Saw a hand where button straddled to $15 mp 4! to $200 with a flat, then straddle completed (slow playing AA) and ep 3bettor flatted with 44. Tighten your normal range in $25 button straddle hands and consider folding 99 in sb. Bring a minimum of $3,000 three buy ins for the $2/$5. And i did not want to 4! into an unknown.
i did not like the idea of flat calling with 99 and then playing 99 oop with an spr under 2. What is my best decision here? 4! all in for $1,000? 4! to $600? Call? Fold? I folded. MP was new to the table and the effective stack with $1000. In the crazy game wednesday I opened in the sb to $75 over a $25 button straddle with 9c9s. i think then an adjustment is in order when the button straddles to $25 and a tighter opening range must be used. A new player buying in for the $1000 cap would only have 40 big blinds for the $25 hands. i am sure that all the $25 straddle players felt they had a skill edge over the table. Saturday's table was a typical average 2/5 versus the wild big $25 straddlefest by 50% of the table game from wednesday. Very different table from wednesdays 2/5 session. Played 8 hours of 2/5 nlhe yesterday and biggest straddle all day was to $10.
How much money do you have to bring to each game to handle the 5× straddles? $1–1.5k for 1–2 NL, $2–4k for 2–5 NL, and $5–10k for 5–10 NL?
