Player posts blind before previous pot is scooped

[jeffnc]

Things like that are tough, in general.

In this case, you just let it go, it's a no-brainer.

But in general, it's hard to "enforce" certain rules without looking like the table captain, when no one else at the table understands the point of the rules to begin with.

What I usually do is keep doing what should be done, over and over, without lecturing or anything. If someone else is dealing, I just keep scooping the bets into the center after each street. Eventually others start doing it too (just so they appear to know what they're doing now that they've seen you do it), or they'll start asking what you're doing - then you can explain.

Same goes for splashing the pot. Whenever someone puts their bet into the pot, I simply drag it back out and put it in front of them. If they ask, I explain. Otherwise I just keep doing it over and over.

If a player keeps holding his cards off the table, or holds his hands where we can't see his cards, I'll just keep asking him gently not to, over and over and over again. I never get impatient. If he asks why, I explain it's so that everyone knows he has a hand and that way he can't get ripped off if the action passes him by.

Same with showing both cards to win the pot at showdown. Or any other rule.

So bottom line - if you had personally been pooling each pot, then it wouldn't have happened. You can't blame dealers who have no idea what's going on.

[Lottery Larry]

<font color="red">Saint jeffnc?</font>


nah....

[jeffnc]

heh heh, that does sound kinda funny now that I read it.