(February 15, 2015 at 4:18 pm)Heywood Wrote: I think the local Indian casino spreads 5-500 sometimes.....which I need to get into that game.
It's kind of funny, I live in Washington where poker is legal, and poker rooms are common - yet pot limit and no limit is illegal. It's legal on reservations and licensed social gaming clubs (*) a short drive away in Oregon. In WA there is a 40 dollar maximum bet codified into law (so we do see 4-40 spread in card rooms). I suppose that the thinking is that limiting the bet size helps gamblers limit losses or something - but you know what, I see donkeys running though a stack just a fast in those games as I do in NL - and in my view, limit games only increase the luck factor and take a lot of the tools away from skilled players.
(*) Though the legal social clubs are limited to a "shootout" format, where they buyin is limited (often to about 50 big blinds), and everyone has to cash down to the maximum buy in every hour, so no big stacks are ever really in play. I swear the goddamned bureaucrats want to ruin the game.
