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[BigBadJonV]

Hello all, kinda a strange question but I believe I have a valid question.

Recently I was playing at a local 20$ buy in/rebuy/add-on tourney that I haven't played at before, well I ended up getting first and taking about 600$, so I decided to play in the 5/10 dealer's choice cash game.

At first everything seemed normal, they even let me in mid-way through the round. Then I noticed that I didn't see a small blind. When first position was almost to me, the guy two to my right said, "Its your blind Jonathan", I thought ok I just didn't see Shawn post (this is shawn's house by the way and his home game). So I post 5$ and I notice Shawn didn't put out a small blind, ok no big turns out they don't post a small blind. Well next someone says you forgot to put the whole blind out there, and I look confused and they say, "Put a 5$ chip and a 1$ chip out" so i'm like "A 6$ blind in a 5/10 game?" and they said that the 1$ extra goes to the rake. So at first i'm a little perturbed at this but figure what the hell who cares.

The next time around, the real thing hits home that makes me leave the game quietly with a lame excuse. Well not only is Shawn getting to keep 1$ a hand, he doesn't have to post a blind! So here we all are posting 6$ every nine hands, and he doesn't have to post a thing (ten players but since he doesn't post its 9 hands per blind).

I think that this is a valid arguement to not play in the game, but I thought I'd post on this. Shawn is a looseweak/aggressive player so he sees a lot of hands but he passes on some too of course. If anyone wants to post on the disadvantages of this game or advantages, let me know please.

BigBadJonV
I play 10/20 short handed and 15/30 full handed on different sites.

Needed to add that he never dealt either, so he gave up a slight positional advantage in turn for not posting a blind.

[jba]

The blind should cost you $0.50/hand, because he doesn't post it costs you $0.55/hand.

So the rake is $1.05/hand. If this is your father-in-law you're getting screwed otherwise it's not bad. much better than a casino. this is what you normally are tipping, which I'm assuming you're not.