Odd Ante/Blind Structure for NL Hold'em.. Need Help

[JaysonWeber 0]

Allright guys, I first want to apologize for my absence the last 2 days, New Years eve was understandable, and the second was wasted across town unable to drive due to the black-ice on the roads... Anyways, I was up at a local casino where I had played No-Limit before. The blinds structure had always been 1-2 dollar blinds 40 max buy-in. Only this time it was 1 dollar ante from everyone at the table and one blind that paid an extra dollar! This was insane! Instead of paying a minimum of three dollars for 10 hands, I am now paying a minimum of 11, thats over 1/4 my stack! Now, I still won in this game, frankly its because I was lucky enough to be one of the first 10 at the table, and after I got my stack-up and new players sat down, only buying in for 40, I was able to use my chips to my advantage... I want some pointers on how I should alter my play due to the massive amount of chips it costs compared to my stack. I loosened up immensly, calling the dollar raise with ANYTHING on the button when 6 or more called infront of me, I figured, one more dollar for atleast 20, why not?I would really like to know if other people have experienced this type of format yet, or if they have any more sound advice as to how I should play differently?

[the_stein 0]

...that's crazy lol

[Smasharoo 0]

The max buy in is 20 big blinds?That's amazingly short.With the antes you describe it becomes correct to push all in with almost any hand you'd raise with in limit.There's such a large overlay relative to stack sizes post flop play becomes almost meaningless. You'd be forced to call an all in with almost any drawing hand because of pot odds unless there were two large stacks invovled. The plus side of this is that once you got a signifigant stack you should be able to crush a game like this by running over smaller stacked new players.A tight cautious nut peadeling player would go broke in this game fairly quickly.Personally, I wouldn't play in it, but that's just me.