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Variable side pools and variable chouette stakes

Posted By: Phil Simborg
Date: Saturday, 30 July 2011, at 1:03 p.m.

In Response To: Variable side pools and variable chouette stakes (dlevy)

I have played in many chouettes with variable stakes, the most common being here in Chicago recently where we had 6 players playing for $50 a point and two in the game at $25 a point. The big winners, at the end of the day, were the two players at $25. Why? Because they were generally doubled early and they were the ones always taken in positions that were "marginal" or where they were clearly taken in order to keep the box.

Usually the lower-stakes players are not only players who simply want to gamble less, they are the weaker players. If they are the weaker players, they will get "picked on" more in a game with equal stakes, but when their stakes are lower, they get picked on even more. In this case, the players at the lower stakes were not sufficiently weaker and they virtually always had help playing in a consulting chouette.

Bottom line, depending on the chouette rules and the differences in stakes and skills, the variable stakes can greatly change the game and chouette strategy in some unexpected ways.

As for a variable pool, I think it's a great idea, and it will bring more action, and when common sense is applied (never let the pool be so high that it's worth more than winning or losing the main prize money pool), the opportunities for collusion are greatly reduced.

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