[psandman]

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FL poker, max buy-in at the 2/5 is $100. (No, that's not a typo, one-hundred dollars maximum.) Player A sits down and folds two hands, then puts it all in the middle on a flush draw. Except Player A puts in about $200. Player B with the large pocket pair matches the bet, A hits flush draw and now has a stack of $400. There were two house rulings worth sharing.

1) If anybody said anything during the hand, A would have been obliged to scale back to $100 max, and betting beyond that amount involving A would be void. After the hand was awarded, they would not strip A of the excess winnings.

2) Player A had to take the excess winnings off of the table, as opposed to quickly having a $400 stack, he had $200 on the table, and $200 in his pocket.

These both sound pretty standard to me.

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These may sound standard to you,

but from a poker stand point I don't see how you can have it both ways -- the money plays but gets taken off the table.

From a legal standpoint this is problematic for the house. They run the risk of legal issues if they allow players to exceed the legal buy-in limit, and in making the player remove the excess money the house is essentially admitting knowledge of the fact that the player exceeded the legal buy-in.