NL ring game buy in accumulation question. (Low content)

[TRWIII]

Im just starting to read up on NL ring games (already a fairly accomplished SNG and low limit ring player, but as a personal rule I dont play any new type of poker until I read at least one good book on it... have ciaffone's book on order.)

I was watching a few ring games last night while I was multitabling 2/4 limit on empire and saw something Ive never seen before. At a 25 NL ring game, there was a player who had accumulated over 40 buy ins (a touch over $1020). How often does that happen and how long would you suppose he had been sitting at the table? I watched him for most of an hour and I still wasnt sure whether he was that good, that lucky, or both.

Like I said, low content, just thought I'd share and see if this was more common than I'dve guessed or it was a unique occurrence.

TRWIII

[SirArthur]

When I first started I used to play the $25 buy in at PS all the time, maybe 20 hours a week for two months before moving up in limits. I never saw anyone accumulate anything over $200.

So I would say this is very, very unusual.
In order to do what he did, you'd have to be in lots of hands, and have lots of luck too.

I'd guess that he was just a maniac having an amazing run of luck.

[Leo Bello]

Never ever saw something like this, at 25 buy-in maximum I have seen in UB is around 170. At that point, all players leave the table, and let the big stack alone there. And it is tough for someone else to join.

[AtlBrvs4Life]

I've seen in the mid $400s. Over $1000 is just crazy. That's 40 people's buy-ins!

[TRWIII]

I thought it was pretty abnormal (but what do I know, Im just starting to dip my toes into the NL water). Eh see something new everyday.

TRWIII

[The Next WSOP Winner]

Coupled with the right run of cards, and the right type of players, a stack can grow to be pretty ridiculous. Although I've never seen anything like 40x buy-ins, I have seen players push their buy-ins up to 8x at limits as high as 25/50 NL. Usually you have to be in the right place at the right time, and catch a LOT of the right cards. It also helps to have a tilty player donate buy-in after buy-in to you. It's what we all hope for when we sit down at the table.

[toby]

Like everyone else has said, that's quite an unbelievable stack. The most I've seen is around $200 in a $25 buyin table. He must have been very lucky and won a couple very big pots. That is certainly not the norm.

[bugstud]

Muzungu had a table on party's 2/4 where 2 people had 10X the buyin (2k+) with 3-4 others at 5 buyins. Was a sick, sick game.

[TStoneMBD]

I don't play online, but at casino play I've had 12x buyins and that isn't that all unusual. 40x buyins has gotta be impossible tho, my guess is its a well programmed prog thats been playing for several days

[Snoogins47]

I don't think I've ever seen a real money NL ring game where anybody had more than 20x the max buy-in. Online or otherwise.

I've personally ended up with about 12-15x the max buy a couple of times at some NL homegames, but that is definitely a ridiculous stack.

[wdbaker]

My guess is that somehow you accidently got into a play money game, I can't imagine any other way for that to happen. Either you accidently chose it or Party had a glitch and sent you to play money when you chose real money.

I'm probably wrong but that is my reasonable, logical, educated guess.

One street at a time
wdbaker Denver, Co

[PokerFink]

I woulden't be surprised if this were a glitch. At turning stone casino, they have a 100 max 1-2NL game that I play frequently, and it often spreads to 3 tables, with two being must-move to the main table. It's not uncommon to see a couple people with 300-500 at the main table, and the chip leader can build to 600+ with solid play and some luck, since the main table gets fed new blood from the other tables all night. When somone busts, instead of buying in for 100, often a new player will come in with several hundred that they brought from one of the other tables. So my point is that this is a game where building a huge stack is very possible, because there are generally many, many buy-ins on the table.

I know the guy who holds the record cashout at that game, a little over $1,600, but that's still only 16 buy ins, and to get it he had to clean out a player with $600 in one hand. Granted, this game is a lot tougher than a 25 buy in party game, but you get my point.

Fourty buy-ins is just absurd, it seems as though something is wrong. But hey, it's partypoker, and weird things happen there every day. Ya never know.

[SpiderMnkE]

Why couldn't he have just been there for an obscene amount of time. What if 4 guys just rotated and kept playing the table for days... is that unreasonable?

[PokerFink]

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Why couldn't he have just been there for an obscene amount of time. What if 4 guys just rotated and kept playing the table for days... is that unreasonable?

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That is quite possible as well. Heck, it could be just him, the same Turning Stone player I mentioned before sat at the same game for 50 straight hours last time i was there. Same seat for two days straight.

[MisterNatural]

About a month ago I was watching a room at Party NL100 and one guy had $2800. Unfortunately, I didn't get to see him play because he was being delt out before he left. Another player said that the guy had been up even more earlier.