I've been a member for a few years now and have an honest question…
I haven’t had the fortune of playing with a single person on PCF (knowingly).
That being said, I’ve played in 5+ different semi-regular home games, over 20+ years, in 4 different states. NL Hold’em from .05/.10 to 1/2. I’ve also played in as many if not far more non-regular games ranging from .05/.10 to 1/2 during the same period. Let’s say, conservatively, a few hundred home games with 15+ different ‘groups/hosts’ in the ‘home game’ space over two decades. Not the largest sample…but a solid amount I feel?
Outside of home games, I’ve played in 132 different casinos in 19 US States plus one Canadian Province. Total sessions probably closes in on 1000+ L/NL Hold’em games in limits from 2/4 Limit to 2/5 NL in professional rooms. Again, dwarfed by many, but a fair sample size…no?
Let’s get to the point! I can probably count on one hand the number of cash hands that have needed a ‘ruling’ in either environment in the 20+ years I’ve been playing in each. Is my experience that unique?
All of the posts I read about ‘In my game last night this happened…what should the ruling have been’ make me wonder. We all just tend to sorta agree, nod, and moved on. And this isn’t just home games. I can’t even count the number of times I’ve seen similar happen in a casino. Including times I’ve messed up myself! Ex: This past fall I put out what technically should have been a call of a large raise out of order, but when the dealer saw I acted out of order (I was seat 1, didn’t realize the guy to her right hadn't acted yet and raised while I was ‘calling’ with a large chip)…I just pulled it back and life went on. Ex: several of the home game situations listed recently. Seriously…home or professional…I rarely see anyone even get mildly-aggitated, let alone what hosts describe!
So I bring this poll…am I just lucky or are others just unlucky??
I haven’t had the fortune of playing with a single person on PCF (knowingly).
That being said, I’ve played in 5+ different semi-regular home games, over 20+ years, in 4 different states. NL Hold’em from .05/.10 to 1/2. I’ve also played in as many if not far more non-regular games ranging from .05/.10 to 1/2 during the same period. Let’s say, conservatively, a few hundred home games with 15+ different ‘groups/hosts’ in the ‘home game’ space over two decades. Not the largest sample…but a solid amount I feel?
Outside of home games, I’ve played in 132 different casinos in 19 US States plus one Canadian Province. Total sessions probably closes in on 1000+ L/NL Hold’em games in limits from 2/4 Limit to 2/5 NL in professional rooms. Again, dwarfed by many, but a fair sample size…no?
Let’s get to the point! I can probably count on one hand the number of cash hands that have needed a ‘ruling’ in either environment in the 20+ years I’ve been playing in each. Is my experience that unique?
All of the posts I read about ‘In my game last night this happened…what should the ruling have been’ make me wonder. We all just tend to sorta agree, nod, and moved on. And this isn’t just home games. I can’t even count the number of times I’ve seen similar happen in a casino. Including times I’ve messed up myself! Ex: This past fall I put out what technically should have been a call of a large raise out of order, but when the dealer saw I acted out of order (I was seat 1, didn’t realize the guy to her right hadn't acted yet and raised while I was ‘calling’ with a large chip)…I just pulled it back and life went on. Ex: several of the home game situations listed recently. Seriously…home or professional…I rarely see anyone even get mildly-aggitated, let alone what hosts describe!
So I bring this poll…am I just lucky or are others just unlucky??