[springsteen87]

I've got two groups of poker playing friends.

In one game we play .50/1 and a typical buy-in of $20...I find this ludicrous but they're not very serious players and I go along with it. The game is very very sloppy because you're raising almost 20% of your stack pre-flop if you pop it. It leaves no room to move, and you're basically pot committed in a lot of situations.

Our other game is a .25/.50 game with a $100 buy-in. The players here are a little better, and the play is drastically different. I find myself getting away from jacks or queens preflop easily if I think it's right because of the difference in chip stacks. In my other game it would be almost impossible to fold any kind of good starting hand pre-flop.

I really like the 200BB structure, and hopefully someday i'll find a 500BB or 1000BB game. I think the less the chip structure of the game has to do with play the better.