Inflation

[sdp]

Hollywood Park has 1-2 stud....it will make you want to kick a baby.

[sevencard2003]

i played 1-3 no ante stud in foxwoods a lot years ago to avoid the 50c ante in the $1-5, but the $1-3 was NO ANTE, the rake was heavier but i didnt care as long as i didnt have to ante. and i still love playing $1-5 spread holdem in wendover NV where its just 1 $1 blind. used to be a guy with a $200 bankroll could slowly and carefully run it up to $1000 in a few months by solid careful play. now u better have at least a $500 bankroll just to walk in the door of a casino. thats a shame so many casinos got rid of the low limits. thank God the casino in FL raising their limits u can still buyin the NL games for $50-300 instead of a FLAT $100. wish i could find a NL game with a $20 min buyin somewhere, like i do online, and dont tell me no one wants to play that low, over 10 million people are playing that low online.

[Siegmund]

There has been a shift from $3/6 toward $4/8 in the Washington state cardrooms over the last few years, IMO - some of it driven by the rooms themselves (the Muck for instance was only spreading 3 tables of 3/6 no matter how long the list was, but might have 6 or 8 tables of 4/8). The small rooms often run only $4/8, whereas they once might have run $3/6.

The trend seems to be different elsewhere, with $2/4 emerging as a common live game - seems to me a lot of places didn't spread lower than $3/6 until very recently.

As for the rake, makes very little difference to the house: pots hit the max rake pretty fast even at $3/6, so the house is making essentially the same amount per table regardless of the limit.