PROPOSAL (this affects you guys, please read): mid- and high- forums

[tonypaladino]

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ps. I remember when I was playing 1/2 and felt like the micros just weren't the place for my posts.

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I really don't like posting in the micro forum. I post my 1/2 here, and as a result get ignored a lot. Oh Well.

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Just a clarification, because I'm a moron and don't preview before I post, and made a mis-type.

I don't "not like" the micro forum, I just don't like posting there compared to posting here. There are a few reasons, I play live 4/8-10/20 so I feel this forum is more condusive to my level of play, and my 1/2 play is primarily at Absolute Poker, which plays much tougher than the Party 1/2 tables. I also have played 2/4 and 3/6 online, and I feel I have the ability to do so, but play 1/2 because of poor money management.

This is combined with the fact that I'm more familiar who many of the regular posters in here are, and I've met a few of them in person, so I kinda give more respect to advice from them then random posters.

In any case, the 1/2 posts are not well received and so I'm probaby going to switch to the micros, or just stop posting hands altogether.

[SippinSoma]

Looking forward to this split.

[BigEndian]

I like it. I think the community has been missing focused discussion on the 10-20 to 20-40 limits.

There's only two reasons to not do this imo:

1) A lot of posters in SS learn from the 10/20+ hands posted here. But, of course, they can always read the hands in the mid-stakes.

2) The 20/40 players may feel like they aren't getting put in the right category. Merits discussion.

- Jim

[ErrantNight]

ni han.

not being around... and probably just blanking... who made a dramatic exit in june?

(bison? i thought he was gone before then...)

[ErrantNight]

pokerbob? but he still posts here from time to time. just not hands so much.

josh and dave don't post much in here anymore... but they definitely just float around...

i feel like this deserves an in-depth investigation because i don't have enough to do today.

[MaxPower]

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This is a good point. I remember when I was playing 3/6 and was interested to get advice from players who were playing 15/30. I think I got a lot of great help from those posters. A huge part of learning comes from hearing advice from people who have been there.

I think there's far too much ego involved in this decision because some Mid-High posters think SS is full of bad players and won't answer posts from 15/30 they think are standard. That's why I like this forum. People play anywhere from 3/6 to 20/40 and post them here and we get discussion no matter what the limit. The folks who think they can't post a 15/30 hand here are mistaken.

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I agree. Some of these mid/high people need to drop the ego. The point of these forums is to learn. Sometimes people post a question that they feel is too basic - so what? People do that on Small Stakes all the time. I either post a polite answer or just ignore it.

[BigEndian]

Unfortunately, it's very difficult to seperate ego from poker. Some of us are effected dramatically, others of us much less so. But it's always there. And some posters are just such nimrods they can't temper their egos.

The moderators here have always been hands-off. On other boards, people are chastised for just being a dick. Whatever, that's the way it is.

Split or not splitting is not going to change that too much. If nothing else, it'll foster discussion for those playing 10/20 to 20/40 away from what is the highest density of assholes on the site.

- Jim

[sfer]

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josh and dave don't post much in here anymore... but they definitely just float around...

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I like to float.

[KDawgCometh]

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josh and dave don't post much in here anymore... but they definitely just float around...

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I like to float.

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imitating shant now are we [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[ZootMurph]

This makes perfect sense to me. You can't expect the same feedback on a 20/40 hand from a player just recently moving to 2/4 from Micro as you can from a player going from 5/10 to 10/20. Also, many of those 20/40 hands would not have as much relevance to a 2/4 or 3/6 player as to higher limit players.

All in all, a good idea. It's a shame that the high stakes people have become too snobby to lower themselves to commenting on the lower end of the spectrum, though.