$10 buy-in for .05/.1 vs .1/.25

I see a lot of discussion about playing short stacked and and deep stacked (recent thread got me thinking) and I was wondering, what is the big difference in buying in for 10 dollars in .10NL vs .25NL assuming you play your stack strategy correctly?


again, assuming you play your stack accordingly, If you have decided to risk 10 dollars, does it matter what limit it is in? I would think that the skill might be higher at .25, but not as large as say jumping from .25 to .5

thoughts?

If you play your stack "correctly" it makes no difference at all - but it is alot harder to play half stacked correctly than it is to play deep or short because your options are limited. Granted, the players playing against you have the same effective stack size, so if you are used to playing that stack size you may very well have an advantage. But, it is just a stupid stack size because you are too deep to be shoving to pick up dead money or other short stack strats, and you can't play implied odds hands as if you were deep. You are therefore limiting your hand range/strategy to one that effectively works with such a stack size, which is obviously much smaller.

So it is more a function of greatly limiting the options available to you. But if you could make it work then more power to you. But i'd buy in for full and try to learn how to play "proper poker".

With a $10 stack at 25nl you're going to find yourself committed more easily just calling a standard raise. If you call $2 with say TT your remaining stack is $8 and there is $4.75 in the pot. You'd need to stack on almost every flop or you should have shoved over the initial raiser to begin with. If you're at 10nl you can call a standard raise to $0.40 and still have plenty left behind to play some poker postflop.

agreed with the hillbilly makin some good points, once you spend 3 or 4 bucks your already almost pot committed, and your pot odds would always be to call after to call a raise

Not only this, but you lose value for your premium hands when you buy-in short.

when you buy in short like that, it is super easy for the deep stacks to pick you apart unless you wait for aces and try to either slow play/shove

either of those last two will be a beacon and you wont get any play unless someone flops something better, then you are going broke

shortstacking nl2 is alot diff than shortstacking the higher levels

you can shortstack nl2 because people down that low really have no cares about losing, so when you shove, you can get 1 or 2 (maybe more lol) callers

if you get someone with you on the flop at a higher level, you probably arent getting paid (this isnt to say there arent lagfish at these levels, only that you will run into lots and lots of super tight regs that are just looking to get their piece of your tiny stack)

and this is why i always (always) buyin for the max

if i am going to sit for an hour and avoid the tightregs, i am surely going to get as much money back as possible when i finally get a hand against a lagtard