"I will never understand this. Someone recently told me that he doesn't play at the Palms anymore because there are two many bad players and he can't beat them and he prefers to play at another room because there are better players."

Two many bad players aren't a problem Pete!

I see it as a matter of volatility that has been changing the face of the game as many of us have known it. Sometimes it seems like half the table is playing on tilt, and they're doing so as a function of typical play for those players. That isn't the game that I play or like playing. I view such play as turning the game into a slot machine, forcing a majority of the results to be determined solely by luck. That isn't poker. ...or at least it isn't what I know to be poker. When conscious thought processes are removed, the game ceases to be fun and/or challenging.

JMHO,

Bob