Re: $100 in Vegas
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It's a half-buy at most NL1/2 games. Probably will last you 15 minutes.
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Why on earth would you put your entire trip's bankroll on the table? Some $1-2 games obviously don't require $100 min. (since the Luxor is $50 max). You'd do better there.
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If you come to Vegas with a $100 poker roll expecting to leave with a profit, you have every probability of being disappointed. Plan to lose it and plan for the "entertainment" to not last very long.
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Agreed 100%. But we seem to agree you can do some things to make it last longer than other things. 18 hours is better than 15 minutes.
My suggestion if you want to play poker: Buy into a $2/4 limit game for the minimum buy-in. I believe 5 BBet is standard, so that's $20. When you bust out, get up and walk around for a while.
Short-stacked limit is certainly suboptimal for good players in most cases. For bankroll preservation, though, what else can you do?
I did this a bit in Tunica, when I either wanted to visit a given casino (Sam's Town) but didn't want to buy in for $100 to the $1-2 and didn't want to take on the full variance of limit, or when another room's $50 min. $1-2 hadn't started yet and I needed to play $4/8. Sure, I was sacrificing EV, but busting out and driving home would have sacrificed EV.
(If Neteller would let me get at 40% of my poker bankroll, I'd think about these things a lot less. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img])
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