Quote Originally Posted by jsearles22 View Post
Quote Originally Posted by peter mcneil View Post

I play at the Stampede Casino in Calgary, like I said earlier in the thread, best games I've ever seen. Guys will 3 bet lighter than queens plus if stacks are not deep but if anyone is over 100bb's deep you rarely see guys making moves pre. Everyone plays fairly passive, they want to see flops etc. There is a lot of money here in Calgary, a lot of oil money and the Casino is right near the heart of the business area as well as the Stampede grounds. Old guys cruise in after work, while travelling here for work and half of the 1/2 tables are always full of passive businessmen who call a ton pre, never 3 bet and never fold top pair.

I dont understand the above statement? At $1/$2 the standard buy in is $200 so everyone at the table is 100bbs deep until they lose a little bit. Most of the time 1/2 the table is sitting on 300-400 in the game I play at and there are plenty of moves made preflop with less than QQ.

I am very similar to the OP. I probably book wins at $1/$2 70-80% of the time and only play once a month or twice at the most. $1/$2 live is quite simply the easiest game in the world to beat. Nearly everyone in the game on a Friday or Saturday night has little to no idea what they are doing and are drunk and looking for a good time. I have won many pots where i called off light thinking there was no way I could possibly be ahead with top pair weak kicker or 2nd pair, etc and the noobs cant imagine there pocket Jacks are no good on the KQ983 three diamond board.
Every AC casino that I've played at $300 is the max buy-in with $60 as the min. I see people buy in for $100 to $150 all the time.