We can't let you do that...

[Simon_Nesbit]

Important stuff isn't about the hand dealt, but I've included it there anyway. My question is below the 2nd '===='

I got invited to a friend of a friends game which I thought was going to be small stakes - but when I got there turned out to be $100 buy-in - pretty big for someone's house. Still only playing $1/2 but enough cash on the table to make some money.

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After an hour or so, I'm up to $140 (wow) - get a phone call and tell them I'm leaving at 10pm (about 45 minutes away).

I am the big blind at 10, so I say I'll play until my next forced BB. I win that hand, taking my stack to $150.

I get pocket 3's, set on the flop, and win $40 pot against Qs and 9s. ($190).
Fold.
Ah/5h - flop comes 3hearts, I win $45 in a call against Jh/6h ($235).
fold
fold
My last hand before big blind (I declare "this is my last hand" before the deal) - and I get 4d/5d.

What the hey, last hand - call. Flop comes Ad/Ac/7d. Checked around, I put $10 out. two callers. Turn comes 3d.

3 diamonds on the board, so I've got a flush, but only 5 high. I've also got A/../3/4/5/../7 so inside straight flush draw.

One bet $30, one fold. I think my flush is in trouble, but I'm on a roll. I call.

River comes 2d. I check. Opponent goes all-in. I call.

He had Ah/Kd - 3 aces, and the river diamond gave him a King-high flush. I had a 5-high straight flush - and won a cool $180 (up nearly $350 for the night).

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Ok so it wasn't great play and I got lucky - and I was taking about 3/4 of the chips off the table.....but I was told "We can't let you do that".

Now this is obviously a social game, and I knew a couple of the other players - but they all took the hosts side that I couldn't simply walk away with $500.

(I ended up paying for 10 rounds ($30) for leaving 3 hours early and 'sold' $200 to two friends of mine at the table - meaning I left with an extra $100, and a couple of debts to be collected at some fictional future date).

I obviously don't have a leg to stand on legally in a private, in-home cash game - and it's over now - but given I announced I was 'leaving after this hand' before it even started meant I wasn't just "cashing in" and running.

It's poor form I know on my behalf - but am I supposed to just sit around and lose some money for it to be 'fair'? Should I have 'chipped' every player (most I don't know) $50 so they could keep playing?

 

[Cartman121]

Personally I think you need to get some new "friends". Not having a go or anything but the guys sound like complete douchebags. You did nothing wrong, announced you would play one more orbit and happened to get lucky. If you were down $200 there wouldn't have been a problem. Understand you took the majority of the money on the table but if players only came prepared for one buy-in then that's their own fault and their problem not yours. You really shouldn't have given your mates $200 to keep playing - how hard is it to get to an ATM? Would have told them to get stuffed and just left personally.

 

[ashley12]

Had you gone busto with that last hand they wouldnt have a care in the world...

Basically I think these guys are douches, no other way around it. Its a ring game, you announced your intentions early and left after paying your BB. (Id probably be an arseh*le and leave after my UTG hand.

Never had an issue myself with friendly homegames but then again I havent played for much more then either $10 SnG or 25c/50c blinded ring games.

However, my worst individual incident came when I was invited to a rather large game by a friend of mine with a person I didnt really know. It was a pretty large home game, about 20 people and 3 tables. They had two strippers (the owner was alledgely a strip club/brothel owner) and started by having one larger MTT then a number of single table SnG's... The problem started on the first hand of the second SnG I played (these were either $10 or $20 a pop).

I got AK in the CO and there were three limpers so I raised to something like 5 times the BB. BB calls, the owner who limped UTG looks at me like I desecrated on a photo of his mother and announces all-in. I snap call but before the BB makes a decision someone says that we should expose, and the owner shows A4 and I show my AK. BB sees my AK and folds his A9. They run out the board and my hand stays good. Then after the board is run out the owner annoucens that because the cards were exposed prematurely the hand is a misdeal and we all go back to our starting stacks... I almost decided to whinge but my friend looks at me and violently shakes his head. There were a lot of people bigger then me in the room so I shut-up and just got on with the game, and ended up second in that SnG to get my cash back.

In a brighter note I went back the next week, and won the MTT for a cool $150...

 

[Drummer_19]

Pretty much agree with whats been said, you anounced long before you left what would be your leaving time so their shouldn't be a problem.

This is why in my normal home game I play in we just play $20 SNG's, cash games seem to have to many variables involved in a home game such as the one that you encountered.

 

[Simon_Nesbit]

I was friends with two of the guys there, and 'knew' a couple - but the host, and about half the table I only met on the night.

We play for fun normally (5c/10c) and spend more on food and alcohol than poker, but apparently this is a once a month type thing - I doubt I'll go back even if I was invited. The two guys I left money with play every week so I'll possibly see it next time I play with them.

 

[red+black]

1. You can say whatever the **** you like and you don't have to abide by it.
2. You can leave whenever the **** you want.
3. For home games, always go packing heat (at least have a machete in the car).

 

[Simon_Nesbit]

LOL at 3...(you are joking aren't you?)

 

[red+black]

Of course I'm joking.

If you have a gun on you, the machete in the car is superfluous.

 

[Badesumofu]

If you announced well in advance that you would be leaving at a certain time, then it's probably okay. In general it's pretty poor form to leave early if you're well ahead, but ultimately they have no right to tell you that you can't go. You were only $40 up when you announced that you'd be leaving in 45 minutes, as well. If they'd had a problem with you leaving at the stated time, they should have said so when you announced it.

I would not reccomend playing with those people again. One of the benefits of playing at the Casino is that you can leave whenever you want. Plus they have security and a lot of cameras. I should mention at this point, that I am a Casino employee

Given the blinds were only $1/$2 anyway, geez, you could just sat there and folded for the next 50 hands and only lost $15 (assuming 10 players at the table).