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I play poker in the card rooms around the Bay Area very regularly, and limit poker is absolutely popular at the card rooms that I go to, as well as in Vegas. To say that it is dead is completely untrue.

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It's my understanding that limit is popular at places like the Oaks because No Limit was not allowed for a while, until there were means of getting around it (Oaks has 'cap no limit' for example -- can't bet above the max table buyin; Bay101 has something similar). I see the current popularity as a function more of inertia than of actual interest. A majority of the tournaments and SNGs that the Oaks runs are no limit.

This is also not true. A lot of people enjoy playing limit poker, like 3-6, because they can chase big hands much cheaper. It's a completely different strategy than no-limit, where you could potentially risk your entire stack in any hand you're in.

The other thing is that poker has an unexpected (at least to me) social aspect to it. The people who play against each other are largely friendly to each other, and they play against each other every day so playing 3-6 limit lets you spend more time at the tables than 1-2 or 3-5 No Limit, etc.

California poker isn't typical of most other regional casinos. Look at the Bravo poker app and browse through what games are spread across the country. I have fond memories of limit poker thanks to the old 6max games online, but limit just isn't remotely popular anymore.

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