PaulsonCollector
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“Home game” is the key word. Because I live an easy drive from Atlantic City, most the of home games I hosted or played in over the years mimic what you would see in a casino because many of the players play or used to play in that environment. $1/2 games are capped at $300 in AC and $1000 for $2/5. I’ve heard there are deeper stack games offer occasionally at higher stakes but I don’t play that high. Nothing like 500- 1000 big blinds though. That is beyond normal “deep stack” and I think is a home game invention.
I few of us started a $.25/.50 game a few years ago to get more friends and neighbor to try cash poker who are less comfortable with the game. If I allowed a $500 buyin none of those guys would play. Even $100 would be a game killer at those stakes with these people.
A $5000 buyin for $1/2 as mentioned earlier is absurd and can’t image happens often at any home game and certainly not in a casino.
I would never host or play blinds lower than .25/.50 and I wouldn’t think there would be pre flop all ins in your super high BB game. As I said before, I understand how deep stacks impact the game but there is “deep stack” poker and then there is something beyond that...which IMO is getting silly.
Didnt mean to derail the thread any more but for anyone new who is reading this and trying to get a home game together out there, don’t think that $5000 on the table for a .25/.50 game is normal. 100bb poker is still the standard and 150-300bb is normal “deep stack”.
That's funny, our casinos offer different tables with different limits. At 2,50/2,50 (the minimum at our local casino) the min buy-in is 50 and the max 250, while all higher limits don't have a maximum buy-in, but the min's are much higher in BB-value, which ends in 100BB Minimum at Omaha 10/10.
Given that, I would be very cautious using the word "standard" in this context. Obviously standards vary enormous and I can't see any standard at all.