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Somewhere in the area of 98.72% of rules related questions we get on this forum are easily answered by consulting Robert's Rules. If you're aware enough of this poker forum to ask the rules question in the first place, perhaps you ought to be aware enough to consult Robert's Rules (or some other rule book) before asking for a ruling.

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Most of the questions we get are from the people who know the rules better than the respective "hosts". The problem isn't that the players on here don't know the rules, it's that the various home game hosts have played a certain way and won't change "their" game.

Most of the discussions here are like that. Most home game hosts have a set of "house rules" that they play by but they don't take the initiative to publish them for everyone. They only call on these rules when the the situations occur, just like the OP said.

In close to 100% of those situations, the host doesn't have the first clue that this forum exists.