The Mandalay Bay poker room is rather notorious for its quirky set of house rules. (See posts here and here and here for examples.) Today I noticed another.
Most must-move games operate first in/first out. That is, the person who has been at the table the longest is forced to move to the regular game when a seat opens up there. Mandalay does it backwards: The person who has been there the longest is given the option of moving, but is not forced to move; if they go down the whole list and nobody wants to go, the last person to have joined the table is the one that will be required to move.
I like this! It is, so far, the only one of the idiosyncratic house rules at Mandalay that I think is superior to the standard procedure. Those who arrived first should be given the option to move or stay; they have the most invested in having observed opponents and having created a table image.
I had noticed the floor staff operating like this at Mandalay previously, but I thought they were just kind of casually bending the rules. Today a comment from the supervisor clued me in that this is, in fact, what their protocols dictate.
Is there any reason this idea should not be implemented universally? I can't see any down side to it. It seems like the way things should be everywhere.
Monday, October 05, 2009
Unusual rule at Mandalay Bay
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Seems a little tedious to go through every single person in order of their arrival time to find someone to move, but it does make some sense.
I agree that this is indisputably a superior way to run a must-move. I have seen players quit the game altogether rather than leave their seat at a must-move table.
Keiser: It's really not. In practice what happens is somebody comes over and says, "I have to move one of you to the main game. Any volunteers?" If there are 2 or more volunteers, the one with seniority at the table gets to go. If no volunteers, they take the last person to have arrived. Takes only a few seconds.
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