Paying the VIP’s time collection

I don't think there is anything wrong with someone offering to pay the time for someone else if otherwise he is going to leave and break the game. I haven't seen it often but a few times before. First it's best to ask the floor if you can skip one time collection though; when I used to play time games in Atlantic City they would often be willing to do that.

How is this different than passing money between stacks?

How is it different than buying someone a drink with your chips?

I can't imagine that anyone would object to this, but time collection can be paid out of pocket, it doesn't have to be from your stack.

Skip one time collection = freebie?

Yes; when I regularly played time games in Atlantic City, late at night when the game was shorthanded and in danger of breaking, the table would often ask the floorperson if they could skip paying for the next half hour. They would often agree, and sometimes would skip as many as half of the collections - so the players only paid once an hour instead of twice. And the time charge had already been dropped because the game was shorthanded. So instead of each player paying $10 per hour (in the 10/20 LHE game), sometimes late at night they would only have to pay as little as $3 per hour.

As with any of these types of spots .. how much is 'too much'? I don't think that paying time constitutes too much. It's not like the chips are actually going into a stack like they would via a prop bet.

Asking for a reduced rake when short is common .. glad to see it also applies to time games.

In a weird side note .. our casino recently implemented Bomb Pots. While you they do allow for reduced rake in a 'regular' hand, they are insistent upon getting the full $7 for a BP rake no matter the number of Players at the table. GL

My casino charges higher rake for bomb pots. Makes sense since they take longer.