Table Shape for Home Game--Who Deals at Yours?

[lwestatbus]

Just saw K-rug's wonderful post about building his home poker table. (http://www.texasholdem-poker.com/forum/t12330/what-i-did-this-weekend-built-a-poker-table.) What a lot of super information.

His post got me wondering, though. It seems that if you build a casino style (oblong) poker table you are automatically forcing the dealer (person who actually handles the cards, not the person on the button) to stay fixed. It just doesn't seem practical to rotate the deal around an oblong table. It therefore seems that if you want to rotate the deal you'll need one of the octagon tables.

How do you handle dealing at your home game? I've put up a poll but feel free to post replies as well.

[Nate PT]

At most of my games we switch dealers after every blind level or two. We usually just trade off between the competent dealers that are seated on one of the sides that can reach all the players.

[Idaho]

Everyone deals at my game. It works fine. People who can't deal obviously need the practice, people who can.. can.

[K-rug]

We have the physical deal rotate between the four dealers at the center of the table sometimes using two decks so one hand can start after the other.

[saper88aa]

Dealer rotates. Even if we do play at an oblonged table such as a dinning room table or a kitchen table. I have an octagon tho

[redd38]

I have a casino-style table and the dealer rotates to all the players. It's really only a problem for the 2 players at the very ends, and the players in the middle of the table just help pass cards down in those cases. It's better to have them help pass cards twice then have the deal every hand I think. They also have to help move chips, so usually myself and one of the more attentive players sits in the middle seats.

[R Deckard]

I am usually the only shuffler and dealer at my games, because most of the players are noobs and I am the fastest at both by far (because I am such a poker geek, I have literally spent hours on my own practicing the casino-standard shuffling and dealing method). Nobody seems to mind that I do all the work, and I actually enjoy doing it--hey, I didn't just spend twenty bucks for my wonderful cards just to get to hold only two of them at a time!

[Muck]

I don’t think an oblong table requires a fixed dealer, although if it has an indent it implies one was intended.

[saper88aa]

I don’t think an oblong table requires a fixed dealer, although if it has an indent it implies one was intended.

key word, implies.

[Muck]

Indeed you can play poker anywhere it just comes down to practicality and comfort.
You can use a Porsche to transport hay bales, the design just implies that wasn’t it’s intended us.

[saper88aa]

those would be some fast hay bales