Was This Spread-Limit Game Typical?

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I recently posted a trip report in the Brick and Mortar forum about playing 1-5 spread limit stud with no ante. I can definitely see how Sklansky/Malmuth/Zee writing that you can play a lot of speculative hands and build your roll easily against a loose table.

Most of the things I have seen people write about playing spread limit stud referred to cardrooms where higher stud games are available and there is a clear stud audience. At Potawatomi in Milwaukee, the stud game, the only non-hold em game spread there, essentially served as a feeder game to the smaller holdem games, both limit and no-limit. As it was the only stud game, it was the only game for which I am bankrolled that had a short waiting list (in my case, immediate seating), I am still inexperienced at playing live, and it was my first time playing in that room, I sat in on that game

At other casinos, is having the stud game consist of transient hold em players passing through plus a couple of regular stud players highly abnormal?

In this particular game, on this particular day, third street was almost always a limped multi-way affair, often five- or six- way. There was very little raising and big pairs were often slowplayed. Based on 7CSFAP, this sounds fairly normal for a small spread-limit game. Am I right?

Except for the mostly $1 bets on third street, 95% of the bets on subsequent streets were $5 max bets and 99% of raises were $5 max raises. I believe it was Roy West's book that described the "milk route" betting pattern with a $2 bet followed by $3 on the next street then $4 and $5. I never saw that or anything near it. The closest I saw was the second-best player in the game having a standard third-street raise size of $3. Is this the norm for other spread limit games? Do betting patterns such as the "milk route" exist in other spread-limit games, or have people become more insistent about betting the max because of the popularity of no-limit hold em?