I always did and still do. I might agree to pay after two games when playing for fifty a game. But if I'm playing someone I don't know, we have to post! PERIOD!
A little story - a few years ago I get in a "friendly" One Pocket game with a guy I've known for years. He owns substantial real estate in Santa Monica, thus a millionaire several times over. We were playing for the lordly sum of $20 a game, and he plays pretty good. Somehow I get him stuck eight games and he takes the heat. He can't get anything going, and I've won the last six in a row. He quits, kind of angry.
He asks me if I'm going to pay the time. Sure I tell him. Then he proceeds to give me $120, telling me this is all he has on him. Still $40 short. I look at this wealthy guy and give him my standard line, "If I lost I would pay you. I expect the same courtesy in return." He is steaming now, more at himself for losing so bad, than at me. But I still want to be paid. After all I did win, fair and square. And I would pay him in an instant if I lost. He wants to owe me the money. I said, "Why don't you use the ATM or something. You can get $40 can't you?"
Finally, after an embarrassing minute or two (for him), he tells me just a minute, he is going to his car. All right, I'll wait. He comes back after a few minutes with four rolls of quarters in his hand. He says this is money from his laundry machines. Do I want to take his quarters he asks me. No problem I say and take them. Then he's gone in a flash. The guy working the counter sees this whole exchange and immediately offers to buy the quarters from me, saying they always need extra quarters.
A lot of drama over forty bucks, but I did get paid. The time was about $20 as I recall.
