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Originally Posted by Thanksjoebiden
How much money do you have to bring to each game to handle the 5× straddles? $1–1.5k for 1–2 NL, $2–4k for 2–5 NL, and $5–10k for 5–10 NL?
A 5X straddle at 1-3 is $15 and that's little more than a pot sweetener at GVC $1-3
And once a 2nd player calls $15 sure as poop it's going 4 or 5 ways to the flop
I imagine this 5x button straddle must make Rivers 1-3 even more wild
if the action at Rivers>GVC which I've read and heard is happening
I specifically wont play GVC 2-5
since it's just way too spewy
and I dont want to deal with frequent $1000 swings
So, with this 5x button straddle I definitely wont be playing 2-5 at Rivers
A man must know his limitations, amirite?
Oddly, when I go to Vegas, the Bellagio 2-5 is just right for me.
I never would have imagined that a Vegas 2-5
would be more playable than a local one
And by "playable" I mean, you actually have to make decisions
other than "am I willing to go all the way with this hand?
Since odds are to win this pot at some point
I'm gonna have to shove most of my stack or am gonna have to call most of my stack"
Any check raise semi-bluff on the flop is going to have be half your stack due to the bloated pots
And by the turn? SPR's so small you need a microscope to see them
Just not my game.
For example . . .
Button straddle $25, someone makes it $75, two callers, pot is now $225ish
flop comes gonna have to bet $150+ or so to take it down, doh! get a caller
Pot is now $550ish and we havent seen the turn or river
Your turn bet is gonna be at least $300, and a $500 buy in is all in on a normal hand
IF you bought in for $1000 and there is any action on the turn and river, you also will end up all in or close to it
I love to watch the 2-5 games at GVC while waiting and just think,
"this is a level of poker I could not handle and do not understand"
To the 2-5 guys, is it just naked aggression with little thought
or indeed high level plays are being made?
I tend to just see a shovefest.