BG is a lot of games in a session. The variance is huge.
A game is usually 2 points, sometimes 4 points, with “autos” in a month there might be one 16pt game. I’ve had 1 32 point game in the last 10 years-I usually don’t play “auto’s”.
The other day when I played Alex I had $300/point in action. I was up 10 points, he had a match so we stopped while he played his match.
When we started back I was +10 points so $3000 in less than a hour I was -18points so that was 28 x 300 swing roughly $8000. Which is a rare thing in BG to have a net 30 point swing that fast. I quit. I could have went and got more $ or went on the wire for some but I wasn’t in the mood and paid off and quit with $300-$400 in my pocket.
When the swing is that big, against me usually I stop. Yes I had the best of it, yes I could have went for more $ or played longer. But I was just done for the day. I’ll play again next time.
Is that high stakes? Not sure, I suppose for some ppl it is, that’s a subjective thing. I’ve lost and won much more than that. And in that spot I’ve also kept playing. I just wasn’t in the frame of mind to that day-we were at Griffs.
Generally $500/pt is considered high stakes in BG. There’s no official number tho. $100-$200 is mid stakes. About 10 years ago there was a confirmed game for $1M a point in Beverly Hills. Andy Beal and Alec Gores played that game. I’ve seen $10,000/point action in Monaco at the tourney there.
Most I’ve ever played for was $1600/pt at Derby one year. I rarely play less than $25’s with one friend.
It’s like any action, water finds its own level.
20 +/- points is a normal session over 40 games in 5 hours. 30-40 point swings happens 15% of the time.
