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Old 05-13-2005, 11:54 PM
bptuneman bptuneman is offline
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Default Please Help - Urgent blind situation

I have been playing poker for 6 years online, at foxwoods, and everybar i can. However the way my favorite bar plays has been a heated debate for a year now and i need some educated opinions.
They say "it does not matter in a no limit tourn how the blinds are raised as long as the starting chips are the same"
So they play with say 35 chips to start, and raise as follows every 15 minutes: 1/2-2/4-3/6-4/8-5/10-6/12-7/14-8/16-9/18-10/20-11/22-12/24-13/26-you get the picture.
(and you wonder why the 1st big stack will usually win if the game ever even ends.
I say- "we should play like it is played online, at binions WSOP, on the WPT tour, online, i guess everywhere else, if for no other reason then it is the correct way to play.
However i have other reasons - the correct raising of the blinds insures the game flows at the correct pace. When done properly as most of you know you always have a shot to win if you have chips, but with constant 2 chip increases one almost never has a chance to wear down the chip leader.
They dont buy this.
The other reason is it takes alot of time to continually count and move stacks of 20 chips just for blinds (they dont color up or anything)
Solution if played there way (if there is one)- am i correct? - play their way but raise chips equivalent to the correct way - like this - 1/2-2/4-4/8-6/12-8/16-12/24-16/32
ect. Still hard to count and move, but at least mathmatically correct.
Ideally we should do correctly - whatever in starting chips - all in 25, 50, and 100's.
Raise the blinds as so - 25/50-50/100-100/200-150/300-200/400-300/600-400/800-600/1200-800/1600, ect, and chip up to all 100's as we go - since it is simple to do. No confusion there it seems to me, but I am told it is too complicated to do this and of course, "it does not matter anyway"
LOL, please help me with these fools.
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