Comments on: Q&A #115: How Time Charges Affect Strategy

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:47:44 +0000

You’ll be fighting for the blinds more in a time charge game. In many casino raked games, if it’s folded around to the blinds they just muck their hands and split the pot without seeing the flop. This is because the initial rake (taken at flop time) is often such a huge percentage of the pot that there’s no possible profit for the winner if he contests the pot.

But in a time charge game, you’re competing for 100% of the blinds, so it’s worth it to try to steal the opponent’s blind, etc.

By: Ben Attenborough

Ben Attenborough — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:37:40 +0000

At the Vic in London (where the recent EPT was played) they charge £6 per hour in the £1/£1 games that are self-dealt. This seems resonable if you are playing a big stack but a £25 / £30 stack struggles to make a profit when they are losing 20% of their stack every hour!

By: AKQJ10

AKQJ10 — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:11:24 +0000

Eric,

Why on earth are you going to a cardroom with only 25 BBL in your pocket?

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:37:47 +0000

hmm.. The casinos here pretty much abandoned time charges (except for their high dollar Omaha games) in favor of rake.. combined with now allowing 100BB buy-ins, whereas they used to do only 50BB, that has really tightened the games up a lot.

Consider, if you were miraculously seeing 30 hands per hour, but you’re paying $12 per hour (6 per half) to sit there.. If you come in looking to play super tight,and get a super bad run of cards, you’re done in 4 hours/120 hands, just from the blinds and table collection.