Question about table breaking

TheDudeAbides · #1 03-21-2007, 12:53 PM

I'm playing 1/2NL and when I get back from the washroom, my table has broken. Everyone else on the table has been placed on another table in the room, and the floor tells me I will be first on the list as there are no open seats currently available.

I had ~$600 behind - do I have to bring these to the new table? Or can I buy back-in for the table maximum of $100?

Fish R Friends · #2 03-21-2007, 12:58 PM

Each room will vary. In my main club, if you're the one who drew the low card, you'd be first on the list and will be able to get into the new game with the chips that you had earned. And without posting.

AngusThermopyle · #3 03-21-2007, 01:04 PM

I would think that you should be allowed to declare yourself a 'new player' and buy in for anything between the table min and max.

pfapfap · #4 03-21-2007, 01:10 PM

At my local room, which is all limit, you don't have to take your entire stack if you don't want to. Yours is the opposite question, and I'm sure it varies, so you should ask the room. A good time to have done it would have been when they told you that you were first on the list. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

TheDudeAbides · #5 03-21-2007, 01:18 PM

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I would think that you should be allowed to declare yourself a 'new player' and buy in for anything between the table min and max.

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This is what I was thinking, but the floor insisted that I buy-in for what I left with. What pissed me off is that they wouldn't let me chip up (there is no cage in the actual poker room) so I had to sit around with a stack of small denomination chips while waiting for a table. I wanted to go for a smoke, but they refused to watch my chips while I waited.

AngusThermopyle · #6 03-21-2007, 01:30 PM

Tell him "Take me off the list".
Cash out/Chip up.
Go to board, "Please put me on the list for ...."
Go for smoke.
When they call you, buy in for $100.

(assuming the list hasn't magically grown to 3 names in the 5 mins since they broke your table)

psandman · #7 03-21-2007, 02:14 PM

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Tell him "Take me off the list".
Cash out/Chip up.
Go to board, "Please put me on the list for ...."
Go for smoke.
When they call you, buy in for $100.

(assuming the list hasn't magically grown to 3 names in the 5 mins since they broke your table)

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My room has a 1hour waiting period before you can buy back in without bringing all the money on the table. Some floor people might let it go at a half hour if your not giving them a hard time about it.

GTL · #8 03-21-2007, 02:19 PM

the last time i played at foxwoods there were different rules for table changes and broken games. if the game broke and there were other games going, you had to move your entire stack. if you took a table change, you were forced to rathole and buy in for no more than the table max. of course you took your entire stack when you moved from a must move to the main game.

this was foxwoods, so the rules were not always enforced.