Re: what\'s the rule for getting up from the table
 

Same scenario but the guy getting up is getting a round of drinks for the table. Do you auto-muck his cards pre-flop if he was getting the drinks between hands? If so, that's F'ing Chicken Shti.

Happened to me once and it'll never happen again. (No the bastards didn't get their booze either)

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I doubt I would fold his hand (friendly, social home game) but I would give him a world of grief the rest of the night (and possibly for several more games in the future) for getting up in the middle of a hand. He would serve as a warning to all the others not to leave during a hand.

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The players that I generally play with have all come to the understanding that we do not wait for you if you are away from the table - your hand is getting mucked. As previous posters said, if you waited 30 seconds here, a minute there, etc., every time someone wasn't there you would be waiting more than you were playing.

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We have a player in my game who says "Call every street until the river." We love him.

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We have a player in my game who says "Call every street until the river." We love him.

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I would too. And I'd buy him as many drinks as he wanted. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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We don't mind his quick smoke breaks at all, and he has no problem getting sloshy on his own. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Second favorite thing he does: blind calls preflop UTG in Omaha 8.

Re: what\'s the rule for getting up from the table
 

in a tournament at a casino, you're not in your chair when the hand starts, your hand is dead.

cash game at a casino, you leave the table area, your hand is dead.

home game - at our home game tournaments, we'll call someone back who's stepped away momentarily and is nearby. otherwise, we kill the hand.

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I host home games, both tournament and cash.

I used to be pretty lenient about giving people time when they stepped away. It's a mistake. It slows down the game, and once people learn they have a minute of slack, they'll take two minutes... or three.

I announced a "rule change" a year or so ago. Now, if you aren't there when it's your turn to act, your hand is folded, mercilessly and without question.

(OK, I lie - there is a *little* mercy. If it's Joe's action, I'll say "Joe, it's your action". But if he's not literally walking back to the table right as I say that, he's folded. Stopping to open a beer is too long a pause).

I found that, after folding people's hands two or three times, no one ever leaves the table when they are in a hand any more. :-) Problem solved.

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Were I play the hands get folded, too. Mostly they start a countdown of 10 seconds before they do so. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]