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To: bentway who wrote (215349)	1/21/2013 1:25:47 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 541990

In the old days it was even easier to beat "house games" as we call them. I went two years once and never lost a house game. In the clubs I won 60/40. I am a better player now. The on line poker allowed me to hone my game. In the old days the only big money game was low ball. That game is really easy to beat in a house game every single time. The reason is that the pros pretty much never take more than one card. But in house games they will take up to three cards. Which is a sure losing play. They see an ace, deuce and cannot throw it away. And definitely not an ace, deuce, trey-lol. Ace deuce joker is marginally playable. Hold em is more difficult, but not much. In limit it is simply a big card game. In games where all the big players know each other well they will often turn to Omaha or five card Omaha called Cincinnati or big O these days to get some action. Which is played high low split and one must play two cards. Even marginal players can hang on there if they are careful. So many variables it is hard for even good players to figure. In Las Vegas I mostly play Omaha split as that is an easier game for me to beat. The "regulars" sort of play together i.e. they scratch out a couple of hundred a day by fleecing the tourists. What they do is not raise each other and look to flop the nuts for low. They seldom play high as one cannot flop the nuts in high. So it is easy to beat by simply waiting for a good high or low hand and then never stop raising. They have no idea how to play against that. They are one trick ponies. Try that next time you get to Las Vegas. I seldom ever lose in those games, but it causes so much consternation among the regulars I am not sure I could do it for a long time without someone killing me-lol. Last time I was there a big Russian mafia looking guy said to me: "you don't have to raise every time". And one guy threw his cards across the table and I was sitting on a losing hand. <<I mistakenly invited a buddy who was a poker player at your level to a "friendly" game. He bulldozed us all out of the game and took most of our money in the process.