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Originally Posted by psandman
Its not just that they lose their money and quit .... Its that it can be harder to bring in new players who believe that the cap protects them..... I noticed this long ago ... I think part of it is that many new players first experience with NL poker is a tournament so they feel that players with a bigger stack have an advantage (of course the cap actually allows players to have larger stacks even if you wish to buy in for more -- but many new players think in terms of smaller buyins)
To be fair, the cap does protect them in a sense that the pros can't just top off to their stack size, putting their whole stack at risk at all times even after a huge double-up.
As for new players fearing playing because the opponents have stacks that are just enormous, at least in the games I see, when a table ends up with giant deep stacks, yes someone can still buy in for the $200, but as the night goes on and the stacks get deeper, the open raises have probably gotten bigger too. Obviously you and I know how to take advantage and play accordingly if we're buying in with a short stack, but not everyone does and it makes it hard for them to "play poker". It's less about them being pushed around and more about how the game's bet sizes naturally evolve as stack sizes increase.