You then see most of the best players from the $2-$5 including two of the strongest players from your game move over to $5-10 and now there are literally no good players left at $2-$5. There are several people on the board for larger games, it is Saturday and the casino decides to open a brand new $5-10 table.

You are sitting in a pretty juicy $2-$5 game, one of four tables running. Let us say your local casino runs a $2-$5 as the normal highest game and sometimes will get $5-10 off of the ground if the right people are there at the same time. This same type of thing happens at other casinos around the country.

Instead, they would sit in some pretty bad $10-$20 tables and I had the fortune of lapping up some really easy money at $5-$10. Most $10-$20 regulars passed on these games because it would have been a big blow to their ego. This actual geographic difference in game location made certain people never play at $5-$10 because they did not want to be seen playing “low stakes” even though when that game first opened it was by far the best in the whole house. The “high stakes games,” including $10-$20 no limit, were on the hotel side. They set the game down with the rest of the yellow ($5) chips games on the other side of the casino. I remember back in 2008 the Commerce Casino opened $5-$10 no limit with a $1500 cap buy-in.

For some players it is always their goal to play in the biggest game regardless of the actual quality of the game. Who’s broke, who’s running hot, who owes money, etc. If you listen in to some of the regulars in the higher no limit games you would think that they were in junior high school with the amount of gossip that is exchanged back in forth.

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