earlier this week i made a trip to my local B&M and for the first time tried out the 1/2 NL game they have and i'll be honest, i felt like i was better than most of the players, but i couldnt adjust to the game. I just wanted to get some thoughts on how you guys would vary your play to a game like this...

1/2NL... max buyin was $100 (which sucks because im used to 100BB stacks when i play online and home games). Secondly the normal raises were a minimum of 6x the BB I was having a really hard time figuring this part of the game out...almost every pot was raised like above and depending on how many people saw the flop continuation bets were around $30 or so. I was having a really hard time adjusting to the fact that 1/4 of my stack might have to go into the pot just to see a turn card. Or if i was the raiser...how agressive do i stay with my missed AK when anything less than these bets wont do anything but encourage everyone to call.

Ive never really played a game where ive had so little room to maneuver with as far as stack size compared to the action. I definitley got the impression that i could crush the game if i could double up once or twice and have some chips to work with. But i found myself lost on the best way to get there.

Do you gamble a bit and see a few flops? maybe flopping a monster with QJ or T9? or sit back and wait for something like AA or KK and push it hard?