[ericlambi]

It is not true that you should always sit down with the max. Barry Greinstein advocates buying in short in his book. I have been trying it lately by buying in for 50BBs, and it has brought success so far. I get a lot of loose calls I probably wouldn't get if I had a full stack behind . . . either players don't mind losing 45BBs with top pair or they think I'm bad because I bought in short (or both). It also makes decision making with TPTK and overpairs very easy.

That being said, if a table is particularly juicy I will buy in for the max to take advantage. Last session there was a full-ring table with 3 horrible players that had all chipped up big time. I dropped a buy-in on AA all-in pre-flop and decided to rebuy max . . . was up to $400 in about 30 minutes.

Time and place for everything . . .