Cash Game Question

[Dale]

Most of the casinos in vegas it\\\'s half an hour.
But even then it\\\'s at the dealer/floor person\\\'s discression and if someone was deliberately \\\"ratholing\\\" it wouldn\\\'t be allowed. I have certainly pointed this out to the floor on a couple of occasions and had them enforce the rule.
A few months ago I was to the left of a middle aged woman and we both had $900+ in a $200max 1/2 game.... she cashed out came back less than 10 minutes later with $200... I kicked up fuss because she was a big fish and I wanted her $900 stack so her ratholing would not be accepted by me, floorman told her to buy in for $900 or come back an hour later, meanwhile somone random person sits down in the spare seat and she goes away and plays limit poker at another table. PWNED !

Pretty standard poker rule though, even before this internets invention came along, i\\\'m sure.

[Jon MW]

What are all the \\\ for?

[Bongo]

They're escape characters for the database (some characters do special things so preceding them with a slash tells the database that you want the actual character and not the special action). Why they show up on Dale's post I don't know. Maybe he's posting through some other webapp that incorrectly adds them twice...

[Jon MW]

thank you

[Dale]

Bongo is correct. Im using a php proxy.

Plus its always good to have a slash / after a long online session of poker.

[Bongo]

I had been wondering about that for a while

[Rod Paradise]

I was confused when playing at the Crystal Sands Nassau (place dropping  ) , well up, but I needed to go check out a football score in the internet cafe - left with about $450. 1/2 hour later I came back & was asked to cash in $250 as they wouldn't let me sit down with more than the $200 max buy-in - even though I was back to the same seat at the table I'd left. I was expecting to be made to sit at the other table, or put down what I'd left with. None of the players complained either & the Spring Breakers resumed giving me chips 

You mean there's somewhere I can play in the Bahamas?  This is potentially very relevant as I'm flying out there a week today.

More info please, Rod.

Sheriff

PS:  Dear Mrs Sheriff to be,

Nothing to see in this thread, nothing to see.   Please move along.

Nope nothing & Sheriff doesn't have a pm either.

[Scottish Dave]

Does this mean Scottish Dave has been ratholing his losses?   

Sheriff

i wish i could rathole!

my losses lately have been sickening!

[Scottish Dave]

Most of the casinos in vegas it\\\'s half an hour.
But even then it\\\'s at the dealer/floor person\\\'s discression and if someone was deliberately \\\"ratholing\\\" it wouldn\\\'t be allowed. I have certainly pointed this out to the floor on a couple of occasions and had them enforce the rule.
A few months ago I was to the left of a middle aged woman and we both had $900+ in a $200max 1/2 game.... she cashed out came back less than 10 minutes later with $200... I kicked up fuss because she was a big fish and I wanted her $900 stack so her ratholing would not be accepted by me, floorman told her to buy in for $900 or come back an hour later, meanwhile somone random person sits down in the spare seat and she goes away and plays limit poker at another table. PWNED !

Pretty standard poker rule though, even before this internets invention came along, i\\\'m sure.

so bassically you tried to bully a Middle aged woman?

[totalise]

how does trying to get a bad player to sit with a large stack equate to "bullying"

As for the topic at hand.... it is their own money, so I dont see anything really wrong with it, and the high majority of people that do it are losing players, so letting them keep their money the small % of the time they win is a good idea to keep them in the game longer

[sofa----king]

you call this RATHOLING in my opinion this is called" hit and run" then come back to try again i wouldnt stand for it regardless how much money is involved if your true and need a break let someone play over you,and leave your £££ on the table  or where we play we count what we got and when we come back we put the same amount down, thats boll-x   to cut n run dont come to cardiff and try it

[Newmanseye]

I fell victim to this rule in Cincins, I had was up about £400 and i had to leave the club for about an hour and I was asked to sit down with what I had cashed out. The problem was I cashed out £760 as i was down to begin with, so I had to buy in for the whole lot again, i was not all that bothered but its a bit of a strange rule imo

[Div]

There's an amusing episode on High Stakes Poker when one of the players was accused of 'going south' as they put it.

Think it was Freddy Deeb, and he wasn't too chuffed at the accusation.

[Scottish Dave]

you call this RATHOLING in my opinion this is called" hit and run" then come back to try again i wouldnt stand for it regardless how much money is involved if your true and need a break let someone play over you,and leave your £££ on the table  or where we play we count what we got and when we come back we put the same amount down, thats boll-x   to cut n run dont come to cardiff and try it

i hit and run plenty!

example - i sat a while back at a big cash game on betfair, sat with £350 on first hand i get AA and get it all in preflop against QQ, i double up to £700!

just before they delt the second hand, i said thanks to the table for letting me sit for one hand, and swiftly left the table, up a cool £350 in 30 seconds!

[Royal Flush]

you call this RATHOLING in my opinion this is called" hit and run" then come back to try again i wouldnt stand for it regardless how much money is involved if your true and need a break let someone play over you,and leave your £££ on the table  or where we play we count what we got and when we come back we put the same amount down, thats boll-x   to cut n run dont come to cardiff and try it

i hit and run plenty!

example - i sat a while back at a big cash game on betfair, sat with £350 on first hand i get AA and get it all in preflop against QQ, i double up to £700!

just before they delt the second hand, i said thanks to the table for letting me sit for one hand, and swiftly left the table, up a cool £350 in 30 seconds!

You are proud of this?