Cash table buy ins

silentbob · November 2009

I know that this has been raised previously some time ago (maybe by Scotty77 but I can't remember) but why do the micro level cash tables have maximum buy-ins of more than 100BB?

I've just been looking round some of the tables and it doesn't make any sense to me

Ludham - 2p/4p - Maximum buy in £10 (250BB)
Calais - 4p/8p - Maximum buy in £10 (125BB)
Antonovo - 5p/10p - Maximum buy in £20 (200BB)

From 10p/20p upwards it seems the maximum buy in is 100BB which seems to be the standard everywhere else.

Personally whenever I play cash I play anywhere between 4/8 & 10/20 and I'm always happy to sit down with 100BB but I can't understand why anyone would sit with many more than that unless it's a specific deep stack table. More so, I don't particularly want to sit at a table where someone wants to buy in for 200BB.

Please can we have some standard buy in tables at the lower levels & clearly state where they are deep stack tables?

What does anyone else think?

scrumdown · November 2009

most players will put the max buy to play but i think it depends on your bankroll a lot of players what they take to the table

freechips1 · November 2009

sky want lower stakes players to have more money on the table. more money= bigger pots= more rake for sky

Kaidus · November 2009

It doesn't matter if oppo has 100BBs or 250BBs, if you're sitting down with 100 bigs then the effective stack is 100 bigs. And if you're worried that they're gonna play rubbish cards - they'd play 8-4 off the same way with 250 bigs that they would with 100 bigs.

silentbob · November 2009

OK, I understand all that, but my question is why? All other sites I know cap it at 100BB buy in unless it's specifically a deep stack table

Buistyboy · November 2009

hi silent bob

Not much of an answer this, but i think sky have just made it a standard £10 max buy-in, which happend to be way over the standard 100bb you refer to. They could have made it £5 which i agree makes some sense, but i think as suggested above, that allowing a bigger buy-in to the table can only increase the rake they take.

ray

labrat64 · November 2009

like you bob, i really don't understand it. Seems that 100BB is pretty much standard wherever you play, so can't put my finger on why it's different here.

silentbob · November 2009

Rich, are you able to shed any light on this?

nirvana29 · November 2009

theres alot of things on sky that seem to make no sense but im sure sky do the things they do for a reason, i trust them.

scotty77 · November 2009

yes your right sir, i did raise this issue a while back.

it is very wrong IMO to have this disparity. at the low levels, people are gonna be less experienced and giving them a chance to be playing deep stacked is a bad idea.

if you are a good player, and have a grasp of deep stacked cash play, then sitting with 250bb is gonna be so +ev at those limits.

sky rich did come back with an answer on my thread, ill see if i can find it.

scotty77 · November 2009

https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby?action=show_static&page=poker_community_forums&plckForumPage=ForumDiscussion&plckDiscussionId=Cat%3a57795ac2-1793-4377-b4cf-e124b0f555f4Forum%3adf77f82c-151f-4bea-aae1-fb423dcae1faDiscussion%3a4fcc8710-d448-42a7-822b-d595174f6ec2

as you can see no real reason given.

diablo_pez · November 2009

In Response to Re: Cash table buy ins:

https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby?action=show_static&page=poker_community_forums&plckForumPage=ForumDiscussion&plckDiscussionId=Cat%3a57795ac2-1793-4377-b4cf-e124b0f555f4Forum%3adf77f82c-151f-4bea-aae1-fb423dcae1faDiscussion%3a4fcc8710-d448-42a7-822b-d595174f6ec2 as you can see no real reason given.
Posted by scotty77

out of interest, should it be standardised @ 100BB or 250BB or somewhere in between?

scotty77 · November 2009

In Response to Re: Cash table buy ins:

In Response to Re: Cash table buy ins : out of interest, should it be standardised @ 100BB or 250BB or somewhere in between?
Posted by diablo_pez

all standard cash tables should be 100bb. Sky should do more to bring deep stacked poker up and open up tables with 100bb min 200bb max.

diablo_pez · November 2009

In Response to Re: Cash table buy ins:

In Response to Re: Cash table buy ins : all standard cash tables should be 100bb. Sky should do more to bring deep stacked poker up and open up tables with 100bb min 200bb max.
Posted by scotty77

they had those deepstack cash tables for a while, they always seemed to be empty...

BADBOY985 · November 2009

ON THE 2P/4P TABLES 100 BBS IS ONLY £4 SO SITTING WITH THAT MEANS PEOPLE HAVE TO RELOAD TO OFTEN AND MAKES FOR LOTS OF AWAYS WHICH IS SOMETHING PEOPLE HAVE SPENT A LOT OF TIME MOANING ABOUT ON HERE SO £8/£10 MAKES MORE SENSE. YOU CAN SEE WHAT AMOUNTS PEOPLE HAVE BEFORE YOU CHOOSE WHERE YOU SIT AND IF SOMEONE SITS WITH 200 BBS AND YOU DONT LKE IT YOU CAN ALWAYS STAND. PERSONALY I LIKE PEOPLE WITH THE MORE MONEY TO LOOSE.

silentbob · November 2009

I take your point Badboy, but on another note as a general rule those playing on these tables either have a very small BR or are new to the game so I don't particularly think that promotes responsible gambling either.

As I've said previously, every other site I've played on have a maximum 100BB buy in regardless of limits unless it is specified as a deep stack table

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