Maybe this will start to help kill the 1/2 and 1/3 games. With rake increases it doesn't make any sense to play smaller then 2/5. When I started playing 20 years ago most he games were 1/2. Taking inflation in consideration we should be evolving away from anything smaller then 2/5 anyways.
No shot in hell this happens. Small stakes recreational players will keep showing up and demanding to play these games. The casinos will keep spreading them to generate rake. They do not care if players are profitable, only if the casino is profitable....
It is a trend and it sucks, but costs are going up everywhere. Eventually it does get to a point where the games become harder and harder to beat and people lose interest/there are fewer games. Someone making a few grand as a hobby may now lose, etc. The promo thing is another issue. Near me they have gone to three dollar promo drop so they can have big high hands all the time. While they give it all back you have to be there when they have the big promos to maximize and it’s extremely high variance (ie almost everyone is stuck from it) and it changes game play (not for the better…people are conservative with chips in many cases and don’t want to bet hands…you can exploit it but not as much as you can wild loose play). Best option is to not play jackpot games (ie PLO) or play time games (mid limit hold em, mix, higher no limit) if you can. But the trend sucks in general…it’s not like 1-3 is playing bigger but more and more money comes out, and it becomes more and more like a table game with the promo focus and forced sucker bet you have to make every hand....
