Almost got in a fight

Jack_Black

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Automatic Monkey said:
I'm not sure. This is my reasoning: the biggest obstacle to getting the BB is that the cards don't show up, which they do very rarely, and getting your guys on multiple tables will increase the chance of the cards showing up proportional to the number of tables. And realistically, no casino is going to let a private party come in there and play for hours without giving up a rake, the BB might not apply to private tables, and if they figure out you are playing together they are going to split you up or not pay you your jackpot.

Another reason why splitting up with civilians at the table is that if you have cards you can chase a BB with, they're cards you want to be playing in a cash game anyway, right? And civilians will be playing those cards too. Clearly you would not want to chase BB in a no-limit game.

My instinct would be to: split up on as many (low) limit tables as possible, and modify play such that you are never raising before the flop, maximizing the number of people who see each flop and decide to chase quads or SF's. But maybe having more than one limper at each table will increase the likelihood of a player staying in with a weak hand and getting lucky. Tough problem.
there are plenty of different variables at badbeat jackpots. maybe there are badbeat hunters that fly across the country to play excellent bad beats, but the bad beats I've seen still aren't worth it.

Bad beat hands usually require great starting hands. no need to worry about pushing possible BB hands out with a PF raise.

the huge BB in my town, that goes to $800g, gets that high partially because it has more tables going, hence more people contributing to the BB, but the major reason is because the BB hand is very high. depending on the jerk promo manager's mood, it's usually something like quad jacks get beat by straight flush or better.

there's a few small rooms with smaller badbeats that just have 1 limit table going. And let me tell you, in a limit game, the dumbest players will play garbage all the way down to the river with absolutely nothing. I can't tell you how many times my premium pair has gotten beat with crap like 25o. The BB is much easier to hit at these rooms, something like aces full of 8s get beat by quads or better, and even with retards playing with nothing and paying to see the river, it can still take a month to a few months to hit.

someone asked if it is worth it to play garbage hands to get the bad beat. NO. those weird bad beat hands like 2s full of tens gets beat require you to play garbage hands that have an extremely low probability of hitting the BB. not to mention these weird BBs are usually tiny jackpots or some sort of daily mini bad beat jackpot, making the payoff odds terrible.
 
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