What are your buy in rules for a cash game? (3 Viewers)

[Old State]

100 BB or 120BB if it makes the opening stacks easier to count out. Quickest way to destroy a regular home cash game is to raise the buy ins to much.

 

[Highli99]

One thing I’m considering is actually to increase the initial buy in and then cap the size of rebuys.

I will never cap the number of rebuys since I view that as an individual decision. How much someone is in the game for isn’t my place to judge. Capped buy ins are tournaments.

 

[grandmeme]

Sounds like you need $5k plaques!

Definitely really needed some $1ks at the time lol. Was sweating bullets when I was on my last barrel of $500s! Good thing the game broke at 4am or I would have been in trouble

 

[ThrowBack]

One thing I’m considering is actually to increase the initial buy in and then cap the size of rebuys.

I will never cap the number of rebuys since I view that as an individual decision. How much someone is in the game for isn’t my place to judge. Capped buy ins are tournaments.

Capping rebuys can be for reasons beyond controlling finances. It can because the host does not want to be responsible for more money

 

[ValueTown]

I stopped match the stack a few months ago when my $50k bank was running perilously thin on a 2/5 game after two people rebought for $6k and most others added on at least 2k more to try and catch the player on a super heater.

At this point, you need security.

 

[grandmeme]

At this point, you need security.

PCFers will criticise me on this, but I do electronic transfers on anything over the thousand. I think cash is great if we're playing 50c/50c or $1/$1 which is the bulk of most games here. Anything bigger, definitely a no go for me.

 

[Seven2Wizard]

What are your initial buy in rules for a cash game, in terms of BBs?

For our small stakes cash games we standardize at 80BB stacks.

Pros is we didn't drive off players as the competition got stronger, but cons we get a lot of early all in hands. It's 80BB or up to half the big stack for late arrivals/rebuys/top ups.

For my bigger stakes games it's up to 100BB. And then half the big stack for late arrivals/rebuys/top ups.

For my circus night we play deeper - standardize 160 BB for initial buy in. Half the big stack after that.


What do you do? What do you like/not like about it? I've been debating going a little deeper on starting stack amounts but worry about some players getting scared off.

We treat it like a casino. You don’t have to be felted to add on chips. Anytime you want to add chips, you can up to the big blind

 

[Seven2Wizard]

We treat it like a casino. You don’t have to be felted to add on chips. Anytime you want to add chips, you can up to the big blind

Big stack, not big blind