He notes them because good regulars play with 100bb stacks. So that way he knows he is playing versus the recreational player.
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Originally posted by yoloyoloyoloyol
Is this thread dead?
Welll, the last post was posted about 8 months ago. I'm not sure if Condifant still reads these posts but some people will 
This is a thread for an old coaching series, so yea there are some others like this. Sometimes when a coach creates a new series he will also create a thread for it.
If you have any questions but don't find a suitable old thread for those, feel free to create a new thread 
888 poker has a Max buy-in of 50bb for NL2 in 6max tables. Is this still a good strategy?
Most of the strategies we teach here are meant for full stack (100bb) play. If you are much shorter or much deeper you have to adjust and play a bit differently. I always recommend my students to play with 100bb stacks and if they don't know how to adjust properly when deep, I suggest sitting out when the stacks go above 150bb. That is the best approach in my opinion.
Originally posted by santiqwerty
888 poker has a Max buy-in of 50BB for NL2. Is this still a good strategy?
This seems not to be the case. I play full ring NL2 on 888 poker 2 hours a day. Maybe you misunderstand each other. BB stands for Big Blind and not for Big Bet. You can sit down to 888 NL2 tables with 100 BB or in cash: 0.02$ Big Blind and 2$ buy ins.
Hmmh, I would say BB stands for Big Bet (which isn't used that much) and bb stands for big blind. But basically every time someone says BB he means big blind. At least I haven't seen much chat about big bets on this forum.
And the reason you can buy in with 100bb is that you play full ring. I'm not 100% sure of the current situation but at least some time ago you could only buy in for 50bb in 6max tables.
Well I checked it and you are right:
Full-ring NL2:
min buy-in: 80c
max buy-in: 2$
6-max NL2:
min buy-in: 80c
max buy-in: 1$
Does not make any sense to me but this is actually how it is.
Yea, doesn't make that much sense to me either but it has been like that for years.
Originally posted by la55i
Hmmh, I would say BB stands for Big Bet (which isn't used that much) and bb stands for big blind. But basically every time someone says BB he means big blind.
Yeah. Big Bet is a limit thing. 2x the big blind. It's the maximum bet size OTT and OTR, when playing Fixed Limit.
But, for some reason, people use BB when they really mean bb (big blind). Maybe we should blame PT for that.
I see BB written there a lot. Even for bb.
I guess BB was originally made by PokerTracker, or am I wrong? I think it really is PTBB = Poker Tracker big blind. So that is why you see it a lot in their software but not on many others.
I asked because the strategy posted by confident91 in this thread is for 6max tables. How you'd I addapt my game to play with a mid stack? Is it still profitable? Or should I play full ring? I have a tight bankroll so I don't know if I would want to risk it playing NL5 for now.
Should I addopt the strategy in this article or is it outdated? https://www.pokerstrategy.com/strategy/sss/mss-short-handed-tables-preflop/
I'm not very good with short stack play but yea I think the strategy in that article might be better. When you play with a short stack some things get less profitable. For example you can't set mine small pocket pairs that well and also speculative hands (like suited connectors and one gappers) are not good because they benefit from larger stack to pot ratio. So definitely you should adjust your pre-flop game.
Also postflop you should be aggressive and think more about the bet sizes. It gets difficult when you try to bet 3/4 of the pot OTF and then realize you have less than half pot bet OTT.
As I said, playing short or deep are both a bit different than full stack play. If you are a beginner I suggest you get the basics right and really study one thing well. There is a lot less material for full ring and for short/deep play. My recommendation is to play 6max with 100bb stacks but that is just me. You should do what you think is the best for you.
You should not start risking your bankroll if you don't feel comfortable.
