FTP Answers 4/17

[Ghazban]

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8. Have some of the tables require a min of 50% buy in.

- As others have pointed out, we do have the "deep" tables which require a minimum of 100 BBs. For some reason only the lowest limit (which is the only one that only requires 50 BBs) goes off with any regularity. Hmmm...

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Part of the reason this doesn't work is that people want to play with poor players and poor players want to play limits they've seen in casinos (for the most part). You'll notice 2/4 and 5/10 no-limit are way more popular than 3/6. I'm pretty sure this is at least partially due to the fact that 2/4 (or 2/5) and 5/10 NL are spread live all over the place and 3/6 is spread roughly nowhere. A poor player will only rarely stumble onto a 7.50/15 NL table and games are built around poor players.

I bet if you raised the minimum buyin for one of your established limits to 50BB the fish would still play that level (most of them, anyway) and the people (like myself) who find playing against shortstackers uninteresting would be happy, too. It would be fantastic if such an experiment were carried out with the long-range intent of raising the minimum buy-in for all games on the site.




For the people that are going to flame me with "you suck because you can't adjust to shortstackers", I will make a preemptive reply. I have no problem at all adjusting to shortstackers. However, the game played correctly with them at the table is not much fun and it is less profitable. Even if it were equally profitable (or even slightly more profitable even), I would rather play poker with deeper stacks. Whether or not I can beat the shorties is not even relevant to the discussion.