[Al_Capone_Junior]

Well, the ring games have gotten BETTER not worse. It's the tournaments that have gotten harder to beat. Any pro however, who cannot beat limit ring games right now, hasn't remembered enough about what it was like playing 3-6 in the middle of the night on a weekend in vegas, or any day in any casino in California. Now I am very happy to have stayed at 3-6 and 4-8 all those years, playing against loose, unreadable opponents, even tho I could have undoubtedly beaten higher limit, tougher games. The 10-20 games now are often like 3-6 used to be, loose and with unreadable players. Fine with me, I used to beat 3-6 very nicely, for more than a big bet per hour, even with the high drops in California. I can now beat tougher games, but I have the loose game experience to fall back on now that the game has changed.

I don't like what the massive influx is doing to the tournament scene. It's made the variance go WAY up. But what the heh, I'll pick and choose my tournaments according to my taste, and play ring games the rest of the time.

al