This one still hurts!

[7stud]

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Hence,the structure encourages aggression.
Find a low limit game where the ante is no more than 20% of the SB. U will be able to play more conservatively.

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The ante structure encouraged agression, but the game appeared to be very passive--everyone was a calling station. I don't agree that poker9701 should find a game where he can play more conservatively. It sounds like a great game for him to be in: he wanted to play a weak hand, and a high ante game is a game more suited to that type of play. If he played in a lower ante game, it would require better starting hands.

If the antes totaled $1,000, then any hand would be playable because of the pot odds, while if the antes were zero, you would just wait for 3 aces since it would be free to see the first 3 cards.

With the ante being 25 cents, or between 25%($1) and 50%(.50) of the average future bets, maybe 2 live overcards to the board is enough to play. I guess you would have to play a large number of hands and keep decreasing your starting hand requirements until you saw your profit peak and then start to fall off again.

The ante is something I didn't consider earlier--I assumed it was something reasonable