In my home game, a player called the big blind and got up to get a drink. When he came back a minute later he was pissed that we folded his hand to a flop bet.

How do casinos handle this? Give player a courtesy one-minute wait, or just auto-fold to the first bet?

Thanks!

Usually autofold if not at the table, atleast thats what they do a a casino. For a home game, I would expect the player would be in the same room and I would simple call him back to the table.

You can't give him one minute or else you'd never get a good game going. If he's in the same room alert him that he's going to be mucked and if he doesn't come over then do it. If he's not in the room it is auto-mucked unless he's told you he'll be right back.

Player gets a KITN for getting up and leaving the room in a hand where he called. He should only leave the room in hands he folds PF.

In a friendly home game I might give him some slack if he folds pre-flop goes into the next room for a beverage and is clearly trying to get back wihout holding up the game.

--Zetack

The way I handle it in a casino is this.f the player is nearby I shout hey its your action and give him time to act (assuming he acts verbally or comes right back when I tell him this) If a player gets up and leaves the vicinit would announce him as checking if there has been no bet, but as soon as there is a bet and the action gets around to him I would fold the hand.

And that's why psand is the man

why did someone say to give him a cat?

Because kittens are evil, obviously, and thus an appropriate punishment for the middle-of-the-hand-leaving-douche.

And THAT, ladies and gents, is how a HP vet handles a noob!

(something ELSE for the FAQ...)

Same scenario but the guy getting up is getting a round of drinks for the table. Do you auto-muck his cards pre-flop if he was getting the drinks between hands? If so, that's F'ing Chicken Shti.

Happened to me once and it'll never happen again. (No the bastards didn't get their booze either)

I doubt I would fold his hand (friendly, social home game) but I would give him a world of grief the rest of the night (and possibly for several more games in the future) for getting up in the middle of a hand. He would serve as a warning to all the others not to leave during a hand.

The players that I generally play with have all come to the understanding that we do not wait for you if you are away from the table - your hand is getting mucked. As previous posters said, if you waited 30 seconds here, a minute there, etc., every time someone wasn't there you would be waiting more than you were playing.

We have a player in my game who says "Call every street until the river." We love him.

I would too. And I'd buy him as many drinks as he wanted.

We don't mind his quick smoke breaks at all, and he has no problem getting sloshy on his own.

Second favorite thing he does: blind calls preflop UTG in Omaha 8.

in a tournament at a casino, you're not in your chair when the hand starts, your hand is dead.

cash game at a casino, you leave the table area, your hand is dead.

home game - at our home game tournaments, we'll call someone back who's stepped away momentarily and is nearby. otherwise, we kill the hand.

I host home games, both tournament and cash.

I used to be pretty lenient about giving people time when they stepped away. It's a mistake. It slows down the game, and once people learn they have a minute of slack, they'll take two minutes... or three.

I announced a "rule change" a year or so ago. Now, if you aren't there when it's your turn to act, your hand is folded, mercilessly and without question.

(OK, I lie - there is a *little* mercy. If it's Joe's action, I'll say "Joe, it's your action". But if he's not literally walking back to the table right as I say that, he's folded. Stopping to open a beer is too long a pause).

I found that, after folding people's hands two or three times, no one ever leaves the table when they are in a hand any more. :-) Problem solved.

Were I play the hands get folded, too. Mostly they start a countdown of 10 seconds before they do so.

In our tourneys, we're pretty quick to fold, unless someone is getting beers for everybody else.

In cash games, we'll often just force people to call the BB or even a small raise (depending on the person). Or fold 'em. Or wait. Depends on how we're feeling at the time.

Let someone look who is already out of the hand and then employ the "reasonable man" standard - only calling is permitted, no raising. If there is a dispute, then a third non-involved player arbitrates said dispute and if the "reasonable man" acted imprudently, the amount of the call is refunded to the absent player. Loads of fun. (Can you tell this is a friendly game that started in law school?)

I love how attorneys like to think of themselves as "reasonable". *:^)

My nit: we don't think of ourselves as "reasonable," we just come off our high horse and employ the standard of reasonableness, doing what a "reasonable man" would do.

Anyway, I like lawyer jokes as much as the next guy, so I would fix your post to say "I love how attorneys like to think of themselves [as capable of being] reasonable."

My head a splode.