I went to Casino Club in Northern California with a super specific cash game challenge: can I actually make $50/hour at $3/$5 No Limit Hold’em? The “standard” benchmark people throw around is about 10 big blinds per hour, so at $3/$5 that’s roughly fifty bucks. Sounds reasonable… until you sit down in a packed, deep-stacked game with straddles, bomb pots, and a whole lot of variance. #MoreBob was with me too, and we even floated the idea of making it a “family challenge” to hit $100/hour combined. The session itself is a real look at what grinding $3/$5 can feel like when the cards don’t cooperate. I talk through my preflop sizings (like bumping it to $100 with AK over a live straddle dynamic), the spots where I’m trying to print value, and the ones where discipline matters more than ego. The biggest takeaway is how brutal the river can be when the story doesn’t add up—because I made a big fold that ended up being wrong, and it stung. In the end, the challenge completely backfired: I was in for $1,800, cashed out $1,214, and lost $586 over just under four hours—so yeah, we basically renamed the video to “how much can I lose an hour?”