First time playing in a casino....

MarcJ · #1 09-03-2004, 12:55 PM

I have been lurking for a month or so....but this is my first post!

I have a table image question. How much money should I change when I first sit down to a 1/2 or a 2/4 holdem game? I would like a stack that says I here to play but not so big that I look silly.

ThaSaltCracka · #2 09-03-2004, 01:34 PM

1/2 probably $30.
2/4 probably $60, but you can get by with $50. Anything more than $60 looks ridiculous and "fish-like", IMO.
Good luck, and don't be nervous!!! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Nottom · #3 09-03-2004, 01:43 PM

$60 in a 2/4 game? your nuts.

I think a standard buy-in is about 25BBs.

For 1/2 I'd probably buy in for $60 (just because its usually easier than $50)
at 2/4 make it $100.

ThaSaltCracka · #4 09-03-2004, 02:23 PM

[ QUOTE ]
$60 in a 2/4 game? your nuts.

I think a standard buy-in is about 25BBs.

For 1/2 I'd probably buy in for $60 (just because its usually easier than $50)
at 2/4 make it $100.

[/ QUOTE ] I would love to be playin a 2/4 game and watch someone buy in for 100. I would be drooling, and no, I am not crazy.

scotnt73 · #5 09-03-2004, 02:28 PM

i buy in for 25bb live as well. maybe thats because i learned on the internet. if that makes people drool and think im a fish then i would count that as a positive. i cerainly dont feel like i have a GIANT stack of chips when i do it.

ThaSaltCracka · #6 09-03-2004, 02:33 PM

eh, well hey man, do it then. I never really paid all that much attention to the amount you buy in for. I just know that when I played 2/4, I found $60 to be plenty of money.

cold_cash · #7 09-03-2004, 02:48 PM

I'd rather be the guy that looks "fishy and ridiculous" with a $100 buy in than the guy who looks like a chump going up to the cage to re-buy every half-hour, or pestering the dealer for chips $20 at a time.

Plus, it's not like $100 dollars worth of $1 chips takes up half the table space.

MarcJ · #8 09-03-2004, 02:56 PM

Thanks for the comments guys. I think that 25bb sounds reasonable.

ThaSaltCracka · #9 09-03-2004, 03:04 PM

[ QUOTE ]
I'd rather be the guy that looks "fishy and ridiculous" with a $100 buy in than the guy who looks like a chump going up to the cage to re-buy every half-hour, or pestering the dealer for chips $20 at a time.

[/ QUOTE ] what about looking like a true playa and only needing $60? haha [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

scotnt73 · #10 09-03-2004, 03:07 PM

lol. true. there is always that.