spitting midhigh

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I stated this in Small Stakes, but I'll repeat it here.

I think it's best to not create another new forum, but to push 2/4 down into micro-limit, make SS go from 3/6 to 15/30, and put 20/40 and up in mid-high.

Since live 15/30 plays like online 3/6, this isn't such a bad idea.

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I think that many people will just continue to use their respective forums anyway. We have for example 10/20 hands in micro limits sometimes and 3/6 hands every day. And I see 15/30 live hands in midhigh. I guess people post in the forums they get responses and feel comfortable in.

[Ulysses]

I think the more appropriate split is online/casino. However, I think the real problem is not limits, it is quality of posts. This is an espcially big problem w/ the online posts, where there are people playing mid-high yet still making boring, almost beginner-level, posts. Perhaps splitting up the forums as mid and high would help this out a little. Dunno.

[Dave Mac]

I agree the forum is almost always unreadable, and redundant. All of the party hands seem the same. I think one of the issues is beyond the basic most speicific hands will not teach much and are generally irrelevent. should i 3 bet this river, well maybe, but no specific issue, after those basic corrections is really going to improve our game that much or are that interesting. some post do change our game or perspecitive, but i find these very few and very far between. we all bsically know how to play, and i have found improving the small things to get to perfect or making them better is very hard, and so situation and player dependet it is very hard to learn is describe or understand in a post.
dave

[B Dids]

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I think the real problem is not limits, it is quality of posts.

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Agreed.

The solution isn't moving around where people make [censored] posts, it's getting people to make less [censored] posts.

If you do split, as I mentioned in SS. 15/30 seems to have more in common with 3/6 than it does 100/200.

I also think that if the forum could somehow disallow the use of the handconverter, things would improve markedly. The less people are able to hand spam, the better.

[bobdibble]

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This is an espcially big problem w/ the online posts, where there are people playing mid-high yet still making boring, almost beginner-level, posts.

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I agree with this and some of my posts probably fit in this category. However, it is tough to get advice on 15/30 and 20/40 hands in SS because the typical 3/6 player in SH just isn't familiar with the level of agression in the 15/30 and 20/40, nor the vastly improved (but still bad overall) ability of the villains to read hands.

I think Bobbyi is right in that 15/30 and 20/40 are sort of in limbo on these forums.

Does that implie that there should be a split? Dunno.

[stigmata]

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there are people playing mid-high yet still making boring, almost beginner-level, posts.

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I agree with this, but from the other side of the coin. As someone just breaking into the mid-limits, I would actually really like a forum to post some pretty boring/standard hands. Most of them concerned with adapting to the vastly increased aggression and generally better standard of play. These posts certainly would not fit in SSH, but I am hesitant to post them here, as I am sure it would bring down the quality of discussion in this forum. As surbullet said "these posts have no home".

There are quite a few of us moving "out of the kiddie pool", and a new forum would help us and also keep the quality of this forum up. I don't think having a low number of posts on each forum is a bad thing at all, either.

[astroglide]

i don't want 15/30 here either, but it's because those hands rate to be waste-of-space hand history dumps.

how many of you would be upset with a well-crafted hand from a 20/40 casino session, and think that it had no place here? i would welcome it, and it's not because of the limit.

bobby's point about suggestion 1 not being a "total split" is a good one. but if people don't want to see the posts simply because they suck, aren't we spanking the wrong baby by simply separating the limits more?

[TStoneMBD]

i personally could care less about a well crafted 20/40 hand that was written with grace and style and has a tommy angelo cool stamp at the top of the thread. i post hands that i think might have been played suboptimally that i could learn from with the help of others. if these concepts are beginner concepts to you guys thats unfortunate because im posting them here.

[astroglide]

i was referring to the value of the post/hand, not a rating of its prose

[Dave Mac]

the fact you even had to post either one of these posts as questions is very telling. who care what limit it is obv a good post, which is interesting and helpful is much better than a high limit pos post. it is the content not the limit.
and i think it may be spanking the wrong baby and emphasizes dick swinging and limit bragging.
dave