Why auto-reload is a mark of a fish? (It's not)

Auto top-up is recommended at PokerStrategy.com also.
See: What is the Big Stack Strategy?
It doesn't say why though...
In no particular order here is why I think auto-top-up is important:
 As you pointed out, maximum potential
 You don't have to take your own stack into consideration when checking effective stack size.
 You don't need to take the time to manually top up after a loss.
 Adds to your TAG style to project a strong image.

Sometimes though, I will not top up, because then it looks like I'm a fish.
I don't need to worry about saving money by keeping a small stack — I have a fold button for that.[1]

There is a specific mid-stack strategy that can be employed on sites like 888 that allow 40BB buy-ins. Apart from the fact that I've never been successful using that strategy, I don't like it, because when I do win, it always seems like I could have won more.

[1] It took me a while to find it, and sometimes it disappears for a while

I don't need to worry about saving money by keeping a small stack — I have a fold button for that.

(I think?) You missed the point why I turn off the auto topup... it saves me from giving free money to the poker site during the currency exchange in those situations, NL2, where you're topping up around one blind (well not just these occasions, but this is where it is a significant size of the transaction).

For clarity, I do topup, but at points where it wouldn't so detrimental to my bottom line over the long term. Like maybe once every orbit if need be, or if I drop 10%, not 1-2% 😂

Example, if I fold my first hand after waiting to post the big blind (btw another indicator of a fish, they refuse to wait!) topping up one blind costs me two blinds! Lets say there is a particularly dry period of three orbits, so I haven't opened nor defended my blinds; in never playing a hand & assuming no ante, I've auto topped-up six times, (3bb and 3sb) at a cost of 7.5bb*, I'm losing 3bb over this small period of time for merely folding my hands! Forger losing out to the rake! I'm losing out to the exchange rate roundings! 😂

* math is, for topping up 1bb costs 1.5bb, and topping up 1sb costs 2sb (1bb), so 3bb + 3sb + 3sb + 3sb = 7.5bb

If there is conversion rate in client it would obviously be best to have same currency in cashier and tables. If this is possible but of course there might be need to do conversion at some point anyway if this issue exist in first place.

Originally posted by AcesMagnet
I'm losing out to the exchange rate roundings! 😂

Do the currency exchange outside the client wherever possible.
Playing in $US? Deposit in $US. NEVER use a poker site as a currency exchange.
I use a tool called "MuchBetter". It is an online wallet on my phone. I top up the balance there in $CAD, and when I want to deposit, I deposit in $US and MuchBetter gives me a much better exchange rate. Even better than using Interac which is what I used before.

I don't know what GGPoker's deposit methods are, It has been ages since I deposited there.
(I just checked — MuchBetter works on GG)

Originally posted by VorpalF2F

Originally posted by AcesMagnet
I'm losing out to the exchange rate roundings! 😂

Do the currency exchange outside the client wherever possible.
Playing in $US? Deposit in $US. NEVER use a poker site as a currency exchange.
I use a tool called "MuchBetter". It is an online wallet on my phone. I top up the balance there in $CAD, and when I want to deposit, I deposit in $US and MuchBetter gives me a much better exchange rate. Even better than using Interac which is what I used before.

I don't know what GGPoker's deposit methods are, It has been ages since I deposited there.
(I just checked — MuchBetter works on GG)

My GG account is in dollars, conversions are only applied during deposits and withdrawals. But that's the only one I know of that works this way (and Stars, IIRC, but it's been so long since I deposited or withdrew there. I know my balance is dollar, so that answers the question).

All the other sites that work in the UK have a GBP balance! They may or may not have GBP tables, but these are often empty - if you want to access the fish then that means playing during peak times and playing the currency table they are playing at. Which isn't GBP.

TBF, it's only the iPoker skin(s) that I noticed this and it being to such an extent that it would impact any profits before rakeback.

My partypoker balance is in GBP too - I hesitate to say that this is a UK regulatory issue, because GG UK doesn't have the balance in GBP.

Originally posted by AcesMagnet

Originally posted by VorpalF2F

Originally posted by AcesMagnet
I'm losing out to the exchange rate roundings! 😂

Do the currency exchange outside the client wherever possible.
Playing in $US? Deposit in $US. NEVER use a poker site as a currency exchange.
I use a tool called "MuchBetter". It is an online wallet on my phone. I top up the balance there in $CAD, and when I want to deposit, I deposit in $US and MuchBetter gives me a much better exchange rate. Even better than using Interac which is what I used before.

I don't know what GGPoker's deposit methods are, It has been ages since I deposited there.
(I just checked — MuchBetter works on GG)

My GG account is in dollars, conversions are only applied during deposits and withdrawals. But that's the only one I know of that works this way (and Stars, IIRC, but it's been so long since I deposited or withdrew there. I know my balance is dollar, so that answers the question).

All the other sites that work in the UK have a GBP balance! They may or may not have GBP tables, but these are often empty - if you want to access the fish then that means playing during peak times and playing the currency table they are playing at. Which isn't GBP.

TBF, it's only the iPoker skin(s) that I noticed this and it being to such an extent that it would impact any profits before rakeback.

My partypoker balance is in GBP too - I hesitate to say that this is a UK regulatory issue, because GG UK doesn't have the balance in GBP.

OK I understand.
I don't play on Party, not on any iPoker skins. I have a balance on Party. I'll play a bit there for the lulz to see what happens.
AFAIK, iPoker doesn't operate in Canada — or at least all the iPoker skins I once played on have gone.

lol every good player tops up and auto buyins

Originally posted by Stray777
lol every good player tops up and auto buyins

Hi Stray777,
Welcome to PokerStrategy.com forums

This is perhaps true in hold'em, maybe also Omaha — but I don't play Omaha so I wouldn't know for certain.
In PLO8, Stud Hi/Lo, Razz, 5-Card draw and lowball there are very good players that don't do either.

I don't see that auto-buyin and auto-top-up tell anything at all about how competent a player is.
Apart from saving time, I don't see the big deal about auto-buy in.
In games where the stacks get in a lot, though, it makes sense to always have the biggest stack you can.
In games where the stacks don't get in much, it really doesn't matter.

Indeed. In No Limit and pot limit games covering the stacks is more important than in limit games.
In limit games you can't win entire stacks most of the time in 1 hand or villain would be really short.

if you have more bb you have more room to maneuver with bluffs vs people

if i lose like 50bb with a 100bb stack, i dont want to play the next hand with 50bb

Originally posted by Stray777
if i lose like 50bb with a 100bb stack, i dont want to play the next hand with 50bb

Agreed.
At one time, it was possible to switch to a "short-stack strategy", but when you do win, you win less.