Found "time pot" really annoying - Page 4

pfapfap · #31 03-24-2007, 03:59 PM

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You should never chop in a 5/10 and under LHE game. If it looks like the opportunity might arise, find a new game.

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Heh.

magoo · #32 03-25-2007, 04:31 AM

You don't have to particpate in a "timed pot". You can just pay the time.

Eponymous · #33 03-25-2007, 11:30 PM

At a Borg 10/20 game today, we started with time pots, but then two guys opted out and paid their own time, which we thought would work out fine. The minimum time pot had to be $120 for the winner to owe half the time. The next pot was about $200 that was chopped between a guy that opted in and a guy that opted out. So then there was a big debate if they guy who opted in owed the first half of time since his share of the pot was <$120. Some said he should have to pay half of the first half of time. Others said the whole pot was >$120, so it was just his bad luck and owed time. Others (like me) said his share of the pot being <$120 meant it didn't qualify so he didn't owe anything, and the next two qualifying pots would pay time. It was such a pain in the ass that we went back to paying our own time from the next time it was due.

Another funny thing is one guy insisted he be the one that put the money up for the time because he was convinced he ends up $5 ahead. We tried to convince him that the person who fronts the money ends up paying the same up as anyone who didn't win a time pot ($0) or the same as anyone who won a time pot if he won one, but he still thought he was right. So we let him put the money up while he thought he was putting one over on us.

mrkilla · #34 03-26-2007, 08:51 AM

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Chopping: I tell people, if I have a 7-deuce, I'll chop. If I have an ace, I ain't chopping, so proceed at your own peril. The way many of us from 2+2 play, they think I am douche bag anyway; so not chopping when I have an advantage is just another rationalization/validation of their own inadequacy for them of why they lose.

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someone should piss in your coke , please just say you don't chop ever. What some would should do to you is say chop or play out of the small blind, when you say chop from the BB and muck , throw in a raise

Keys Myaths · #35 03-26-2007, 08:57 AM

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The way many of us from 2+2 play, they think I am douche bag anyway.

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This is untrue. I play extremely TAG live, and people still seem to like me.

A personality helps.

Al_Capone_Junior · #36 03-26-2007, 10:59 AM

Time pots were invented by nits to allow them extra opportunities to try and screw someone out of something somehow. Splitting time between TWO pots is an even more assinine idea than a regular time pot.

The REAL advantage to the time pot is that if the dealer forgets to take the time out of the pot before it gets pushed, this allows the nit a chance to refuse to pay it altogether. Whether they wind up having to pay it or screwing the unfortunate dealer is a matter for the floor.

I played in a casino where the whole idea of a time pot was dismissed and EVERYONE HAD TO PAY THEIR TIME, PERIOD. Worked like a charm. Never a dispute, no opportunity for nitism, no tight play for several hands, NOTHING! Why anyone anywhere would do it any other way is beyond me.

Al

*TT* · #37 03-26-2007, 11:05 AM

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I played in a casino where the whole idea of a time pot was dismissed and EVERYONE HAD TO PAY THEIR TIME, PERIOD. Worked like a charm. Never a dispute, no opportunity for nitism, no tight play for several hands, NOTHING! Why anyone anywhere would do it any other way is beyond me.

Al

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You have been in Vegas way too long. Perhaps you didn't play big enough when you lived in AC, but there was no nittiness in the AC time pots, they play just as loose and wild as the normal pots.

To all - the answer is simple. If your table choses to have a time pot and you want to sit out of it you can, just pay your time as you normally would - it doesn't set off any alarms and its actually quite common. But don't get in the way of the table's time pot by arguing it shouldn't exist.

betgo · #38 03-26-2007, 11:43 AM

I didn't understand the convention. The guy looked at his cards and asked if I wanted to chop. I had a good hand and said "raise". I didn't understand the default was to chop. I thought you had to agree ahead of time. I figured he just wanted to chop because he didn't like his hand, but everyone thought I was the one being a jerk.

SellingtheDrama · #39 03-26-2007, 11:45 AM

You got between them and them playing another hand, hence you are the jerk.

3rdCheckRaise · #40 03-26-2007, 11:59 AM

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The guy looked at his cards and asked if I wanted to chop. I had a good hand and said "raise".

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You did not do anything wrong unless you choped before with this guy. You either chop or you don't but you don't get to pick according to your hand. Most of the people chop some don't ( i never do) but once you decide one way or the other you have to do it all the time.