Oh how I wish Detoit would close all their poker rooms

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How I miss the good ole days of the home games that used to run rampant around town. No limit was rarely played, but some of the $5-10 up to $20-40 were the loosest around and the best I'd ever seen. I would usually start the game out and play until it ended. Then the casinos came around and everyone wanted to play in the casino since it was legal and who can blame 'em?

Sometimes you'd only be eating pizza (if you were lucky), but at other places there were REALLY nice home cooked meals. I was playing in a home game every day of the week and I miss the round by round games too. Sure at some places people would be blowing smoke in your face, but that's what those little fans were for. Besides that I like to play in a game where the people who are playing aren't concerned about their health. Those are some good gamblers!

Now we have Motor City w/ their crazy time charge at the no limit games and their $6+$1 for the bad beat rake at all the limit games and on top of that the dealers are doing you a favor if they get out 30 hands an hour. If you don't like that you can (if you're crazy enough) go down the road to Greektown where the staff is STILL the worst I've seen in the country, but hey if you play for 4 hours you can get a hot dog AND chips and even worse dealers!

One problem is that many of the bad players I used to play with can play any time and any day of the week. Instead of giving their money to me they're giving it to some schmuck they never even met! You don't see some of the looser players around anymore because they went bust faster than they would have if the casino wasn't around. It was nice when you knew where they'd be and you knew where to find them next week if they went broke this week!

Perhaps I got spoiled this year by the great games in Vegas, CT and California and I came to realize just how bad it is here. Regardless I miss the atmosphere (and easy money!) of the home games :-(.