Re: Arguments for table stakes?
Two aurguments for going table stakes.
1) A person should not be able to lose a pot because they don't have money to call a bet. Simply make a side pot. One way to help protect the all-inners (not sure that's a word) is to institute a minimum buy-in during the start of the game. A 20 times big bet works well. Unlike at a casino where people come and go, usually during a home game all the players start at a certain time and usually end around a certain time. You could use this to help set buy-ins.
2) And I've seen this before. A person raises a player with no chips but now the player decides he has a good hand or catches something so he digs into his pocket and re-raises. This is not fair, because if the player does not hit or think he has a good enough hand he sticks with being all-in. Not fair at all.
Stick with table stakes.
j.
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