[jesse8888]

I've thought about this a lot, and I think to truly find an answer you must look past the single card room and outward to the entire "region". Here's what I mean:

If there's only one card room in your "region" (and by region i mean reasonable driving distance), then whoever plays poker is going to go to your room, and most likely those players are going to be decent by live standards. In this case, poker has obviously not caught on where you live, and thus only people who kind of know what they are doing come out to play.

If this is the case you're in, I'm confident the play in your 2/4 and 4/8 games is better than I'm used to.

In my region (Northern California), there is not only an abundance of card rooms, but also a sizable enough population to sustain them. Poker has taken off here, and tons of people who barely know the rules come out to drop 100 bucks on Friday night. I generally find that the quality of play goes up dramatically from the smallest to second smallest game (in my case, the 3/6 players at my local card room are just gahd-awful, where as you can usually find 2 or 3 people at the 6/12 people with a clue as to what's going on).

Not sure if this helps or hinders your thought process....