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Originally Posted by LEMONZEST
You really need to reduce the stakes for your regular game. Losing 50-100 per night is much more palatable than losing 300-500/night.
Yeah, a lot of the guys seem to do good they plunk down $100 a week and will leave if they busto once and they seem pretty comfortable with that even if they are losing 3 out of 4 weeks or 4 out of 5. I'm not too worried about them.
It's the 4-5 that will reload multiple times and be in $600-$800 and chase. Obviously they are grown men and we can't really say they can't rebuy.
One other thing I've done is several of them would borrow money each week to stay in the game. They were always 100% at paying back so I felt loaning was the right thing to do (if I bust someone and they want back in but are out of cash). But I've stopped doing that with most not because the don't pay back (they always pay back immediately next week), but to avoid them exacerbating losses.
On the stakes, I like the spread limit thoughts in this thread more than lowering stakes. We technically play 1/2 but much of the night it plays more like a 2/5 because half the players play 2/5 at the casino. I think if we lowered stakes it wouldn't change much people would still throw $15 in preflop with good hands if the blinds were .25/.50
I'm also considering changing my rebuy strategy. Because I am up huge in the game and the poker bankroll is healthy I'm normally willing to be into the game for $600-$800 if I want to and feel like I am playing good poker. There have been many weeks where I have lost some coinflips/coolers early and been down $500 bucks and then left break even/winner.
While that is fine for my situation I think it encourages other people that don't have the corresponding edge or bankroll to do the same and more often than not they don't make a come back. So thinking about just setting a loss cap of $200-300 myself and seeing if that encourages others to implement better stop losses.
Last 3 weeks were +1100, -400, +100. That average is a bit more sustainable, I have been actively trying to target a few spots to play a little worse but not grossly so (i.e. maybe get it in in 40/60 situations) to ship some money to a few key donators and that's been helping.
Did have 2 players last week skip to go play elsewhere because they are regular 1/2 winners outside and breakeven 2/5 players and they both said they are taking a month off because they feel they can't beat our game