Re: Home game rules - slight rant
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Much of this fixation on rules is generational. I've been playing poker for twenty years, starting in college. Back then, people didn't know Roberts Rules of Poker from Roberts Rules of Order. Nobody knew what a string bet was. If you ran out of chips in the middle of a hand playing limit poker, you simply reached into your pocket for more cash to keep playing. Or you went shy for the hand an squared up when the hand was complete. At least in the games that I played, the games were much more informal about rules.
Home game poker players today are much more rules based.
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Excellent observation. Good perspective. I think the whole poker boom has led to a greater need for more rules, basically to protect the innocent (new) players.
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