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