Are Party 15/30 players truly as retarded as they seem?

[teddyFBI]

This is a dead-serious question, from a career 3/6 & 5/10 player, because I keep hearing that the play is just as bad at higher limits, but still haven't been comfortable enough to move up, especially since I always figured competition would be much stiffer higher up.

I've been poking my head into 15/30 games lately just to check out the style of play, and more than half of the games I watch are beyond absurd. Players are not only playing trash hands (i.e. T2o, 93o, etc. etc.), but raising preflop, and then playing them post-flop as though they were the nuts, even when the board misses them entirely.

And play on the river seems most wild of all; Players raise and re-raise even when it should be 100% obvious that they have no chance of winning the hand, i.e. watched several hands where board was double-paired, and with one bettor then a raiser, a player casually throws in a $90 re-raise with a low flush (only to get re-raised and shown the nuts of course).

So what is it with play at 15/30. I understand aggressive games, but these are seeminly non-sensical...is it a hyper-aggressive 'strategy' that actually has a place at higher-limits, or is it just trust-fund babies and investment bankers who like sitting at the highest limit tables they can??

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