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- From: tahajian@aries.East.Sun.COM (David Tahajian - Sun BOS Software)
- Newsgroups: rec.gambling
- Subject: Re: WRGPT II Rules change, anyone?
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 17:03:17 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Billerica MA
- Lines: 38
- Message-ID: <1h4tclINNsfe@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>
- References: <1992Dec17.123117.6750@dbased.nuo.dec.com> <18193@autodesk.COM>
- Reply-To: tahajian@east.sun.com (David Tahajian - Sun BOS Software)
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- In article <18193@autodesk.COM> jamesr@Autodesk.COM (James Rowell) writes:
- >
- >Conversely I'd like to see a way to force players to speed up who
- >continually take a long time to bet BUT don't time-out. For example,
- >there are several players at my table who have repeatedly caused lengthy
- >delay only to fold, and I'm sure in most of these cases an advance bet
- >could have been made. Getting several such players in one pot means it
- >takes forever to complete. Hence the slow tables.
- >
- >How about subtacting some factor of time from your time-out period for
- >each delay you cause based upon the length of the delay. It doesn't
- >have to be extreme, but enough so that many repeated lengthy delays will
- >really add up. In conjunction with some variation of John Hallyburton's
- >proposal to allow players to recover any lost time, we may end up with a
- >fair system for all.
- >
-
- Come on now... are you really saying that you've never made an advance
- bet only to have it bounce back to you when someone raises?
- For example, the bet starts at $500, and you send a "make $500" advance
- bet and go home for the day, thinking that you were a good guy by speeding
- up the game with your advance bet. Someone else raises, and you come in the
- next day, only to find your advance bet was "insufficient". You then decide
- to fold. The other players may see you doing a "big delay and fold", but
- they have no idea that you even made an advance bet to begin with.
- See my point?
-
- In other words, nobody really knows if other players make or do not make
- advance bets. This situation happens a lot to me, and I don't think
- it's fair to reduce my timeout period as long as I do act within
- the given time limit.
-
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