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Originally Posted by zica
Timed rake and ante's decrease nittiness and a mandatory $20 bomb pot every hand would draw gamblers in a big way imo though you might want to get rid of the $600 max bet. Why do you see these as problematic?
Oh I agree with you on everything. Also, who enforces the $600 max bet? Certainly in the Parq PLO and 2/5 games (I have about 2000 hours in those games, mostly the PLO) there is no max bet ever enforced. I think I've seen it enforced at cascades but I thought it was 700.
Why casinos ever got the idea that poker tables should be 10 handed is beyond me. It's not in their best interests at all. I think 5 is too few because if anybody takes a break the game is in Danger of breaking. I think 7 or 8 is ideal, as then 1 or 2 players can break and the game can still run.
Timed rake is great. Nits hate it. Anything nits hate is usually good for the game. And by nits I don't mean "good tag winning players' I mean those people who sit with min buy ins and play like it's the last dollars they have in the world. Those people are terrible for a poker room. Occupying a seat is not beneficial by default, those players do serious damage to the health of the room.
In San Jose at the M8trix and TheBay101 both poker rooms have a bomb pot to welcome every new dealer to the table. At 2/5 it's a 20, and 5/5 and 5/10 it was 40. I loved it but I don't know how that became the norm there, out of the 200 or so poker rooms I've played that was the only place this was standard procedure.
Antes are great too. In table games you don't get cards if you don't bet. 10 handed poker where 8 players get free cards is silly and never should've been invented.
I only said these things are problematic because they are big changes and our poker rooms are not run by people cañable of making such changes. But the small change that I am championing, the switch from 10 handed 1/3 100-400 to 8 handed 2/5 200-500 I think is something the room should be capable of, and for a small change it offers massive improvements.
Last edited by Carnivore; 02-17-2021 at 12:09 PM.