Diplomat
04-07-2003, 08:56 PM
These two simple events occured on saturday night and got me thinking. The game is a loose-ish 20-40 game, not too bad at all.
A new player sat down on my right, and tossed 20 one hundred dollar bills down on the table. The dealer asked him if he wanted any tigers, and he refused, asking for only red chips.
A few rounds later, a different player who had won a few hands off of a fairly small stack asked the dealer to color up most of his reds, keeping his stack very small (maybe three hundred in reds, but much more in higher chips).
So I got thinking about a few questions.
1. What do you think is an appropriate buy-in, in terms of number of big bets? 20 big bets? (800 for 20-40) and why? What would affect your decision to buy more or less?
2. Do you like playing with a big stack or a small stack? Why? (as in a visually big stack -- same $ amount, but different number of chips)
Thoughts/comments welcome.
-Diplomat
A new player sat down on my right, and tossed 20 one hundred dollar bills down on the table. The dealer asked him if he wanted any tigers, and he refused, asking for only red chips.
A few rounds later, a different player who had won a few hands off of a fairly small stack asked the dealer to color up most of his reds, keeping his stack very small (maybe three hundred in reds, but much more in higher chips).
So I got thinking about a few questions.
1. What do you think is an appropriate buy-in, in terms of number of big bets? 20 big bets? (800 for 20-40) and why? What would affect your decision to buy more or less?
2. Do you like playing with a big stack or a small stack? Why? (as in a visually big stack -- same $ amount, but different number of chips)
Thoughts/comments welcome.
-Diplomat