Local card room vs Vegas

[TommyO]

I am a recreational player at my local cardroom. The highest I play is 6/12. The conventional wisdom is that the average low limit player is horrible and that reading SSHE and applying the strategies correctly you should be crushing the games. From my observations this is not the case at all. Most tables I play at have one or two bad players, but the VAST majority of the players are pretty solid.

I have a theory about this. Since my local card club is not part of a casino, the only reason people go there is to play poker. People come from all over the three state region to play and are obviously serious about their game.

Casinos on the other hand attract people who are just there to gamble. They figure they'll give poker a try since they saw it on TV and it looked like fun. The couple of times I have been to Las Vegas I have noticed that the level of play was much worse than what I was used to.

Anyone else see a big difference in the level of play between their local card room and the casinos or am I giving the local players too much credit?