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[hex]

home game 2/5.

 

[Rhodeman77]

home game 2/5.

Is the Texas game that gets featured on a Vlog occasionally?

 

[hex]

Is the Texas game that gets featured on a Vlog occasionally?

Nah ATL, been playing with the same guys a long time, they just gamble but best part everyone is chill and friendly.

 

[Goldfish]

Back at it tonight....trying to get even from the last game..... let’s goooooo

 

[davislane]

Back at it tonight....trying to get even from the last game..... let’s goooooo
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Did the cream sink last game?

 

[Goldfish]

Did the cream sink last game?

Cream got splattered all over the wall last game, but we got some of it back tonight. Left a winner tonight.

 

[davislane]

Cream got splattered all over the wall last game, but we got some of it back tonight. Left a winner tonight.

Im hoping to make some cream tonight. Keep getting sucked out on Im my last 3 sessions. Been losing some big pots to 1 and 2 outers. Last big one I lost where I had Nut straight with NFD draw on the flop and he called it all off on the turn chasing a K high flush and rivered a 1 outer to make a straight flush.

 

[hex]

Back at it tonight....trying to get even from the last game..... let’s goooooo
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What stakes?

 

[Goldfish]

What stakes?

5/5 with mandatory straddle (10-25).

 

[Goldfish]

Im hoping to make some cream tonight. Keep getting sucked out on Im my last 3 sessions. Been losing some big pots to 1 and 2 outers. Last big one I lost where I had Nut straight with NFD draw on the flop and he called it all off on the turn chasing a K high flush and rivered a 1 outer to make a straight flush.

Keep swinging till the bankroll is bone dry!!

 

[ThinkingFold]

5/5 with mandatory straddle (10-25).

I always get confused when I see a game listed as x/x then a mandatory straddle. Out of curiosity, why not just call this game 5/10 or even 10/25?

Understand that it gets more players in to start, but why not just call it 5/10/25 from the get go? This to keep the buy in down or something else I am missing?

 

[hex]

Seems that the straddle can be more than 2x of BB, so it could be 5/5/10-25. Sounds like a super action game.

 

[Goldfish]

I would typically just say 5/5/25, but given that the straddle technically ranges from 10-25 I thought I would be more detailed. If u want the full details, after an hour or so, it just goes to 5/5/25, and after midnight the max straddle is 50.

 

[davislane]

Keep swinging till the bankroll is bone dry!!

buried again. never ran into some many quads in my life. #PLO

 

[BonScot]

I would typically just say 5/5/25, but given that the straddle technically ranges from 10-25 I thought I would be more detailed. If u want the full details, after an hour or so, it just goes to 5/5/25, and after midnight the max straddle is 50.

Anyone got an idiot’s guide for how a straddle works? Think I kind of get it but I’m a bit hard of thinking

 

[longflop]

I would typically just say 5/5/25, but given that the straddle technically ranges from 10-25 I thought I would be more detailed. If u want the full details, after an hour or so, it just goes to 5/5/25, and after midnight the max straddle is 50.

Now that is a poker game. I would not have to balls to play that. I get nervous when my McDonalds order goes over $5.

 

[allforcharity]

Anyone got an idiot’s guide for how a straddle works? Think I kind of get it but I’m a bit hard of thinking

I'm an idiot!

Think of the straddle as a predefined raise immediately after the big blind. It can move the option for last action one or more spaces to the left, depending if multiple straddles are allowed.

 

[BonScot]

I'm an idiot!

Think of the straddle as a predefined raise immediately after the big blind. It can move the option for last action one or more spaces to the left, depending if multiple straddles are allowed.

So effectively it’s an “even bigger blind”?

 

[allforcharity]

So effectively it’s an “even bigger blind”?

Yup, and it has to be exercised before the hole cards are dealt.

 

[Saoliver]

So effectively it’s an “even bigger blind”?

There is also a Button Straddle...but it sucks, so don't do it.

 

[BonScot]

How do you decide who straddles? Can more than one person straddle? Is the point of it just to get more money in the pot?

 

[Saoliver]

How do you decide who straddles? Can more than one person straddle? Is the point of it just to get more money in the pot?

Usually, under the gun becomes the 3rd blind or straddle. Some games allow 1 straddle. Some games allow multiple straddles. It can get silly.

The purpose is to build a bigger pot I guess.

 

[BonScot]

Usually, under the gun becomes the 3rd blind or straddle. Some games allow 1 straddle. Some games allow multiple straddles. It can get silly.

The purpose is to build a bigger pot I guess.

Hmmmm not sure about whether that would work in my game. Probably need to try it out and see how it goes.

 

[Mr Winberg]

Normally you decide yourself, but it has to be done before the cards are dealt, and it has to be in a size that adheres to the straddle rules of the establishment (normally a min-raise), otherwise it's just a dark raise meaning you can't raise if it's just called. A live straddle, on the other hand, can raise if called to.

Mandatory straddles, on the other hand, seem to me to just be additional blinds.

 

[monkeydog]

We have a semi mandatory straddle in all pot limit games - the action players all straddle, and the nits don't. The action players have created a work around - any time a nit is in the straddle and doesn't, one of the action players min raises while announcing "nit tax".

 

[Goldfish]

Back at it tonight. @Gear chips and labels in play ($500s). They look great topping off a stack.

 

[Goldfish]

We have a semi mandatory straddle in all pot limit games - the action players all straddle, and the nits don't. The action players have created a work around - any time a nit is in the straddle and doesn't, one of the action players min raises while announcing "nit tax".

We have a work around too. Our table is a must move table ..... if u r a nit, u must move.....

 

[hex]

Hmmmm not sure about whether that would work in my game. Probably need to try it out and see how it goes.

I suggest capping it, also not making it mandatory. See how that goes and take it from there. Game will play bigger though.

 

[Littleluck55]

And the straddle gets the option to raise when it gets back to him also just like he was big blind, correct?

 

[allforcharity]

And the straddle gets the option to raise when it gets back to him also just like he was big blind, correct?

Yup, if everybody checked to him.