Why do slow blind levels help skilled players?

[David04]

Why do slowly increasing blinds help the skilled players? I need to explain to somebody I know, who is trying to tell me that rapidly increasing blinds actually HELPS the good players.


Thanks.

[Freudian]

More postflop play.

[Maulik]

An argument can made that rapidly increasing blinds can expedite the process of good players beating bad players faster; you guys do it all the time.

[microbet]

More hands.

[pokerlaw]

Take extreme examples:

GAME A: 10 players; 800 chips; 10/15 blinds that increase after EVERY hand; OR

GAME B: 10 players; 800 chips; 10/15 blinds that increase every 1,000,000 hands.

Which game do you think a monkey would do better in?

[Ogre]

More hands for the odds to play out.

[Big Limpin']

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Which game do you think a monkey would do better in?

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Well, how big of a monkey? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[Nottom]

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An argument can made that rapidly increasing blinds can expedite the process of good players beating bad players faster; you guys do it all the time.

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I suck at Stars/UB style SNGs with slow blind increases. But this is basicall becasue I'm not much of a NL player outside of tourneys. I know how to play Party style SNGs which is its own style of poker an accept the fact that once the blinds are big its a matter of understanding the EV of you hand vs what your opponent might have and folding equity and thats really about all you need to know.

In fact I commented just last night to a fellow 2+2er that I sometimes feel completely lost when the bubble comes faster than it "should" and there are 4 players left with 25/50 blinds or something like that. I think I still hold my own, but I think my edge in those spots is lower.

[Blarg]

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More hands for the odds to play out.

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If the comparison is going to be fair, we have to assume the same number of hands either way. In which case, the odds play out either way, as they always do.

[microbet]

If the blinds go up slower, there will be more hands.