One chip call... The more I see it the more I hate it.

Caesars vegas does this

My room also does this. Coincidence that an ex-manager here was also an ex-manager at the Vegas Hard Rock?

Planet Hollywood, I believe, used the same approach when button straddled.



I'm trying like hell to go, but I feel like the costs to go might be too much for me to put together by May 24. I passed an audition Monday (barely and if I was on the other side of the table, I would have failed me).

I keep hearing crazy estimates on how much a person can make. I assume we will be working 60 hours a week. At $20/hr, that's $1,200 minimum. $1,800 at $30/hr. I have heard you can make $20,000 in 7 weeks there. I have also been told that's a massive exaggeration and $15K is probably a top 5 percent salary.

I have a question for those who deal in states with a tip compliance:

Is your paycheck taxed based on the tip compliance amount you are supposed to make per hour, or on what you are actually being paid for that pay period? In our state, the tip compliance is $11/hr. I take home all cash game tips and get paid - in cash - once a week for all my tournament downs. So, I make $4.50 an hour. Am I going to be owing $$ to the IRS at the end of the year to make up that $6.50?

You aren't making $20k. I'll PM you with specifics, some people on here don't like us posting that stuff publicly.

Tournament downs are included on your check. Tip compliance only comes into play if you do cash or single table satellites, and in those cases they take out taxes based on what is reported to the IRS (last year I think it was $10/hr above the base rate) so your check will be very small if you only do cash, but there should be no IRS surprises.

Thanks. My tip compliance question was in reference to my current job, not the WSOP.

DOH sorry it's late.

When I've had tip compliance they withhold taxes based on the full $11/hr rate, taking it out of the $4.50. No surprises at the end of the year if you set your number of exemptions properly, just very small paychecks.

OK. That's what I hoped for. Thanks.

If someone raises before it gets to the button at Caesars, then the straddler must act in turn. As I remember the HR Straddle could be from anywhere and any raise or reraise would still skip the straddler so they would maintain last action.

(I don't think I've posted this one yet.)

Halfway through a tourney. A is leading out each street, B is tank/calling.

On the river, A picks up his last ~20 chips, brings them into the betting area, and starts counting them out. B, cleverly, tosses in a single-chip call.

A *immediately* stops cutting out chips. He leaves out the FOUR chips that he has already released, and retreats with the rest.

B cannot believe the affrontery, and turns to me to protest this. "Did you SEE what he did???"

I LOL, and suggest that maybe he should've waited for his opponent to complete his action before calling.

The ENTIRE TABLE is upset about this. No one calls the floor, but A and I had to listen to ten minutes of venting from every player at the table.

"You know, at a lot of places, the rule is blahblahblah..."

"That's what the rule should be!"

"But he went OVER THE LINE...."

"That's not a line here...but at a lot of places...."

It just wouldn't stop.

And while all this is going on, B is trying to get A to admit that he would have gone all-in if the call hadn't come in prematurely. A tried to dodge the question a few times, but when he saw B would never relent, A admitted that indeed, he WAS in the act of going all-in, and changed his mind when the call sailed in.

This confession occurred just as I was being pushed out. B almost sprang out of his seat to get my attention. "See? He just ADMITTED that he was going to go all-in!"

I smiled and pointed out, to B and to the rest of the table, "You keep saying that like HE did something wrong!"

Haha, burying the lede in the edit history. Well played.

The idiots always blame the smart one.

OMC boasting about his athletic youth, mentioned his cousin was an AAU Greco-Roman wrestler, bound for the Olympics, until he was disqualified for hitting the referee.

"Is your cousin the Iron Sheik?", I asked.

Don't be a Jabroni.

Did he threaten to break your back and make you humble?

First time dealing the WSOP this year.

Any advice/pointers?

Stfu and deal. Don't EO. Save save save. Have fun


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Best advice: Don't do it.

That's my goal. Work as much as possible and save everything. Eat in the EDR.

STFU and deal is always good advice.

Bring lot's of pepto bismal

I've followed this advice my whole life, and don't regret it!

I thought you quoted the part where someone told him to STFU and deal, and I was like, ???

Then I saw what you actually quoted

He is pretty good at the STFU and deal part also.

Show me a poker dealer who knows when to talk and knows when to shut up and deal and I will show you a professional who makes good money.

Hey I just said that! Uh... 6 years ago <.<