gmanko
03-02-2005, 12:58 AM
I had a long post thought out and just received Poker Essays I in the mail today, and one of the articles was "Do Big Pots Mean Good Games?".
The answer was not necessarily, because it could mean that there are a lot of aggressive players in the game, that there are a lot of players that could be drawing at you postflop with proper odds, even though their hand selection is poor, and since you have a harder time putting people on hands you will make more mistakes (your aces may be behind on a 442 flop to a guy who limped in UG with 42 s00ted ). Also, your standard deviation is higher so you will need a bigger bankroll.
If medium-sized pots are good enough for Mason Malmuth, they're certainly good enough for me.
Once the average number of players gets above 6 things change, but I have never seen such a live game at meaningful limits. If anyone knows of one please invite me, or better yet just send me the money via Neteller or PayPal.
The answer was not necessarily, because it could mean that there are a lot of aggressive players in the game, that there are a lot of players that could be drawing at you postflop with proper odds, even though their hand selection is poor, and since you have a harder time putting people on hands you will make more mistakes (your aces may be behind on a 442 flop to a guy who limped in UG with 42 s00ted ). Also, your standard deviation is higher so you will need a bigger bankroll.
If medium-sized pots are good enough for Mason Malmuth, they're certainly good enough for me.
Once the average number of players gets above 6 things change, but I have never seen such a live game at meaningful limits. If anyone knows of one please invite me, or better yet just send me the money via Neteller or PayPal.