10 player cash game, 25c/25c (1 Viewer)

[mummel]

I'm still trying to figure out the suggestion of getting ten player's to have more fun = modify the game to have some of them bust out sooner... Probably just a full table of 10 to start will be "more fun" to the average players ..... Play cards, leave it as is ...

I'm referring to 10 player poker vs 6 player poker. Big diffs on how many hands you could play, ability to bluff etc.

 

[Chippy McChiperson]

 

[Dr. Neau]

Not sure what kind of forum this is yet, or I'd make other suggestions.

 

[detroitdad]

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Don Julio is better , but I like where your head is at

 

[mummel]

Not sure what kind of forum this is yet, or I'd make other suggestions.

 

[Blaster]

I'm referring to 10 player poker vs 6 player poker. Big diffs on how many hands you could play, ability to bluff etc.

.. I enjoy the WPT event 6/table tournament at the Borgata , although I haven't gone down & played the WPT events there in the past few years, always busy.... ( cashed last time I played the 6/man ) .... Plenty of room at the table too, & as you mention ...
If your goal is simply trying to quickly get back down to 6 players, then I suppose you could shorten the 1st couple of blind levels or whatever, but I would just have a 10 player tourn myself for this game ...

 

[mummel]

.. I enjoy the WPT event 6/table tournament at the Borgata , although I haven't gone down & played the WPT events there in the past few years, always busy.... ( cashed last time I played the 6/man ) .... Plenty of room at the table too, & as you mention ...
If your goal is simply trying to quickly get back down to 6 players, then I suppose you could shorten the 1st couple of blind levels or whatever, but I would just have a 10 player tourn myself for this game ...

This is a cash game.

 

[Blaster]

This is a cash game.

.. OH, nevermind.
.. You have no room for 2 tables I suppose ...
If not , perhaps the idea someone gave of having people rotate in-out / sitting out an orbit or 2 ....

 

[mummel]

.. OH, nevermind.
.. You have no room for 2 tables I suppose ...
If not , perhaps the idea someone gave of having people rotate in-out / sitting out an orbit or 2 ....

Yeah no room. Already packed in like sardines.

 

[Chicken Rob]

I've said it before in your threads, and I'll keep saying it: consider lowering the blinds. Going to a .05/.10 game with the same buy ins plays deeper, and gets your players used to playing more marginal hands. when it's cheaper to call, even in a 3-bet pot, you're more likely to take a shot. Then as the hand progresses, the pot gets bigger, and more people are now in with marginal show down value and draws, so they get sucked in deeper.

I played in a .05/.10 game recently at bergs where the big winner went +$600ish. .05/.10 can be very real and quite exciting poker, and playing deep stacked with some action players in the mix can be quite a thrill ride even at those stakes.

You're in the boston area right? Consider talking to @bergs about playing at his next game. You'll see what a mixed deep stack microstakes game can really be.

Plus, 6 card drawmaha with a 6 card board is gamblicious.

 

[DrStrange]

Hmmm . . . my 10 and 11 player games generally play 4+ players to every flop. Even after a raise, especially my raises, there are ample callers.

 

[CraigT78]

As much as we might revel in weird games and loose rules, the average poker player doesn't want to walk into a game and be told that he has to learn what kill buttons and double board tokens are.

Amazingly accurate. I had a real hard time convincing the guys to add an orbit of PLO to our cash games. I couldn't imaging adding anything more.

*EDIT* After reading @Chicken Rob post - I might also try lowering the blinds to introduce new games. I have a pre-tournament cash game that is $.25/$.50 now where we do an orbit of PLO and NLHE. Might try and make that a smaller stakes game. Good advice! (y) :thumbsup:

 

[T_Chan]

Straddles. Straddle all the time, double straddle when you can, also offer button straddles. That'll get some action going.

 

[Adam Crowley]

Is there a chance you could be mis diagnosing the problem.

When you say more fun, I assume you mean players being less nitty and more money changing hands. There is a chance that your players aren't comfortable playing that style of poker.

I find it hard to believe that players playing .25/.25 are playing that much tighter because there is 10/11 players at the table over 6 - 8. I may be reading the situation incorrectly but it sounds like the game plays a little passive. A lot of limping/checking, and very few larger pots developing.

If this is the case I doubt it would change that much even when shorter. Passive players just play passive.

You can try take the rains a little here and three bet lighter and play more aggressive post flop. Once you start 3b more frequently other players may start playing back at you and the game may open up.

You could also increase the blinds and buyins play .50/1 instead of .25/.25. Game would be nifty but when the pots get larger the adrenaline will increase making the night more enjoyable for those stacking chips.

 

[ultramark3000]

for what its worth, in our cash game we never use blinds, everyone antes. The dealer decides the ante, usually between a nickle and and a quarter.
We play the dealer decides the game as well, we play hold em, omaha, stud, draw and guts, and the winner becomes the dealer, we do not pass the deal to the left.

big fun is had by all