Funny you should ask this - we just recently had a group start playing poker
every Sunday in one of the bars I manage. In accordance with Colorado gaming
law, the "House" or the bar has nothing to do with with it, besides serving
the drinks and food. The one rule that has been stipulated by the house is
that the players all have to be aquanted with eachother and a person wanting
to be dealt in must ask the permission of the others playing. This aleveates
that pain in the ass guy who says, "Well, that's not how I learned to play
seven card no peek roll," or the sorest of loosing. Just before instated the
"aquantence rule", we had a gall loose $10 pretty quickly and then complain to
other coustomers that the players were cheating. Fourtunately, the other
coustomers really didn't care, and my bartender that evening let her know that
her $10 didn't ammount to a drop in the bucket for the $ everyone else at the
table had in the game. I beleive she kept on complaining and he told her to
go home and play "go fish" with her little brother.
It is quite a draw, and everyone is having a good time. It sure has picked up
the Sunday evening business.