Is there such thing as a five deep rule?

Off the clock floorman is sitting in seat 5 on my table. He's drinking with some regs, screwing around, and having fun. He runs good and has a lot of chips in front of him; a 3x6 rectangular prism to be exact.

One dealer tells him he can't have his stack 6 deep. There is a "five deep rule" that says you can't have chips more than five stacks away from you. She explains it is to ensure players to his left and right may see his cards.

What happened afterwards was relatively entertaining. off the clock floorman has never heard of this rule before. He calls over multiple floorman to find out if this rule exists. obviously no one takes him seriously because he asks in a joking tone and we're probably sitting at the funnest table in the house.

off the clock floorman points out the guy in seat 2 who also has a chip stack that is six deep. the dealer say that's ok because he's sitting on the edge. One floorman also said, "you don't know about this rule because you never had that much chips in front of you! ha ha ha"

Never heard about that rule.

Has anyone else ventured to the bar/hofbrau side of things recently? They have new coasters for drinks, with the design of the $1 chips. I think that's really cheap; that they should be at least $100, if not $1000.

Yeah some people have brought them to the tables and thrown them in the pot. I think $100 white chip ones would be more classy.

I've never heard of any rule about how wide of a footprint your chip stack can have. I think as long and you're not impeding your neighbors or the dealer it should be fine.

Please tell me this was Mike. Middle aged asian floorman? He is the nuts. Always good for the game, will call you down light and buys drinks for anyone.

^^yeah it was Mike. iono M&B's policy for naming non-famous employee so I didn't name anyone

That's an awesome story.

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If this rule exists, I've never seen it enforced. There's a 15/30 reg who regularly puts his card to the right of a giant wall. Part of me suspects he does it intentionally to get people to his left to act out of turn.

Don't worry, Bing will do that for you.

Tut tut. Names.

Young african-american fellow with awesome hats who's almost always wearing shades? He's def. an a+ angle shooter.

lol, played here when i took a trip to SF.

very first hand i play of 1/2 i get kings in the BB, i didn't know about the max bet rule (or that any casino had it) and i sized my flop bet so i could jam the turn. i say "allin" for my last 140, get stopped, and get all flustered when the old dude who had straddled the pot snapcalled me (whats the point of straddling in spreadlimit anyway?). river bricked and i forgot to shove. i won the pot anyway woot.

later i bet $10 on the saints game of the O/U at halftime they were showing on TV with this ghetto black dude who was baked out of mind and donated like $500 to the table. i lost the bet but he smoked me up with a gigantic blunt of sick norcal weed during after he won so maybe it was +EV?

Went to the doctor today, and we chatted about what I do for a living. He warned me, "Stay away from the women who gather at the Oaks; I've treated a number of STDs that were contracted that way."

I didn't argue with him, but the place has never struck me as being a particularly likely place for guys to connect with working women. (Stretches of San Pablo Avenue both in Oakland and Berkeley are streetwalker strolls, but I believe EPD keeps a lid on it in the Oaks' neighborhood.)

Thanks for the heads up Alan. lol!

I hear you can trade up in front of Flints BBQ for ribs.
(not the best value, though, the ribs are pretty good)

Flints, alas, has been closed for some time.

I think another bbq joint opened up on san pablo probably three blocks south of where the old flints used to be. Unfortunately i would never recommend anyone go to that area no matter how go the ribs are. I will find out the name tomorrow for any brave souls.

I still like the old school everett & jones on university and san pablo in berkeley. Their hot bbq sauce is diabolically hot and it still comes on a paper plate with wheatbread in a plastic bag. Incredible brisket.

He meant from the cards and chips, obv.

There's an EPD? I guess there would almost have to be, but I don't remember ever seeing one.

I literally only see them circling the Oaks and harassing vagrants outside of black & white liquor. They leave everything south of the 580 to OPD.

Yeah, go towards the bridge and past it, you'll see some stuff. It's pretty close.

I used to ride my bike to a home game in that neighborhood. Good times.

I've never been any farther from the freeway (80?) than the farmers market place. I used to work in the black glass building near the freeway.

Everett and Jones used to be affordable before they got a write up in Gourmet magazine.

The Flint's at 66th and Shattuck has been closed for years (to my dismay, since I live a literal stone's throw away from it). But just up the street, at Shattuck and Emerson, a place called Smokey J's BBQ opened up last year. It's white-guy barbecue, run by a high-end chef who has deliberately moved downmarket. It's good, but it's self-described Kansas City barbecue, not Oakland style, vinegary, not really much depth to the flavor.

For what it's worth, the barbecue stuff at the Oaks (pork ribs or chicken, the daily special on Tuesdays) is genuine Oakland-style barbecue; the flavor of the sauce closely matches that of Everett & Jones or the old Flint's: deep, rich, with a strong element of tamarind.

Has anyone tried Looney's? Their restaurant is on MLK Jr Way under the BART tracks. I've been meaning to get there, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

Damn, dude, we used to be neighbors. I even ate at that Flint's when it was open!

Yeah, I remember seeing the Pfapmobile parked on Alcatraz Ave.