The new trend at my casino

[tessarji]

Eric, thanks for your post.

I used a rather poor choice of words in my strategy post. 'Tighter' is not really what I meant. I agree that your hand selection should be skewed differently as everyone described, but the number of hands will not change much. It will be actually somewhat more hands than before, but a different set.

A 2x straddle is not enough to completely obliviate considerations such as position. So I think my recommendations are in the right neighborhood, but perhaps simulations would show differently. I would definitely not fold a hand like KJo in such a game.

The 50x BB example you described is useful, but in the final analysis (reductio ad absurdum) reduces to a ten handed game with one blind, and no preflop or postflop betting at all. You may call or fold preflop. In such a game, all players play their hands according to strict preflop equity.

K9 would _perhaps_ be a play in that game. According to my simulation, K9s,K9o wins approx 11.8% of the time against 9 random hands. However, in general those who call will hold slightly better than average hands. Some hands are still folds; 32 wins in the neighborhood of 6.5% in that game; T4 wins 7%. So I can't say for sure regarding your proposition.