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.
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.