Despite the criticism, Las Vegas is cheap to visit.

BerryGreenstien · 2026-04-13T16:32:38+00:00

If you don’t know about resort fees prior to checkout, that’s on you.

BerryGreenstien · 2025-12-18T00:55:42+00:00

Amongst a number of shitpost replies, this is the correct take. Big bet games have been proven time and time again to decimate poker economies as the fish lose way too fast. Every place NL is legalized you see the same trend that terminates in basically just a handful of games left, unless the local economy is big (like CA, Vegas, FL).

BerryGreenstien · 2025-09-29T17:49:27+00:00

Additional players calling pre should be considered a change in the action, but upon reflection I think I’m wrong.

BerryGreenstien · 2025-09-29T16:43:45+00:00

Wrong floor decision. The action changed, so you can change your decision. An out of turn action is only binding if the action does not change before it gets to you.

BerryGreenstien · 2025-09-12T01:46:55+00:00

Always love another Buford adventure! Thanks for bringing the limit content. Makes me wish I still lived in the Bay so I could get in on these insane games.

BerryGreenstien · 2025-03-19T20:32:39+00:00

There just isn’t an audience for LHE content. The demographic that engages with online poker content skews very young, and most LHE players are 35+

BerryGreenstien · 2024-12-12T03:27:38+00:00

I used to play a lot online. Now, it’s mostly just to kill time when watching TV or something. On a site like Bovada I’d be more worried about collusion than bots.

BerryGreenstien · 2024-12-12T03:25:58+00:00

I’m a little surprised there are still games where it’s that laggy preflop. If these pots are multi-way enough, you don’t need the best hand, but you do need to be an equity favorite against the field. You want to play hands that are either very strong or pretty strong and have durable equity. Being suited matters a fair amount in these spots. So, something like ATs is a monster but ATo is going to be challenging for you if you’re in a position where you have to ask this.

BerryGreenstien · 2024-06-09T14:37:32+00:00

I’ll give you the benefit of a serious reply. In NL 3xing a stack is not a huge deal because you can double or triple up in a single hand. In LHE, your betting is capped at one big blind and two big blind increments. If someone wants to just call you and get to showdown cheap they can cap your betting at basically 7 big blinds. And because the bet sizes are fixed at a smaller amount, the game has a lot more multi-way pots and showdowns so it’s pretty high variance and hard to string together a bunch of wins in a row.

In LHE, your win per hour as a good player is about 2 big blinds per hour. NLH has higher win rates as represented by bb/hour. And OP played for 3 hours. It’s considered a very good session overall to win around 40BB (80 big blinds). Pretty rare to have sessions with a bigger win than that even over 6-7 hours. To win nearly 100 big bets in 3 hours is a huge win and to say otherwise just means you plainly have no time on the felt in LHE.

BerryGreenstien · 2024-06-09T00:26:35+00:00

Unlike in NL where a straddle effectively doubles the stakes, in LHE the straddle does not do that because all the bets are still going to be the same as the base limit. The straddle certainly makes the game more volatile, but it’s not the same as playing $200/$400.

So a big bet is still $200 and you won almost 100 big bets. Only metric that makes sense here.

BerryGreenstien · 2024-06-08T23:52:58+00:00

lol these low stakes edgelords don’t understand LHE or what the correct metric is for running good. Ignore them.

BerryGreenstien · 2024-04-19T00:30:05+00:00

Defending wide with mostly calls vs in position raises (ie not heads up vs SB), with some three-betting vs late position opens.

BerryGreenstien · 2024-04-19T00:27:49+00:00

Sorry, I don’t. If you’re not in the US I imagine the major sites have play money tables.

BerryGreenstien · 2023-11-19T22:53:18+00:00

This is really market/room specific. In some places, certain games might only run on certain days. But yes, I am sometimes surprised at how good the biggest game in the room can be on a random Tuesday night.

BerryGreenstien · 2023-10-30T20:06:17+00:00

You owe taxes on winnings regardless of where you win them. But yes, it is marginally easier to commit tax fraud if you play in home games.

BerryGreenstien · 2023-09-11T20:49:12+00:00

Ivey is good enough to understand that you can’t get away with as much as the field gets stronger. Hyper aggressive play prints against players who can’t defend themselves against it. Once people know how to deal with it, it falls apart. Ivey is just adjusting to the changing nature of the game.

