double the stakes in my cash game?

[tminus]

ive been hosting a cash game for the past two months which meets twice a week with .25/.50 blinds. usually 5-8 players with varying degrees of skill...most of it soft.

over the past two months ive built a $500 bankroll which equates to ten 100bb buyins.

i was thinking of raising the stakes to .5/1 which gives me 5 buyins and then return to .25/.50 if i lose two buyins.

how do feel about this?

[Lottery Larry]

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how do feel about this?

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It doesn't matter how WE feel about it- how will your other players feel about it?

I would recommend you don't jump the gun yet on the stakes- you've only played 18 times, not enough to determine if you can maintain that level of gain long-term.

[pfapfap]

Yeah, uh, remember that others play in your game, too.

Blinds don't really matter in NL as much as chips on the table, anyway. Sounds like you have $50 buyins. Plenty to keep you active and profitable at the current level, whereas raising it can bust you out sooner and scare away the easier money.

[tminus]

yes, i thought of this and asked them. out of about 20 people who come and go, half like it as it is and the other half want to raise it.

[Taso]

5 buy ins = very few. I'd keep doing .25/.50, but if you want to raise it, and half the group does, half doesn't, maybe instead of making it .50/1.00, put it somewhere between.

.40/.80 for example...Sorta weird, but whatever. 5 buy ins is not enough in my opinion.

[Bantam222]

uhhh. dont do .40/.80 plz..

just stay at .25/.50 for a while longer and build up your roll some more...Its hard to have other people adjust to your bankroll

[TexRef]

In the home games that I frequent some of the better players want to increase the blinds, but others are worried that it would scare off the recreational player -- the one that doesn't take it very seriously, isn't very good, but doesn't mind blowing through a few $50 buy-ins for a night of "entertainment".

I've thought about hosting a game where the blinds start out at .25/.50 (like normal), but then double after a few hours, and then double again a few hours later -- maxing at 1/2. I think it might work as it reflects the tone of the game anyway -- as the night goes on and stacks build, you are rarely seeing a flop for $3-5, let alone $0.50!

[nowags]

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yes, i thought of this and asked them. out of about 20 people who come and go, half like it as it is and the other half want to raise it.

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start the game out as normal, then after a couple of hours, see who wants to raise the blinds.

[ToeHold]

The other thing to consider is the blind-to-stack ratio. One of the games I play in, one of the guys usually wants to raise the stakes (all the way to .5/1... ooh) but fails to consider that players still buy-in for $20.

With everyone so short-stacked from the get-go, it allows the poor players to play... less poorly.

I explained this to him one time, away from the table, and his response told me what I needed to know about his understanding of the game. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[Obfuscation]

I always find it interesting how games just naturally play bigger as the night goes on.

My home game is a .50 / 1.00 NL game with max buy-in of 100. It starts small with 3-4 dollar raises but by the end of the night it's playing more like a 1/2 game with preflop raises of 10-15 pretty common. Last night we probably had about ~2k on the table playing 8 handed.