My first ever encounter with Limon was on his now-defunct "Pokersesh" show, where he was talking about the nosebleed (super high limit) games online. I forget why it was a topic that week, but I called in to give my thoughts on the matter, and explained why these sites ran nosebleed games.
My point was that the nosebleed games were an attention-grabber -- a way to make the average player want to open the site, watch the huge action, and aspire to run up their roll to be like those guys.
Limon disagreed, using the most absurd of absurd logic.
"It's about the rake," he responded.
At first I thought he meant that it was about raking the players who would watch the nosebleeds and then grind lower stakes themselves, but no, he meant the nosebleed games rake. He actually thought that the $5 rake per hand at very low volume was the reason these sites put out a lot of effort to get the nosebleed games going.
I tried over and over to explain how this made no sense -- how the capped $5 rake in these games made almost nothing for the site, given the very low volume of total hands played at those stakes. In fact, the cost of getting mass money on and off the site for these games dwarfed whatever they'd take in via that piddling amount of rake.
The idiot responded to me that payment processing costs very little (lol), and that they're making huge money on the rake of the nosebleed games.
When I tried to explain the whole thing rationally, he kept drunkenly shouting over me, and then just hung up on me in the middle of a word, declaring victory in the argument.
That's the profound type of stuff you'll learn from Limon.
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Originally Posted by NickyPipes
