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Originally Posted by limon
weren't you recently trying to get this thread shut down lil Gash? good thing you didn't or i couldn't correct your dumb observations.
aLmost no one playing micros or small stakes live is ever playing or losing to me. it attracts no one who helps the mid/hi poker economy. they are in no way a stepping stone for gamblers only soulless nit regs. The bad players die in micros and are raked out of existence, no mid/hi whale ever came out of grinding micros or small stakes live, mid/hi whales jump straight to big games they dont start small, they view poker like blackjack or another table game, they dont go to the $1 tables to "work their way up" lololololol. they go where action that excites them is. Your doug polk observation is correct, that is the type of player coming out of these stakes, tough smart players with a lot of gamble who jump up FAST, never whale fish. the players that stick there are souless grinders who were meant for cubicle jobs and bad players who can never get their head above water because they are being raked to death.
these games sustain poker in no way shape or form. they are rake traps that sustain the casinos and stop money from getting to bigger games. this is one of the reasons (along with tournaments) that bigger games are drying up super quick, becoming insanely predatory and most are private or semi private at this point. If all games under $5 big blind were eliminate and all small buy on tournaments the poker economy would get a massive boost instantly and people would have more fun! they would save a little and play bigger games. THE CASINO WOULD LOSE, and everyone else would win. you would get a culture of "shot takers" and not a culture of **** grinders and people hating poker because they lose to the rake in small games and never had a chance.
I think you are confused. I have never made any attempt to shut down this thread. (I check it probably daily because I think it the most "live", engaged thread on 2+2)
In the past, I spent many years tracking player progression from micro-stakes to higher stakes online. Literally, data on a few hundreds of newbie accounts, from entry level in Micros to progressively higher buy-in cash games. (I mentioned Doug Polk because his publicly posted description of his poker evolution followed that sort of progression.) Where do you THINK players originate ?
As for your prediction that casinos eliminating ALL games under $5 big blinds and all small buy-in tournaments, concluding that means "THE CASINO WOULD LOSE" is truly myopic and not well-thought out. "THE CASINO" would not sustain a money-losing offering just so poker players can feed on fish swimming in deeper water. If the games lose money, the casinos will NOT offer them long term. Why do you think they would do so ?.
When casino poker roomswere shut down because of CoVid, online poker, including micro-stakes, experienced tremendous growth.
Last edited by Gzesh; 01-08-2024 at 12:52 AM.