Quote Originally Posted by astrodon
But at the house all of those rules are established before anyone sets down if there are new players - sure saves in broken furniture and body parts...
At my last home game we only had 1 spoken house rule. "A misdeal gets you a shot. Short stack at the table gets to choose your shot."

We had a couple of mistakes made. But all were pretty simple.

1 person raised his hand on the flop, next person re-raised. 1st person called and flipped his cards over. he thought person 2 was all-in, but he was wrong. They turned to me (the host) and I said, "Just play it out as though you both are all-in. No more betting." Simple answer. But it was made on the fly.

Just make sure your game knows who makes the decisions (the host or whoever) and make sure that person makes fair decisions. That should make everyone happy.