While I agree you can maximize your wins, you can also maximize your losses. Your point about bankroll size is good, because of the greater variance from sitting down with a bigger stack. In your situation, you were talking about a $1/$2 NL game. Here, I would agree that you want to be sitting with the max. However in a $2/$4 NL game, especially a short handed game, I think there can be significant advantages by sitting with a $140 range instead of the full $400. Players have become so super aggressive with their raises preflop and their constant potsize bets on the flop, if you have supperior reading skills, you play a tight-aggressive game, you can turn their big stacks into small stacks and ur small stacks into big stacks in a short amount of time.
Your example was between $80 and $200 in a $1/$2 game. However in a $2/$4 game, you can be sitting with $140 and someone raises to $14 with 99, you have two callers and you reraise all in or even to $80. You alread have $28 plus the blinds in the pot. 99 is going to call everytime you'll get him all in more than likely. You win around $180 from the pot, putting you at $320 total.
In your example, you play $1/$2 NL, raise with AA and get 4 callers. This is typical of $1/$2 NL. I don't want 4 callers with AA. And I sure as hell don't want to bet almost pot size bet with $140 behind me and 4 players in the hand. If they put me to the test on the flop, do I call off my stack with AA, thinking they have a flush draw? Someone is likely to have hit either a set or a good draw, or worse you are up against a set from one player and a flush draw from another. You are not a favorite at all.
In $1/$2 NL no matter your stack size, you normally have to go to the showdown. I'd rather sit with $140-$200 at $2/$4 NL where you can make money as a statistical favorite vs 1 player not 4. In the $1/$2 game my AA went from 75% favorite to 25% favorite when I get 4 callers.
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Date: 2007-11-06 08:45 (UTC)Your example was between $80 and $200 in a $1/$2 game. However in a $2/$4 game, you can be sitting with $140 and someone raises to $14 with 99, you have two callers and you reraise all in or even to $80. You alread have $28 plus the blinds in the pot. 99 is going to call everytime you'll get him all in more than likely. You win around $180 from the pot, putting you at $320 total.
In your example, you play $1/$2 NL, raise with AA and get 4 callers. This is typical of $1/$2 NL. I don't want 4 callers with AA. And I sure as hell don't want to bet almost pot size bet with $140 behind me and 4 players in the hand. If they put me to the test on the flop, do I call off my stack with AA, thinking they have a flush draw? Someone is likely to have hit either a set or a good draw, or worse you are up against a set from one player and a flush draw from another. You are not a favorite at all.
In $1/$2 NL no matter your stack size, you normally have to go to the showdown. I'd rather sit with $140-$200 at $2/$4 NL where you can make money as a statistical favorite vs 1 player not 4. In the $1/$2 game my AA went from 75% favorite to 25% favorite when I get 4 callers.