20-40 Discussion topic.
 

Todays 20-40 is the new 5-10.


Discuss.

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Todays 20-40 is the new 5-10.


Discuss.

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It really depends on where you live.

scrub

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Todays 20-40 is the new 5-10.


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In the Bay Area, it's probably more like 20-40 is the new 3-6. There is some level of difference in play, certainly, but that is more a factor of how terrible the small stakes play is rather than an endoresement of the 20-40 game.

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imagine what it would be like during a late 90s type economic boom

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So you are saying that I haven't moved up in the last 7 years?

So what is today's 5/10 like - play money on Yahoo.

I need to play 40/80 this weekend.

If you are at the Taj say hello.

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I have to meet TT at the Borgata, but I definitely have to see my friend MaxPower. Otherwise , I may get put back on the jerk list. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Steven has my number, We'll catch up at some point this weekend.

Gregg

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Todays 20-40 is the new 5-10.


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In the Bay Area, it's probably more like 20-40 is the new 3-6. There is some level of difference in play, certainly, but that is more a factor of how terrible the small stakes play is rather than an endoresement of the 20-40 game.

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I think this is less true in the Bay Area than it is on the East Coast, particularly in rooms that are not Bay 101.

The games here are good, but the 20 at LC's doesn't play anything like their 9/18.

I've never played anything but 20 at Bay 101, but the play in the Bay 101 20 is substantially more analytical and aggressive than the AC 20 games that Bunky is talking about.

scrub

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"The games here are good, but the 20 at LC's doesn't play anything like their 9/18. "

could you describe these games? when i get the chacne to go play i play at LC, highest i've played is the 6/12...

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I've never played anything but 20 at Bay 101, but the play in the Bay 101 20 is substantially more analytical and aggressive than the AC 20 games that Bunky is talking about.

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To broaden it to include other parts of the country, in my 20/40 game (near Seattle): People are aggressive and have much better hand reading skills than a typical 3/6 player. They understand basic poker concepts like semibluffing, whereas in any live 3/6 game, everyone is baffled by the idea of betting a draw. I run into tricky plays like bluff raises on the turn and so forth that you don't see much in 3/6 games (except online, of course). But on the other hand, I see people limp UTG with hands like 64o and as one example of something I saw recently, the last time I played 30/60, someone with K7o coldcalled my EP raise. These are not isolated incident. I see this all the time. "Family pots" (everyone seeing the flop) no longer surprise me. And many people are absolutely awful postflop. The attitude is still not that this is a competitive activity where people are trying to make money from each other. Instead, it is friendly gambling and people are drinking and fooling around. Maybe not quite 5/10, but sometimes not very far at all.