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Originally Posted by BWillie
Those 40bb cap games sound really stupid, but probably very beatable. I've never seen them, but I've never been to Cali either yet.
If I remember right there is a $6 drop, not rake in those games, i.e. $6 goes down the **** hole before any cards hit the flop. So in a $40 capped game, at 25/hr 3.75 buy-ins are being removed from the table per hour. It has to be pretty hard to beat a game where the house has a much higher expectation of earnings than the players.
Having watched these games, they tend to become a lotto. People start out playing tight because everyone knows you are AI on any hand you play, then they get bored, frustrated, etc and start open pushing with much lower requirements. It becomes a very high variance game, which frankly if I am going to play in a high variance situation, I would rather do it for something more significant than $40.
The end result is that these low capped games remove a significant amount of the skill element of the game, is bad for the game in many ways. Remember skill is demonstrated by choices. If you remove 3 out 4 chances to choose better than our opponents, it becomes much more of a luck game. Remember that most states that have legal poker do so because someone has successfully made the argument that in poker skill dominates luck in the game. These lotto styles games diminishes that.