Min and Max buyin for NL

[skitzo444]

I found a 1-2NL game on my campus and the Min buyin is $50 and the max buyin is $200. I was wondering if this was a good setup.

[KenProspero]

I'm not sure I understand your question.

I've seen plenty of $1/2 NL games with either a $100 max or a $200 max. If you want to play big stack, you can often expand your stack by buying the minimum, tipping $1 and rebuying -- check your casino's rules. In either case, the one guy sitting at the table with a thousand or so in front of him is probably the best player (or incredibly lucky -- beware in either case). [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] If you want to play small stack nl it really doesn't matter.

[skitzo444]

This is not at a casino, I heard this was a game going in my college dorm. I was wondering if 50-20o was enough chips for a 1/2 NL game

[TomHimself]

100xBB is standard max buyin for online and alot of live. but really its up to u guys, u could make it a min/no max buyin game if u wanted to

[orange]

Depends on how big your bankroll is/ skill level of your opponents are.

Buy in short ($100) if:
-you feel that your skill level is lower than your opponents, and you won't have to be put to the test with harder decisions involved in deep stack poker.
-you play with insane maniacs, and more often you are not playing farther than the flop before you are all in.
-your bankroll cannot take a full $200 loss, and money is a concern.

buy in for $200 if:
-your opponents are much worse, and you can easily stack them with a bigger stack. (you are more skillful than your opponents).
-you are better at playing deep stack poker, you know values of PPs, SCs, and other hands that involve bigger implied odds.
-you can safely lose $200, and not having it affect your BR.

I don't agree with buying in for $50. 25x the BB is too small IMO. You won't be playing past the flop most times.

Just some thoughts.