Is this common? (Casino Windsor)

[RivaLiva]

I was playing NL 1/2, It was about 6am. I just took a 45 minute nap, to catch a 2nd wind and sober up a little. There are two tables of NL 1/2 going. I sit down at one and am playing for about 15 minutes. I won 1 pot that doubled me up.($100 to $200). The table shrunk from 9-10 people to about 6. I play better in short-table games because I was playing aggresive and everyone else there was playing like it was a full ring game. I won pots to keep even over the next half hour. Then one of the guys in the other game suggested that we condense tables. I think each table had 5 so it would make perfect for a full one table instead of two tables. The house came over and said it was alright. I think I was the only one who didn't want to have a full table.
Is it common for this to happen(the condensing of tables). I understand that at prime hours it will be so busy that they won't be so small of tables, but at this time of night I am wondering if it's common.

This was my first time gambling live and haven't been back
since. A few hands after the tables combined the half hour was up so I left to play blackjack.

[Bremen]

Yes its common. Most live players would rather saw off their right arm than play short... and thats only a slight exageration.

[Jive Dadson]

Sux, but true. Players will refuse to play 5-handed even though the drop is one fifth what it is seven handed or higher. It pisses me off, but there's nothing to be done about it. These guys want to hit a big flop and get paid big. That's their game.

[otter]

I think they pay a standard time charge there

[RivaLiva]

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I think they pay a standard time charge there

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Yeah $6 a half hour if i remember correctly

[hedgetop]

If you get more hands in per half hour then the rake is reduced on a per hand basis...

[DeuceKicker]

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Yes its common. Most live players would rather saw off their right arm than play short... and thats only a slight understatement.

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I was at Commerce this Tuesday. There were about five tables of 9-18 going. One person at my table left, then two more got up to smoke/take a walk/whatever. One lady refused to play six-handed, then two other players called the floorman over and asked if we could break our (eight-handed!) table and condense with the other four.

The thing that cracks me up is that most of these people play a style better suited to a short game.

[JJNJustin]

Paying a per hour time charge and then refusing to play short is pure stupidity on their part.

-J

[AngusThermopyle]

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Paying a per hour time charge and then refusing to play short is pure stupidity on their part.

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Why?
I know you get more hands in shorthanded, but they came to play a full ring game. Fine for the short-handed specialists, but not what the other players came to play.