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Great, thanks all for feedback on this. Tho' we generally don't force anyone who just lost a big pot to pay, but glad to know consensus is on winning, period.

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say what? you dont make the guy who lost a big pot pay? it's ONE big blind, that is ridiculous.

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Great, thanks all for feedback on this. Tho' we generally don't force anyone who just lost a big pot to pay, but glad to know consensus is on winning, period.

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are you serious? do you guys all give back the money at the end of the night too? jesus, it's a rule. if a guy shows down 72 he wins a bb from everyone. doesn't matter if you just lost a pot or went bust or whatever. you owe!

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Great, thanks all for feedback on this. Tho' we generally don't force anyone who just lost a big pot to pay, but glad to know consensus is on winning, period.

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are you serious? do you guys all give back the money at the end of the night too? jesus, it's a rule. if a guy shows down 72 he wins a bb from everyone. doesn't matter if you just lost a pot or went bust or whatever. you owe!

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Matusow was bitching about paying the bonus too, after he got bluffed out with his K's - But at the end he paid after all.

If everybody agreed the 7-2 rule, it doesn't matter if you are the one getting bluffed out, you have to pay after all!

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I play in a game were the 7-2-Bounty is 5BBs which guarantess lots of action.

I recommand to raise the Bounty to at least 3BBs, especially for deep NL200 and lower games.

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Yup, play and win = bonus, doesnt mather how. You might hit quads or whatever, you did a -ev move preflop in order to try to get the bonus so you deserve it

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QFT.

I like this game btw. Brings so much action to the game. I'll give an example:

We're playing 5 handed. I open with 8Ts in MP and get one caller on the button. Flop is like 8 7 3 I bet half pot and villian 3 bets. I had to tank for a while with top pair and a mediocre kicker. While this is an insta-fold most of the time.

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As other people have said, you win with it, you win with it. If it only counts when its a bluff you might as well eliminate the 7-2 part of it altogether and just pay off any time somebody wins a hand with a bluff.

1.5 BB's I think is a good number. Its small enough (one BB and on SB) that it shouldn't bother anybody to pay, but if you're playing nine handed, it gives you 12 BB's to play for with your 7-2 thus giving a pretty good incentive to play the hammer. Somebody mentioned 5 BB's, which would make for a really wild game, with a 40 BB payoff, plus the pot, people would push the hell out of their 7-2 hands, but after the fourth or fith time you pay out 5 BB's to a 7-2 hand I think you're going to start getting annoyed at the hit to your stack. So, 1.5, or 2 BB's max, I think are the ideal numbers.

--Zetack

Edit: you'll need to decide what to do in a side pot situation, where the 7-2 takes the side pot and loses the main pot to the all-in player.

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have only read the OP but here is some thoughts of mine:

to make it clear the rules should just be: winning the pot with 72o or 72s and get something from everyone no matter how the pot is won, including getting a walk in the bb.

if its NL one big blind from everyone sounds to small. I think something along the lines with ~2-5bb is the wtg.

I dont think the 7-2 game should be somthing that is going on all the time in a game, just from time to time because it makes the game somewhat different.

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We play 72 in our 10 / 20 limit home game. A couple of weeks ago Im playing a hand with 4 callers and look down in the bb at 72 offsuit. I check and the flop comes 772 rainbow. I check it gets bet and 3 callers. I raise.
All call. The turn is an ace. I bet all call. The river is a Ten. I bet 2 players call and co raises. I think about it and 3-bet. The other two players fold and the CO 4-bets. WTF I call. The CO shows 7 Ten. Then I had to listen everyone say how glad they were that I didnt win so they wouldnt have to pay me.

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Eh, I'm in a game where not everybody is sold on the idea. Making it one BB and exempting the big loser of the hand is palatable to everybody. We're not all of us crazy sharks, some of us are casual fish, and we want those people to stick around.

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We did it last night in a .05/.10 game. We paid .25 from everyone. Everyone was cool with the idea and it was kinda interesting. The thought generated a couple bigger hands due to people thinking others were raising light. It was only happened one time during 2.5 hours.

We decided that it would be paid for anyone that wins a hand or bluffs a hand with 72.