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Originally Posted by Avaritia
DK, had no idea fallsview was one of your rooms. I was there on holiday recently, really neat place.
One of the bigger things that goes overlooked is the stack depth between 1/2 and 2/5. I think it's pretty clear that a 9 handed 1/2 with $500 average stack is a better game than a 9 handed 2/5 with $500 average stack.
What I'm getting at is that I've often been in good 1/2 games where the smallest effective stacks are 300bb. I don't think I've ever been in that situation in 2/5 or only a handful of times.
You have much greater implied odds and usually people are still limping or raising lol $12 which is just incredible when you are 300bb deep.
Just last night I was on a decent 2/5 and on a super heater (brag) and took a break and saw a 1/2 with 3 $800 stacks and the rest $300-$600. I tanked for 10 minutes on whether I should table change.
It is neat! Well, was. Shame they gutted the poker room.
Yes, deep 1/2 is great. I loved the 1/3 500 cap structures in Vegas. I think that is one of the greatest games imaginable.
Ok, 166 bb doesn't sound super deep, but it also doesn't play 50% bigger than 1/2 so it sorta works. Deep stack play is usually beyond the grasp of people playing the lowest stakes so that's great too. My favorite thing is missed value. When someone checks 2p on the river because they are afraid of an impossible straight. Even when i lose the pot, it's like 50bb directly into my pocket.
It is weird because I played almost exclusively 100bb cap games for almost two years and now I play usually around 300bb deep (and some crazy people buy in for 1000bb
) But the transition is going well and it's just more fun. 100bb cap there are a lot of times you can't do anything except wait for a hand. Which is fine, I won't complain about making a decent amount of money for doing something brainless. But it's not as good as making more money and playing interesting hands.