I see it all the time in cash games too. A guy has a big stack of white chips, but throws out red chip to call in a 1/2 game. The same guy will then call a $10 bet using 10 white chips, counting them out by 2's.

I can't stand when people call a $70 bet, all on red (which is okay at $1-2), counting them out in increments of $10. Once they get to the fifth set of $10, they forget how many they counted and restart.

I see it a lot with red chips in Strip games, but usually drunks lol.

WANA CHECK IT DOWN???

This this this this this.

Just say call and move the game along instead of taking 90 second to think about it. ask for a count again. and then carefully count out four redbirds before you push them out when you are getting like 18:1 on your money.

Mostly in home games:

Wanna put in X amount and run it out?

Set ups suck but asking for one then changing tables or leaving the very next hand

reminds me of a guy who plays at my home game...

"You may have beat me now...but how about you & me to to AC and play some higher stakes. Lets see how you beat me there"

I used to play with a guy in a weekly $25 buy-in tournament. Everytime he busted out, he would challenge the person who busted him to play heads-up for $500.

Happened a couple weeks ago at a local 1-2 game...

New guy sits down at the table visibly tipsy, but he's polite and makes small talk with the rest of the table. Everyone likes the guy and the game picks up immediately. Douchey losing-reg kid (who once told the table he used to 24 table SNGs but quit to play live lol) starts jabbing at the new guy with snarky passive aggressive comments with regards to his play. They start talking poker, and the new guy (who coincidentally happens to be pretty well-off) brings up the fact that he was just in Niagra Falls and played a little 5-10 or whatever while there. Douchey kid brings up the fact that he always crushes 5-10 when he's in Niagra and he loves how the game is always full of fish. Btich, please. You're a reg in a 1-2 live game, if you had enough money to play and crush the 5-10 game you'd at be sitting in the 2-5 game on a regular basis. All ego.

Side note: The rich guy was playing 1-2 because there was only one 2-5 table running at the time and it was full. I've never once seen the douchey kid sitting in that game.

The regs that make a "bad beat" comment every time a new dealer came to the table. Bad beat chatter every time a long-shot board came out. Common in low limit games I used to play in.

Two or three times today Bill asked George to make his chip stack more visible.
Fair enough.
But it was preflop, twice he folded and once he checked, but all three times he took a couple seconds to act as if his decision was affected by it.

Players that blame dealers for the cards that come out.

any talk about the BBJ

anyone who says "sick"

THIS. Except at a $1-4 no-fold'em table. And rolling over their hand so only the top card shows until the other guy does the exact same thing . . . and then another stare down, and the sloooooooow slide of the top card to show the other . . . and ANOTHER stare down . . .

For a $10 pot, A-high vs. rivered 3rd pair.

Well for one, bringing up the BBJ will disqualify the BBJ in pretty much every poker room. Now, I highly doubt any player or dealer will actually tell anybody if it hits that people were talking about it, but you never know who is listening. Hell, there could be some jackass on the table next to you who is pissed that your table hit it, not his, and starts screaming that the BBJ is void because he heard people talking about it. The best way to avoid anything like that happening is the STFU about the BBJ.

Second, it's obnoxious when any BBJ board comes up people seriously think it's for sure going to happen this hand. Any time the board double pairs, you can be sure some dolt (usually Asian) will say "bad beat!", and will continue to say it even though it 's an $8 pot that's 4 handed and its checked the whole way to the river.

Third, half the time people get excited about a bad beat, it's not possible. My favorite are boards with four to a straight flush. . I remember a hand from like a month ago, got in AI vs a shorty with JT on Tx9d8d vs a guy with AxTd. Board runs out 7d, 6d giving him a straight flush. The whole table starts screaming at me "HAVE THE FIVE OF DIAMONDS!!, DO YOU HAVE THE FIVE OF DIAMONDS?!?!?" I wish I did have the 5d. So I could quickly flash it before turbo mucking and send the table of morons into a frenzy.

Edit - one more. It's just annoying when people make it obvious they are playing solely to hit a BBJ. They will criticize people's play for playing their hands normal. Any time somebody makes a big raise PF, some old dolt will get pissed because "How are we suppose to win a bad beat with players like this!?". I've also heard "Do you want to win $8, or $300,000?!?!".

+1. And stop hitting my knees.

People who ask if they can double down before they muck

Last year or so when the Taj had the BBJ up near $600k or so every hand in play the question was asked "You on a BBJ eligible hand?"

Saying "it's like a sore dick, you can't beat it" every time you fold

Asking if you wanna chop everytime it folds to the blinds in a tourney, then laughing like its the funniest thing they have ever heard

After showing down your hand and your opponent says "that's what I put you on".

Yeah. I knew that's what you had, but I shipped it anyway

How is that a pet peeve? Isn't it good when people call you down knowing their beat?

I would just say in a really serious voice when the button folds and before he can ask anything, "I don't chop." Then that guy will post about me here and we're even.

The call is not annoying. The statement is. It's usually a lie. And if it's not a lie then it is logically moronic. I never tap the tank when I hear it. But it is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

I hate when people decide to call, but once the decision is made, we have to wait for them to clumsily count out the calling amount before putting it in.