Learning a bit ...

Well, I have been reading this very interesting thread and am fascinated by - among other things - the author's comments about limit and no-limit games. I had also not quite realised the significance of rakeback, and how much money it can add up to over the year, which I have been working out since reading the thread. Fortunately I have not started opening additional accounts and have probably learned this one in time. He says that to play in limit games, you need only about 200 big bets in your account, which means, in theory, that with only $800 or so start-up, I could certainly play some $2/$4 games, but it's been a while since I played limit HE (and then only in $1/$2 games), and I used to find it pretty irritating the way premium hands like AA and KK would usually be outdrawn by the river, and frustrating not to be able to reduce the number of opponents with a big raise: Aces play pretty well against one or two opponents, but pretty badly against a full, undisciplined table of the type I have so often seen in these limit games ...

For NLHE games, on the other hand, he says you need 20 buy-ins in your account (I have seen many others say 30, and would want to err on that side, in which case the same $800 would cover $25NL tables (blinds are typically $0.10/$0.25 for a $25 buy-in). So, I don't know. All of which is interesting, but has nothing to do with sit 'n' go's, of course ... nor indeed with the tricast/forecast perm possibilities in the 3.15 and 5.20 races at Beverley this afternoon (that's 5.15 and 7.20 over here), which are also rather more important. I am not laying at all in August - going away too many times to make it worthwhile - and my father is covering tricasts for me anyway, this month, but these are too interesting to miss. I was going to go to Jurmala this afternoon, but might not bother if it doesn't stop raining (and I think they may possibly have the same problem in Beverley, in which case we won't be betting at all!)