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Nov 13, 2017, 3:04 pm

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Originally Posted by DenverBrian

At the Bellagio it would be 4/8 limit. Never heard of a 4/6 limit game.

That's quite correct. It was a typo on my part to say that Bellagio has a 4/6 limit game; I meant to say 4/8, but mistakenly wrote 4/6.

Nov 13, 2017, 3:45 pm

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Originally Posted by greggarious

I'll keep an eye out. I think someone may have tried this strategy at a casino I visited now that you mention it, but I didn't actually mind.

Table min was 100, I don't recall max but he had a lot of chips, probably at least a grand. (I'm not good at eyeballing stacks yet)

He seemed to be making large bets more often than you would expect a tight agressive player, so when I caught pocket 9s and he tried to raise 50 pre-flop then tried to put me all in. I decided to live a little and call. Ended up with three 9s. He had an ace and some random card, offsuit.

He got really pissy - I think he'd been getting away with it for a while and having it be plainly seen he was raising with nothing and wasn't advanced enough to adjust his play based on us knowing that.

It varies by casino, but 1/2 NL tends to have a table (buy-in) max of $300 and 1/3 NL tends to $500. I've also seen $200 for 1/2 and $300 for 1/3. Anything less than 100 BBs and you are playing short, effectively.

I like to buy in for $200 at a 1/2 game (or $300 at 1/3) and play for a couple of orbits, then top off to the table max once I have a feel for the game. The only exception for me is when I open a new table, where I always buy to the max from the start.

Note that this is a maximum buy-in; anyone can and must keep all chips won above the initial buy-in on the table or completely leave the game. "Going south" repercussions range from stink-eye to a punch in the face.

I'll bring three full buy-ins in cash to play. If I lose three buy-ins in a session, no matter how good the game is I'm bound to be steamed and playing poorly so I use a stop loss. I've been down 2.5 buy-ins and left the session a winner and have been up 2+ buy-ins and left down.

Standard stack heights are ~20 chips, so a stack of reds ($5) is $100, a stack of green ($25) is $500, etc.