Need Rebuy Guidelines For a Ring Game

[nowags]

Reloading online, or even in a casino, is WAAAY easier than reloading in a home game.

Online, it doesnt slow down play at all. Click a mouse, and you have more chips. the other guys at the table might not even notice if they arent looking that closely at your dollar amount. Casinos have chip runners, and impact on the game is minimal.

In a home game everything comes to a grinding halt when someone needs more chips. The guy who's banking needs to get the chip case, count out, etc. and everyone waits while this goes on. I've been to lots of different home games, and even with the very well run ones, this is the case. It gets worse when you're playing with n00bs.

So... There's nothing wrong with topping off, but having a rule in place to limit when you can rebuy would help the game run a lot smoother. I'd get pretty pissed at the guy who kept topping off, because we would probably be waiting on him for the game to keep going.

[bmk67]

Well... my home game is different from yours in that we don't have a maximum buyin, we have a minimum buyin of 40xBB. We allow adding to your stack at any time between hands for any amount.

Why would anyone object to a player putting more money on the table to be won? I would think that even the biggest luckboxing fish would want this.

[headtrauma]

Constant reloading would slow the game down too much, but having to wait til you bust out isn't ideal either, it should be up to each player. Allowing reloads once a player is down around $10 seems reasonable to me. Having your chips in racks instead of the generic aluminum case allows for quicker reloads. As long as the player acting as bank isn't dealing, reloads can be handled pretty smoothly, just make sure the chips aren't allowed to be played until the next hand.

[TomBrooks]

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Well... my home game is different from yours in that we don't have a maximum buyin...Why would anyone object to a player putting more money on the table to be won?

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I'm an NL newbie but I think its so someone can use an really big stack to bully smaller stacks or maybe (also) to keep the game playing within some reasonable approximate limits relative to the blinds.

[johnnyrocket]

you can rebuy to max at ANY TIME

[johnnyrocket]

if you can do it in online poker then it is legal and the rules for live, this is the case with rebuying to the max whenever you please

[Richard Tanner]

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you can rebuy to max at ANY TIME

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I know you meant this, but to prevent confusion, You can only rebuy after a hand, not during.

Cody

[ky70]

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you can rebuy to max at ANY TIME

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I know you meant this, but to prevent confusion, You can only rebuy after a hand, not during.

Cody

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Agree with the others. I use to have it set up that you couldn't rebuy unless your starting stack was below 50% of the max buyin...but I opened the rebuy up so that at any time (inbetween hands or when the player is out of the ongoing hand) you could buy back up to the max buyin. I'm pleased to repot that it has not slowed the game down and that guys don't get into the habit of rebuying back up to the max everytime they lose say 10% - 30% of their starting stack.

[maryfield48]

At my NL home game there is neither max nor min, and anyone can rebuy at any time (between hands). How long does it take? You unload a stack of whatever color and hand it to the guy, he makes change from the pot or his neighbour when he's not in a hand. It doesn't slow things down anymore than the usual BS-ing that goes on between hands. And even if it did, it is +EV for the better players since it is more often the bad players who are re-buying.

But I know my game would drive many here to distraction. We allow rabbit hunting, (a) because I don't want to be a nit and kill the vibe, and (b) because I think it encourages bad players to be results-oriented. I want them to see that their gutshot would have come so that they call my PSB next time.

[rchandra]

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I want them to see that their gutshot would have come so that they call my PSB next time.

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But more often than not they'll see that their gutshot wouldn't have come in and recieve reinforcement for the fold... I'd rather leave them thinking "if it came in I'd have made $$$, maybe I shoulda called".