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Originally Posted by kittrell87
My thoughts on the rules were correct, but I chose to handle the situations differently to save the game.
You may be right in a short-term-thinking kind of way, but in the long run, the approach you took is likely to hurt the game rather than save it.
In this case, you essentially threw money at two players to keep them from getting upset. But it's not your problem if they get mad over their own mistakes. No one else did anything wrong; the two players in question screwed up in silly ways. And you
paid them for it. Doesn't matter if they're whales or not. You can do little things to keep whales happy, but awarding them pots they didn't win is way out of line.
How could this hurt your game in the long run? Because other players saw you do it. When you make a ruling, it sets expectations. Now, other players may expect that the winner of the pot giving away money is the rule when any kind of messiness happens on the end. Obviously you can't keep that up, but if you don't, players may get upset because their expectations weren't met. ("Screw this game! Kittrell just rules however he wants!")
Just don't do it again, I'm telling you. It was a bad mistake already, but you can recover from it if you're consistent from now on.