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Originally Posted by crsseyed
(derail) Not questioning you but questioning Bart:
1. I have played literally thousands of live hrs 1/3 and never found a game that standard open was $9 (3x). $15 is most common. And of course impossible for 5/T. Wonder if Bart meant 2/5?
2-3. Almost any late night big city 1/3 games..
4. Yeah unusual for 1/3
Thanks for the derail, I love talking about TX poker.
To be fair I’m infusing my reasoning with things Bart has said. So I take responsibilities for errors in the description. I actually have very little experience with poker outside of TX, be that as it may.
There’s a couple other things that inflate the size of pots. First, TX 1/3 is largely uncapped or match the stack. Most players buy in for 1k. Not unusual for there to be 20k on the table by midnight. This by itself doesn’t increase the SPR. What does is bad play from loose passives like double cold-calling a raise and a 3-bet with crap you wouldn’t believe — I saw 86o shown down yesterday, played as a UTG 5x open and call to 3bet (at 100 BBs). My favorite personal example is the following. At 1-3 with a 10 straddle, action player (50/10) opens UTG to 30, call,call,call,call, I squeeze BB with ATs to 225 hoping to isolate, call,call,call,call, all-in for slightly less. 6 ways for 1.4k pot, all-in ends up scooping with K6s for trip 6s. (Squeeze was a huge mistake, in retrospect. I’ve had to adjust my ranges quite a bit depending on composition of the table.)
Of course that hand is inflated by the straddle, but still, absurd calls preflop end up contributing significant dead money in every pot. The game plays a lot bigger because of the multi-way action.
Last edited by ChaosInEquilibrium; 10-07-2021 at 06:51 PM.