1:3 Blind Format (1 Viewer)

[tallsbutler]

We’re all familiar with many casinos spreading 1/3. Curious about if you’ve ever done any other blind formats other than 1 unit/2 unit.

Specifically with .25/50 and .25/.25 being so popular for home stakes, I’m curious if anyone has ever added another quarter to the big blind and played .25/.75 to raise the stakes but still have quarters as the units.

Anyone ever tried 0.25/0.75, .10/.30, $2/6 or any other combo of the 1:3 format?

Share below! Pr0n encouraged.

 

[OfficerLovejoy]

Is there precedence in a casino or tourney format of this?
Generally I think making it cheap for the sb creates more action which leads to bigger pots. When faced with the decision to either host .20/.50 or .30/.50 I always choose the latter.

 

[SeanGecko]

The casino near by runs $1/$3

 

[tallsbutler]

@SeanGecko Updated original post to clarify the question a bit.

Definitely familiar with 1/3 in casinos. That’s how the question came to mind. Specifically with .25/50 and .25/.25 being so popular for home stakes, I’m curious if anyone has ever added another quarter to the big blind and played .25/.75 to raise the stakes but still have quarters as the units.

 

[SeanGecko]

@SeanGecko Updated original post to clarify the question a bit.

Definitely familiar with 1/3 in casinos. That’s how the question came to mind. Specifically with .25/50 and .25/.25 being so popular for home stakes, I’m curious if anyone has ever added another quarter to the big blind and played .25/.75 to raise the stakes but still have quarters as the units.

Oh well fine!!!
I guess I'll just go now!!!

 

[Machine]

I'm not sure I see the purpose of x3 the small blind in a .25 / .75, it would only serve to jack up the math, if you're playing a real game be it a Pot Limit, even in NLH people often calculate the pot and you'll lose callers if you jam with $1.00 in the pot. Really if you're playing .25 / .5 and someone will fold for $2.25 but would call 1.50, then honestly you're doing poker wrong.

In PLO we are trying to clean it up, so if first to act only calls the .5 the first raise can be 1.5 + the big blind (.5) plus the small blind (.25) which is $3, because 2.5 isn't how anyone wants to live. no one says POT, and makes $47.75

Get on the bandwagon, sit in the back, enjoy the ride. Congratulations, you made me the crusty, grumpy no non-sense old man!

The purpose for a 1/3 in a casino is efficiency of the rake, you can also see this in the evolution of charity games, most don't spread 1/2 anymore, because of the rake. 1/3 makes at least the min almost every hand.

Its why you also don't see a 2/6 in the casino, they are trying to color it up, 2/5, 5/5/10, 20 / 40.... also our Arabic mathematics is base 10, which is why they don't make a $6 bill

 

[pltrgyst]

Anyone ever tried 0.25/0.75, .10/.30, $2/6 or any other combo of the 1:3 format?

I guess my Busted Flushes qualify:

There's a $7 also, for those odder 2/7 games...

 

[Old State]

The AC casinos have switched to 1/3 from 1/2. I assume it’s to jack up the average pot size and hence the rake collected because I can’t think of another logical reason

 

[tallsbutler]

I guess my Busted Flushes qualify:

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There's a $7 also, for those odder 2/7 games...

Probably the most unique line-up I've seen! What's the story behind these?

 

[JustinInMN]

I know I encountered 1-3 NLHE games as far back as my first trip to Vegas in 2010. 3/6 limit hold'em has always used 1-3 blinds as long as I can remember playing live since 2003.

But the idea is to minimize denominations. There is no sense in introducing a 50¢ chip just for the purpose of making the SB exactly one-half the big blind. The game plays close enough with modified levels. 2-5 NL is the same. 2.50-5 would require a 50¢ chip for only one purpose and it wouldn't change the game much. They COULD switch to 5-5, but that wouldn't remove the need for singles entirely as the rake is usually counted in single dollars (such as 1 for every 10 in the pot) as well as being useful for tips.

 

[pltrgyst]

Probably the most unique line-up I've seen! What's the story behind these?

Just old fart personal weirdness, many years ago -- my first ever custom chips.

Of course, the Busted Flush was Travis McGee's houseboat. Who knew that over two decades later, I'd retire and move down here, very near where John D. MacDonald lived and wrote?

33-1/3 rpm of course, 13 has always been my lucky number, and then 2, 7, and 37 filled it out from my favorite NY Yankees.

Oh, and I have a couple of math degrees, and I like primes.

That was the original set. The $1 was needed to make the odd denoms playable, and change-making easier, unless I wanted at least a rack of fracs per player......

 

[megabit]

In SoCal it seems most low games are 2/3 vs 2/3. I'd say jack up both blinds by one unit.

 

[Venturalvn]

$3 big blind means more to rake. Oddly enough I sat a table at either Players Club or Hollywood Park I can't remember, that dropped $4 if you went to the flop at a 1/2 table. That meant if the small blind didn't chop or fold, that the two players were playing for a literal $0 pot.

Boggled my mind that I would explain that to someone while I was in the BB, they would flat the SB, and then lead $20 to win $0. Fuckin insane people.

Point being you can drop $4 for a flop at a 1/3 and always have a pot available.

 

[ChipFinderSK]

Just old fart personal weirdness, many years ago -- my first ever custom chips.

Of course, the Busted Flush was Travis McGee's houseboat. Who knew that over two decades later, I'd retire and move down here, very near where John D. MacDonald lived and wrote?

33-1/3 rpm of course, 13 has always been my lucky number, and then 2, 7, and 37 filled it out from my favorite NY Yankees.

Oh, and I have a couple of math degrees, and I like primes.

That was the original set. The $1 was needed to make the odd denoms playable, and change-making easier, unless I wanted at least a rack of fracs per player......

Do you have any loose 33 1/3 single chips available?

 

[pltrgyst]

Do you have any loose 33 1/3 single chips available?

Don't even know exactly where those chips are now. If I come across them, I'll look you up.

 

[LeLe]

The reason for 1/3, 2/3 stake at casino is because 1,50/3 is more troublesome for dealer and used one more denomiation plus they will get harvest very fast by chippers

Same reason to why there's 2/5 3/5 and not 2,50/5 stake

 

[allforcharity]

Snappers are going the way of the dodo. Everybody paying out 6:5 on a $5 minimum blackjack, what a joke.

 

[tabletalker7]

Some states gambling laws have in them that max buy in is a certain number of big blinds. When it was 1/2 by me max buy in was 200. When it switched to 1/3 max buy in was now allowed to be 300.

 

[BGinGA]

the idea is to minimize denominations. There is no sense in introducing a 50¢ chip just for the purpose of making the SB exactly one-half the big blind. The game plays close enough with modified levels. 2-5 NL is the same. 2.50-5 would require a 50¢ chip for only one purpose and it wouldn't change the game much.

Fwiw, a 2/5 game could be played 2.50/5 with $2.50 chips, also using just two denominations and actually requiring fewer chips overall.

 

[inca911]

Don't even know exactly where those chips are now. If I come across them, I'll look you up.

Larry’s place is a lot like this.

 

[JustinInMN]

Fwiw, a 2/5 game could be played 2.50/5 with $2.50 chips, also using just two denominations and actually requiring fewer chips overall.

Unfortunately @allforcharity makes a good point as well.

Snappers are going the way of the dodo. Everybody paying out 6:5 on a $5 minimum blackjack, what a joke.