Originally Posted by
Brian Boyko
Jared, forgive me on this, but I haven't read the first book yet. Still, I hope you don't mind if I ask a question:
I have a serious block when it comes to playing in casinos. I regularly play in home games against very tough players - players who crush 1/2 and 2/5 NLHE and PLO, and play in bracelet events (though they've never won one, they have cashed...)
It's a $0.25/0.50 mixed game that includes rounds of $5/10 limit games and there are often straddles, double straddles, and occasionally triple straddles when we're all sitting on stacks of $300-400. And 5-card PLO/8 is in the mix as well...
But when I try to play even 1/2 NLHE in the casino, I get Scared Money Syndrome. Something about buying in for $200 and the possibility of losing it all to a poor play or a suckout bugs me, even though losing $200 in two buy-ins doesn't bug me at all. And before you ask, yeah, I'm properly rolled - even though I don't make my living from poker, I keep my poker funds separate and have 20 buy-ins for $1/2.
Some contributing factors are that the nearest casino is 6 hours away by bus/car, so if I end up going to the casino, and lose a buy-in or two, I feel like I not only pissed away money, but also pissed away a heck of a lot of time.
Am I just doomed to be stuck playing 50PLO and 100NL? Or maybe I should just switch to LHE/LO8 instead?