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09-25-2010 , 01:50 AM
Just dealt the craziest hand in my short casino experience:

Board at the turn: AA97

Three people, all of them all in:

AA
99
77

Two cards for the bad beat and I let it draw out a little bit for the drama and peeled off... The 6 of clubs.

About as close to a Bad Beat as you can get without hitting it.
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09-25-2010 , 04:58 AM
I think A997 would be closer. I mean, you're pretty much always 1 or 2 cards away from hitting it. Will the OESFD get there? Will the quads get there? But A997 FEELS closer because you've got the ****tier quads already there and lots of BBJs are like aces full of jacks beaten, and we have aces full of nines beaten.
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09-25-2010 , 05:45 AM
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Originally Posted by youtalkfunny
OK, if we're doing puzzles, here's two:

1. Playing Omaha high, you are dealt 9333, including two spades. There are three hands you can make that would be the nuts. Name all three.

2. When I play hold'em, I never table my cards silently. I always announce what I have; I always announce when it's the nuts; and I never lie. So I might say, "I got the nuts, quad sevens," or, "I got the nuts, ace-high flush."

What is the lowest hand I can announce at showdown that could possibly be the nuts? Hint: It's lower than "ace-high flush". It's even lower than "Jack-high straight". But it's higher than any two-pair, because two-pair can never be the nuts.
1 - 9 9 9 x y as long as the board isn't paired - hence the x and y.
- A K Q J T all of spades
- 3 2 2 2 2

2 - Set of Queens. 23 78 Q with no flush possible and you have QQ. Change any card + 1 or -1 and you make a straight possible.
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09-25-2010 , 06:53 AM
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Originally Posted by CardSharpCook
I think A997 would be closer. I mean, you're pretty much always 1 or 2 cards away from hitting it. Will the OESFD get there? Will the quads get there? But A997 FEELS closer because you've got the ****tier quads already there and lots of BBJs are like aces full of jacks beaten, and we have aces full of nines beaten.
I of course went on to imagine the most outs on the river for a Quads-losing BBJ to occur and it looks like 4 are the most (this is one example of many you can come up with, all involving Quads, two sets and an OESFD):

Board: A67A
Hand 1: AA
Hand 2: 66
Hand 3: 77
Hand 4: 45

Outs for BBJ: 6 7 3 8
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09-26-2010 , 09:38 PM
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Originally Posted by CardSharpCook
I think A997 would be closer. I mean, you're pretty much always 1 or 2 cards away from hitting it. Will the OESFD get there? Will the quads get there? But A997 FEELS closer because you've got the ****tier quads already there and lots of BBJs are like aces full of jacks beaten, and we have aces full of nines beaten.
Wow A's full of 9s..Where is that? Where I am we had to change A's full of Jacks to A's full of Kings because it kept hitting so much...Weird
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10-02-2010 , 08:04 PM
So I am in my real break room and I overhear a table games dealer complainingthat a supervisor was giving him a hard time because a player was on a heater winning a ton. Do they still do that? That seems archaic to me - sometimes the players will win. It's nobody's fault and it is what keeps players from quitting forever.
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10-02-2010 , 11:14 PM
Had a terribad night at work today. Punter keeps folding out of turn when he see's the person pick up any chips. I explain to him, why his action is bad and affects the game. He starts calling me an f***ing idiot, blah blah blah. I tell him to stop swearing at me or I'll stop dealing to him. He continues, I deal him out. He complains. And I get written up for being out of line by refusing to deal him in. Great one...

Guy is not a fish, but still argued with me the other day after I refused to push him a pot until the other guy tabled or mucked, his hand. "he says, I got it so ship it here". :/

Bad times.
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10-03-2010 , 01:00 AM
Wow, nice floors where you work.
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10-03-2010 , 01:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Nutcracker19
I tell him to stop swearing at me or I'll stop dealing to him.
Story from a co-worker from long ago.

Player swearing at dealer so he deals him out.
Player screams for the floor.
Dealer tells the floor, "He either called me a MFer or he said deal me out".
Floor looks at the player and says, "which was it?".
Player says, "I said deal me out".
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10-03-2010 , 01:32 AM
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Originally Posted by steamraise
Story from a co-worker from long ago.

