[ccgreg]

At my B&M $1/$2 NL game, the standard preflop raise was $7 (though I tried to vary it a little to keep 'em guessing). $10 would usually drive them out. After the flop, I would sometimes bet $13 (13 is my lucky number, I was 13 years old on Friday the 13th). Then the dealers complained to management that it took them too long to count the chips. Many players wouldn't keep them in stacks of 20. Some players counted them out one at a time (the newbies). So management, in their infinite wisdom, changed the game to bet in only $5 increments. In a $1/$2 game you could call the BB for $2, but, thereafter, each bet was in $5 increments. The action is now terrible. Betting $10 after the flop gets little action. People there don't think of betting relative to pot size. It's more like a limit game after the flop unless someone has a monster or someone is bluffing. I hope they change it back.