Re: I disagree with Bob Ciaffone. Who is right?
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Related note: When I worked at the Bike I was able to get them to reduce the penalty for moving away from the BB (and you don't want to wait) to posting the BB only. A thread and poll I ran on 2+2 helped (essentially confirming that it would help keep players in action and you can't really get any significant advantage).
Sick thing is that to the best of my knowledge no other club in town has adopted this.
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I can hear the voices of nits screaming about the player constantly moving who's "saving money" from not posting SBs while reading this.
That might be why it hasn't been adopted.
The nits.
And, well, someone certainly sure to try and abuse it needlessly.
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I never heard the policy questioned nor did nits complain. The common (in LA) practice of requiring that both the BB and dead SB be posted encouraged many players to simply wait for the BB or the same relative position. By reducing the requirement to simply posting the BB people tended to post rather than wait.
Just to make sure I had my bases covered I asked the math types on 2+2 if moving from early position to the cutoff repeatedly would be plus EV if you only had to post the BB. The consensus was that there could be little advantage if any and the opportunities to do it repeatedly would be rare anyway.
My observation is that there isn't any abuse to speak of.
~ Rick
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