What!!! I love those guys. I can look to my left and know if they like the action, if they hit, or going to bet, thanks for giving me that kind of knowledge. It's like having position on them

Anyone with a cute, adorable, or funny chip protector.

**** you.

I don't see why it is grossly unfair.

It's better for the game if the rules favor rec players more than grinders.

A truly good player can adjust for how showing a hand affects their table image.

This. All grinders need to use this as a pre game mantra. I have to. Pull a few other grinders aside more than once to tell them this, keep the fish happy.

Hey **** you too, buddy! (Seriously though why do you hate them?)

Holy cow, this x10. And "doll hairs." And "dollars?" after a bet is announced. Or "American?"

Or worse, the guy who HAS to call 69 "big lick" EVERY TIME and look around for approval with a self-satisfied grin. Especially with ladies or respectable people at the table.

Anybody wearing oversize headphones just sort of instantly pisses me off.

As if for chipping up, my local PLO game players are always very willing to do this. Most players don't play with more 2 or 3 stacks of anything other than black chips. Many players will buy in for amounts like 2500, and do so with just a stack of black and a stack of green. Or players will buy in for 600 with a stack of green and a stack of red. You get the odd player that wants to buy in for a 1000 in reds, but most players are mature enough to realize life is just easier when you have a stack that easily fits in one rack. I bought in yesterday for 500 by pulling 5 blacks out of my pocket. Hardly anybody at the table had more than 1 stack of red chips, but when I held 1 black chip up, a player with about 1.5 stacks of red (to go with his stack of blacks) pushed me a stack right away. I guess that's what you get when you play a bigger game.

Strange thing happened on Friday. Been living in Vegas for 5 years, and zero slow rolls. Then 2 in the same day, different tables, in one hour...

You're assuming of course that the ladies at the table are respectable.

I think that guys in general are more respectful when women are at the table. For example, telling someone at the table, "you're my *****" after winning a hand is only said to a man, almost never to a woman. As for anatomy and other inappropriate comments, I have heard men kidded or mocked because of their bald head, age, height, facial hair, accent, you name it. And how about things like "you don't have the balls to make that call" or the always popular, "Your mom was good last night?"

For guys, that's mostly just banter. They dial it back with women at the table who might be offended.

A few months ago I knocked a guy out of a tournament and he yelled at me for over a minute about how I was the worst player in the room. I'm guessing he wouldn't do that to a woman.

I don't do any of that, so I wouldn't upset a man or a women at the table, but I think that some players, especially women, are too easily offended. I don't really care what anyone says about me, even if it's about my family, which sets a lot of guys off. My job is to stay focused and bring money home to my family. What you say to me or what you think of me is irrelevant.

The "what to bring to grind live" thread just reminded me of another one.

People who talk about trading cryptocurrencies at the table. Every idiot that made bank through pure dumb luck in the recent bitcoin jump seems to have decided that the poker table is the perfect place to bring it up every 5 minutes.

It's like mate, come on, if you made so much money why are you sitting here playing 2 hands an hour at 1/2?

The market cap of btc is like $41B at the moment. If you were to go by however much the average idiot at the poker table says he has invested in it, it'd probably be over a trillion.

Live nitty shortstackers.

Sometimes they arnt even that fishy, so its just like a seat is locked up with 95% folds its so aidsy.

I had a dream last night about playing in the casino, was like a 2/5 game, and a new players was coming to the table, so people were like "oh hey!!" then they bought in for $100 and everyone was sad to see them sit down. JUST LIKE IN REAL LIFE.


the **** follows me into my dreams.

This applies more generally to any idiot who thinks he has found a sure fire, can't lose get rich plan, whether it be options or real estate. They talk about how they are targeting annual returns of 10 to 20% and how it is easy, while grinding away at low entry fee tournaments.

What tilts me even more are people that say you shouldn't complain about live shortstackers because "they are easy to play against".

I hope those people get nothing but shortstacking nits on the table for the rest of their lives.

Most live shortstackers aren't nits.

I had to play against a semi-reg who has since disappeared (thank goodness) who always brought up his Ferraris, his mansion in Austria, and regular banquets w/ Putin.

Playing 8-16 LHE.

Hahaha

There's a guy I've played with about 5-10 times lately that comes into Crown wearing a $25 clearance shirt from Target, and enough fake gold chains to start a jewellery store.

The first few times I ran into him, I just caught him at the end of a session and thought he was just joking around. Then I played a full session with him...

Every opportunity he talks about his company. Some freight transfer empire or something with a million trucks and 20 million employees in the middle of Alice Springs, doing 40 billion metric f***tons of freight a year, and last year they clocked 9 figures net profit and he owns 60% of the company etc etc etc... It never ends.

Want to know what game we were playing? The 1/2 with $100 max buy-in.

I didn't say they were.

The guy that flips over 2-7 when folding it after the flop proclaiming "2-7 is my favorite hand to play in cash games" as he looks around to see if we are all impressed with his non-conforming style can **** straight off.

Keep playing it of course, but shut the hell up.

I've never heard 69 called this; around here, it's always "dinner for two". I have heard "big lick" applied to AQ, but rarely.

Uhhhhhmmmm, I play low level poker, whether NL or limit. I have some skills as a player. I also have enough net worth to play any level I want. It is almost ALWAYS more fun to play the lowest tables.

I will give you that the guy's a putz to be so boastful in public.

I would tend to give this guy the approval he wants. It's annoying but whatever we can do to encourage idiotic play is good.

I'm not defending dumb, old poker jokes that everyone has heard.

But with respect to "ladies", I do have to say this. There's a lot of profanity in poker. There's a lot of bawdy table talk. It's really part of the game.

Anyone-- of either gender-- who is really offended by such talk shouldn't play. It's that simple.

The vast majority of female players have no problem whatsoever with the fact that sometimes table talk strays into the gutter. Indeed, comments about 69 are far from the extremes here of what sometimes gets said. I don't think anyone should really feel they have to censor their table talk just because a female is at the table. This isn't tiddly-winks.

That's fine but most ladies at the poker table suck due to societal circumstances, so let's keep them there. The ladies who are good, we recognize immediately. This isn't Deadwood, man. This sure as hell is tiddlywinks, if tiddlywinks gets that perfume-scented stack integrated with my cigar-stenched stack. You'd do well to abide.

Bad women poker players play to be with the guys. If you don't act like guys, they'll find another game.