I tried searching the forum for this as I believe I've read something about it before but I couldn't find a thread.
Let's say you are hosting and had two cash game tables going at the same time. As the night wore on, and people started to leave to the point that you were going to combine the remaining players onto one table, how would you deal with the players' stacks coming from the outer table? I'm interested in hearing the reasons why for your choice.
I'm curious because I could see some issues with how this is handled. What if one table was much shorter than the other for a long while (and therefore one had way more money on the table than the other, for example)? What if the tables were different poker variants? What if one table had a bunch of rebuying maniacs and the other table was full of nits (again possibly making the money on one table way more than the other)? Do these scenarios change your answer? What's the fairest way to deal with this type of situation?
The possible options I can think of are:
Let's say you are hosting and had two cash game tables going at the same time. As the night wore on, and people started to leave to the point that you were going to combine the remaining players onto one table, how would you deal with the players' stacks coming from the outer table? I'm interested in hearing the reasons why for your choice.
I'm curious because I could see some issues with how this is handled. What if one table was much shorter than the other for a long while (and therefore one had way more money on the table than the other, for example)? What if the tables were different poker variants? What if one table had a bunch of rebuying maniacs and the other table was full of nits (again possibly making the money on one table way more than the other)? Do these scenarios change your answer? What's the fairest way to deal with this type of situation?
The possible options I can think of are:
- Option #1: New players joining table bring the same stack from the previous table.
- Option #2: New players must cash in their chips from previous table and buy-in again at new table.
- Option #3: Everyone must cash in chips and buy-in again at new table.
- Option #4: Some other option (please explain in comments)