Generally you should think of 1/1 as closer to .5/1 than 1/2, so expect random punters to feel like £100 is more than they would in a 1/2 game

Cheers. So if I buy-in for 100bb's (£100), I just play as if it's 100 bb's.
(Because I techinically have a lower M, compared to 100bb's at 0.50/1 or 1/2).

Most cashgame players don't really consider M

I know we work in bb's because the blind structure is fixed. But 1/1 is slightly different to standard blind struture. As would a 1-2-3 blind struture, which I would imagine need more blind stealing... I wonder does blind stealing become less important at 1/1.

You don't really get to steal blinds per se, nobody folds. Anyway, your contention only holds if you use a fixed raise size (e.g, 3x bb) instead of making your raise related to the pot size (e.g, 1.5x pot is often sensible in live games).

I prefer playing 200bb deep as I'll get people to make more expensive mistakes if they have similar sized stacks.

Is the vic generally busy at all times as far as cash games go? For example, if I go down on a Tuesday at 2pm, is there going to be anything running?

I've not been there on Tuesdays at 2pm very often, but I'd bet there'll be something running.

When my sleep pattern was weird i would play the 1/2 at the vic from 10am til nightish, always a game and surprisingly soft

BBJ was won at the empire on thursday, 110k for losing hand down to 1.4k for everyone playing cash in the card room

why would you want to wise up your opponents like this?

Because it was fun. Like I say, I imagine it annoyed the other players at the table. And I can still beat minimum stakes live games with my eyes closed.

Sick

It was won by a colleague, another colleague was at the table. 66 vs. KK on K63, runner runner BBJ. Latter colleague said "I give him a lot of respect for thinking for a minute with 66". Am now trying to organise a regular work game.

Lol sick tank, its meant to have happened like 3 times now? Some guy folded QQ pre to aces and AKs which would have won it, some guy overbet the turn with quads and someone folded a sf draw, someone else called and it pinged. Can't remember the other but the dealers love telling the stories

Yeh, people don't think it through properly. If BBJ is £200k and you KNOW you're set under set in a small enough pot, you have to call due to BBJ equity, let alone when thinking about ranges.

Vic was really busy last night and the games were full or crazy scandi's. Hopefully more of the same tonight.

I didn't even know there was a BBJ. Is it just the Empire that does this?

Vic does it as well, Empire BBJ started in January and the Vic started in March i think?

I didn't realise the Vic was doing it. How does it work? Where do they keep track?

If all else were equal, I'd go to the place with no BBJ until the total was high enough to be positive expectation.

I havnt been to The Vic in a few months, it was at £10 when i went

The vic considered having one but all the regulars were opposed to it because it takes so m8uch money off the tables and ti was never implemented.

I've never really liked the BBJ, for many reasons.

This is one:

http://www.thehendonmob.com/forum/vi...er=asc&start=0

Yeah the jackpot is pretty bad, not to mention the endless discussions about it. The empire is such a badly run room; I know the action is good but it is too uncomfortable an environment to sit in with the worst waitresses the world has ever known!

Am playing the 325 mtt at the fox this weekend. Hopefully I'll run good. Has anyone else had problems with staff repreatedly talking about tipping at the fox? You buy a drink from the bar, they talk about tipping seemingly to remind you. You ask them to change the music from some crap; they talk abotu tipping. It is annoying. I tip in pots where I win a decent amount but on a 1/1 with 10% rake you cannot tip on 8quid pots. They are meant to be encouraging custom so annoying people like this seems a bad idea.

Have not been and as a result of this post, I will not go. The cheek of people to ask for a tip!

I've only played there for one evening, but I didn't hear anyone asking for tips. I'll tip 50p or £1 if I win £30-£40+ pots and not felt any negativity.

As mentioned above, it's practically impossible to get served at the Empire, and the custom is still to tip there. Fox was £3.50 a drink instead of £4.50 and it didn't take 30 minutes to flag down a waitress. The sausage sandwich was absolutely terrible though, worst thing I've eaten at a casino.

The Vic's £3 a pint and service is fine, food is edible, so that'll do for my lowstakes drunkenness.