Re: how to convince potential players of a fundamental rule?
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Continue to raise their bets by $1 or something ridiculously annoying until they comprehend why that rule is in place.
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I agree in the sense that they only way that you are going to get them to go by the rule is if they understand why the rule is in place.
When I first started playing in a local home game I ran into the same problem.. Someone would bet $5, someone call the $5, then someone would make it $8. I pointed out that they couldn't do that and was met with responses like, "This isn't Vegas", etc.
After chatting with the host and some of the other players (who were mostly friends) about it they started to understand why the rule was in place.
Now the rule is always enforced ... even by some of those that were naysayers initially!
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