Quote Originally Posted by simpdog View Post
Sounds like that 5/10 stud game is an amazing game.

Do the same players bounce between 5/10-10/20-20/40 or are they different groups of players? With a larger roll would you feel you could win more at 5/10 or 10/20 or 20/40? Often I find it's easier for me to earn at 1/2 NL vs 2/5 NL due to the quality of players. Typically there are more tables of 1/2 NL and the better players all play 2/5 due to egos. Would that apply here too?
I agree with you on the NLHE, it is kind of the same for the stud games, but I would say the 5/10 and the 20/40 are both softer and the 10/20 game is full of grinders who never seem to move up or down... The exception is the 10/20 game at Kevin's poker room... That game is populated by 3-4 terrible players, I will play it a few times, but the problem is Tim and a few other of my close friends already play that game religiously and I hate playing in games where I am very close with several players at the table.

The 20/40 game tends to be pretty spewy and loose at foxwoods, there are some good players in the game but there are also a lot of richer clueless players, mostly greek or some kind of italian old school type guys who have money and hate holdem and can't get enjoyment playing smaller.

The same players don't bounce much, 5/10 is full of senior citizens who just have a bit more money than the same seniors who play 1-5, then you have the occasional guy about my age who realizes how soft the games are... The 10/20 is full of guys around my age to maybe 20 years older who treat poker likes its cigars or scotch, like they are an expert at an obscure variation and they play the level because it's respectable and sometimes beatable but they are all just swapping money all year, almost like a poker hipster (if any of that makes sense)

There are generally peak levels at all the games in the poker room, what I mean by that is that the games get progressively better players, than they peak and then the play begins to get softer as you go up, sometimes they peak again if they are spreading enough games (the 75/150 stud game is very tough)...

When I played a ton of NLHE cash games 1/2 was really soft, 2/5 was a tougher game, 5/10 was the peak, then 10/25 started to get softer again... now thats all moved down one level because those games just don't get spread anymore, the 2/5 games are tough and full of guys who used to play 5/10... you can have a better win rate playing 1/2 because you do often get the clueless guys who will just come in dump 300 and reload or leave, and you will get very, very spewy recreational players as well, 2/5 doesn't get much of that.