I've been playing a ton of TD with poker stars play money and I finally feel confident enough to play some cash games on carbon.

As of right now, they only have 0.25/0.50 games. So im stuck with that, which is fine.

How much do you think I need for this limit, $300-400 okay?

(to keep it short and if we can form an opinion with this statement, i do not consider myself a losing player, ie. I'm not drawing to rough 9s to get by, I play to win )

Depends how painful it is for you to bust. I'll play with 500BB at that stake. But if that's serious money...
1000BB if you're a winner
2000BB if you barely win
+-100BB swings are not rare for 1K hands unless you're crushing everyone at that stake

Come join the .10/.20 game. There is usually some action every night.

CC

on pokerstars?

Im gonna try and get an account there. The boarder to mexico is like 5 minutes away from my house.

I just played a quick session on carbon and just now realized its pot limit. something i really dont want to play with a small bankroll. So PS and Fulltilt are my only choice now.

1kBB or 2kBB seems absurdly high to me. how came you up with this numbers? can anybody confirm this?

its actually pretty normal/common

http://www.thepokerbank.com/strategy...ll-management/

add a little bit more for that special 2-7 variance and you shouldn't go broke.

the game OP is talking about is pot limit, so 1k big blinds would be 10 full buy-ins, assuming you buy in with 100bbs (which i wouldn't recommend at first btw).

have you jumped in yet OP? how are you finding it?

i've played 2-7 on Merge for a little while now, and im confident i'm a winner in almost every line-up. i have 150 sessions tracked and my worst runs have been -$185, 5 sessions and -$352, 7 sessions. i quit the game forever after that last one (which lasted less than 24hrs obviously).

one piece of advice which seems obvious is pay attention to hands you're not involved in and think about what you see. there are ppl in these games that could have a $5k roll and still eventually go broke b/, even though they play a lot and see a lot of hands, they don't/can't adjust their decision making.

i had the problem at first of playing 2-7 almost like a casino game against the house: make a hand, shovel the money in, and see what happens. the solution for me to that problem was to stop only thinking about my cards and realize this is still a game of poker against other people.

also try Ace-5 too. lower stakes available, runs more often, and just as fun

I´m more aggressive with my bankroll but have a strict line where i jump to lower stakes when downswinging. For example when I get to 1200$ I take a shot at 3/6 but when I get a instadownswing (something like 30 big bets) when taking a shot I immediately go to lower stakes.

I meant 2-7 limit triple draw. Pot limit or no limit I think you need 1000$ to play .25/.50

yah i did not realize that on merge they only offer Pot limit 2-7 which really is not my game of choice. I had been practicing mostly limit.

I dont think my BR could handle PL just yet

just another reason im trying to figure out if i can get an account on PS since Mexico is like 10 minutes away from my house.

What if you're playing stakes you care? Lets say 50/100 where you have to play regs for small edges. In the other side you can always consider all your assets as part of your bankroll. Lets say you have a 150K property, 20K in the bank and 30K in PS. Would you play 200/400 (500BB bankroll)? You can easily bust in 1 session and put your properties at risk. I think 50/100 its wiser here.

Merge is the only site that currently has triple draw games that I'm allowed to play, and I don't. That's how bad their rake is. I'm not convinced any game there is beatable without massive rakeback of some sort.

so you would rather not play poker?

thats just not right!

If you got home games at your disposable sure but if online poker is the only option i could care less about rake. just my opinion

Well, I'm playing very-low-rake OFC elsewhere. And there's another site that should be adding triple draw any minute. Whether there will be action I don't know.

playing OFC in the states? and 2-7 TD coming to a US site?

where? that sounds like the nuts


I mean merge has 2-7 but its Pot limit and im not a fan of that format would be so much better if it was limit

OFC on gambit.com

2-7 and OFC and badacey/badeucey and other things coming to the new Seals With Clubs presuming it actually happens.

oh wow

yah i think there is a good chance it will happen.. im hopeful

I'd rather not play than play an unbeatable game. That's why I've never been interested in roulette, say.

you mean 2 and 3-handed, right? or do you think that their rake is a factor at tables with 4+ players?

if full tables, what are you basing that off of?

Yeah, if you can somehow be at a full PL table all the time it's probably OK. It wasn't when they had limit.

What's the source?
I had to investigate about this a bit and Bryan Micon says in his utube channel more games are comming to the site but there's a list to be done in this order and who knows how much time will take:
1. SWC 2.0 has to launch successfully
2. Add OFC
3. Add studs
4. Add other games from mixed games (draw games? which?)

As I understand it's launching with Grid Poker's old software tomorrow. All games are already functional there. I was playing triple draw on the software a year ago.

you mean cash games or still in beta testing? good news tho, thanks