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Originally Posted by adonson
Should I take a shot at 2/5?
I've determined that, when stacks go below 200, I cannot beat the 1/2 game in my cardroom because the rake is 6-3-1 to 60. The game is still beatable, but it allows for no margin of error, and I still make enough mistakes. I was up twelve 350 buy-ins over 200 hours, mostly earned over three months when the cardroom ran unsustainable promotions, and people bought deep to match the stakes of the many 500 promos. Since then, average stacks sizes have shrunk to about 200. Some nights, only me and another player have more than 200.
The rake is the same at 2/5. My pro friend says the level of play is the same as 1/2, people just lose more money because they buy in for 500-1,000.
Should I take a 1500 gamble? How much would you buy in for? 500 and try to build a stack for set mining? Just blow the two 750 buy ins. If I lose it, I'm relegated to re-building my bankroll home games. One promises to be profitable. I do not intend to earn much in the 10/25 cent home game with dads earning +200,000 but leave the game when they lose 30.
What would you do?
My opinion is that i would want to have a little bit more if i am gonna shottake, or pretty easily can rebuild at lets say 1/3 or replenish the bankroll in other ways.
If you only have lets say two buyins of 750 available to you its gonna be quite hard to play optimal good poker and not become scared money in the game.
If you are the more gambling type of guy that really doesent mind busting the 1500, sure go ahead and shottake then take it from there.
But i would personally build up so i can take for example 3K,then split that up into 6 buyins of 500 each to try my luck at 2/5. Then you now you have some reloads available,and dont have to call it quits if you run into a couple of coolers quickly or run into some coolers or whatever.