My attitude about all of these things was it all evens out. Unless you have a floor person who genuinely wants to mess with you (or help you out) my view was that the good strings and good reroutes would balance out against the days when I was breaking tables left and right.

Dealers are like players who never remember the times they hit the three-outter but remember every time they got sucked out on. They only can remember the lousy strings or the floor guy they are convinced hates their guts.

I have a ton of faults (my wife can itemize them for you) but that kind of selective memory and paranoia ain't among them.

Walking down the hallway, two IT guys.

1: "Guess I'll go have lunch." (in the edr)
2: "My condolences."

Just so happened that I was on the way there too. 2 was right.

Do you allow a player who has missed blinds to straddle in or restraddle in? If so I don't see why you would have a problem with a player in the blinds restraddling.

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I don't think they're allowed to do that

In your room perhaps not (though I would check), but in most rooms that allow a straddle, you can come back in with a straddle instead of posting both blinds with the SB dead. This is particularly true if the straddle is UTG.

My last two jobs were/are at race tracks. No EDR. I haven't had an employer buy me lunch since 2009.

UTG it seems pretty standard. But I have never worked r plyed in a room where you restraddle or even straddle from any position (in our room it is possible to post a dead missed small blind on the button, and you could straddle the button in that scenario but would still have to post the dead small)

Yeah, I also have much less (read: almost no) personal experience in mississippi or philadelphia straddle rooms.

While I agree it might make less sense to allow it IP, I feel the same way about allowing a straddle IP, so if you're doing the latter, why not allow the former too.

What do EDR and EO stand for?

EDR - Employee Dining Room (some places it's free, most are not, some are discounted)

EO - Early Out (list a dealer signs when they would like to leave work early)

I worked in one joint where the EDr food was actually just the leftovers from the buffet .... their was no planning at all

You could come down one day and they would have pasta but no sauce. And then another day they would have sauce but no pasta. The food itself wan;t terrible.... but the randomness made it difficult to have a decent meal.

But in general my experience is that EDR food tends to get a bad rap just because we get so used to it it feels like we are in a rut. It is generally way better than the food they used to serve in school cafeterias

At Ameristar properties they call it TDR, for Team Dining Room. Because we aren't employees, we're members of the team! Yay!

I've been in EDRs at around 10 different properties and quality is all over the map. Sometimes it's barely edible but free, sometimes it's mediocre and you have to pay, sometimes you pay a small but random amount, sometimes it's actually quite good with unlimited soup/salad and one trip through the hot line per day.

I'm afraid to ask what a philadelphia straddle is. It sounds like something that would be on Urban Dictionary.

I've never worked in a room where restraddles were allowed, though I keep running into players who seem shocked that they can't do it in a 1-2 game. Seems like something that they would allow in big games.

i don't know that it's common parlance, but I am in the philly market, so...

anyway, they are both straddles that can come from any position (except the blinds). In the MS straddle, button gets priority if 2 people want to straddle. In the PHL straddle, UTG has priority.

I once played in a 1-2 NL game at the Hard Rock in Vegas that used a "Hard Rock Straddle". As I recall, it was a button straddle, but the preflop action started UTG, would continue around the table, skip the button, go onto the SB and BB, and then reverse course back to the button for the final option. This was a wild game and about as much fun as I've had playing low stakes hold'em.

I've worked in rooms with and without an EDR and I'll always take the EDR over no EDR. The Hard Rock in Hollywood had a pretty good selection with usually 2 or 3 choices of buffet style food for lunch and dinner plus a guy on the grill who would make burgers or chicken sandwiches to order. And this was all free of charge to all employees. Other rooms typically give a 25% employee discount for snack bar type food.

That would be sweet! We have had several different head chefs throughout the years and with them is the quality of the EDR food. The last 2 we have had have made the EDR a good place to eat 90% of the time. Before that it was about 15%.

Funny side note about leftovers from the buffet. We have a "be healthy" team that requires you to make and meet health goals to get a discount on health insurance. They are constantly posting things about how to be healthy and every single day they bring in the left over dessert from the buffet and the edr is full of racks of cake, pie, muffins, cookies, etc.

Kind of comical.

Like most cafeterias, the chow hall at boot camp had the cold food at the start of the line, the hot food at the end. The first thing you saw when you grabbed your tray and utensils was the dessert display.

The second thing you saw was a drill sergeant, standing by the desserts, sarcastically inviting you to, "Go ahead! Have some pie! Have some cake! We'll work that **** off you!"

Of course, no one ever touched them.

Day after day, meal after meal, a huge display of desserts of put out there, then tossed in the garbage, untouched.

It may have been the most beneficial lesson, preparing the young recruits for the nonsensical military life they had chosen.

Yeah, they tried this on us two at 2 different casinos. Everyone still called it the EDR.

They tried that "Jump through a dozen hoops to get the real price on health insurance that it should have been in the first ****ing place" at a casino my wife worked at. It was all dumb bull**** designed to screw their employees over. The day she left that place was a legit top 5 day of my life.

Yup, the straddle got last action unless there were two raises, then they would act in turn. It could actually pass them twice if everyone limped then BB raised and everyone called.

Palms had pretty much the same thing but I think the number of raises was different.

It took a few rounds to get used to as a player but once you did it was great. It doesn't punish the blinds as badly as a normal button straddle.

Got a lesson in "Haste makes waste" today, watching a floorperson treating a floor ruling like Time Trials at Talladega.

the only EDRs I have had the pleasure of using is WSOP and Rio. Neither are great nor bad, about 65-70% good.

Going back to WSOP this year. Heard last year was crazy. Anyone else going?

If it means anything, our room uses UTG and BTN straddle only, UTG takes pres (which I dont like) . We allow missed blind to come in on UTG straddle. (our straddle can also be any amount $4-$1000)

I'll be at the WSOP again. I had more fun last year than other years despite the long hours. Lots of disgruntled dealers didn't come back due to the lower pay the year before, so I didn't have to listen to them ***** and moan every break. There were more chances to deal non-NLH tournaments as well.

A long overdue banning took place today in the poker room. Bout ****ing time.

No one has been terminated yet but quite a few are on their last chance. We are getting bought out this summer so I can only assume this is to decrease payroll (we pool tips and our top rate gives us a decent hourly). Should I prepare my resume?

I have never worked for a company that allowed anything other than sports on the tvs. I have to say, I like that policy.


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