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[QUOTE="WVHillbilly, post: 1901367, member: 29447"]
I actually stopped playing my home game because of this reason.  We started playing for spare change initially after the Moneymaker boom.  Moved to tourneys.  Had leagues.  Tourneys got bigger (like rent out a hall and have 60 players bigger).  Moved away from tourneys to cash.  Stakes went up (usually 1/2 occasionally 2/5).

Lots of friends lost a lot of $$s.  It was nothing for a couple guys in particular to drop $1500 in a few hours.  We'd hire local girls to deal for us for tips (low cut T's brought in bigger tips).  I eventually felt bad when the same guy who dropped a grand to me on Saturday was calling to borrow $600 on Monday so his wife wouldn't find out how much he'd lost.  Don't get me wrong I liked taking their $$s (we have multiple pieces of furniture that those games paid for) but it just wasn't worth the guilt anymore.  They kept playing for at least a year after I stopped going until the main degen loser drained his 401k and stopped playing all together.

It was fun while it lasted and I have some stuff to show for it (in addition to the household stuff I still have enough chips to run a 50 man tourney and 2 additional cash game setups) but the guilt just wasn't worth it.

If you're just playing with friends, my advice is to keep the game small enough that no one has to lie about how much they lost the last time they played.
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