01.14.09
High Rollin’ Poker
We poker theorists and writers think of the most obscure questions sometimes. How high is high? I’m not talking about illicit drug use, no. I’m talking about limits on games. How much do you have to put at stake to be considered to be playing in a high-limit game?
Traditionally the 50-100 USD games were considered the glass ceiling of poker, and anything over that was considered high-limit. But it seems that times have changed. Anymore it’s a subjective thing. The real questions being asked now is “Well, how high do you want to go?”
Let’s take a look at Andy Beal, a banker from Texas, USA. Andy decided to host a truly high limit game, eventually ending with the blinds at $100,000-$200,000. How’s that for upper limit? I call it the upper reaches of sanity.
I guess it really comes down to what you’re looking to play. To really find out, we’d have to introduce so much science and statistical analysis that it wouldn’t even be fun to try to dissect the data.
Consider this, taking random people of a relatively accurate sample set of the entire poker player demographic, asking them the typical limit of the games they play in, condensing that data, then making an accurate prediction of what the average is based on a bell curve. Sound like something you’d like to undertake?
I didn’t think so either, so I’ll just stick with the old adage, “High limit is as high as you can afford to go.”
