Re: Mississippi Straddle
i started playing live in mnachester, england where they used a verision of the mississippi whereby ANYONE could double the blind
we used to play 1-1 off the button.
Generally the button would straddle for 2.
Any other player would have the option to 'go four blind'...then 8 and so on
it was not uncommon to have £16 or even 32 'blind'... and in the bigger games 128 wasnt unknown! (2-2 blinds)
Now this was incredibly good if you had players on tilt... and it loosened up the tables.
Now some argued that the 'richest' player could buy position preflop... however i felt that if the stacks were deep enough, positional advantage postflop made it an excellent system.
oh the good old days! (all potlimit games btw)
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