When hosting a poker game, do you allow players to cash out whenever they want?

Or must the game continue until one player ends up with all the chips, and then pay out based upon order of finish?





I realize that you must follow the house rules or don't bother buying in, but I hadn't heard of this before last weekend.

When hosting a poker game, do you allow players to cash out whenever they want?
If I were hosting a poker game, I wouldn't feel comfortable telling my guests when they can cash out. I wouldn't feel comfortable at such a game, on the flipside.





On another note, if I were hosting a cash game and a player was known for cashing out immediately after winning a big hand or two, I probably would not invite them back.
Reply:you can do it either way as long as everyone knows up front if you are playing a cash game or a tournament you can also play a tournament with a time limit so the person with the most chips at the time the game ends wins first place and then pay out the next spot with whoever has the second most chips ETC.
Reply:The players can cash out anytime they want.
Reply:If it's a cash game they can come and go as they please. As the host, I'd make sure that nobody else handled the money though, since at the end of the night if it's short, you're the one losing money. If you let everyone get their own money people might make honest mistakes, or they might intentionally take an extra $20 or $30. If it's a tournament they can leave, but their chips stay at the table, they lose their buy-in, and the chips are blinded off as the button moves around the table.
Reply:If you are playing a cash game where you buy in for $100 and you get $100 worth of chips, then the person can cash out at any time and head home.


If you are playing a tournament-style where your $100 will start you out with $10,000 worth of tournament chips, then the person has to stay until he is knocked out of the tourney.
Reply:There is a difference between a tournament and a cash game. In a cash game, you are allowed to cash out at any time. In a tournament, you play until the end and pay out then.
Reply:In order to keep the game friendly, my friends and I always said a player would have to call I am playing for 1 more hour and at the end of that hour they could extend. Because they knew this when entering we all followed it. This way a person can't win a big pot and then walk off. The people that didn't honor the "Hour Rule" weren't invited back. It worked very well.





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Reply:i try to kepp talk them out when i'm losing but when i win i quit and go watch t.v and get it the next game.

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