Quality play and the stakes you pay

[danno375]

Sorry about all my new threads mods!! But a few little questions have set me thinking. Is the quality of play vastly different depending on the buy ins? if you play a £10 stt is it really that much looser than a $50 stt? If this is so do you have to consider bankroll protection? This means..... is it better to play a $50 stt and hope to win playing good standard or is it better to play 5 $10 stt's and be prepared to hit more bad beats? I am not sure which is right..... sure the looser $10 game should be more profitable but you do get bad players calling rubbish. You don't seem to get the same poor standard and luck in bigger buy ins. So I would say that risk the $50. What does anyone else think? Danno the repetitive strain victim

[GaF]

Re: Quality play and the stakes you pay

Sorry about all my new threads mods!! But a few little questions have set me thinking. Is the quality of play vastly different depending on the buy ins? if you play a £10 stt is it really that much looser than a $50 stt? If this is so do you have to consider bankroll protection? This means..... is it better to play a $50 stt and hope to win playing good standard or is it better to play 5 $10 stt's and be prepared to hit more bad beats? I am not sure which is right..... sure the looser $10 game should be more profitable but you do get bad players calling rubbish. You don't seem to get the same poor standard and luck in bigger buy ins. So I would say that risk the $50. What does anyone else think? Danno the repetitive strain victim

Bad Beats are good!!!!!! If you're getting lots of bad beats, then it means you're getting your money in when ahead and your opponent has made a mistake!!! If you're opponent is making lots of mistakes, and you aren't then you are getting lots of Bad Beats, but you are also making lots of money off of them!!! Sure there are fewer bad beats in more expensive buy ins - because your opponents aren't making as many mistakes - but that is bad, because you will win fewer Big Blinds!! Most profit at low level poker comes not from your own good play, but from the mistakes of your opponents - if you play at a level where your opponents are making fewer mistakes, then you will win fewer BB!!! Is 10xBB of $5 more profitable than 1xBB of $50? No they are the same .... so you need to work out how many fewer BB you win at the higher level (and you WILL win fewer BB at a higher level) to see whether it is more or less profitable overall!!