CAZ Trip Report (Short)

[Greg P]

All,

Just posting here rather than starting a new thread with this question:

What would be the appropriate forum to discuss 5-150 hands? SSNL? Med Stakes LHE? The game is really in between both.

Alternatively, if anyone here plays 5-150 and would like to discuss some hands, I'm definitely game. I'm a fairly experienced player (300K+ hands total of LHE and NL online), but just recently started playing the 5-150 regularly.

[iron81]

5-150 hands should probably go in either SSNL or Full Ring. You rarely reach the betting limit before the river I imagine.

[Nate.]

DC --

Glad to hear you were joking.

Of course 10-150 will be swingier than 5-150, for the same reason 10-20 will be swingier than 10-150 (from a variance, not absolute dollar, standpoint).

I don't live in Arizona any more, so you won't have to worry about me sitting in the game. (Though plenty of guys there think I'm terrible.)

Greg P --

The forums aren't always great for live hands (and especially live spread-limit hands). Feel free to PM me for advice (if you want it) or even see if *TT* would allow a single 5-150 strategy thread here (given how many CAZ regulars are in this forum).

--Nate

[*TT*]

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Feel free to PM me for advice (if you want it) or even see if *TT* would allow a single 5-150 strategy thread here (given how many CAZ regulars are in this forum).

--Nate

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Its not really my decision to make, the forum operates as a collective. I've asked the other mods to see where they think it should go, will let you know soon. My guess is Full Ring NL, but I'm not positive.

[*TT*]

UPDATE: The SSNL forum is welcoming live 5-150 and 10-150 spread limit strategy posts.

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

I was there in April, played 4/8, and thought the players were more sociable than you described, but that just might be that 4/8 players out there aren't as self-important a those playing an order of magnitude higher.

The one thing that annoyed me at the level I played was the preflop drop, which was taken out of the SB.

I also had to adjust to the killer acting last preflop regardless of position rather than in turn as I'm used to at FW.

[trussdude]

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The one thing that annoyed me at the level I played was the preflop drop, which was taken out of the SB.

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That was probably for the bad beat jackpot.

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

Something like that. The day I was there they were doing this "splashpots" thing, where if your table was picked they'd just dump $100 (at 4/8) on the table at the start of the pot, so I assumed the extra drop was for this.

[that_pope]

The drop is for jackpot type items like that.

They have splashpots where $100 is put in the middle of any 8/16 or lower game, and everyone who doesn't win that pot gets $20.

They have 'Monte Carlo' where any 4 of a kind or better is rewarded $100...both cards must play for a straight flush, and it must be a pocket pair for quads.

They also have basketball(rarely) and football(always) promotions where you get two numbers, which represent the last digit of a teams score, and can get anywhere between $100 and $600 for matching correctly.

And then there is the regular badbeat jackpot which is seeded at $7500 and goes up about $1700 a day until hit, which requires AAATT or better beat by quads or better, and both hands must play, and no one else in the pot may beat the AAATT hand.

For example, you have TT and the final board reads AAAJ5, and someone had AQ, you have TT, and some jerk stayed in with KJ, you don't get the jackpot since KJ beats TT.

I should simply write an all inclusive post about CAZ and keep it saved so I can lead people to it....I write too much.

[Howard Beale]

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I should simply write an all inclusive post about CAZ and keep it saved so I can lead people to it

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When you have the time I think you should go ahead and do it. There is certainly enough interest in CAZ from potential visitors that it warrants it and it'll save both you, me, DesertCat and a couple of others from always answering. If you do it I'd suggest pming DC for a contribution on the 5-150 so all bases are covered.