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TampaKn1sh
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9mo agoThe whole table agrees to do that or just a few players doing it on their own? If everybody has to do it, it's just bumping up the stake of the game. There's nothing action about that from my point of view.
There will be certain individuals in these games who are constantly pressuring and harassing others to put the straddle on.
Now, the straddle getting to $320 is a VERY rare occurence, as are 20-30K stacks, but I HAVE seen it.
But there are typically plenty of times that the 1/2/5 is a 1/2/5/10/20 and sometimes 40/80
It's unlimited straddles from UTG to the button AND match the stack.
I've tried explaining to the rooms out here how bad it is to allow the entry-level games to play so much bigger. There's no way newcomers to PLO can sit without getting wrecked too quickly. So the fish dry up and we're left with tons of Euros and Aussies with no social skills who are very strong opponents infesting the games instead.
Deeper buyins, straddles, match the stack, all extra edges for the pros. They're never happy, they always have to try to push for additional things to help them scoop up money more quickly, and the room operators aren't smart enough to realize what's best for their own business model long-term, they side with the vocal grinder crowd and allow the fun recs to go broke and never return....
cardsharkk04
4
9mo agoI'm one of the players who wants to play PLO sometimes and I'm okay with a single straddle. But once it goes to multiple straddles, I'm out.
But that seems crazy to cancel a 3k Airbnb when you could easily grind lower stakes PLO for 10k+ a month and meanwhile do random fun stuff around the DFW area. Makes no sense to me....
