Posting blinds for late people...?

[sl0ggs]

Gents,

What are your thoughts on posting blinds for people who haven't turned up at your game?

In most of the home games I've played in, the host has stated (when arranging the game) that late comer's blinds will be posted until they turn up, or if no one can confirm that they are coming, until a set time limit. What should the standard be for this time limit, a set number of hands, an actual time?

The reason I ask is that I'm wondering what should happen with the chips in their stack if they do not turn up at all?! Presumably they are taken away from the table... but, some of their chips will be in other peoples stacks, as they would have been posting blinds and loosing them, so if you take their stack away, you are left with an inaccurate total chip count... which makes working out your average difficult, especially if you are using tourney software to run the game... In online games, you are posted and folded until the end of the game!

I know that isn't a major problem, as you will be able to work it out pretty closely anyway, but just wondered what you thought on that subject...

Should late comers just be eliminated from the start? They knew the start time, so tough? (Harsh!) Should they not have any blinds posted and just be overlooked if they are only set to miss half an hour or say 10 or less hands...? Meaning that if they don't show, the chip stack being taken from the table is even and makes it easier to adjust the chip count? (Harsh on anyone who takes a hit early on, but at least everyone would know about it before starting?)

Cheers
Sloggs

[Chipfire]

I reckon that posting blinds for one hour is more than fair. Everyone is late sometime.

At a Live poker league game recently a missing player made the top 10 - Ridiculous!!

pushed all in by the blinds his hand won and he doubled up.

It was a real pain shifting his chip from table to table.

I think a friend had signed him in but he wasn't there -DOH