OP--

Sounds like the complaint was baseless. But I vividly remember a case where a dealer was trying to get back at a player by flinging the cards at his hands as sharply as possible. I don't imagine that was the only time it's ever happened.

(FWIW, the player responded by pressing his fingernails into the felt so that a high-velocity card would end up flying off the table and the dealer would end up looking bad by having pitched a card onto the floor. And that's what happened. Of course, the player ended up looking bad too.)

All my best,

--Nate

Probably the coolest thing I think I saw a dealer do was in a 20/40 game after he dumped a couple of racks in a 15/30 game (i.e., he was propping a 15/30 stud and got called to deal so he came into the box steaming).

This reg that was always yelling at dealers about beats and flinging cards into the tray., etc. You know the type I'm talking about - great for the game, but stfu. Anyway, he's getting some beats tonight, and he's pitching his losers and the dealer has to quickly stop the cards from flying off the table. You could tell each time he was trying to keep his cool. A few people pitched a couple of tokes his direction in an acknowledgement of his restraint.

Then the guy gets aces cracked - the quintessential ignorant tilter's "bad beat" hand. This time the dead rockets go whizzing into the dealer's chest, six inches from his neck, and one bounced up into his chin. Dealer immediately leans (tall and huge guy) all the way across the table and gets within a foot of the player's face, and the dealer says (I was right next to the player) very calmly, sincerely, yet sternly with a deck in his left hand and a fist in his right hand on the table:

"Listen to me carefully. I don't give a **** about this job - I can get a job dealing anywhere, so if you ever throw cards at me again, I will jump over this table and beat the ****ing **** out of you." Then pushes the pot, and shuffles up.

Instant tilt buster, and the next hand he mucked by placing the cards across the line. He looked too scared ****less to think of going to the floor. Never saw him throw cards at anyone ever again (just slam them down on the table), and I think he finally realized the guy in the box is a person (funny what little details you miss until your safety is in jeopardy).

I know a lot of you dealers probably don't approve, call it unprofessional or whatever, but you know you've wanted to do it at least once, and as a player, I approve.

Doesn't have anything to do with the thread, just needed to share that one.

My problem with this is that if I did this where I worked it would get me fired .... and damn it if I'm getting fired for this I'm going to regret not actually hitting the guy......

I would LOVE to do this to a handful of people. Sometimes, I dream of winning the lottery, and then being able to tell the dbag *******s what I really think of them.

Yeah, I need to learn to let it go.