You are free to get up to stretch your legs, visit the restroom and so on.
Ask the dealer how long you may be away from your seat; 20 or 30 minutes is typical.
It is customary to leave your chips sitting on the table; part of the dealer’s job is to keep them safe.
If you miss your blind(s) while away, you may have to make them up when you return, or you may be asked to sit out a few more hands until they reach you again.
If several players are gone from a table, they may all be called back to keep the game going; those who don’t return in time forfeit their seats.
Color Change
If you are in the happy situation of having too many chips, you may request a “color change”.
You can fill up a rack or two with your excess เว็บคาสิโนออนไลน์chips and will receive a few large denomination chips in return.
These large chips are still in play, but at least you aren’t inconvenienced by a mountain of chips in front of you.
Remember the one chip rule when betting with them.
A game is full
If the game you want is full, your name will go on a list and the person running the list will call you when a seat opens up.
Depending on the card-room, you may have trouble hearing your name called and they may be quick to pass you over, so be alert.
Once a seat is available, the list person will vaguely direct you toward it, or toward a floorman who will show you where to sit.
Leaving
Leave whenever you feel like it.
You never have an obligation to stay at the table, even if you’ve won a fortune.
You should definitely leave if you are tired, losing more than you expect, or have other reasons to believe you are not playing your best game.
Depending on the card-room, you can redeem your chips for cash with a chip-runner or floorman or at the cashier’s cage.
House Charges
Last but not least is the matter of the house take.
Somebody has to maintain the tastefully opulent furnishings and pay the electric bill.
The money taken by the house is called the “drop”, since it is dropped down a slot in the table at the end of each hand.
The house will choose one of three ways to charge you to play:
Time Charge A simple “time charge” is common in higher limit games and at some small games: seats are rented by the half hour, at rates ranging from $4 to $10 or so on, depending on the stakes. This method charges all players equally.
Rake or other card-rooms will “rake” a percentage of the final pot, up to some maximum, before awarding it to the winning player. The usual rake is either 5% or 10%, capped at $3 or $4. If the pot is raked, the dealer will remove chips from the pot as it grows, setting them aside until the hand is over and they are dropped into a slot in the table. This method favors the tight player who enters few pots but wins a large fraction of them.
Button Charge A simpler method is to collect a fixed amount at the start of each hand; one player, usually the one with the dealer button, pays the entire amount of the drop. Depending on house rules, this “button charge” of $2-$4 may or may not play as a bet. If the chips do play as a bet, this method also favors the tighter players, but not nearly as much as the rake does.
Regardless of the mechanism, a card-room will try to drop about $80-$120 per hour at a $3-$6 table. The exact amount is most dependent on the local cost of doing business: Nevada is low, California and Atlantic City are high.
Since there are 7-10 players at the table, expect to pay somewhere from $7 to $14 per hour just to sit down.
Add $2-$4 per hour for dealer tips and you see why most low-limit players are long-run losers.
Betting systems
Martingale System
If you win a bet, you bet for the same amount again. If you lose, you double your bet. Actually rather unwise, because this system can make you lose a lot of money: You bet $1. When you win three times, you have won $3. When you lose three times, you have lost $7 ($1, $2, $4).
D’Alembert System
If you win a bet, you decrease your wager by one unit. If you lose a bet, you increase your wager by one unit. Example: Your betting unit is $5. If you lose, you will bet one $5-unit more = $10. If you lose again, you will bet one $5-unit more = $15. You will most likely experience a big loss after working up your wins to a very high level.
Others
Of course there are a lot more betting systems which you can find in the more in depth strategy sections. But this two are the ones you definitely should be familiar with.
