[Popped Rod]

If you want to play 5-200, I prefer the Garden City game over Bay 101.

Bay's game has 3 blinds: 2/3/5 on Button/SB/BB, while GC only has 2 blinds of 3/5 on SB/BB. ($10/orbit vs $8/orbit).

At Bay, any preflop action, even uncalled, incurs a full $5.00 drop. AT GC, if there are limpers and you raise your button and get no callers, they only drop $1.00.

You can buy-in at the 5-200 short if you wish, ($100-200 buy-in).

Only GC is spreading a 3-100 but it is soft. Blinds are 1/3 with $4.00 drop. Min/Max buy-in is $100.00. Wait for strong hands and you will get paid (or cracked) quickly.

My personal favorite is still Bay's 10-200 spread. Blinds are 5/5/10 with a $5.00 drop. Always a lot of action, so don't bluff (too much) and play TAG. After the flop, because of the spread, this plays a lot like 100/200 limit. Buy-in is $400min/$1000max and if the game has been going awhile, there can be $30k+ sitting on the table ("Jackson...Color change!"). [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

FWIW, I bought in short ($400.00) yesterday, played maybe a dozen hands over 4 hours, and cashed out nearly $2500.00. This includes getting AA cracked by pocket fives (Villain flopped a set) and KK cracked on the river when another Villain thought his ATo was the best hand on a T high flop (rivered an Ace). Those hands cost me about $700 combined.


HTH, Rod