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Originally Posted by Midnight Cowboy
If the idea is to increase the player pool for the bigger game, I'm not sure what effect this is going to have. Who are these 2-5 players that will play in a 5-10 game, but not a 10-10 game?
Just looking at the blinds, they would seem to be the same of course.
But they definitely LOOK very different to a rec player. The 10/10 game with all the stacks of peach chips just looks . . . weird. I think that's true even for 5/10 players stopping in from other NE casinos. It took me a few sessions before I natively counted my stacks in increments of 200 instead of 100, for example, and I still have to focus occasionally to keep from misreading bet sizes.
The large buyin might also be a problem. There are some nights where the average stack on the table is 4-5k. It looks more like a 10/25 game than a 5/10. I think there is an embarrassment factor to some players putting 1k on the table and feeling short stacked (even tho that's pretty ludicrous.)
I also think that the deep stacks might be breaking some of its regs who aren't rolled for a 3k game. This manifests itself with pros sitting down in a juicy game, taking one beat, and standing up. That doesn't happen as often when guys are comfortable blowing through a few bullets.
Finally, the game is freaking isolated way back in the corner. It's weird to walk back there, especially on nights when there's little other high limit action. No one likes railbirds, and there are of course security and privacy issues, but you also want people to at least check it out without feeling like they're intruding on a private game.
Just my 2 cents of course. If the game could go and stay healthy at 10/10, then great. I think it's a better short term game that way. I just don't think it's a better long term game.
Also, I'm not hearing anyone remarking on how 5/10 would be WORSE. At the very least, lower buyins keep players in action longer. The dynamic is usually: lower buyins are better for the game/house/rec players. . . bigger buyins are better for the pros (assuming player pool liquidity, which is the issue here.)