When the dealer obviously isn't good (slow, has a hard time with change, etc.) and someone keeps calling bets with the biggest chips possible, that person should be shot on site

When I only have an hour to kill before a planned event, and every one assumes I am hit and run like I never have 15-20 hour sessions.

People who move the button. They act like they're saving time when they're only causing confusion

Strategy talk at the table. This has to be the worst thing possible; not only is it super annoying, it is educating the rec players and making them play better. Every time I hear it I wanna slap some sense into them. It's like a plague lately too, definitely never used to be this bad.

Is this too common of an occurrence now to be a pet peeve - or was it already mentioned here? Or do many 2+2ers actually do this?!

The guy with the headphones in his ears staring down at an iPad screen all day and folding almost everything. Do you really need to catch up on your tv shows while playing?? Annoying and just wasting a seat.

If you're anywhere near to late position when he's BB this would seem like an easy steal. He'll only play back with any sort of a decent hand.

The only thing that really irks me at the table besides obvious stuff (smelling bad, too loud, etc) is when a player counts out a big stack of chips then tips them over the betting line. I don't know if they do it to look cool or what but all it does is waste time. Anything over 6 or 7 chips should be stacked and usually cut out to make things easier for the dealer. I can't imagine how annoying it is for a dealer.

Haven't read through whole thread so not sure if this was mentioned, but...

My number one pet peeve is when some douche out kicks me at show down and starts pointing at their side card as if I don't know his pair of aces with a queen beats my pair of aces with a jack. If I ever kill someone at a table it will be cuz of that.

I know it shouldn't peeve me (quite the contrary in fact) but I just can't stand general inane fish talk and fish tendencies.

"I hate pocket aces"

Villain 20x open raises "because I don't want to see a flop" ....proudly snap shows 55 or JJ without even looking up as he confidently gathers the blinds like a boss.

the way ppl smell at the table, its unreal, its like people forget to shower daily.. quite amazing

^this

Also when players go on an ego trip by being critical and basically attack the decisions of the weaker players, just makes the fish uncomfortable and they leave much quicker.

Had a hand a few weeks back, can't remember the exact details, but it pretty much was like, I had AJs, got 3b pre. Hit TPGK. Called a flop bet and folded a turn, I tanked for a bit before folding face up. Got a few "nice folds dude", and such. Was happy with my decision because the guy ended up being there for the whole session, we chatted and **** and he eventually told me he had aces and I made a good laydown.

Anyway, this dude at the end of the table pipes up with "man that was terrible playing by you, so bad, how do you even call there?", basically goes on a massive tirade about how bad I played it.

I waited until he was done and the whole table just looked at me as I laughed and replied, "because when you limped UTG with 46s then called my $20 raise out of position, then dumped an extra $50 to me, that was wayyyyyy better right?"

He went bright red, the whole table pissed themselves and he didn't talk for the rest of his session.

Oh, when I sat down, he had ~$500 in front of him, by the time he left, he rebought three times, the third time, the 20s and 10s were making an appearance from his wallet. If you catch my drift.

I hate when you've played live with someone for awhile and they're pretty cool to talk to about poker-related stuff, then they win a big tournament or have a gigantic cash table run and all of a sudden they're a poker snob and brush off everything you say. Damn those people.

All this and people who makes u feel like an ass for not checking behind to them.
Ill explain... Lets say u are heads up with player and they been talking to u and they decide to check blind and look at you with a lets check down face,
Now most time this players called u with KJ or some cute hand but are way behind, most have open ended or flush draw or low PP. after putting so much money preflop and betting flop there's a lot of ur money and money to be won. So even checking down is an opportunity for them to catch up and u lose at showdown and its a low risk for them.
Happens so often then I see their hand and see why they wanted to check down since they could never call my follow up bets or turn bets etc.
Maybe like 77 or gutshot and they hit later. Freakin BS

Why should the 3rd man be punished when the 1st or 2nd have been gone longer? That's the big problem I have with 3rd man walking.

I think one hour is way too long, especially in rooms where table side food service is availalbe. The most it should be imo is 20 to 30 minutes, enough time to run to the bathroom, smoke, check in or check out, or even run to the food court.
Too many people take advantage when they know they have an hour to intercourse around.
If they're not there to play, they shouldn't play.

When people berate your play, I think it's generally better for your table image to smile and say something like "oh I dunno, i was feeling it"... not to mention that your comment on his play may educate weaker players at the table who like to limp call with ****ty cards.

making $ > embarrassing a bad player

Don't get me wrong. I never do this. The guy was a ****ing tosser though. I hate when people berate the fish, but this dude needed to be taken down a few pegs.

I can admit to being either the 2nd-4th man walking all of the time. This is because the casino I play in counts stacks, when determining whether to lower the rake. So even if you are playing 4 handed, but there are 3 players not at the table, they consider that 7 players and policy is not to lower the rake because there are more than 6 (although sometimes they will make an exception). I find it much easier to just get up for an orbit or two until either I become the 7th live player or the table breaks (and I just go to a new table) than have the dealer call the the floor and ask for an exception.

If it's less than a half hour before I was going to leave anyway, I usually just rack up and go home at that point.

Being shorthanded never makes me the first one walking since they are not counting dead stacks as players and they reduce the rake.

Why should the rest of the table be punished because 4, 5, or 6 people decide to disappear for an hour and a half? If I'm first on the list, why should I be punished when there's a table that's only half full, but I have to wait for an hour to be seated?

You're not being punished. 10 minutes is enough time to go to the bathroom, have a smoke, or just stretch your legs. Third man walking just says that if you want to go get dinner, play some blackjack, or go play poker at the casino next door for an hour, and there's a waiting list, you have to wait for one of the first two to return first. Any TMW rule should be combined with shorter times that the two are allowed to be away from the table.

3rd man knows he/she is making the game short handed. 1st and 2nd man don't.

when someone tanks to a $20 bet

What do you define as tank? Like time wise?

30 sec +

Have a new pet peeve that I've never encountered before.

Older guy sitting to my left is clinically obsessive compulsive disorder about green/red chips. He probably colored up and colored down about 20 times in 3 hours despite never having more than 200-250 in front of him. At one point he reached into my stack and colored down. He seemed to be a nice guy so instead of blowing up I only told him firmly to not touch my stack.

At one point during a dealer change, the leaving dealer tells the new one he needs greens at the next fill and I have 4 greens so I push them to the dealer and say you can have these until the fill. OCD guy reaches over and grabs the greens to color up, I get mad at this point and tell him to stop that crap.

EDIT--At the same session, 2nd pet peeve guy. Super terribad player who limps/calls about 85% of the time pre. Never once raised even though he showed down AA, KK during the session. This guy waits until it's his turn to slowly look at his cards. Come on, it's not like you have a decision to make.