How to Beat LA Limit Hold'em

Limit games in LA have an interesting couple of characteristics...
1) Terrible players
2) Punishing rake

At the Commerce, they drop a dollar for the jackpot when you post, and then $6 at the flop. What this means is that you must be playing a table with large pots in order to overcome the rake. I learned this the hard way. I was actually very lucky to only lose a little last week playing limit hold'em.

So table selection is incredibly important. If the table isn't really loose, with large multiway pots the rule instead of the exception, you have to get up and look for another table.

I think you have to look for hands with good equity in multiway pots, commit to them, worry about relative instead of absolute position (so you can trap people for more bets when appropriate), and then you can overcome the rake.

Of course, this is going to lead to crazy variance, and I experienced that firsthand as well. But otherwise, I don't think you can win.