by excession » Fri Jun 23, 2006 6:18 am
BTW, anyone with the roll to play at the NL$100 and not doing it is losing EV.
Life ain't all about maximising EV or we'd all be grinding 8 tables 24/7. Even poker playing (at least for non pros) isn't all about +EV.
Most fun I've had this week has been discovering the HU SnG's at Stars.
I had previously avoided them as I saw that you start with 1500 chips, with the blinds at 15/30 and TEN MINUTE levels, so assumed they must take like a week to finish (and I play them as wind-down after a ring session or when I only have 10-15 minutes and fancy a poker fix)
By comparison the ones I play at Paradise are 10 hands/lvl and usually last 30 hands or so - which leads to an average play time of about 8 minutes.
Stars HU do take a little longer (but not anywhere as long as I expected) but they are much much more fun and really give you soon room to outplay your opponent. Also if you build a dominant chip stack you have a good chance of finishing off your opponent safely - in the Dise ones the blinds would be so huge so fast you would be forced into pre-flop all-in coin lips almost every hand ater 30 hands, so a 3:1 chip advantage was always one coin-flip (and often one hand) away from dissipating.