A Few Questions

[Jorge10]

1. Does anyone still play at Empire Poker?
2. Whats the general opinion on the games there?
3. Whats a good bankroll for 3/6?
4. How do you guys play small pocket pairs 2's-7's when first to act?
5. How do you guys play small pocket pairs 2's-7's when second to act with the first guy folding?
6. How do you guys play small pocket pairs 2's-7's when third to act when the first two folded?

[econophile]

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1. Does anyone still play at Empire Poker?

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yes
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2. Whats the general opinion on the games there?

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last time i played there, the SH game were still soft but not abundant
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3. Whats a good bankroll for 3/6?

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$3,000 is more than sufficient for SH play
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4. How do you guys play small pocket pairs 2's-7's when first to act?

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raise or fold (i fold 22-66)
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5. How do you guys play small pocket pairs 2's-7's when second to act with the first guy folding?

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again raise or fold (here fold maybe 22-55)
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6. How do you guys play small pocket pairs 2's-7's when third to act when the first two folded?

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again raise or fold (this time fold 22-33/possibly 44) of course this depends on how tight blinds and button are

[Leader]

1. Well some people do. I guess. I don't.
2. I hear they suck
3. 6K

The rest of them are complicated and I'm lazy. Essentially, the later your position the more you should raise. The higher the pair the more you should raise. The less limpers the more you should raise.

[Leader]

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$3,000 is more than sufficient for SH play

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I won't

[econophile]

you can always move down in limits before you lose the entire 3K

[Leader]

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you can always move down in limits before you lose the entire 3K

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You don't have a good bankroll if you have to move down limits when you hit a down streak.

[econophile]

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you can always move down in limits before you lose the entire 3K

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You don't have a good bankroll if you have to move down limits when you hit a down streak.

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1,000 big bets doesn't guarantee that you will never go broke, either. at some point you have to trade off risk of ruin against rate of return. for me, 500BB is closer to the optimal tradeoff than 1,000BB.

[Levarkin]

Agreed. If you lose 1000 BB, something is wrong with your game, period. Even if you lose 500 BB, you should not be chalking it up to "variance". In an economist's terms, the marginal benefits to your winrate exceed the marginal costs of your variance at the point at which you can call a 500-BB downswing "variance". They also obliterate any confidence you may have in that marginal benefit, so I really don't see the point.

Since 6-max is still developing, there's some dissent about win-rates and variance. I believe that both the win-rate and variance can be higher, but that writing off a huge swing in this game to variance is still a little facile. It's still possible to be too aggressive, too loose, even in 6-max. We are not immune to our opponents' errors.

Seriously, suggesting that one needs more than three times the bankroll for 6-max that one needs for full-ring is excessive.