[sternroolz]

First off you underestimate the number of tables going in So Cal, particularly on the weekends. 150+ tables going on any evening weekend at Commerce alone. Even their high limit area(20-40 and up) has 40-50 tables going. Typical is 30+ NL games with $100-600 buy ins.

Second, most of these guys are the biggest donks you have ever seen. They are not happy unless there is a 2 rack pot, and they are drawing to a four outer, paying caps all the way. It's serious culture shock for them to sit at a poker table in Vegas.

FWIW, I have to put up with the same crap at the $9-18 games in Los Angeles. A lot of the players play this game underfunded. I even had a lady tell me that she NEVER goes in more than $400 and she would be miserbly upset to do so(WTF is she playing $9-18?). That is only 22 BB...hardly anything. So whenever 2 players leave one of the $9-18 games, it usually comes to a grinding halt as someone else will throw a tantrum and be upset that the game is not full.