Player swearing at dealer so he deals him out.
Player screams for the floor.
Dealer tells the floor, "He either called me a MFer or he said deal me out".
Floor looks at the player and says, "which was it?".
Player says, "I said deal me out".
sounds familiar
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10-03-2010 , 01:38 AM
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Originally Posted by steamraise
Story from a co-worker from long ago.

Player swearing at dealer so he deals him out.
Player screams for the floor.
Dealer tells the floor, "He either called me a MFer or he said deal me out".
Floor looks at the player and says, "which was it?".
Player says, "I said deal me out".
OMFG that is awesome. Around here, we have zero power to deal people out. Players rule, and they know it. I've tried it a couple of times and gotten away with it, and it really really works for getting the problem children in line. They need their fix, after all. But no, management frowns upon it.
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10-03-2010 , 01:41 AM
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Originally Posted by IHeartEmoKids
sounds familiar
I heard the story almost 20 years ago. Dealer said it was a high stakes limit game.

Wonder if the dealer in the 1-3NL game heard the story I heard and used it himself.
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10-03-2010 , 03:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Nutcracker19
Had a terribad night at work today. Punter keeps folding out of turn when he see's the person pick up any chips. I explain to him, why his action is bad and affects the game. He starts calling me an f***ing idiot, blah blah blah. I tell him to stop swearing at me or I'll stop dealing to him. He continues, I deal him out. He complains. And I get written up for being out of line by refusing to deal him in. Great one...
The management where you work is terrible. Feel free to tell them I said that.

Where I work, if someone curses directed at me, I call the floor and they're out the door.

Here's what we actually do. This isn't some story that may or may not have happened. This is policy as directed by our cardroom manager.

Donk: "You ****ing *******."
You deal him out.
You call the floor.
You say "This guy either called me a ****ing ******* or said he'd like to leave, I couldn't tell which."
Floor tells player he's done for the night. Goodbye.

It's nice to have managers who actually remember what it's like to deal the game.
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10-03-2010 , 04:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Quadstriker
The management where you work is terrible. Feel free to tell them I said that.

Where I work, if someone curses directed at me, I call the floor and they're out the door.

Here's what we actually do. This isn't some story that may or may not have happened. This is policy as directed by our cardroom manager.

Donk: "You ****ing *******."
You deal him out.
You call the floor.
You say "This guy either called me a ****ing ******* or said he'd like to leave, I couldn't tell which."
Floor tells player he's done for the night. Goodbye.

It's nice to have managers who actually remember what it's like to deal the game.
I can't imagine working some place that wouldn't do this.
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10-03-2010 , 04:25 AM
Time for a new game!

We always stereotype people in the box. Go ahead and admit it. Or... don't admit it and feel free to skip this game.

You are in the box dealing a 4/8 limit game. You have been bestowed the power to choose the next player off the waiting list to take that empty seat. Only one problem...
You know nothing about the players on the waiting list except for one article they are wearing. Place the following articles in order from "person you'd most like to deal to" decending to "person you'd least like to deal to".

Visor
Cowboy Hat
Bluetooth
Baseball Hat (professional team)
Baseball Hat (some obscure stuff on it that is clearly not a sports team)
A ring that looks like this
ipod headphones
oakley sunglasses
generic brand sunglasses
hearing aid
motorized wheelchair
cast on right arm
poker themed T-shirt
A gold chain with a sizable gold cross on it


My answers and reasoning:


Spoiler:
Baseball Hat (professional team) - Could be anybody. At the very least likes baseball. And I like baseball. So it's all good.

Cowboy Hat - Fairly common where I work (Arizona). Some are rich, some are poor, but I can't actually ever remember a bad mannered player wearing a cowboy hat, and I can remember some very generous guys wearing them. So it scores well in this competition.

A gold chain with a sizable gold cross on it - Never had any problem at the table with someone wearing overt religious jewelry.

poker themed T-shirt - At the very least has enough of an interest in the game to know the basic rules and how to act in turn. Probably won't be slowing down the game.

