Re: [ba-poker] NL Ring Game to start at CSP

[Alan Bostick <abostick(deleted the rest)>]

On Monday, July 26, 2004, at 08:01 PM, Michael Hunter wrote:

> I dislike the 1-2-3 and 2-2 structures with 5 to go and $100 stacks.  
> If you open for $5 then the last blind is getting 5:1 and will often 
> call correctly and if you open for $10 then he is getting 2:1 and will 
> often fold correctly.  With deep stacks thats OK as the implied odds 
> make it muddy enough to be interesting.  But with puny stacks (20:1 
> open to stack ratio is less then 1/2 of party's 50:1 and 1/5 of starz 
> 100:1) even the silliest of fish with figure things out fairly 
> quickly.  It would be a somewhat more interesting game if you could 
> limp and bet/raise non mod 5 amounts preflop.

In all the California "freak-flag-on-the-button" NLHE games I've
played in, the player opening the betting can open for any amount
that was the minimum amount or more:  in a $5-to-go game, she can
open for $6 if she wants to.  Does this soften the sting?

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