When Is An Absent Poker Player Folded
2 October 2009When Do You Fold A Poker Hand For A Person Not Currently Seated?
If you host a home poker game there will inevitably be people wandering off to use the restroom, or get some food, or to answer their phone. Which leads the the question, should you wait for the absent player before starting the next hand? Should you deal them out of the next poker hand? Should you deal them a hand and fold it if they are absent?
How you fold an absent player’s hand is dependent on if you are playing a poker tournament, or a poker cash game.
Poker Tournament
- A Hand Is Dealt To Every Player, Even Absent Ones
- If the absent player is in the big blind or small blind, you put their blind in for them
- The hand gets killed as action comes to it – So in a preflop situation, if someone is not at their seat as the hands are dealt, but they get to their seat before action gets to them, they can play the hand
Cash Game
- A hand is dealt to every player unless they are in a blind
- If they are gone for their blind they get a missed blind token (Only 1 no matter how many blinds they miss). When the get back to the table for later hands they have to post their missed blinds before they can play. In general, the missed small blind is put into the pot as dead money, and the missed big blind counts towards a players preflop call or raise.
- For players not in the blinds, their hands are folded as the action comes to them preflop.
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