Spence,
Your first post was a real interesting one. I think that we can all see that, based on current rules that we've covered, we can't have it both ways. If a player wins a large amount of money, and wants to quit, he must not play the same limit and type game for 1 hour or he is supposed to return with all of his chips. If he waits, he my enter the game as long as he meets the buy-in requirements for that game. The rules for limit games are much easier to follow because there is no maximum limit required for the buy-in. I don't see how a player can move from one game to the same limit game at another table and not comply with the house rules that apply for the buy-in.
Brian, to answer your question :Are we really that concerned with a player coming to a table with a large stack? My answer is YES in a no-limit or pot-limit game. Because of that, your suggestion of putting a percentage of the amount of the highest stack on the table would have to be a house rule, and I guarantee, if that ever happened, you would have a range of different %'s form casino to casino. I think that there are a couple "fixes," that might be easier to introduce:
1)a.... In no-limit and pot-limit, any player REQUESTING a table change to the same type game; must meet ALL buy-in requirements for that game, including not to exceed the maximum.
b....or,Any player REQUESTING a table change must meet the minimum buy-in requirement and move all chips to the new table, even if the amount exceeds the maximum buy-in requirements for the game.
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2) Any player FORCED to move from any game to the same type game will be allowed to enter the new table with the amount that they had at the other table, even if it is LESS than the minimum or MORE than the maximum buy-in established for that game.