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Originally Posted by TheFly
I think BB Ante definitely is better for when you are in push-fold mode on a sub-20bb stack, you can basically see like 8 hands for free and not be whittled each individual hand.
I also agree that table changes are where some real angling will happen. It's already far to easy to meander about pretending you just cant find "Orange 351", it'll be worse with BB Ante.
Wouldn't necessarily agree with the first paragraph. Sure, when you are on the button you have the "free" hands, but if you lose a high % of your chip stack when in MP/EP, you are obliged to stick your 5-10bb in pre on the hand or two before you lose half your stack in the next two hands. And when you are on the button, its because you have "prepaid" your free hands anyway from the hand or two before.
Agree with the second paragraph, but the solution would be to pick off players from a broken table as the hand is in progress, and have said players guided to new tables with greater supervision etc...
The other alternative (common in Australian pub bar or recreational games) would be to have the players assigned position cards rather than table or seat cards, and that players from any broken table are seated by position and no worse than there current position etc... So a player due to be BB next hand is sat down in relatively early position, and any player four seats or more away from the BB are also sat down as close to behind the button as possible.
While that solution could plausibly be prone to manipulation by TD's officials, its better than the alternative of players being able to manipulate their position with stalling tactics.