Need help with a strange situation

[LetsPlay1969]

We had a 12 player freeze out home game divided into two tables of 6 with the tables combining to the final table at 10 players.

In the past we draw for seats and put chips in play for any player arriving late. Their hand is mucked after it is dealt and the blinds lost.

Usually we don't have many late players and the empty seats by luck of the draw are evenly distributed. But last week 4 players were going to be late and as luck would have it they were all at one table leaving us with a full table of 6 and a table of 2 with 4 empty chairs.

The players at the full table wanted a re-draw and the two players at the empty table wanted to play.

What is the ruling?

What would have happened if there was only 1 player and 5 missing?

Thanks

[MikeTheGeek]

don't put missing players in the drawing
don't allow late players
allow one rebuy in the first hour, latecomers just use their rebuy.

[Small Fry]

Just have a draw for players present, then divide the late players equally (as possible) between the tables.

so in this case you would have put out 8 cards - 4 for Table A and 4 for Table B. This way the tables would each have four seated players and two empty seats. I would also seat the late players at alternating tables - A, then B, then A, then B - as they arrive. Again, this keeps things as even as possible.

[PayToSee]

Agree with Small Fry - if there are only 8 present at the time of seating, you put out 4 cards for Table A and 4 cards for Table B.

No way do you run with the tables that imbalanced. That's so unfair as to be out of the question.

Another thing I've done is draw for the 8 present people first, then put out the rest of the cards and draw for the absent people before the game starts too. Then, you start with balanced tables, and when Joe shows up 20 minutes late, you can point him straight to his already chosen seat, which has been blinded from during his absence.

[Freaky J]

did you re-draw or play the way it was?

[DavidNB]

Redraw the seating and have the missing players split between the two tables.

[AMT]

im definitely in the redraw camp and blinding them among two tables. that or waiting.

[TexRef]

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you put out 4 cards for Table A and 4 cards for Table B.

No way do you run with the tables that imbalanced. That's so unfair as to be out of the question.

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[Lottery Larry]

Fairest thing is to balance out the empty stacks IMO.

This is part of the reason I don't post stacks for missing players. Their penalized stack doesn't go out until they arrive.

[Lottery Larry]

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don't allow late players

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Too harsh IMO for a home game. There are other ways to deal with it.