home cash game question

[VBCurtis]

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you DON'T decide...

they do.

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Players should be allowed to come and go as they please. You don't get mad at online players that play for five minutes and then leave do you?

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I don't have an unlimited pool of players in my home game, so of course I care if they play for 5 minutes. If I plan on a single table game and get 10 people to come, I expect to have 10 people for a good portion of the night. If someone has to leave early, they usually tell me before they arrive (we plan via mass email, so everyone knows who is coming/etc). If someone gets tired/scared of the game, we ask they give one orbit's warning before leaving, which makes hit-and-run less impolite. People get upset by "thanks for the money, I'm out", even if the person leaving is a long-term donater.
It's the job of the host to create a game that people want to play, and uninviting someone who does this more than once is a policy my players agree with fully.
-curtis