HOSE, HORSE, Dealer's choice?

[Rudbaeck]

How is new players handled in the various mixed games? Posting blinds, people sitting out their blinds etc.

I couldn't find it in Robert's Rules of Poker, and I started wondering after we discussed why there is no online mixed games in the Internet forum.

[Jay36489]

I just asked the same thing.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...14&fpart=1

[Rudbaeck]

Maybe I was unclear. I was wondering specifically how new players are handled, and how someone going for a bathroom break just before his blinds at the end of the Hold'em round but coming back for the Stud round is penalized.

How is rampant blind dodging avoided?

[Jim T]

When you first come in, you either pay a big blind to play the first hand, or you wait for the blinds to come around to you.

If you leave, when the blinds come around to your spot, they put a token at your place to help the dealer remember (or a new dealer if they switch) that you have to pay a blind again when you come back.

You don't gain any advantage by leaving in between hands in Hold em, believe me. I don't know how they handle Stud though. I didn't play it when I was in Vegas.

[mostsmooth]

if you miss your blinds and come back and they switched to a non blind game, stud for instance, you play the stud round normally. the button from the blind game stays with the player who had it. you would get the normal marker for missed blinds. when the rotation gets back to the blind game, it picks up where it left off with you owing blinds before you can play.

[Rudbaeck]

Thanks, this was exactly what I wanted to know.

Seems like it would be equally easy to implement online.