That's because you like the big honking cigars. I had a RyJ churchill size that was pretty damn good.
I'm really only down on those RyJ Churchills 'cause I've have two and they were both so hard to draw on, I had to toss them. I didn't own a poker at the time. Hopefully I just got unlucky twice.
As far as number of people in the pass, I'm a fan of the smaller ones, 8 - 15 people. This way it doesn't hang around for 6 to 9 months and by the time it gets to the last guy, he doesn't have to take out a home equity load to pay the shipping