Re: Table Change allows ratholing?
Generally you can only buy into a game for the posted max. unless you come from a broken game or a must-move.
Yeah this allows a ratholing option, but imagine how the other game would feel if a very talented player cleaned out the game in the same way, and then moved to your table. The rule is there to protect the next game.
How does it benefit the casino: odds are he'd leave if they don't let him change games, so they get more rake from him. Players - half the time he'll burn through his small buyin and rebuy for at least a good part of the winnings. Odds are stronger that eventually all the money will get back in play, just take longer.
I have noticed this rule at Borgata, and its very consistently enforced. Hell, I caught a guy shooting the angle the other way - in the 2/5 section he racks up a single rack of reds and asks for a table transfer. Floor grants it, he comes to my game, sits the rack down and then goes back for another $400 he had. I quietly ask the floor (who happens to be standing next to me), and he handles it correctly.
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