[redfisher]

This is true, but the Ex suffers from the $200 max buy-in from a winner's perspective. Low buy-ins may keep the fish in longer, but you want a huge mistake to be $500 vs. $200. I played several sessions at the Ex, and it was very good, but it was overrun with short buys. You just can't make the kind of implied odds plays you'd like to there. Many times the shortstacks just handcuff you so badly you're cut down to their level. My biggest problem over the week was making plays on a big stack limper and then finding myself in it with a shortie. Obviously I wasn't evaluating the game well, but it's easier when a new guy buys/rebuys max versus having a couple of $400 stacks mixed with 7 $50s.

Just frustrating that I couldn't whip out the "skillz that killz" or that the corpse would be me.