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So put a game together for Friday night. 9-handed NLHE freeze-out. As of early Thursday, I had 9 people in and even had 1 as a ringer! On Thursday evening one of my best "regulars" tells me he accidentally double-booked himself and he has to hang out with his brother. He even offered to drop off some food he was planning on putting on the hot dog roller. Bummer, good friend and fun player, usually hangs out after the game even when he busts early. Oh well, ringer can play, good deal! Still 9/9.
Night of, couple people get there early, a couple come in close to start, but it's getting ~5 minutes from start and one guy who's a neighbor who hasn't played before isn't here yet. Dude can just walk down the street, like 5 minute walk, he's here. So I text him, no response. I go into "find a 9th mode" and ping 2 other neighbors. 1 ghosts me, the other is at work. I poll the table...they say, just leave his stack out, and he can buy in late after blinding out a bit. I say sure, we start the game 8/9 and a few minutes late.
We play a couple of orbits, and the neighbor who ghosted me (let's call him Dick...hehe) shows up with the other neighbor I pinged to take his seat who was at work. Cool. We are still 8/9, blinds a up a bit, but still plenty of game left, nice let's play! I offer the seat to both neighbors. "Work guy" says he's going into the office on Saturday as he's swamped at work and can't play because he can't stay up late. No worries dude, you didn't RSVP to the event (not sure why he didn't RSVP no, he's played in a few of them...but whatever). Dick, I ask him, want to play? You RSVPed online! (I use Evite). He says "No, not tonight." Dafuq...GTFO then, LOL.
Anyways, I'm tempted to think this was some sort of petty revenge. The weekend before, I had been outside all day working in the yard, and was relaxing on the steps with a drink at night. I saw "work neighbor" leaving his house with a 6-pack, so I yelled out "hi" to him. He came over and we ended up hanging out for an hour+ just chatting. Well turns out he was actually on his way to Dick's house to hang out with him, and I way-laid him. When our chat ended, it was too late to go over apparently, so he just went back to his house. Was Dick's ghosting some attempt at getting me back for interrupting "work neighbor's" trip to his house and hangout? LOL. "Work neighbor" was free to go at any time. We did get carried away in conversation, but whatever. I don't feel at fault for that.
Anyways, thanks for sitting through the drama.
The question is, what do you do when someone straight up ghosts you after RSVPing yes? This is my first time it's happened, and it sucked! I think if I had known I could have found 1 other player in time. >:/
1. How long do you wait for someone to show?
2. Do you "blind them out" or just let them buy in for full if they do show?
3. If "buy in for full", when is the cut off? How long or what blind level?
4. What do you do after the fact? Black list them for some amount of time? Forever?
Thank you for your time!
So put a game together for Friday night. 9-handed NLHE freeze-out. As of early Thursday, I had 9 people in and even had 1 as a ringer! On Thursday evening one of my best "regulars" tells me he accidentally double-booked himself and he has to hang out with his brother. He even offered to drop off some food he was planning on putting on the hot dog roller. Bummer, good friend and fun player, usually hangs out after the game even when he busts early. Oh well, ringer can play, good deal! Still 9/9.
Night of, couple people get there early, a couple come in close to start, but it's getting ~5 minutes from start and one guy who's a neighbor who hasn't played before isn't here yet. Dude can just walk down the street, like 5 minute walk, he's here. So I text him, no response. I go into "find a 9th mode" and ping 2 other neighbors. 1 ghosts me, the other is at work. I poll the table...they say, just leave his stack out, and he can buy in late after blinding out a bit. I say sure, we start the game 8/9 and a few minutes late.
We play a couple of orbits, and the neighbor who ghosted me (let's call him Dick...hehe) shows up with the other neighbor I pinged to take his seat who was at work. Cool. We are still 8/9, blinds a up a bit, but still plenty of game left, nice let's play! I offer the seat to both neighbors. "Work guy" says he's going into the office on Saturday as he's swamped at work and can't play because he can't stay up late. No worries dude, you didn't RSVP to the event (not sure why he didn't RSVP no, he's played in a few of them...but whatever). Dick, I ask him, want to play? You RSVPed online! (I use Evite). He says "No, not tonight." Dafuq...GTFO then, LOL.
Anyways, I'm tempted to think this was some sort of petty revenge. The weekend before, I had been outside all day working in the yard, and was relaxing on the steps with a drink at night. I saw "work neighbor" leaving his house with a 6-pack, so I yelled out "hi" to him. He came over and we ended up hanging out for an hour+ just chatting. Well turns out he was actually on his way to Dick's house to hang out with him, and I way-laid him. When our chat ended, it was too late to go over apparently, so he just went back to his house. Was Dick's ghosting some attempt at getting me back for interrupting "work neighbor's" trip to his house and hangout? LOL. "Work neighbor" was free to go at any time. We did get carried away in conversation, but whatever. I don't feel at fault for that.
Anyways, thanks for sitting through the drama.
The question is, what do you do when someone straight up ghosts you after RSVPing yes? This is my first time it's happened, and it sucked! I think if I had known I could have found 1 other player in time. >:/
1. How long do you wait for someone to show?
2. Do you "blind them out" or just let them buy in for full if they do show?
3. If "buy in for full", when is the cut off? How long or what blind level?
4. What do you do after the fact? Black list them for some amount of time? Forever?
Thank you for your time!