Posting: Players need to post or wait for the big blind. Drop is taken immediately, as is usual for Los Angeles rooms (but in contrast to Vegas practice).For higher limits, the rake is $5 + $1 jackpot drop.For 4/8 limit and below, and for low-limit NL, the rake is $4 + $1 jackpot drop.Once you hit 6-12 and 8-16 in any of the games, the players tend to be tighter you can see times when 30 percent of the hands will be folded around and chopped (no flop) or raise-and-take-it (no flop).

Game Nature: Generally at the lowest limits the competition is pretty bad. But you can always stop at the board nearest you and ask that brush where you can go to sign up for your desired game. The only confusing thing is the multiple boards in the poker rooms you must go to the proper brush to sign up for the game you'd like, and it's not always obvious where it is. Wait for any particular limit of a particular game might run as long as an hour for a rare variant, but typically a wait will be under 15 minutes.

Wait Time: There's always a seat at some limit in some game even in the middle of the night, there are dozens of full games running at all limits.

1/3 blinds ($80 min/max buy in - can rebuy to 120 total if stacks drops under 40).

1/2 blinds ($40 min/max buy in - can rebuy to 60 total if stacks drops under 20).

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