Don,
What are the odds of tapping out (within 5% accuracy) if he brought
a) $1500
b) $2000
c) $2500
You only did the $2500, but forgot about a & b.
Well I'm sure the OP and his friend would've definitely cared... so you mean to tell me that playing merely the 50-75-100-125 positive progression with only a $1500 bank one would bankrupt over half the time within only 4 hrs of play??? That seems crazy, especially since I've seen ppl bringing SIGNIFICANTLY less than that amount to play with (like $500 and playing $50+)
I actually play this level myself, and I have never once brought more than $3k with me to the table and before even played with wife and we each only had $1500 and playing 100-250! Here's the kicker: We usually won and hardly ever went bankrupt, yet we were playing double this level! So would you say we were just incredibly lucky that we started winning right away upon sitting down since we rarely ever ran out of chips? And no, we aren't counters but play flawless BS and employ offensive/defensive hand interaction.
Yes, you were incredibly lucky. The ROR numbers don't surprise me at all. Betting $125 a hand, with splits and doubles, you can have as many as eight bets ($1,000) on the table on a single hand!! And, of course, you can lose them all. Betting $250 a hand and bringing only $3,000, thinking it will always last, is really not very realistic or prudent at all.
Don
Offensive Hand Interaction: Offer to take adv of proper BS doubles by players who appear timid to do it (like 11 vs 10 or 10 vs 9) & even 11 vs A in a H17 table.
Defensive Hand Interaction: Offer to GET RID OF poor splits like 77 v 2/3 or 66 v 2/3. Yes, BS says the correct move is to split those, but if you have the option to give them away then you'd be better off!
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