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Pro's + Cons of more blind increments in cash
I've tried to search the internet but can't find any discussions on this anywhere so I guess I'll ask here.
Currently I'm playing 50NL most of the time. A few months ago I took some shots at 100NL but have decided to move back down for now after a downswing and a couple of withdrawals meant I wasn't really rolled enough for it anymore.
See the problem is there's a big increase in bankroll requirements between 50NL and 100NL eg. 100BI's at 50NL is only 50BI's at 100NL and so a bad downswing at 100NL could decimate your roll.
Micro and low stakes have lots of increments. 2p/4p, 5p/5p, 4p/8p, 5p/10p, 10p/20p, 15p/30p, 20p/40p, 25p/50p. There's only 1 increment increase that's double the previous. (from 10NL to 20NL) If you have 100BI's at 15p/30p that's 75BI's at 40NL and so going from one to the other is not a big problem. But from low to medium you have 50p/£1 and £1/£2 which is 2 increment increases that are double the previous one. As such it is simply not very feasible to mix 50NL with 200NL. 100BI's at 50NL would only get you 25BI's at 200NL. It also makes moving up for anyone employing stringent BRM very hard and almost forces shot taking as the only viable option to try and move up.
Either a 40p/80p or 80p/£1.60 level (or something similar) so that there's an increment between 50NL and 100NL or an increment between 100 and 200NL.
As for the Cons? Well I don't really know. Obviously they need the traffic to run and I'm sure they will. Too many increments could clog up the lobby but then the HU games already a massive lobby clog up which could easily go!
Currently I'm playing 50NL most of the time. A few months ago I took some shots at 100NL but have decided to move back down for now after a downswing and a couple of withdrawals meant I wasn't really rolled enough for it anymore.
See the problem is there's a big increase in bankroll requirements between 50NL and 100NL eg. 100BI's at 50NL is only 50BI's at 100NL and so a bad downswing at 100NL could decimate your roll.
Micro and low stakes have lots of increments. 2p/4p, 5p/5p, 4p/8p, 5p/10p, 10p/20p, 15p/30p, 20p/40p, 25p/50p. There's only 1 increment increase that's double the previous. (from 10NL to 20NL) If you have 100BI's at 15p/30p that's 75BI's at 40NL and so going from one to the other is not a big problem. But from low to medium you have 50p/£1 and £1/£2 which is 2 increment increases that are double the previous one. As such it is simply not very feasible to mix 50NL with 200NL. 100BI's at 50NL would only get you 25BI's at 200NL. It also makes moving up for anyone employing stringent BRM very hard and almost forces shot taking as the only viable option to try and move up.
Either a 40p/80p or 80p/£1.60 level (or something similar) so that there's an increment between 50NL and 100NL or an increment between 100 and 200NL.
As for the Cons? Well I don't really know. Obviously they need the traffic to run and I'm sure they will. Too many increments could clog up the lobby but then the HU games already a massive lobby clog up which could easily go!
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I would make the blind levels double each time and have round numbers.
eg 5nl10nl20nl50nl100nl200nl500nl
Having lots of increments makes games takes longer to start, the lobby gets cluttered and make multi tabling harder.
I think Sky used to have 30/60p 40/80p tables years ago but got rid of them.
I do agree with you though, think these tables would help people from the transition from 50nl to 100nl, because it is a pretty big jump bankroll wise.
Only problem would be that it might decrease traffic at nl50 and nl100.