Rules to hang on the wall. - Page 5

limon · #41 12-02-2004, 07:35 PM

Listen I've been enviolved in home games forever and here is the only rule that matters: let the sucker(s) do whatever they want. am i gonna tell a dude who has dropped thousands to me not to splash the pot? no friggin way. or not to expose cards or not to coffee house or not to act out of turn...NO FRIGGIN WAY. every GOOD home game i've ever been envolved with was a choas of low level benevolent angles, taunts, drinking, splashing, side betting, coffee housing, cussing argueing and general disarray. these dudes want to lose in an atmosphere where they fell welcome.

its the same in the casino as the games get bigger and bigger you start to see stranger and stranger things cause the better players understand a unique game attracts big gamblers, it makes them feel special. all of the piddly crap low level players bitch about, straddles, kills, rabbit hunting, "the rock", mixing games, inducing action, are actively encouraged in the bigger games and should be encouraged in your home game as well.

limon · #42 12-02-2004, 07:36 PM

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wacki · #43 12-02-2004, 08:06 PM

You have a good point. I have a big money(for me) super loose game in Indy that is like that. I only bitch about one rule and that is when someone won't show the second card in a showdown.

In my thursday night homegames, it's only $5-$10 buyins and most of the people there are trying to take the game seriously. This game isn't about the money. It's a different kind of game, and I'd like to keep it that way.

GoneFishing · #44 12-02-2004, 11:12 PM

Sorry-missed the current version....

Just giving an example. If I'm in BB (NLHE) and I get a few limpers - looks down and see Ace-anything, I might take a shot to steal the pot right there with a big raise. IF everyone folds around, I might flash the Ace to show I 'had a hand' (of course, it might be AK or A6 - who knows but me..).

I've actually had people say 'show one show all' when I do this - which is annoying.

grandgnu · #45 12-03-2004, 12:13 AM

No way man, when my money is involved I want to know that I'm not getting screwed six ways to Sunday by some asanine rules that make absolutely no sense.

Played in a home game one time where they didn't believe in split pots, they'd go to the SIXTH card to break tied hands. Oye!

They also had a hand where a guy had 6's and another had 7's, and the guy with the 7's after taking the pot tossed a 100 chip over to the losing player. Um, hello, this is a friggin tournament and I'm trying to win it!

Needless to say I was the first idiot out of that tourney cause I tilted so bad at how stupid they played, and I haven't been back since. Thank god it was only 20 bucks.

I run a 16-player game at my house and I run a damn tight ship, cause 1st place takes anywhere from 100-900 bucks depending on our buy-ins, and people don't like getting screwed

Scuba Chuck · #46 12-03-2004, 01:02 PM

So why is Rabbit hunting okay? Or not a rule on your list. It usually pisses me off to see someone checking out my mucked cards after I've won the pot with no showdown.

Should I be wrong about this?

wacki · #47 12-03-2004, 02:05 PM

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So why is Rabbit hunting okay? Or not a rule on your list. It usually pisses me off to see someone checking out my mucked cards after I've won the pot with no showdown.

Should I be wrong about this?

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That is not rabbit hunting. Rabbit hunting is looking at the river when every one folds on the turn. That is ok. Looking at someone elses mucked cards is just wrong. I'm not trying to put every rule on the wall, just the most important/violated ones.

rogue · #48 12-03-2004, 02:42 PM

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At foxwoods the player called board and then mucked. He still one 1/2 the pot. Did the bad player you saw call board before mucking?

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Nope, he just threw his cards away. After the hand was over the dealer told him next time he needs to just flip his cards up, but the dealer couldn't say anything during the hand. I don't know what would have happened if he would have called board.

Cleveland Guy · #49 12-03-2004, 02:43 PM

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* The deck MUST remain on the table while the cards are dealt (i.e. the dealer cannot hold the deck in their hand, I've seen a bottom deal even with the use of a cut card)

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Too lazy to read through all 5 pages.

One thing we do it put the joker from the other deck. (Red backed joker on the blue deck, Blue backed Joker on the red deck).

If you keep it on the bottom it

1. Keeps a player from dealing off the bottom

2. Keeps a player from seeing the bottom card of the deck.

Patrick del Poker Grande · #50 12-03-2004, 03:57 PM

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Rabbit hunting is looking at the river when every one folds on the turn. That is ok.

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I don't agree. There was a decent article written in Cardplayer magazine a couple issues back about this. Essentially, it boils down to being the same (albeit to a much lesser degree) as turning over your mucked cards. I think it to be atrocious when someone just reaches over and has a looksee all on their own, or asks the dealer and the dealer just automatically does it. Asking (and receiving) permission beforehand from those involved in the hand (most notably the person who didn't muck) is reasonable to me.

This may seem a bit nitty and I would tend to agree with you that in certain circumstances, it's a bit nitty, but rules are rules for a reason. Just because you don't immediately understand the reason doesn't mean there isn't one.