Re: [ba-poker] Bay 101 trip report

["Stephen H. Landrum" <slandrum(deleted the rest)>]

At 11:24 PM 2/5/2005, Dave Horwitz wrote:
> It gets better. They're taking time on the half hour
> (dealer's are doing half hour downs too). $7 for 20/40
> and $9 for 40/80. I vaguely remember that I used to
> pay close to $21/hr with the $3 button charge?

In the lower limit games they used to average around 30-35 hands/hour and 
the drop was around $12/player/orbit.

In the higher limit games the drop was closer to $15/player/orbit.

The new time charges on the higher limit games are not really a break over 
the old charges, but now you get in more hands/hour, so in that sense it's 
a better deal.

What about the "Mark Sherman" rule, though?  Do they have a way to punish 
the chronic lobbyers?  Although, these days it's less likely to be a problem.

> There was something about "buying the button". If
> you missed your blinds you could "post" your missed
> blinds in-between the small blind and the button.
> $20 live and $10 dead in the pot. The next hand you
> get the button. I sort of saw it happen once but
> never figured out how they worked the blinds on that
> or the subsequent hand....

They've had this for a while now, many clubs have adopted it.  If you miss 
the big blind, then on the next hand (where the player to your left would 
normally post the small blind) you post both blinds.  Next hand, you get 
the button, and the players to your left post the small and big blinds 
(which they have not yet posted, since you bought the blinds on the hand 
they would have), and then play proceeds as normal.  This is good rule, 
speeds up the game, keeps things moving and keeps the players happy.  The 
player who was a few seconds slow running back from the bathroom or 
cigarette break isn't as likely to be pissed off that he missed his blind 
and would have had to sit out an orbit or wait a couple hands to post and 
miss the button in the process.

> [...] TILT was
> only mentioned once and there were almost none of
> the tired clichés.

Hopefully TILT can just die quickly and quietly and we can all pretend it 
never happened.

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Stephen H. Landrum <slandrum(deleted the rest)>