The Rock is in play

[faith]

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The "rock" I was thinking of was this. Whoever wins a pot, posts the blinds in the next hand. Therefore, you could theoretically fold every hand pre-flop except AA and never lose a dollar (because you would never post a blind). Also, stealing blinds is useless since you would just end up posting those blinds on the very next hand.


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It's in one of Mason's essay books. He'd chew me out if I reproduced it on the site.


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1, 2 or 3? I'll have to get a copy, I'm intrigued. I can only get the first one locally, I was planning on getting the other two next trip to Vegas.


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It's in the second. The winner of any hand posts the big blind and the small blind is posted to the left of the dealer as normal. The BB can be tied up in a bunch and even replaced by a rock because it may as well just sit in the pot. It ends up being a limit game with only a small blind posted.

With the blinds being dropped to 33% of today's typical structure, should someone play 33% of their usual number of hands?

-faith

[Luv2DriveTT]

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Read the thread much?

I'm still wondering... how the HELL do you get a card room to spread this?

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You don't... you just do it yourself by using your own winning personality (assuming you have one [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]) but putting it in play and encouraging your opponents to play with it. Worse case scenario somebody wins the rock and eats it, meaning they either leave with it, refuse to play with it, or dismantle it. Such is the risk of introducing the rock.

What I find ironic about the rock is it induces action from players who are typically tight. Thats why I brought it to the table on Monday, our game had become rather tight and the rock was essentially KY to lube up the game again.

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[Chipr777]

The rock is common in the Horseshoe Tunica 20-40 game. As someone else asked, the rock is NOT house money. All players at the table have to agree to playing with the rock. After all, the rock is a mandatory straddle, and some players don't straddle. Most of the time a few players throw in money to make a rock. In the 20-40 game I've seen 8 players throw in $5 each to make the rock when the game starts. They draw for the button and the first person UTG has the rock. Easy enough.

[IgorSmiles]

TT,

If anyone tries eating the rock in your game, yell it out and we will get the entire club to dish out way more than 6 bucks worth of ridicule!

You cant be eatin the rock, man!

[Justin A]

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i've always thought: who leaves with the rock when the game breaks?

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Daryn. C'mon. Whoever has the rock gets to leave with it.

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Except in some Tunica games. I have read that if the player with the Rock wishes to leave the game, it gets placed into the next pot as a bonus. I would assume the rock in these games is house money, hence the policy. Can anyone confirm?

TT [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

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Daryn was referring to a game breaking, not a player leaving a game.

[daryn]

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i've always thought: who leaves with the rock when the game breaks?

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Daryn. C'mon. Whoever has the rock gets to leave with it.

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Except in some Tunica games. I have read that if the player with the Rock wishes to leave the game, it gets placed into the next pot as a bonus. I would assume the rock in these games is house money, hence the policy. Can anyone confirm?

TT [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

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Daryn was referring to a game breaking, not a player leaving a game.

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yes but i'd always want to keep playing so i could leave with the rock!

[Luv2DriveTT]

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i've always thought: who leaves with the rock when the game breaks?

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Daryn. C'mon. Whoever has the rock gets to leave with it.

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Except in some Tunica games. I have read that if the player with the Rock wishes to leave the game, it gets placed into the next pot as a bonus. I would assume the rock in these games is house money, hence the policy. Can anyone confirm?

TT [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

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Daryn was referring to a game breaking, not a player leaving a game.

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Still the same scenario, the holder of the rock of course.

TT [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

[jnalpak]

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Read the thread much?

I'm still wondering... how the HELL do you get a card room to spread this?

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You don't... you just do it yourself by using your own winning personality (assuming you have one [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]) but putting it in play and encouraging your opponents to play with it. Worse case scenario somebody wins the rock and eats it, meaning they either leave with it, refuse to play with it, or dismantle it. Such is the risk of introducing the rock.

What I find ironic about the rock is it induces action from players who are typically tight. Thats why I brought it to the table on Monday, our game had become rather tight and the rock was essentially KY to lube up the game again.

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As a witness to the KY lubing, it didnt hurt much....BUT i would say that our table definitly needed some spice and the rock was the correct ingredient. Almost like having....MORE COWBELL!

good job TT

[samjjones]

Well, you can never have enough cowbell. THE ROCK sounds like a great idea to me...even though I never have to be asked twice to straddle.

[mosch]

Three points:
1) I love the rock and hate rock-eaters.
2) The rock is also excellent in no-limit and pot-limit.
3) I need to go to Tunica.