into "moving up." all the lowest limits in each room are all going to be just about as bad as 2/4 everywhere.

i.e. mgm 2/4 = harrah's 3/6 = wynn 4/8

(this is not counting the time at wynn when the 5/10NL regular sat to my left w/6K in the 4/8L game. never had such a crazy session. went from +100 to -500 and ended -40. great time though).

[Off Duty]

8/16 at Hawaiian Gardens was like that monday night. Seven players to the flop three deep. Action game of the century.

[steamboatin]

$2-4 holdem is very similar to bingo but you don't have to yell when you win.

You can't be a calling station and expect to win. You have to be able to laydown top pair but you also have to know when top pair is good.

[BJK]

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Boyd I started at FW 2/4 and moved up to 4/8 after I got about a year's experience of live play. The 4/8 is much more profitable if you have the basics down. If you can afford to move up you should.

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I disagree. If someone is having trouble beating the easiest kind of game there is to beat, then that someone should stay at that level until he learns to beat the game. These types of tables exist at every level, though they become more rare as the levels get higher. However, if a player finds he can't learn to bet the no fold'em hold'em tables, he will be throwing a ton of money away by not being able to beat the occasional $4/$8 games that have these exact same textures. The only consideration here is rake, and I don't believe that a person should be very worried about rake until that person can actually give a detailed description of what his winrate is and how the rake affects it. I've found that the only way to consistantly beat the rake at a B&M $2/$4 game is to play at the kinds of tables the OP describes. I have a heckuva hard time beating the rake in a "tight/aggressive" $2/$4 game.

[Carlson411]

First time live for me was at the Aladdin than the South Coast Casino in Northern Las Vegas. I played a couple of months ago in Foxwoods and it was a dream come true. People calling with anything. I had quads and this old lady had A6. She reraised me with A6. YES!!! Hey where's that guy who posted that he wanted to make a living playing 2/4? If he moves to CT in a ditch near Foxwoods he maybe able to live in a halfway house with some good cash in his pockets.

[LasVegasMichael]

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First time live for me was at the Aladdin than the South Coast Casino in Northern Las Vegas.

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Nitty correction: South Coast Casino (now South Point) is in southern Las Vegas, not northern.

[fishyak]

Yep. Nitty. Also, it (South Coast) was losing so much money (Red Rock is winning the battle for locals.) that Boyd Gaming sold it back to the original developer. Hence the name change to South Point. Nice place. For donk it up local poker, it had both an early morning NL tourney, and played 2/4 LHE with a 1/2 kill. My wife loved the slots there. Especially the one called "Hot Flashes" all about menopause. It was a laugh riot machine.

[Frond]

Boyd81, I am feeling your exact pain. I play at the 2-4 level in some local card clubs around here. I am never able to play for more than about 1-2 hrs. so I don't really have any long run stats per se. I try and keep records of each session and jot down any mistakes that I make cause I do make some every session, be they big or small. They are usually small ones so that tells me that I am improving. So far I am a losing player(who will admit that eh) but not by that much really. I am down just over $120 for about 18 sessions anywhere from 1-2 hours in length(totally miniscule amount of time put in). The handshat I am showing down almost always win and the few pots that I do win each session are on the larger side so I know I am on track. I try and stick to my strategy each time I play and play very disciplined.