poker essays clarification

[thedorf]

In one of the poker essays books (can´t remember which) mason talks about why a 15-30 game is so juicy and that good players can often times make as much if not more, with less risk than they could playing 20-40. In my experience this seems to be true but for as much as i try, I can´t figure out why. It seems that the blind structure ensures that there will, on average, be more people in every pot. Obviously, more people means bigger pots but intuitively it would seem like that would favor the WORSE players because they´re constantly getting better odds on those junk hands they come in with pre-flop. Q-10 off UTG isn´t that bad of a hand if you know you´re getting 6 to 1. Fishy loves this hand whether he´s in a 15-30 or 20-40 game so why does he still get raked over the coals in the former game where the pre-flop value of that hand actually goes up, but not as much in the latter.

My guess is that the good players know how to attack the big pots post flop better than your average sea bass but it seems that mason would have said at least that when discussing the game in the book rather than just saying something to the effect of "there´s not enough room in this chapter to discuss why the 15-30....." by the way, it´s just a hunch but I think a discussion of this issue would also illuminate other poker concepts as well. It would actually work really well as a magazine article. Hint hint.

the dorf

PS I´m cross listing this in general texas holdem, general poker theory and books/publications