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Originally Posted by mongidig
I've played for the first time in over a year. I played 7 max 20/40 limit. Here are some observations.
1) It plays more like 5 handed with all of the walkers.
2) With the plexiglass set up and mask wearing there is very little socializing going on. It is very depressing and people do not look like they are having fun.
3) It appears that the older TAG/Fish regs have not come back yet. I didn't see many older folks in general. I don't think these folks like to play short handed.
4) No food service sucks! I had to bring a cooler with food and eat it in my car. I could go next store to the restaurant but I'm trying to eat healthy.
5) Every time you leave you have to get your temperature checked when coming back in. It's slightly annoying when there is a line.
6) You aren't allowed to wait in the poker room for your seat so you have to wait in the smoking area or go further away to find a seat.
7) having to wear a mask is not very comfortable.
8) It seems there is one or two TAG grinders and the rest are all very laggy to maniacle.
In the two times I played I had trouble with putting people on ranges. I was putting the unknowns on default short handed ranges. It seems that some people are still playing a full table strategy pre flop It seemed like the TAG grinders were playing very tight given the short handedness. I only played a total of 10 hours so it's a small sample. I'm wondering if I too need to tighten up a bit in a table full of lags. Maybe the grinders were just card dead.
It just didn't feel like a normal short handed table. Maybe I'm just rusty. Does anybody else notice differences with the 7 handed dynamic?
1) yes - it’s almost always short
2) yes and no - it’s definitely harder to talk to each other but the guys I play with mostly know each so there is still table talk and still pretty fun . Glass comes down end of the month for us
3) some yes, some no.
4) we still have food service but you can’t eat at the table. I’m actually ok right that
5)l never a line but still kind of a joke
6). Seems like a dumb rule - we don’t have it
7) welcome to 2020 / 2021. Mask mandate should end in July for us
8). This is definitely true here. Games have been off the charts crazy and all the fish want to play 40/80 - which has all but killed 20/40