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Rational Madman
Legend
Platinum Level
Even if you are a looser player, all that Ante does is encourage your opponents to get braver against your loose style.
If you are a tight player, you can't properly read hands as there is far more grey area as to why someone is raising since raises will happen far more to 'scare off' than in non-ante cash tables.
In tournaments there's limited number of hands and a rate of blind increase which perhaps gets evened out if you force everyone to gradually pay more rather than hit some players harder than others by timing the blind increase onto them which is a fair enough reason to have antes as the form of chip leakage there instead of purely blinds but in cash games blinds don't increase so what justification is there to have antes, it doesn't even anything out it just makes you have to play much dumber to make back what you lost.
If you are a tight player, you can't properly read hands as there is far more grey area as to why someone is raising since raises will happen far more to 'scare off' than in non-ante cash tables.
In tournaments there's limited number of hands and a rate of blind increase which perhaps gets evened out if you force everyone to gradually pay more rather than hit some players harder than others by timing the blind increase onto them which is a fair enough reason to have antes as the form of chip leakage there instead of purely blinds but in cash games blinds don't increase so what justification is there to have antes, it doesn't even anything out it just makes you have to play much dumber to make back what you lost.