Re: Dealing with Large Losses at a Very Good Table
Read Mason's "Do big pots mean great games?" The title may be slightly different, but I'm close. It's in one of his essays books or GTAOT.
He emphatically states that the sort of game you described is NOT great. It's fun, but the swings are enormous, and the win-rate is not that good.
The skill factor goes way down in importance because pots become so large that the muppets' great weakness, staying too long, becomes less of an error and may even be justified. The pot odds justify staying with almost anything, making the game more of a gamble than Mason and most other conservative players would like.
Bluffing is so common and the pots are so big that you are forced to call or even overcall with weak hands. You can't bluff.
All in all, those games LOOK much better than they are.
Regards,
Al
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