HORSE on Stars: Hold'em Unusually Weak?

[AlanBostick]

I've moved some money onto Stars and have plunged into low-limit HORSE. Man alive, it's like the Bike in 1987!


I've noticed something interesting: that I'm making more money than I would expect during the hold'em rounds. People are easily pushed around, and I'm taking down way more pots on sheer gumption than I think I "should" be taking. The other rounds are wonderful too, but hold'em is the one game I would expect people to know how to play at least a little bit.

I wonder why? Is HORSE attracting stud players who aren't any good at hold'em? Is HORSE where the bad hold'em players are taking shelter from the TAGs and donks who steal the blinds from each other and dribble their winnings down the slot in the form of rake? Has my hold'em game gotten better while my back was turned? Or is one day's results simply not a large enough sample simply not enough from which to draw conclusions?

Has anyone else noticed this?