Minimum chip count for ring games

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The point you missed or are ignoring is this player had to at least buy in for 5M - 20M.

How was he short?

He could’ve been ahead 50M and lost 67M.

Your argument is no one has the right to attempt to recoup his chips because you’re too impatient to wait or have decided not to open another table. You even indicated in the OP other players were waiting to join. Just open another table.

I’m curious, what the heck does <3 mean, you’ve used it several times in this and several of your other responses?

Just in case it’s some sort of insult or maybe it’s a complement which is only known to your generation then <3.

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42

It’s a heart! :heart: <3
I usually use it to avoid sounding sarcastic

43

Obviously, I don’t get the symbolism reference or the circumstances when you’ve applied it. Thanks.

44

Example: I have 200bb in the big blind, Player A has 200bb on the button. Player B limps from EP with a 40bb stack, Player A squeezes to 7bb.

Now I feel a bit handcuffed because if I call the 7bb, Player B may well play shove/fold. They aren’t as exposed as I would be in those lines as the most they can lose is 40bb. So now I have to play more of a raise/fold strategy myself, which may artificially inflate my variance against Player A.

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Yeah, I use it as a tone softener bc online one often defaults to assuming people are being snarky

46

if the whole table is going all in preflop as I observe the table to decide to sit or not. I decide to sit. the the dynamic of that table not gonna change going all in pre just because I sit with min.

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47

I agree with Dude in the above post. You’re playing against both players.

And I’m never snarky. I say what I think and what I mean, just in a way I think you’ll understand.

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48

only time a tables dynamic changes is if you’re at a table of players that just limps and checks to river, and then a player comes along and goes all in every hand and now everyone wants to do it. then its time to leave that table and find a different one

49

Of course these are all a part of the game! I am just expressing my personal preference for a game in which players are deeper stacked. It works best for the experience I want out of poker, and incidentally I think that approach is to everyone’s individual benefit (bonus!)

50

just my personal preference that I want players stop playing junk cards, but that’s not gonna change now is it?

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51

why on earth would you want that?? :stuck_out_tongue:

52

they get rewarded is why

53

happily, no they don’t :smiley:

54

sure they do, but that for different thread

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55

The relationship to poker that has you making statements like “players get rewarded for playing junk” is what’s also making it difficult for you to relate to my complaints about short buys

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56

oh not at all.

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Wut??? That absolutely affects EVERYTHING! A slow driver on the road affects ALL of the traffic behind him! In a negative way!

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I love it when my opponents play junk cards, don’t you? Or would you rather play against people who always have suited broadways and high pocket pairs at showdown?

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I wasn’t talking about the road. I mean buy in a ring game has no affect

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That’s not true either though. Funnily enough, this appeared on my feed today, and is a perfect example of how short stacked players change things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI_9yACT4p8