[Garland]

Anyone know why California NL ring games have a restricted max buy-in of up to only 50x the big blind? At Lucky Chances, the $100 cap game has $1-$1-$2 blinds with a bring in of the sum of the blinds ($4). LC's bigger $500 max game has $2-$3-$5 blind structure with a bring in of $10.

Las Vegas games are prevalently 100x the big blind max buy-in (example: $1/$2 blinds $200 max).

Online is also prevalently 100x the big blind max buy-in.

I guess having a smaller starting stack can be good or bad, but it forces me to build up my stack to about 3 times the max buy-in before I can really play "poker".

For example, a standard raise with 2 or 3 limpers in the $200 game may kill my odds of flopping a set with a smallish pair if I only have a starting stack.

Garland