Speeds up the game,,,or they would go forever.:vroam:
Your combative tone has got you in trouble a couple times so far,bro. Keep it up.:wavey:
That's ridiculous. In tournament play if you didn't have the blinds the game would last to long. You also have to consider that the blinds, especially late blinds, are the motivating factors of play. That's why Texas holdem and its counterparts work the way they do...
No blinds, then players won't have a reason to take gambles and they'll just wait for AA
Anyone that actually plays poker, knows that other than needless tanking antes are the biggest slow down to play in tournaments. The dealer is constantly reminding players to ante every hand, people arguing about which player put ante in and which player did not, dealer recounting antes etc. it is annoying and takes time out of every level when antes are collected. That is why the trend in tournament poker is toward a button ante (where the player who has the button ante's for the whole table). Blind to ante ratio is a big part of tournament strategy and any talk of eliminating blinds in tournaments I find pretty laughable.
SnG, MTT's - Everyone at a table throws in an ante and minimum bets to start the action. Those antes and minimum bets growing larger in set time increments. Mathematically it could work out, and it blows a hole in what you said.
I can see how it would make the game a little different, and you'd probably have to make some small strategic adjustments... but I don't understand what specific problem you think this would this "solve". How would changing from blinds to antes make the game better?
Your first post only said you wanted to get rid of blinds, nothing about replacing them with antes. You can't get upset at people for not understanding something you hadn't said
I see it working for online where people do not have to have their chips put up for sh!tty hands, the other day online I was moved from table to table and 3 times I was the big blind in 5 hands. Yeh for online this works for me. It might change the dynamic of the game for the better, it could also be an alternate way of playing.
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...so what you're really saying is you're upset you got unlucky with breaking tables the other day? And that you don't like having to put in money when you have bad cards.
Sure that sucks, but the change you're suggesting won't actually fix any of the problems that you have. If you go to everyone antes instead of two blinds you're literally paying for every single bad hand you get. I don't see that as a problem whether you use blinds or antes FWIW, paying regardless of the cards you get is 100% integral to the game of poker.
Your suggestion wouldn't actually fix random "unfair" outcomes when breaking tables either. Sure you wouldn't be forced to pay blinds three times in five hands, but I suspect people would just complain about being moved into early position three tables in a row instead and never getting to play the button. Search your feelings, you know it to be true
It's also somthing that simply doesn't matter in the long run - you're just as likely to be moved into early position three times in a row as you are to be moved into late position and dodge the blinds three times in a row. It all evens out in the long run.
The reality is whether you're paying a smaller ante every hand, or you use the blinds system, you're probably paying about the same in either case per round of the button.
There's another issue you haven't thought of too: stud games work with an antes because there's also the forced bring-in bet. Hold 'em doesn't have upcards though, so... who has to bring in / start the betting? Nobody? If everyone folds preflop, does the button just get to take all the antes without having had to risk any additional chips?