Not a good way to run a game IMO.
Maybe, but its the format adopted by a major UK Poker League.
Having players sat out waiting to re-buy back in strange and unfair.
Why unfair? gives beginners a second bite of the apple.
So if a player is all in first hand and loses then he can just wait for the re-buy (lets say 1 hour).
This would encourage players to go for it, if they lose and go out what the heck, just wait for the re-buy, lose no hands or blinds,
the players left in will not get dealt the correct cards, the game as changed completely then will change back again later.
Players will be playing with average chip stack being wrong, there would be imaginary chips on the table that can not be won
or do not have to put blinds in.
I don't understand how you think that the average chip stack will be wrong.. or that there will be imaginary chips? The number of chips is constant until the first break, then the chip count increases by the addon/rebuy which every player gets (same value of chips for rebuy and addon). There is a distinct DISADVANTAGE to coming back after busting out.. namely you are horrendously short stacked normally meaning you normally only survive one big/small blind before running out of chips!
I would be looking at changing this ASAP, TD does it the way it does because that is the correct way to do it.
As posted, we are mandated to follow the format.
I am not having a go at you RichieD, I am just shocked at the way the UK poker league run this.
I have never played or never heard a game that you can re-buy after sitting out for a period of time.
Unfair
Lets make it simple:
10 players, starting stack 1000, average chip stack 100.
5 players or knocked out the first hand.
Now we have a game for a hour that is 5 handed with average chips 200, but there are 5 players
waiting to come back in with 1000 chips each, so them chips can not be won by any of the 5 players that are playing.
The 5 players that are sat out have in reality 1000 chips, they can not lose any of these chips till they re-enter in 1 hours time.
When the players re-enter it completely changes the game again, it goes from a 5 seater to a 10 seater.
All poker players know that you have to play the game with the information that you have, your own chip stack, how many players on your table,
what their chip stacks are, the average chip stack, what the blinds are and obviously other standard things.
I have played in some of the pub poker games in the UK and apart from the odd few they are badly run, one big exception is a forum member on here,
his games seem to be run very well.
IMO this is one of the worst ways of letting new players have a chance, before tourney tuition and learning by being hurt is the best way.
Just a question for you, if all players except 1 was knocked out in the first 5 minutes what would happen.
The 1 player left in could not continue because there are no other chips on the table.
Just a thought, once your game is set up and all players are seated, you could then save that game under a other name,
run your game as normal, then when you want every body seated as they were just bring in the saved game, set the level to the right one
then continue, think this is the quickest option.
Again I am not having a go at you, if games are run in a certain way and players enter them then that's fine, it's good to discuss them though.