NL max buyin games? Casino/Floor people please read

[LasVegasMichael]

It does vary by casino. Though, Excal is on its own program all together on many levels.

[badblood44]

Reg - any chance you're at CCC?

I was there in March of '05, during the EPT event there. Glad to see you're now spreading the NLHE ring games.

For what it's worth, recently in Las Vegas at the Caesar's Palace poker room a player was allowed to bring his near $1500 stack he'd amassed from one table to another when the max buy-in was $500.

[RegBarclay]

You guessed right, I work at CCC.

During this years march tournament (now the Austrian Poker Championchip as Casinos Austria forced the EPT to move to Baden) we actually had many NLHE ring games up to 10-20 running each night.

[RegBarclay]

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Man, if you could rathole chips everytime you asked for a table change, that game would be exploitable to the max.

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Not sure what you are trying to say. As others said if you request a table change you are treated as a new player and therefor allowed to buyin for the max at most. Is this different where you play? I was only taking about players moved from a broken game.

Regards,
RegBarclay

[Percula]

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Man, if you could rathole chips everytime you asked for a table change, that game would be exploitable to the max.

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Not sure what you are trying to say. As others said if you request a table change you are treated as a new player and therefor allowed to buyin for the max at most. Is this different where you play? I was only taking about players moved from a broken game.

Regards,
RegBarclay

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In most rooms a table changing player is not considered "new" and are required to bring the same amount to the new table as they had on their old table. Some (read the better ones) will actually carry the players racked chips for them to the new table.

A douche bag (DB) can exploit this by.....

DB is a weak player, or at the least not the best player at the table. DB wins a couple of big pots and doubles or tripples their max buy-in. They see that their newly won stack is very much in danger, so they ask for and get a table change and only bring the max buy-in (or even minimum buy-in) to the new table. They have effectively ratholed two full buy-ins. They can then repeat this move, ratholing winnings on each move. It is bad for the game, assuming any of the players see what is happening.

[AKQJ10]

I don't consider using the house rules to one's advantage for this sort of thing characteristic of a douchebag (DB) -- the house tells me (in the case of Foxwoods) that I can't take more than $100 with me, and I'm certainly entitled to a table change -- but that's a "religious" or philosophical debate that's unlikely to generate much insight.

I wouldn't stay and play in a game where I knew I was taking the worst of it, no matter how much my hypothetical opponents might throw out insults like "douche bag". I don't play poker to prove how macho I am.

[tourney guy]

Randy is correct - If the game breaks, do not penalize the player.

[daveT]

At the bicycle casino, a player from a broken table may either buy in for the max or use his/her entire stack.

[StupidAcesSigh]

At Fallsview in Niagara Falls you MUST take your chips with you when doing a table change and same when the table breaks. At Casino Niagara when doing a table change you are stuck with the table max; when the table breaks you must keep your stack.

[esch]

FWIW, I was only allowed to bring up to the big stack (~450) at the new table when my 1/2 ($300 max) broke at the Borgata. Not sure if this is the standard rule at the Borgata though.