What's up with the big stacks? (low content)

[ElSapo]

This has been bugging me for a bit, and maybe there's no real answer, but what the hell is up with the guys in party's 2/4 game that sit with anywhere from $200 to $400? Is this some kind of "don't mess with me" statement?

[SCfuji]

200 isnt that bad. if you buy in for 100 and you lose a few decent pots youd have to rebuy in. i buy in for extra just so i dont have to reload.

[ElSapo]

I've just found it annoying lately... some guy with $300+ and you know it's a statement stack...

I don't really know why it's irritating to me. Weird. Mostly I find these guys too aggro pre-flop, so maybe I'm associating here.

[Harv72b]

I love the big stacks. More chips for me to win. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

Seriously, though, I think that any player who finds it necessary to make a statement with his stack size isn't nearly as good as he thinks he is. So I welcome anyone who sits down with $350.

[esspo]

You are straying from the yellow brick road. Worry about things that will effect your stack size. Nothing else matters.

The only time your opponent's stack size matters to your stack size in limit play is when they are nearly all-in.

[ElSapo]

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You are straying from the yellow brick road. Worry about things that will effect your stack size. Nothing else matters.

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If I find a correlation between their buy-in and how they play, it affects my stack size. If I find that their stack size affects my mentality, then it also affects my stack size.

That said, it just irritates me. There is no rhyme or reason for it... On a side note, I find this completely different in live games. But when I play live, I'm usually wasted and straddle frequently, so who knows.

[SomethingClever]

I sit with $200. It's only 50 BB.

[ElSapo]

Well, I'm sure it's not you annoying me.

[esspo]

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If I find a correlation between their buy-in and how they play, it affects my stack size.

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If it is possible to find said correlation then by all means look for it.

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If I find that their stack size affects my mentality, then it also affects my stack size.


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The whole point of my post is that it doesn't effect your stack size, so DON'T let it effect your mentality. To do otherwise is what tennis players call an unforced error.

[River2Pair]

In Killer Poker Online, the author recommends buying in big so that players who are new to the table will assume you've been winning and will fear you. Maybe some of your opponents have been doing some reading, I dunno,

[Entity]

I sit with 50BB, and if I've been running well, it may look like I'm sitting with quite a bit more than normal. But yeah, 50BB is my standard buyin, just so when I'm multitabling I don't have to worry about re-buying if I take a bad beat or tow in some pots.

Rob

[sfer]

I played 2/4 with Bunky the other night and we each had $1000. I don't want to speak for Bunkster, but I have a small penis.

[bunky9590]

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I played 2/4 with Bunky the other night and we each had $1000

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Actually we both started with a dime and quickly afdded another thousand.

I left the table with like 2045 dollars. That table got run over. They tightened up quick didn't they?


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I don't want to speak for Bunkster, but I have a small penis.

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It isn't the size of the ship, its the motion in the ocean baby.

Or is it the motion with the lotion?

The wife doesn't complain. /images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[ElSapo]

Live or online?

[bunky9590]

Party 2/4

[sfer]

I prefer sex live. For now.

[ElSapo]

Huh. I dunno. I guess I don't get it.

Ah. I'm juust in a pissy mood I guess. I'm gonna take 1,000+ BB to a table and see what happens. I'll report back in a bit...

[IndieMatty]

When I first cut my teeth there was a player on Stars and Paradise who would always post in the CO, and always eventually add on to his stack with 600...play 3 rounds at the most and leave. This was 2-4. I despised it. So much that if I had a chance to miss a blind so they couldn't post in the CO, I would.

Yeah, I'm a bit neurotic.

[ElSapo]

That's hilarious.

[IndieMatty]

I thought so. I'd love playing back at him, sometimes I thought he was a bot. Mind you he was a very good player, but I think he caught on after while, he once came, sat next to me (not in the cutoff) called my raise (he posted) of AA with 29o and busted me for a genourmous pot. I don't think we ever tangled again.

[Cardzy]

Heck, I normally sit with the default 25bb. If big stacks bug people and affect there game, I need to start sitting down with $1000 from now on!

[eejit]

More often than not on Party 2/4 lately, when I join a table with someone who has $300+ they are usually the worst players at the table. In fact I'm beginning to think this might be a new way to quickly spot a fish.

[asdf1234]

Ever since the time I flopped quads and ran out of chips on the flop, I've kept excessive stacks in front of me.