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Originally Posted by catangod
If you are a winning player what you are losing by people "forgetting" is pennies compared to what you gain by doubling the stakes.
I will agree its annoying when people miss blinds and buy the button. Totally reasonable tradeoffs though.
No, it isn't. There are so many misconceptions.
If the game is 100BB deep and you half the stacks to 50BB, your win rate also drops, usually... by half.
If your win rate goes from 30BB/100 in 2/5 to 15BB/100 in 2/5/10, you still make $150 per 100.
To show how absurd this logic is, let's take it to its logical extreme. Let's say we take a 100BB game and we make it 10BB deep. Do people think they are going to be making more money? Well, if they do, they are sorely mistaken.
If they are as good shortstacked as they are at 100BB poker -and a lot of live poker regs aren't- they would be making 2-3BB/100 which is the equivalent of a fifth to a third of the effective stack which in turn ranslates to the same win rate in terms of money had they been playing 100BB deep.
To me the straddle makes sense if games are really deep. Then, it cuts down average stacks from 400 and 200BB to 200 and 100BB. That to me is an advantage, because it's easier to get stacks in - at least the way I play. The flip side of this is that there are some regs who are better at playing deep than the rest of the pool. Those people have a skill advantage in a particular area of the game and they are hurt by the straddle. Is this fair by any stretch of the imagination? No, it isn't, but it's drowned by the nonsense about nit regs and the good of the game.
Other than that, straddling is a mostly meaningless concession to the people who ask for it.
Oh and btw, 9 out of the last 10 times people asked for straddles in my games, they were regs, not whales. And that's conservative, because over the past few months, I frankly can't remember a whale who asked for it.
Last edited by OvertlySexual; 08-17-2023 at 12:26 AM.