Taxi500
Two Pair
I've posted before about lessons learned as far as playing Bank. Here's another one: hoping this may help others... was the first poker game that ended with a toxic vibe.
This group has played together for over a year now without issue. This last game a guy brought liquor to the game (we mostly drink beer) and him and another regular drank the entire fifth of it together.. yikes!
This guy, we'll call him Bob, then proceeds to buy in for over $1,000 and loses it all. Not only that, but his punting-style play sort of ruined the last 30 minutes of the game. He would raise it to $20 preflop in a 25c/50c game and get all but the best hand to fold then usually lose. His last $500 buy in I was getting looks from the players like "cut this guy off" because he was clearly off his gourd drunk.
This put me in a horrible spot. On one hand, I love Bob. On the other hand, he gambles like a mad man all the time and makes great money and can afford to throw cash around. He's in his early 30's and my thought was that he is a big boy and it's not my job to babysit players.
Anyway, the night ends with another dude driving him home and I wake up to his texts about "how could I let him buy in for that much"... we talked it out and it's all good.
TLDR: There's now a buy in cap for everyone and I cut the game at Midnight... nothing good seems to happen past that time.
This group has played together for over a year now without issue. This last game a guy brought liquor to the game (we mostly drink beer) and him and another regular drank the entire fifth of it together.. yikes!
This guy, we'll call him Bob, then proceeds to buy in for over $1,000 and loses it all. Not only that, but his punting-style play sort of ruined the last 30 minutes of the game. He would raise it to $20 preflop in a 25c/50c game and get all but the best hand to fold then usually lose. His last $500 buy in I was getting looks from the players like "cut this guy off" because he was clearly off his gourd drunk.
This put me in a horrible spot. On one hand, I love Bob. On the other hand, he gambles like a mad man all the time and makes great money and can afford to throw cash around. He's in his early 30's and my thought was that he is a big boy and it's not my job to babysit players.
Anyway, the night ends with another dude driving him home and I wake up to his texts about "how could I let him buy in for that much"... we talked it out and it's all good.
TLDR: There's now a buy in cap for everyone and I cut the game at Midnight... nothing good seems to happen past that time.