Cash Game Seating Chips/Seat Changes? (1 Viewer)

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I'm curious if other people use seating chips (or drawing a card or whatever) to arrange seating at home cash games, or is it just choose any open seat whenever someone else arrives? I personally like to use seating chips mostly because I tend to have the same guys playing in my games and I don't really want them coming in and sitting in the same order all the time for a couple reasons. 1) I don't want to necessarily punish those who arrive late by giving them the "worst" seat, and 2) I don't want players picking on those who they may think are weak and always trying to get position on them.

Second question: do you allow for seat changes throughout the night? I've never had anyone ask for a seat change until my last game, and I didn't see a problem with it as the player who asked had to wait until another player left early. I didn't want to say no seat changes allowed as that seemed pretty strict. However, if I'm allowing seat changes, this could possibly lead to the problem above of stronger players picking on weaker ones. Also, as soon as I allowed the first seat change, another player immediately asked for a seat change as well. Again, I don't see this as a huge problem, but I was curious how others view this situation.
 
I always use seating chips and occasionally have to explain why when questioned. Never had a problem.
 
I allow players to pick their seats for cash games - never given that much thought.

In regards to seat changes, I also allow it, but table changes are not common as I run a mixed game table and a NLHE table, so players pretty much only play what they are comfortable with. If anything a player will get felted at mixed games and then grab an open seat at NLHE to finish his night.
 
Always did it for a tournament, never did it for a cash game. After @detroitdad started doing it at his cash games, I thought it was a good idea.

detroitdad said:
Before I started doing this I noticed a few of the better players always choosing seats near the less skilled players.
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Wondering who you caught trying to get position. You can PM, or not.

The only person I recall looking for a specific seat at my cash games was Wells insisting on sitting on your left or he wouldn't play, LOL.
 
WedgeRock said:
Always did it for a tournament, never did it for a cash game. After @detroitdad started doing it at his cash games, I thought it was a good idea.



Wondering who you caught trying to get position. You can PM, or not.

The only person I recall looking for a specific seat at my cash games was Wells insisting on sitting on your left or he wouldn't play, LOL.
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It didn't really change anything with him on my left. I kind of miss him.
 
detroitdad said:
It didn't really change anything with him on my left. I kind of miss him.
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Did you hear that he and Fran were in like Cub Scouts together? Not sure if you were at that game. His name came up and Fran zoned in on it... He told some funny stories. I tried to text Wells, but his number changed... Lucky for me, I still had his wife's number... :cool::whistle: :whistling:
 
WedgeRock said:
Did you hear that he and Fran were in like Cub Scouts together? Not sure if you were at that game. His name came up and Fran zoned in on it... He told some funny stories. I tried to text Wells, but his number changed... Lucky for me, I still had his wife's number... :cool::whistle: :whistling:
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I was at that game. Small world.
 
Sorry for the threadjack, @trigs. Hopefully this will help get the thread back on track.

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Any opinions on seat changes? Do you guys allow it? Any restrictions?
 
I use the Blind Valet software for tourneys, which draws for seats in the software.

Cash games I've always just let folks sit wherever, as arrivals can be more staggered. Never ever had anyone ask for a seat change, but it's a more social game.
 
We draw a card for the seat as we ussually start full table.
Seat changes does not happen.. in did... nobody never asked for that and if one day it come up the answer is : nope.
 
To avoid the " I don't like to play with the big stack / aggressive player / whatever other reason at my right / left / whatever other position "
 
DoubleEagle said:
Why would that be a problem for you if there is an open seat?
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Yeah, I second this question, @1A25R. Why is it such a problem for people to change seats? Sounds like a rigid tournament rule seeping its way out onto the cash table.

In my experience, cash games are a free-for-all when it comes to seat selection. Every cash game I've hosted or played in, home or otherwise, allows everyone to choose their seats and to change seats throughout the night.

I've never seen seat changing become any kind of problem. Once in a while there's a 10-second discussion about whether the player has to post an extra big blind if he moves, but that's it.
 
After years of having people pick seats from cards, and separately handing out bounty chips, I decided to combine these tasks.... I ordered some vinyl, waterproof stickers and printed them from my Canon inkjet to label some Casino de Isthmus chips for seating people in my two-table tourney. These also double as an All In/Bounty chip. When players buy in, I have them pick a chip from a small cloth sack, which makes for a little cheap entertainment.

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I had some problem registering my preferred design on the inkjet, and thus went for a simpler off-centered design than I wanted, but am going to try again shortly. The sheets of labels from OnlineLabels.com that I got were really nice. (For the second attempt, I am going to try full-sheet labels and a 24mm paper punch from Joann’s. 24mm, which is just under 1", seems to fit perfectly in the inset circle of THC’s. The labels above were 7/8" and only sometimes covered the CdI inlay completely.)

Our cash game follows a tournament, once enough cash players have busted, so it’s just first come first served. People just pick an available seat. Over the course of a year, everyone ends up sitting next to everyone else pretty much just as randomly as if we’d dealt assignments out.
 
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3 reasons

#1 Because it's an arbitrary rule that I can enforce as host
#2 Because as we usually (99,9%) we start full table (00,1% we wait for the one caught in a traffic jam) there are no open seats
#3 Because the fish must be protected

:)
 
For the decade+ our game has been together and evolved, we have only ever drawn for seats during tournaments. Due to people trickling in (so cards up short handed), people leaving early, people joining late, etc, we just have never worried about position in our cash games.

Granted it never much mattered because we used to play much more of a circus game atmosphere, even though we transitioned to a more serious cash game, for the pure fact if attendance and timing we never bothered with it.
 
you can't ask a Swiss to not be in time :)

But I get your point(s), we just see things differently because cultural background i guess.

Put it in another way, if you give a player a seat, well is THAT seat. No-one here will think about changing seats... because is not the one allocate to them. It's cultural.. as I said, in 10+ years no-one never asked to change a seat.

IF you ask to change seat what could be the reason? to be close to the window or to take and edge? If is to be close to the window it's usually asked upfront and we seat accordingly without swapping positions. If it's to take and edge, well people at home game don't do that, that's why most people playing at home games take that game as a social gathering with a certain degree of very Swiss seriousness.
 
I don't much care who I sit next to... I do prefer not to be seated at an end. The beat chair usually go first (best in terms of location at the table and actual comfort).
 
I bought this barrel of 43mm sunfly hybrids as blanks to see if I liked them and decided to turn them into seating chips. Labels by @Gear
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We choose cards for position. As host, I pick first. If I pick a 3, I choose what chair is seat 3, (near kitchen so I can attend to food and my guests) and everyone else positions themself relative to that seat. Late arrivers also pick a card and people move to let him in....it is a 9 foot dining room table, not the best setup, but we never run out of room. You can have a seat change at the next game. I prefer the randomness. We play 1-2 NL; Any HORSE game + Omaha high can be called and dealt. Yes, we play NL Stud/Stud8 and Razz........AWESOME!
 
We have a poker league where there's a tournament and then a cash game after. The tourney draws 12-16 players and cash game starts when 4 or so are eliminated. We draw for tables and seats in the tourney but the cash game is like a casino. First come first seat choice for a new game and if you get there with 6 players already playing you have a choice of the 3 remaining seats. If we had JUST a cash game night I think we'd likely draw for seats.
 

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