Situation at homegame (1 Viewer)

[AuburnSeth]

Take deep breaths. Its a different player complaining, not the raisers.

Its a home game thats playing higher stakes than advertised, yes the strategy is exploitable but not everyone comes to low stakes home games to exploit the game, and if your bankroll is limited it can feel tumultuous.

i choose not to breathe just to spite you.

in a now limit game, is there any room to complain about any bet?

 

[NotRealNameNoSir]

i choose not to breathe just to spite you.

in a now limit game, is there any room to complain about any bet?

Absolutely, since home games are often social events meant to faciliate fun environments. Not all games, of course, but a key few of my players would be bummed if my $1/2 game was playing like $4/8, and they'd have a right to be.

We can peacock and say ITS NOT AGAINST THE RULES, but this ignores the social contract aspect of it. Our games only run because we have players.

 

[AuburnSeth]

Absolutely, since home games are often social events meant to faciliate fun environments. Not all games, of course, but a key few of my players would be bummed if my $1/2 game was playing like $4/8, and they'd have a right to be.

We can peacock and say ITS NOT AGAINST THE RULES, but this ignores the social contract aspect of it. Our games only run because we have players.

I Can see both arguments. (I’m still not breathing, you SOB. 30 seconds left, max)

but I see 2 options to this sort of wild-man play - exploit it by playing premium hands, and not inviting them back because you want to keep your game at the original stakes. It’s not wrong to not invite players who are too wild and don’t allow for “normal” poker strategy, and it’s not wrong for someone to bet like a wild man in hopes of playing bingo more than poker

 

[AuburnSeth]

The dark raise people weren’t complaining, it was just the grumpy old card dead man who didn’t get to play anything speculative due to inflated pots pre (he was not dark raising himself). And he was (legitimately, I guess) concerned that stakes ended up being a lot higher than advertised making the casual players uncomfortable. Hard to set rules against it and enforcing them.

Harvesting = not cashing the chips and taking them home. Not really a thing at homegames though. It’s done at casinos with the smaller denoms.

I Can see the frustration by that player. and i honestly don’t want a game with too crazy dark raise action, it legitimately changes the game. But I think the solution is not to invite players that crazy for games you don’t want them in

 

[Wils]

Also it really not cool for him to act violent on the chip

First-time with my new table and new chips, I told everyone they were new and expensive (expensive to me, not to you guys).

Ten minutes later one of the regs is using a chip to hammer out the drums to "The Pretender" by Foo Fighters on the table.

We had words.

 

[Goldfish]

First-time with my new table and new chips, I told everyone they were new and expensive (expensive to me, not to you guys).

Ten minutes later one of the regs is using a chip to hammer out the drums to "The Pretender" by Foo Fighters on the table.

We had words.

This is why you just can’t use expensive chips for a regular game with non-chippers. The players just don’t understand their value (monetary or otherwise) …… I stopped using my expensive sets a long time ago.

 

[upNdown]

This is why you just can’t use expensive chips for a regular game with non-chippers. The players just don’t understand their value (monetary or otherwise) …… I stopped using my expensive sets a long time ago.
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There’s definitely some irony here, if the game is called animal house.