TheJestyr
3 of a Kind
So let me preface this by saying I am biased because of my history with poker.
I grew up playing dealer’s choice games with family and close friends. Could win or lose $100 in a night, but most of the time averaging around $40-$50 up or down.
First time I played poker in a casino was $1-$4 spread limit 7-stud.
Eventually I moved to limit hold-em, then NLHE, and currently PLO is my game of choice, but still really love all forms of poker.
I say all this because in spread limit and limit games, there wasn’t a capped buy in because there didn’t need to be one…you couldn’t go all in (unless you had overs or whatever but that was a later development to the game) so it didn’t matter if you had $100 or $1,000,000 on the table, the most you could bet was fixed.
When NL starting being played, originally there was no capped buy in (at least not in the dozen or so card rooms I played in across the country)…that was also at a time when cash would play, and you could bury a few thousand dollars under your stacks so when you went all-in, you could ambush your opponent and take his/her whole stack…but that’s a different story.
No capped buy ins really defined my style of play. I purposely chose games where I could buy in for 500-1000bb and push the table around. It made people uncomfortable when I’d constantly push the action and hit them with big bets.
But I think it’s strange that so many games have caps, especially lower 100bb caps. By the time you raise and reraise preflop, you have over 10% of your stack in the pot, and it feels like you’re shooting the rest of your stack in on the flop and turn instead of having enough room to play strategically and still have a large river bet.
Now I fully understand that I can practice pot control or small ball or whatever in order to keep a decent sized barrel on the river, but there’s definitely times where big bets are a must when playing poker properly, and I feel like capped buy ins really hurt that.
Thanks for letting me vent.
Bottom line is I’m bad at the pokers and trying to maximize my losses by putting too much in play haha
I grew up playing dealer’s choice games with family and close friends. Could win or lose $100 in a night, but most of the time averaging around $40-$50 up or down.
First time I played poker in a casino was $1-$4 spread limit 7-stud.
Eventually I moved to limit hold-em, then NLHE, and currently PLO is my game of choice, but still really love all forms of poker.
I say all this because in spread limit and limit games, there wasn’t a capped buy in because there didn’t need to be one…you couldn’t go all in (unless you had overs or whatever but that was a later development to the game) so it didn’t matter if you had $100 or $1,000,000 on the table, the most you could bet was fixed.
When NL starting being played, originally there was no capped buy in (at least not in the dozen or so card rooms I played in across the country)…that was also at a time when cash would play, and you could bury a few thousand dollars under your stacks so when you went all-in, you could ambush your opponent and take his/her whole stack…but that’s a different story.
No capped buy ins really defined my style of play. I purposely chose games where I could buy in for 500-1000bb and push the table around. It made people uncomfortable when I’d constantly push the action and hit them with big bets.
But I think it’s strange that so many games have caps, especially lower 100bb caps. By the time you raise and reraise preflop, you have over 10% of your stack in the pot, and it feels like you’re shooting the rest of your stack in on the flop and turn instead of having enough room to play strategically and still have a large river bet.
Now I fully understand that I can practice pot control or small ball or whatever in order to keep a decent sized barrel on the river, but there’s definitely times where big bets are a must when playing poker properly, and I feel like capped buy ins really hurt that.
Thanks for letting me vent.
Bottom line is I’m bad at the pokers and trying to maximize my losses by putting too much in play haha