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I play in a small home game with some friends, and we just started playing .25/.5 limit games as opposed to nl games. Not only has this made my playing better but it helps to stop people from getting up a lot early. It is clear that those people who walk away cannot handle the swings of nl. Look, all you gotta do is ask them to buy back in their original amount and they can keep the profit. Its not that they dont want to play, its just that they dont want to lose the profit.

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I'm not really adding anything new here, but I've got two thoughts. 1 - Let 'em go, it's no fun for anyone to make someone stick around or 2 - Go get a new group of guys that aren't such pu$$ies. If they can't handle the risk that goes with playing NL, then they shouldn't be there in the first place.

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Thread discussing cashing out

- Fins

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Just tell them that the're an a**hole and if it happens twice, "Well, I just won that big pot so I'm leaving now, cya at the bar!" then don't let them sit anymore. They will never change, f them. I have never had this problem but I wouldn't be opposed to getting in someone's grill because they want to sit and we don't want them to.

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Just play limit poker.

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when you have a limited # of seats you dont really want hit and run artists sitting in them . Unless of course you are getting a rake.

Just reserve seats for the normal players and perhaps allow the hit and runners to "play over" the reserved button . Once the reserved Player shows up the hit and runner must pick up.

Explain this practice to the hit and runner and it might just change the unwanted behavior. If not just see how he likes getting picked up next time a reserved player shows up while he is stuck to the gills [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

Heres a hint, start taking reservations at the end of the game for the next nights game.

timmer

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Your friends know very little about poker ethics.

Winning a big pot and immediately leaving is extremely poor form and is a MAJOR breach of poker ethics. It is frown upon in ANY poker game and such behaviour does nothing but completely spoils the game with excess money being taken out. No home game ever tolerates this and is also looked down in casino play.

I would suggest that any player must give a notice of half-an-hour to an hour before leaving. Alternatively, change the rules for a tournament style game or don't bother inviting those players who did a hit-n-run or just don't play. Show them this thread.

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This is complete bullshit. If a player loses all his money he can leave whenever he wants and noone cares. The same should be true if someone wins a pot. If someone wins a pot and just happaned to want to leave soon anyways for whatever reason, so what? I dont want to goto a game where I have to babysit people or feel like im being babysat.

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If you go to a friends place for dinner do you arrive 5 minutes before the meal and leave as soon as you finish eating, no because its rude.

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Just play limit poker.

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I wish! Everyone there is into the new NL hype. All the fish I play with are LAPs, but the only other couple of good players are LAGs so obviously they don't want to play limit. If we went to limit I'd probably be the only one who would want to play. It's sad really, I prefer limit over NL.

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I read the posts in this and the other linked thread, and I have to say that one thing wasn't mentioned -- the blinds. Even at the casino, most people play around until their blinds (even after dragging a big pot).

Well, we play limit (and very low-limit), so our "scores" aren't huge, but no one usually cashes out in the middle of an orbit simply because of the blinds. Someone who is tired will usually say "Who started this mess?", someone will answer "Mike" or whatever, and they'll say, "ok, I'll play around to Mike." Now our game is tiny (.20-.40 blinds), but it still seems courteous to wait for the blinds to be "right," that is, everyone has paid the small and big blind for that orbit of the table. (And usually no one completely busts out at these levels!)

So why not use the blinds as a way of setting up a rule -- a player can declare his intention of cashing out as soon as the button has moved back to its original position, but he cannot cash out (or skip his blind) before this happens. This would usually be less than an orbit, less than a half hour, and unless the hit-and-run artist has hit on just the right hand, he will probably have to wait at least a couple of hands. (Of course, if someone does bust, you have to do the old dead button thing, but...)

Just an idea.