CrazyEddie
Full House
[This is a follow-up to my earlier post The Limits of a Limit Set]
I'm trying to establish the maximum number of workhorse chips one might ever reasonably want to include in a set. The way I see it, it's the smaller of these two:
As far as the money maximum:
So here's my question: even assuming you really like having lots of chips on the table, is there any reason to have more than one rack of the workhorse per player in your set? And contrariwise, again assuming you really like having lots of chips on the table, would you be satisfied with, say, only fifty workhorse chips per player in your set? Thirty?
I'm trying to establish the maximum number of workhorse chips one might ever reasonably want to include in a set. The way I see it, it's the smaller of these two:
- The practical maximum - how many chips before the table gets too crowded, when pushing chips back and forth gets too cumbersome, etc.
- The money maximum - how many chips you get when everyone has bought and rebought as many times and for as much money as they're going to put on the table in one night, and all of that money is in workhorse chips instead of value chips because, well, you like having lots of chips.
As far as the money maximum:
- @BGinGA once remarked that "in the MA/NH games $1000+ pots are not uncommon for 25c/50c games." That's a 2000bb pot, which suggests two players each in for 1000bb, one of them all-in. So perhaps there's around 1000bb per player on the table in those games, at least late in the session.
- @bergs talked about a deep game: "The other game is uncapped 1/1. This generally only goes in March at Bounty Battle. Uncapped, so most buyins/rebuys are $100-300. Some $500 buyins occur later in the night, and we've had a couple of 1K buyins. I rebought in for 2k twice (once each of the last 2 years) in an effort (in vain) to get unstuck. The game was very, very deep at that point." So that's late-session buy-ins up to 1000bb - and if you figure people rebuying are trying to match or maybe overmatch the top stacks, that again suggests that typical players might have around 1000bb on the table at the time.
- In a Live at the Bike Million Dollar Cash Game the blinds were 100-100-200 + 200 ante. Top players had $100k-$250k in their stacks, others were not that far below $100k. If you handwave and say the game plays like a 200-400 game (because there's $600 in the pot to start) then that's around 250 to 600 bb per player. If you treat it like a 100-200 game (because the big blind is 200) then that's around 500 to 1200 bb per player.
So here's my question: even assuming you really like having lots of chips on the table, is there any reason to have more than one rack of the workhorse per player in your set? And contrariwise, again assuming you really like having lots of chips on the table, would you be satisfied with, say, only fifty workhorse chips per player in your set? Thirty?