re: OT Poker Players: Hosting a cash game

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Since that isn't going to happen who gets the pot at the end of the night?

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The pot builds until somebody hits it.

Bad bleat jackpots are a good way to turn a legal game into an illegal game fast. Cash game rules state you can leave at any time but you can't "go south" or take money off the table.

Blinds should not go up unless the game is too small. That is what makes cash games differ from tournament poker. Also blinds are not paid by cash players who stand up or miss hands. Unless they miss a blind, then they must pay it before receiving a new hand.

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What's so funny? Tons of casinos have a bad beat pot.

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They also have hundreds of people playing 24/7/365 and it may hit every few months.

I've largely stopped playing poker. Got tired of the bad beats. Plus, the money in blackjack has been good lately. Made $2500 over New Years in Biloxi.

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$1/$2 no limit

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It is all about that 1/3 now. We also have insurance where I play and it brings another dynamic to the game.

We have a few cash games around here...usually around 8 guys playing. We buy our chips using increments of .25, .50, 1, 5, and later on 10 dollar chips. We start out with an initial buy in of anywhere from $20 - $50 with unlimited re-buys. We usually don't set a time limit, buy play so much that everybody pretty much knows when we usually end, with rare exceptions to the case.

Our only rule is that you need to give a set time warning before you leave if you are up big(say after a big pot) unless you have previously declared what time you are leaving. We usually say you need to declare you are leaving a half hour in advance if you have to leave earlier or later than you had originally planned that way nobody wins a big pot and immediately hauls arse with everybody's money. At least stay for a few rounds about the table, even if all you do is contribute blinds...which happens sometimes. Those people just usually don't get invited back.

We are a pretty close group of friends and aren't cutthroat or anything, but nobody likes the guy who gets lucky on one huge hand and hauls arse taking most of the money to be won off of the table. Now if they have been steadily winning hands and accommodating a chip lead over the night, that's different. If you want to build some bigger pots with more people involved, play a few rounds of Omaha or something where alot of good hands can be made. In a game like that, players who don't play much will lose alot of money really quick.

Email me at my username at gmail dot com and we can discuss it.