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Rock Star
Silver Level
There is a casino in close proximity to where I live. They spread a $1-$2 No limit game. The buy in structure seems a little bit odd to me. You can buy in anywhere from $40 min up to $60 max. This is cool because you do not need to roll with $200 to stake yourself at this table. It makes it a lot easier for me to find the extra money to risk when it is only $60 bucks. I am sure you have already figured out the flip side of it though. The flipside is the buy in is only 30x the big blind as opposed 100x buy that you'll find at most casinos. Although a $200 buy in would make it a lot harder for me to find the extra money to sit down it does give me the opportunity to see a lot more flops. Plus the standard 100x buy in gives you more room to make plays and get tricky.
With the buy in being so small I feel a lot more pressure to tighten up. If you play a hand, you get re-raised, and then you see a flop you can easily take a hit of at least 25% to your stack if things do not work out and someone gets the best of you. That is if you just see a flop and then are forced to fold. Obviously I am not talking about playing a weak passive game of calling and folding, but we all know that there are just those hands where the cards do not work out for us and we get the worst of it. Poker is a fickle mistress.
You can only wait so long before, "you'll go like Broomcorn's uncle" though.
How would you play a ring game with a lower buy in than this? What can I do to overcome the downsides of such a low buy in?
With the buy in being so small I feel a lot more pressure to tighten up. If you play a hand, you get re-raised, and then you see a flop you can easily take a hit of at least 25% to your stack if things do not work out and someone gets the best of you. That is if you just see a flop and then are forced to fold. Obviously I am not talking about playing a weak passive game of calling and folding, but we all know that there are just those hands where the cards do not work out for us and we get the worst of it. Poker is a fickle mistress.
You can only wait so long before, "you'll go like Broomcorn's uncle" though.
How would you play a ring game with a lower buy in than this? What can I do to overcome the downsides of such a low buy in?