Visor - Small douchebag potential, but not too much. Otherwise it's a neutral read.

ipod headphones - It's very rare that someone with headphones on actually slows down the game I'm dealing. I've found that most music listening players are ok.

hearing aid - As long as it works, everything is fine. Apparently some of them don't work well.

cast on right arm - Could slow down the game. Could be no problem.
motorized wheelchair - same as cast

generic brand sunglasses - Oh lord. It's 4/8 and it's time to block out the sun? Much stronger than average douche potential

Bluetooth - People who actually wear these things while out in public... ugh. High douche potential

Baseball Hat (some obscure stuff on it that is clearly not a sports team) - This is gonna be a 65 year old man who has little money and tips even less. Strong nit potential.

The ring with black stone- An old dealer from Vegas put me on to this tip. Apparently these rings were very popular to give out to young boys 50 years ago or something, so if you see an old man wearing one, you have to figure that he's been wearing the damn thing for 50 years. And if he's too cheap to get a new ring after 50 years, what makes you think he's gonna tip you a buck?

oakley sunglasses - Oakley sunglasses at 4/8 limit? Kill me.
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10-03-2010 , 07:27 AM
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Originally Posted by NYCNative
So I am in my real break room and I overhear a table games dealer complainingthat a supervisor was giving him a hard time because a player was on a heater winning a ton. Do they still do that?
Lol, where i used to work they had 2 craps table and my supervisor was telling me that they would change the dealers like every 10 minutes when the casino is losing.

Good points above about the floor protecting the dealers, it helps if the floor was once a dealer, then they can instantly context a situation and think more about what is right for their staff than what is right for their bottom line
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10-03-2010 , 10:51 AM
You went to all the trouble of posting a pic of the ring, then you forgot to include it in your wrap-up.

When I see the guy wearing the hoodie, cap, sunglasses, AND iPod, I weep a little inside. I think about playing in the Main Event while wearing an astronaut's helmet, just to see if idiots around the country will monkey-see-monkey-do it.
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10-03-2010 , 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by youtalkfunny
You went to all the trouble of posting a pic of the ring, then you forgot to include it in your wrap-up.
It's in there homie. 2nd from the bottom.
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10-03-2010 , 10:02 PM
Ninja-edit making me look bad.
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10-04-2010 , 03:07 AM
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Originally Posted by youtalkfunny
Ninja-edit making me look bad.
from 3:25am to 9:51am?

Meh. Doesn't matter. No one is interested anyway.

Personal record tonight. 7 hours with no break.
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10-04-2010 , 06:50 AM
I would do cartwheels for 7 hours with no break.
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10-04-2010 , 06:58 AM
We all work in a casino. We all get immune to hearing stories and seeing one outers. But every once in awhile a hand comes along that still makes me cringe. This was that hand. NLHE 300-600 HDK

Flop
49Q
Turn
10

All the money goes in on the turn when Hero check shoves. Two callers and everyone tables:

MP_Villan 8J
BTN_Villan 10J
Hero_BB KJ

River
K

Spoiler:
Beat: Total pot was around 525k HKD
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10-04-2010 , 03:11 PM
What is HDK?
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10-04-2010 , 03:11 PM
Hong Dollars Kong
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10-04-2010 , 03:27 PM
^^^Another bad-beat story that isn't nearly as remarkable to the listeners as it is to the teller.

I currently live in a region where legal poker is pretty new, and the locals don't seem to think there's anything rude about imposing bad-beat stories upon others. In fact, the listeners seem eager to hear them. Ugh.

The other thing that's unique to this region is, I can't get all-in players to listen when I say, "Let's settle the side pot first. (points) THESE HANDS ONLY, let's see a winner." Every single time, the all-in guy will table his hand. Even if I hold one hand up in front of him like a traffic cop saying Stop!, they fight me to get their hand tabled before we've seen the side pot hands.

One guy in the 8-seat ignored my words and my posture, and tabled his hand. I turned it face down in front of him, and again explained that I had to settle the side pot first. He turned it back up. I turned it down a second time, this time ORDERING him to wait. He never heard a word I said, he turned it up a third time.

So I mucked them.

He went bananas.

But at least now I had his attention.

I didn't really muck them. I took his cards and threw them face-down NEAR the muck, but was careful not to let them get TOO close.

I gave him back his cards, and now that he was listening, I instructed him to keep them face-down until I had pushed the side pot.

I wish it was just him, but I go through something similar every time I have a side pot in a cash game (at least the tourney players pay attention to this stuff).
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