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Originally Posted by Pascal-lF
I mean, at least some of the time you'll bust the tickets trying to clear them and release no cash value?
you're looking at it wrong
Say you play $100nl as your usual game, and generally play 12 tables. You buy a $100 ticket and use it to buy in full at one table, then buy in at another 11 tables with cash. At the end of your session you take all your cash off the table, and whatever's left on the ticket table can be re-used to buy in at your 12th table tomorrow. You're 12-tabling but only putting 11 buyins on the table. And eventually you will either lose the ticket buyin (hooray, you didn't lose the $100 cash you would otherwise have lost), or you clear the ticket and it becomes cash.
Of course, if you use the ticket to play $100nl when you only have $200 in your account and your usual game is $10nl, you're almost always going to lose the buyin before you're able to clear the ticket. And even if you use it "smartly", there's a likely loss of EV at some point as you're unable to top up your buyin at the ticket table and are forced to play short. But it's still a worthwhile deal for a ring game grinder if the price is right and he uses the tickets wisely.