That's the sole reason I play 2/5 rather than 5/5 (even though my hourly is higher in 5/5......by more than $5). Kind of dumb really but there's something that really pisses me off about paying $10/hr.
Even completely recreational players get pissed off about the $10 time charge for what they see as a similar sized game to the 2/5 so it really hurts the 5/5 popularity
What they need to do is make the 5/5 a 500-1k buy in so it plays significantly deeper than the 2/5 game in which case I can justify the 10 time charge. Or just spread a freaking 5/10 1k-3k already. I don't get how there can be a huge omaha game running yet the biggest NLHE will be 5/5 at best. Something's wrong.
I'd happily play 25/50 LHE but they refuse to spread limit these days.
Yes I agree. Make 5/5 deeper or spread 5/10. The jump to 5/10-20 is too big imo
This is the big problem. If you want to play 1k effective stacks (a solid sized game with very decent money involved whilst still accessible for mere mortals) there's no sane way to do it. 5/10/20 has you playing 50bb and 5/5 is too small.
there used to be 5/10 but then the regs got greedy and petitioned to make the 20 straddle compulsory
sure enough it worked but people lost their money too fast and the game died down.
same thing is going to happen at PLO with a few of the local heroes driving bigger and bigger games, like the 200/400 and 25/50/100/200 I saw a few weeks ago.
Opening Event starts 24th Nov, ME is $2k and starts on 4th Dec
always get excited when the series roll around, but do think they could create a few different events as well. ANZPT Melb this week has a load of different buy in and formats
think I may be in Melb next week, so may play one of the smaller events
just fyi, if you're like me and didn't know this - they're aggressively phasing out the $500 chips from the whole casino. apparently there's been some fraud. I took 4x500 and a few blacks from my home stack to play with last night and it was brutally hard to get them changed.
tables and poker cage not accepting them - only main cage after they scanned them and did some funky stuff to them. will be taking the rest of my $500s in to exchange quick smart
game was awesome last night. super gambly and we got really deep. nobody left my table for more than 3 hours at one point.
Is the new 5/10 getting up? 5/10/20 with a 700 - 2k buy in is just lolbad, I'm hoping the 20 is an optional and not mandatory straddle and nobody does it.