merkong
Full House
Recently, a nephew of mine reached out to me in a host to host capacity to talk shop. He said that he is seeing his game become a little more aggressive, and often without merit. He’s seeing a lot of of all ins, some with no hand at all. He’s seeing people rely heavily on the liberal reload/refresh your stack policy, and he seeing just a general uptick in loosey goosey, unthoughtful poker.
He said it’s not necessarily his disdain for that style of poker that prompted the outreach but his being approached by other players who are feeling the game is trending in the wrong direction based on size of bank rolls, what’s in the drawer, and the overall pre-disposition to win at all costs.
It got me thinking about games that tend to trend in one direction or another. My thoughts have always been that if enough players approach the manager and make their thoughts known and are in unison about these trends, it is the responsibility of the manager to consider what if anything can be done to keep the game palatable for all. Especially if that vocal grouping is not necessarily the minority and the games livelihood and vibrance could wind up being on the line.
So the poll question isn’t about what if anything would us who hosts do in a similar situation, but is more geared towards two style of players; the jam happy deep pocketed whale who gets caught every now and again, but not always and the thoughtful mathematical, willing to pick his spots type of player who will out kick you with top pair, maybe turn over to pair and usually if he’s in the hand at showdown has a pretty good win/loss record.
If this turns into a conversation about what as a host, you would do if there was a growing grouping of players that did not like the direction the game was heading that’s fine too.
Games go through life cycles and it’s the manager’s responsibility to stay one step ahead of a life cycle as it starts to abolish, and the next one begins and to make the necessary tweaks and lever pulls to make those jumps from one chapter to the next as seamless as possible.
Let’s go!!
He said it’s not necessarily his disdain for that style of poker that prompted the outreach but his being approached by other players who are feeling the game is trending in the wrong direction based on size of bank rolls, what’s in the drawer, and the overall pre-disposition to win at all costs.
It got me thinking about games that tend to trend in one direction or another. My thoughts have always been that if enough players approach the manager and make their thoughts known and are in unison about these trends, it is the responsibility of the manager to consider what if anything can be done to keep the game palatable for all. Especially if that vocal grouping is not necessarily the minority and the games livelihood and vibrance could wind up being on the line.
So the poll question isn’t about what if anything would us who hosts do in a similar situation, but is more geared towards two style of players; the jam happy deep pocketed whale who gets caught every now and again, but not always and the thoughtful mathematical, willing to pick his spots type of player who will out kick you with top pair, maybe turn over to pair and usually if he’s in the hand at showdown has a pretty good win/loss record.
If this turns into a conversation about what as a host, you would do if there was a growing grouping of players that did not like the direction the game was heading that’s fine too.
Games go through life cycles and it’s the manager’s responsibility to stay one step ahead of a life cycle as it starts to abolish, and the next one begins and to make the necessary tweaks and lever pulls to make those jumps from one chapter to the next as seamless as possible.
Let’s go!!
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