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Originally Posted by fatmanonguitar
Disagree but w/e
I understand why you disagree. You are saying that the BB is now $10 so I have a 40BB stack. Technically that may be true but the hand doesnt automatically play that way. If it folds to MP who normally opens to $20 and he still opens to $20 and gets called by LP and by the button who straddled, the pot is the same $60 (plus $7 for the blinds) as it would be in any non straddled hand and my stack is the same normal 80BBs effective.
The hand should play like a hand of 5/10 which would cut effective stacks in half, but most players dont automatically double the size of their raises.