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Cavalry21
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03-10-2005, 05:49 PM
Post subject: Capping Blinds
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Cleveland, OH
Posts: 61
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I play in a weekly home game that averages 15-18 people. We start w/ ~1000 in chips, $10-$20 blinds, raise every 30 mins, no rebuys.
So say on a good night, we have 18 people, or 18k in chips on the table. No most nights its over in a cpl hours and no problems, but the last time we played, it went about 4 hours and by then the blinds were at 2k-4k, because of a couple of big jumps to allow coloring up. Granted this was a long game, and needed to end, but my feeling was that the BB being 25% of the total chips on the table was way to high. When we got there, there were 3 of us left and I had 10k+ of the chips, but two sets of blinds, they caught cards, i didn't, and I finish in 3rd after a pretty big lead. To me this takes all of the head2head, or short-handed skill out, and makes it just survive to the end and get lucky.
What amount (ie % of total chips) should be the max blinds if any?
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stevedonel
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Full House
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Vegas
Posts: 617
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I've found that most tourneys finish up when the BB is about 1/50th to 1/60th the total chips. Getting to 3 with the BB being 1/4 the total chips is absurd. You guys were playing like nits.
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Is that guy still part of the forum??
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Cavalry21
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Cleveland, OH
Posts: 61
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Yes....MOST tourneys do. Understand, this is an extreme rarity, out of 100+ times the past year I've played like this, its maybe the 2nd time its become and issue. I see home poker tounry.com says the final BB is the starting chips. All I was looking for was a consensus from others I could use to make my case to the others that there needs to be a limit somewhere. But anways, thanks for the constructive critism that we were playing like nits, very helpful.
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FyrFytr998
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Full House
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Milford,Ct.
Posts: 1,412
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Let's play nice people. We're better than that. I would print out a couple blind samples from Homepokertourney.com and show your friends how it should or could be. And have a vote to which is more appealing to them.
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Humphrind
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Kansas City
Posts: 1,887
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It is silly to see the BB equal about 1/4 of the stack. But the tournament needs to end sometime. That's why the blinds go up in the first place.
But as long as it doesn't happen every time, or even over half the time, there's no reason to cap the blinds. But if you really want to, you can. Just be ready for the occational 6 hour tournament instead of the occational 4 hour tournament.
Heck, if all the involved players agree, you can probably change the rules at the time.
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I don't know what they have to say
It makes no difference anyway.
Whatever it is...
I'm against it.
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azureXsmurF
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Straight
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Delaware, USA
Posts: 170
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My home game and the other games I go to usually cap the blinds using the formula (starting stack * # of starting tables = capped big blind)... It works out well enough that even with our 1 rebuy rule for bad beats that by the time we get to 3 or 4 handed the blinds never get to a ridiculously bad crapshoot, but big stacks can't sit around and let the others knock each other out.
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