Quote Originally Posted by PokerPatNEU
Oh yeah, that raises another problem. We typically play tournament style with 10$ buy ins and .25/.50 blinds. So thats 20x the big blind to start with. Bets that big like 7x are so enourmous that its almost like equivelent to moving in with it, until later in the game wh en a few people are eliminated and you have more than 20x bets in your stack.
Then your tournament is more of a crap shoot. The higher the blinds are in reference to the starting stack the less you are playing poker and the more you are play 'who gets dealt the best cards.' I could win half the time heads up against any poker pro in the world if the blinds started at 20,000/10,000 and we both start with 5,000 chips. Try to convince them to start with more chips or with lower starting blinds. That will increase the chance that skillful play will determine the outcome.