Hi everyone,
We have a friendly 0.25$/0.5$ home game. Last night something happened in our poker game .
A player that his buy in was 75$ and was almost even (maybe 3$ plus), hid 25$ of his own chips and played the last 20 minutes of the session. During that time once in a one hand he raised preflop and was re-raised to all in by another player, but he didn't call the all in and folded the hand. Although he had a monster hand.
In the following he didn't play almost any hand except one hand against another player and he won a pot around 23$.
At the end of the game he had around 105$ (plus 30$) and we were surprised that he had that much chips. Because everyone saw that he had around 60$ chips and thought he might be minus.
We asked him and he explained that during that time (last 20 minuetes of game) he wanted to leave and cash out any time (it was a 6 hours session and anyone can cash out wheever he wants) and because of that he kept part of his buy in chips in his hand.
He claimed that his action didnt affect anyones games. He claimed also that he hid chips from his buy in not from his winning. So, its not Ratholing or .... . And also he said it was his first time that he did such a thing.
Anyway, at the end we punished him and forced him buy paying 50$ to the loosers of that session.
So here I have a question from you guys: ''Was ths punishment too much or was it not enough? What kind a decisions should be made in this situations ! ?'' There was a no ending discussion at the end of the game!
I repeat that this is an absolutely friendly match and we are all friends.
I would be glad to hear your opinions.
Thanks.
