At school we play a homegame in which there are one or two decent players then the rest of the people invited are absolute fish. On this occasion, the host and myself are levels beyond the other 5 players at the table, we're all playing deep and there's a substantial amount of money in people's stack.

Through two horrid coolers, the host busts around 700bb's to the loosest worst fish, and announces in anger that the game is over as he has no intention of rebuying. Do i have the right to protest in this situation? We're friends and he's aware that i'm by far better than the other players and that the money on the table is significant to us.

What grade is this?

If he's your friend, ask to speak to him in private. To calm him down and explain situation. Hopefully friend lets everyone play and you win.

If that fails try to convince him to keep playing.

If that fails, offer to stake him in the game.

Tell him to piss off and return when he's calmed down.

No. It's his place. What you can do is pull him beside before you leave and tell him that he's going to lose the fish and his game is going to dry up.

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offer a piece of your action (in private of course).

Your only choice is pretty clear to me. In order to divert further disaster you must offer him at least 1/2 of your pokemon collection. If he uses his fire powers and declines I would quickly trump him with a negative oxygen wind gust or a water burst explosion. Good luck

My roommate and I personally would never ever do this at one of our games. If host is someone who you know well I would offer to watch the bank and everything so he can leave and do whatever if he really doesn't want to be near the game anymore.

If the game usually goes much later than this, he deserves a KITN for being a sore loser and a bad host because he lost

Your friend is a little b.itch, i dont care how old he is.

Seriously....that's like the kid that loses at basketball and gets pissed and takes his ball and goes home.

I would seriously start hosting the game myself if I was you. Bad beats happen.

Losing 700BB sucks but if someone had that much money in bad he should really calm down and realize that that is the situation that he wants. Big pot, all-in, ahead, loses.....it happens.

We had a guy who hosted a monthly tournament - I found it on meetup.com. It ran for a couple of years and got up to three full tables. He was a rules nit but consistent and ran an tight ship so we knew what to expect.

He was also a LAG and when he would bust out he would stomp outside for a smoke to blow off some steam but then come back inside and deal for the rest of the night like nothing ever happened.

Then one night in a cash game he blew up after a bad beat and threw everyone out of the house. No one wanted to deal with his issues after that and the group just died. It was too bad as that was the first poker group I was involved in and was one of most fun poker experiences I've had.

Host throwing everyone out because of a bad beat is right up there among the worst things a host can make. So yeah, tell your friend to cool it, but do it in private. I would suggest taking a break and try to talk some sense to him during it.

The guy who hosts the regular game I go to has a very strict stop-loss policy and from time to time he has taken breaks after coolers or bad beats or just losing a couple buyins, but he has never told us to leave because of it. Most of the time he just observes and maybe joins the game later on after cooling off. This is the way a host should act if you ask me. If the players make the commitment to come and play, the host should be true to his word and host the game, even if he himself is having a rough night.

But, I still wouldn't say you have a right to protest. It's his place and if your friend wants to be a jerk, you probably can't stop him. Talk to him the next day and tell him he should apologize to everyone the next time you play and maybe this way you can keep your fish coming back.

offer to stake him or something imo

Agree with the others, talk to the host in private. If he really is a winning player, than he needs to understand that keeping his guests happy and playing is the only way for them to keep coming back. They need to be able to gamble it up without getting yelled at or get the death stare or whatever in order to want to return to play IMO. Got to keep things light and fun. If the good player can't handle suckouts well, and causes the fish to leave, then I question how good he truly is.

If he still wants to act like that after you talk, then I would give consideration to talking to the other players while you're packing up your chips or heading out the door, and start hosting your own game. Sounds like a good core group to me!

Simple as this.

As everyone has said give him an incentive to keep the game going, something as simple as buying him a beer or two might help.

TR: I politely protested and he agreed to let us continue playing for around 45mins while he basically sulked and messed about on his laptop. We all left on good terms though fwiw. My stack went from 500bb's to 1200bb's in this time.

I'm pretty certain i want to bring this issue up next time i see him, since i reckon i do have the right to tell him he's out of order for preventing me from winning. There's 3 of us who are good players (one was away) and aware we're attacking the 5/6 fish we get playing. I don't want to lose that because he busts out.

u can try to carefully calm him down and speak to him in private like others have suggested, but at the end of the day it's his house (what he says goes). he'll prolly realize that he was being an idiot afterwards.

Loses its effectiveness if you're sitting there with him.

Awesome

What time was it? If it was like only an hour or so before the usual wrap up time of your game its not so bad, any earlier thats a pretty bad host. Whoever is his closest mate of the group should have a chat and tell him that its not cricket. Most people being told once will understand. No need to make a big deal.

One thing to be aware of... It is his pond, he might decide that he'd rather swim safely with the guppies than have to listen to your bitching

ok well I think there is also a difference between a home game between a bunch of good mates just for social fun and a game where you are trying to keep going because there are "fish". The more competitive the game I think the less responsibility the host has to actually keep the game running (although still pretty poor form!).

offer to host the game imo

move the game to your dorm room?