why do some poker games have ridiculously passive play from everyone
It’s not some mystery, it’s low-stakes money fear dressed up as “seeing a flop.” Same thing you see with sports betting guys who’ll sweat a 1.5 point middle for three hours then act like raising top pair is reckless. They hate variance, that’s all. In those games nobody wants a real hand history, they want cheap entertainment and a story if their junk gets there. Casino 1/2 does it too, online less if the pool’s halfway awake, but plenty of bad passive tables there also. Once people start protecting their buy-in like it’s rent money, the whole table turns into limp-check sludge, and now every pot’s five hole cards deep basically!!!