[GailMI]

I like to buy in for $140 or $150 at a $3/$6 table (I like the 25xbig bet rule). But if you get that many in $1 chips, it’s cumbersome. Plus it’s true that most people sit down to these tables with $80-$100, so I hate to come in and sit down with my piles of $1’s. On the other hand, I prefer to come to the table with enough to see me through a decent amount of negative variance without having to rebuy. (Rebuying just feels psychologically negative to me.) So, what I’ve started doing is asking for $140 in chips—$60 in ones and $80 in red chips, or even $150, with $100 in red and $50 in ones. That makes the red a nice little stack. I think that worked out really well for me. Usually in a $3/$6 game, the pot is a mixture of $1’s and $5’s. Man….typing this makes me realize how much THOUGHT I’ve put into this. Strange, but true. It really makes a difference to me just in terms of how comfortable I feel at the table. I want enough chips behind me so that I can play aggressively when I want to, but I don't want to sit down with a "fortress" already pre-built in front of me. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]