Does anybody "ping" in poker these days? About ten years ago in there was an unwritten law of players that, when someone was all in with you on a big pot, if you won, you "pinged" them anywhere from ten to whatever you wanted to do.

This was never a "feel sorry for you" motion or anything like that. It was literally, "stay in the game, respect, a chip and a chair"

Even pinging after winning a pot has been known to happen, even just a fiver or so to say "well played hand sir, respect"

Is this a strange and foreign concept? Should I go back to my igloo?

But seriously, does anybody know of this concept? The most I've ever been pinged was 25 and brought it back to 120.

Again, pinging was always seen as a sign of respect. In fact, I was in a 1-2 game where a guy did such a rowdy bad beat on the guy where both had like stacks of 6 - 800 and the winner straight up shipped a stack of somewhere between 15 and 20 red chips over to the guy and we kept playing.

This is more commonly known as 'scooting' and is prohibited in the majority of poker rooms and poker rulesets. When I played home games it wasn't uncommon to see it, but it was usually a pair of players who would scoot to one another if they won a pot rather than giving it to the loser.

Hmmm, that's weird. When I saw it it was generally between any two players if it was a big pot.

Again, this was a long time ago, but it also seem to harken way back to the oldest days of poker. As Amarillo Slim said when he popped Doyle Brunson and Sailor Roberts, "You gotta give the man some bus money when you take him for everything."

Or something like that.

Pinging? Scooting? Come on you guys are making this up.

I doubt casinos would allow this, doesn't seem like it but some possible collusion? I mean I know its respect but the casinos might see it as collusion, also I wouldn't feel comfortable doing that, nowadays. Everyone has such an ego and would probably take it as an insult ( maybe assuming you think they need money ).

I would like this it seems like a nice thing to do, however I wouldn't ever do this unless it became a thing again.

Never seen it and I've no intention of freerolling the degenerates at my local casino.

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I guess if I absolutely annihilated someone for big stacks and they literally didn't have bus money, I might sling them a 20. But probably not.

OP, this is cheating because you're depriving the game of that money.

Regarding what Rawlz described, there are (were?) a handful of PLO regulars at Maryland Live who give each other a certain amount of money when they win hands. For example, players A and B have agreed to give each other 5% or 10% of each others' profits after winning a pot and they'd do so using chips in play at the table. I talked to a floor about this and it stopped, but not sure if it's stopped for good because I haven't had a session with those players at MDL in quite some time.

Guess I should have been a bit clearer and specified these were house games back in the day. As I post in the LIVE CASINO forum.

Drinkin and postin... what a combination hahahaha

But for real though this was always done at house games and there were never any "ok dawg, i give u 5% of my pot and u give me urs ok cool" type shenanigans. It was literally a sign of respect to the other player in the the hand. (These were almost always done in heads up pots from preflop to river exclusively)

Ah well, next time I'll take notice of my locations before I post.

Wh-Where am I? Is, is this Lincoln, Nebraska? How did I end up here?

I've moved your post to the Home Poker forum because it's about home games.

Never have seen this done , nor have I ever heard of it before. Now I have seen somebody go in to their pocket and help out a friend from time to time, but not with in play chips ever. Interesting , likely limited to friendly home games.

Sounds ridiculous and I would not accept or offer a "ping".

Reminds me of a home game STT I played where one of the players got kind of whiny after the winner sucked out and she just wanted to give back everyone's entry fees. Didn't accept that and it was a home game. Definitely not letting anyone ping me.

What are you going to do if you get stacked and someone tosses you 10? Grind it back up? I know a lot of players would do this rather than rebuy immediately, and having super short stacks is not great for the game IMO so I don't like this.

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To be honest the small pings were like I said, a show of respect and a nod to the old adage of " a chip and a chair."

Yea, more often than not, someone pushes their two or three reds in and get busted and they either buy in again or leave. But they leave feeling respected.

The only real big pings were in huge pots where someone got a bad beat.

The players that played at one home game generally played at many others as well.

I used to do doorman stuff and small things to help out in a home game and if I went to play at someone elses game, I took it as my responsibility to represent the game I worked for in a good light. This means being friendly, having fun, talking with people, TREATING THE DEALER GOOD, and yea pinging players. Plus, these games would run from a freeroll at 5 PM to sometimes 8 or 9 PM the next day.

Again, these were all players who were familiar with each other and if they played together at Bob's on Wed, then they also found themselves at Don's on Friday. So maybe the close knit vibe had something to with it.

But again, it was never, ever seen as a sign of pity and no one ever complained and whined on a beat for a ping. In fact, the only real angry moment I saw at a house game was when a guy bad beat three other players when erryone was all in, and hit and run the next hand. Two of them didnt rebuy, and the third got all red in the face and slammed his fist on the table. We had to wait about an hour for a few more players to show up so it was real short handed early on, and that's a sticky spot to handle.

This is why when playing at card houses and stuff when people do hit and runs I'm baffled and am like "dang man, is someone gonna walk you to your car?" Different ways in coming up thru the ranks I guess.

When I host a game and I stack someone, I usually offer them a beer. (BYOB game)

At the casino I've seen from time to time, "Hey man, let me buy you a drink," but never cash/chips.

I play in 2 casinos regularly, one where they won't so much as a single dollar pass from player to player, another where we play red/black and all other types of BS degeneracy, and no one cares as long as the chips stay on the table.