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Originally Posted by Steve00007
Minimum buy-in at Bellagio is $400. I'm using hindsight here but maybe he should have bought in for $400 or $500 and had more buy-ins instead of the 2 he had when he was starting with $1000. But on the other hand I guess buying in for $1k and playing "fearless" would make for a better video.
For all the 'bad' poker habits Trooper has, buying in short to every game isn't one of them. 5-10 wouldn't be the place the start that trend. His usual buy-in level has been 100bb and so buying in at $1000 fits his standard formula. 100bb seems to be an overall accepted 'standard' that is not extremely deep, but also not considered shallow or short stack in most cases. Minimums are usually 20bb-40bb depending on the room, sometimes 100bb-200bb for a specific room.
If I were going to sit down at my first 5-10 game I would probably shoot for $1,000 as my buy-in. Well let's not keep it totally theoretical, that's exactly what I did buy in for at my first 5-5-10 PL game; slightly different - I definitely felt short until I doubled up, but hands were playable w/o all in.