Moving up to middle/high limits.

[anontwentysomethingdegenerate]

I have played online and in B&M for a few years and have finally
advanced from the bigger online pl games (1-2 and 2-4) and 5-10/10-20
limit to the 30-60 and higher games.

What I have found in my short time at these limits (20k hands or so) is
that the players are WORSE not better. YOu would think that an 30-60 or
80-160 game online would have all excellent players (and there are
plenty of those) but the amount of weak players is amazing.

I have also played some high limit action in the brick and mortar
casinos and fouind the same thing.

Any thoughts to why these games are so good? My theory, at least for
online, is that many action type players take a shot at the big games
trying to get even and then once stuck even more, they continue to chase
losses. In a casino, I guess the wealthy just want to have a good time.
Playing green and black chip games is not that big a deal to some one
flush with cash.




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[accountant]

A couple of ideas just off the top of my head:

(1) Some people may think they are better than they really are. They're
looking to get into a big game becuase they believe they're very good.
I've done this myself about three years ago I went to a casino for the
first time in Evansville, Indiana. I got to the poker room and played a
little bit of stud. 7 Stud was the only game I knew well at the time and
all they had was a 1 to five with the low card bring it in for a dollar
(it was christmas eve).

So I told the floor I'd play anyone there for any amount at stud. And
guess what a couple of takers. First an older guy, he played with me a
few minutes, the arranged for 20/40 stud, they said it was the highest
they would allow in the poker room. We played an hour or so I got up on
the guy and he left, saying it was due to the large rake. Then a younger
guy in his 20s played with me a while. He lasted a few minutes but quit.
I was up on him too.

No more takers. I was a very aggressive 7 stud player at the time, not a
great player by any imagination. I wanted to play anyone there becuase
previouusly I had never had a challenge, I wanted to see how good I was,
as I felt I was a great player at the time. I was destroying my local
games. I was definitely fearless.

After the game broke up I went upstairs (casino was going to close in 30
minutes). I wanted some fast action so I took my money upstairs to play
blackjack. I started off with 200.00 per hand. I won a couple of hands
and then it was 500.00 a hand. I wanted to increase it but the table
limit was 500.00.

I left with a 5k profit, more fearless than ever. Of course, eventually I
got my ass handed to me, a few months later, playing drunk and fearless
without regard to limit I was broke as fuck, still fearless, and when I
got my next check, I wanted to do it again, but eventually I learned and
now when I play poker I want to have about 500 big bets and I'm always
sober.

(2) If people are willing to play against the house for large sums of
money, use the analagy, why not poker? It's the action and the gamble.





> I have played online and in B&M for a few years and have finally
> advanced from the bigger online pl games (1-2 and 2-4) and 5-10/10-20
> limit to the 30-60 and higher games.
>
> What I have found in my short time at these limits (20k hands or so) is
> that the players are WORSE not better. YOu would think that an 30-60 or
> 80-160 game online would have all excellent players (and there are
> plenty of those) but the amount of weak players is amazing.
>
> I have also played some high limit action in the brick and mortar
> casinos and fouind the same thing.
>
> Any thoughts to why these games are so good? My theory, at least for
> online, is that many action type players take a shot at the big games
> trying to get even and then once stuck even more, they continue to chase
> losses. In a casino, I guess the wealthy just want to have a good time.
> Playing green and black chip games is not that big a deal to some one
> flush with cash.

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[Gary Carson]

The best players in the room are usually, but not always, in the
biggest games. The worst players in the room are almost always in the
biggest game.

Without some really bad players in the lineup the game breaks. That's
not true of lower limit games.




Gary Carson

[WulfKrie]

Ive also encountered this in a similar way, the highest limit game ive played
was 10/20 in reno, and there were always a few kids or younger players in the
game( including myself), who would always try and 'run over' the table. which
worked very well against a short table of retirees playing 3/6 texas hold 'em,
but i was glad help them chase out everyone else with my trips or top two pair
when they tried to bet me out on a flush draw. Of course they weren't BAD
players, their strategy just seemed to be a little wrong. i might make it 3
bets playing 3/6 when im going to have 5 people chasing me(even though i only
have a flush draw myself). Hmmm i seemed to have gone off on a tangent... ok
anyway, i think middle limits especially have not so much bad players, but just
people trying to get too fancy.