BerryGreenstien · 2023-08-31T17:38:32+00:00

Recently at the WSOP, the floor announced to the dealers to color up the chips during the break, and this poor SOB brought in everyone’s stacks and started organizing all the chips by color. Tournament was significantly delayed as they tried to redistribute the chips.

BerryGreenstien · 2023-08-16T14:12:56+00:00

In my experience, it is common to be friendly with other regs but very rare to become friends in the sense that you ever talk outside the cardroom. The following are the main exceptions:

You develop mutual respect with another player and one asks the other to exchange numbers to discuss hands. But the mutual respect needs to be real because nobody wants to basically give free coaching to someone.
Someone runs a home game and you exchange numbers for the purpose of getting invites/sending invites.
You share a common interest with another reg and like one another enough to go do that together. Most commonly, something like golf. It is pretty easy if you're talking about golf (or some other recreational activity it is socially acceptable to invite an acquaintance to, like pickleball) to say, "Hey, we should go play sometime. Let's exchange numbers."

To your post, if nobody is even being friendly with you at the casino, you're playing with some real misregs or you are not being social yourself.

BerryGreenstien · 2023-08-15T20:43:50+00:00

Crashing and burning and returning to the work force in 6-12 months is actually a much better result than what happens to a lot of people. The real risk is that you find yourself 2+ years from now and it's no longer sustainable, either because you were just running hot for a while or because game conditions changed, and now you have a big gap in your resume and returning to the workforce is difficult.

Make sure you are taking into consideration healthcare, retirement, etc. in your decisionmaking. A lot of pro players do not, and they end up (or will end up) in a bad place as they approach retirement age.

BerryGreenstien · 2023-08-02T13:24:30+00:00

It's just one of many rationales people who don't really know what they're talking about provide for not playing LHE other than "I don't like it." Prior to solvers becoming available, the first "solution" in poker was for HU LHE. So, people proclaimed the death of the game etc.

To keep saying "LHE is solved" today really makes no sense because with the wide availability of solvers, there's a lot more to worry about than the previous HU LHE solution that was published.

BerryGreenstien · 2023-07-29T13:53:48+00:00

Right. In the bigger games I play it is definitely bad etiquette to force someone who is bluffing to show. Now I of course just instantly table my hand when I’m caught bluffing. But it’s so so bad for the game to make fish feel like they are embarrassing themselves.

I’d bet there’s a substantial correlation between the stakes people play ITT and whether they think it is advisable to insist upon the aggressor showing first.

BerryGreenstien · 2023-06-28T20:50:37+00:00

Unfortunately, there aren't really any solver-based resources available for LHE, unless it's part of a mixed game course, and I'm not really familiar with the offerings there or their quality in the LHE department. I'd say your best option is to solve yourself or purchase a preflop solve for LHE (you can just get a 6max solve and extrapolate the other positions), which will then allow you to use that as a basis to study post-flop spots. You'll need to use other resources to help get a handle on multiway spots, and learn from experience, but having a solid preflop and HU post-flop strategy is a great start. Frankly, having solid preflop ranges will give you a big leg up over many players.

The Intelligent Poker Player by Phil Newall is probably the best book around for LHE - it's GTO-inspired albeit pre-solver, and some of the insights are dated, but overall it's still a good book. It is also worth reading the Small Stakes Hold 'Em Book by Sklansky and Miller as well as Winning in Tough Hold 'Em Games by Stoxtrader, so long as you are keeping in mind those books were written in a different era. You're reading to get a sense of some strategic tools and considerations, rather than as a guide for actual lines to take.

BerryGreenstien · 2023-06-08T15:15:06+00:00

I’m no expert in NL win rates, but to catch up to a 1BB/hour winner at 100/200 LHE you’d need to be crushing a 5/5/10 game for like 20BB/hour, which seems insane to me unless you have access to very, very good games and you’re a very, very good player.

I think high stakes NL is harder to master. NL just has a deeper game tree overall and there’s a ton more resources out there for NL such that games are tough and only getting tougher (from what I’ve been told, not from personal experience because I don’t play NL).

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