2/5NL cash at the WSOP (mississippi straddle)

[alebron]

I played in the 2/5NL at the WSOP, and ran across the "mississippi straddle". It's a button straddle, with the betting order starting at the SB instead of UTG. Button gets the preflop button. Seems like with 100BB stacks and up, that should be pretty much +EV, and you should do it every time. Thoughts?

[Teph]

Every time obv

[mindcirkus]

I came across this for the first time recently in a 5/5 PLO game in Tulsa, but the "mississippi straddle" was mandatory for the button, effectively making it a 5/5/10 game. I thought it was kinda unusual at first but quickly realized that it was really helping to build pots and increase action, so I was all for it.

[Triumph36]

i wasn't convinced that it was +EV necessarily, but the guy to my right kept doing it and tilting me

[Big_Jim]

There's almost definitely a stack size where above said stack size it's +EV and below it it's -EV, but my intuition tells me that it's not all that big.

Big pots OTB = awesome

[Statutory]

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i wasn't convinced that it was +EV necessarily, but the guy to my right kept doing it and tilting me

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I dont think its +EV. It is def -EV for the blinds.

[Big_Jim]

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It is def -EV for the blinds.

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I'll take irrelevant comments for $500, Alex.