[chisness]

tinga,

i've been to the rockford games a few times (i'm in buffalo grove)

i remember one of my first live games that wasn't just with friends, a 6-12 home raked game, folded to SB who offers me a chop, i look down at QQ and am like "uhhh do i have to?" at which point it was explained that it's pretty customary, so i agreed -- in a casino i'd probably be less likely to because it's more war less friendly

btw, what do you think of the rockford games? i used to go there all the time before i was big on online poker, played 2-5 and most recently did a few SNGs -- the games seem pretty donkified and the SNG players are almost all far dumber than party skin players, often completely clueless

i think they got rid of the 10-20 game because the maximum bet by law is $10 (they manage to get around this in the NL game by treating it as a tournament, which is probably an illegal "workaround")