Strange but true - it is possible to set the deck so that a certain seat will have the winning hand regardless of where the dealer cuts the deck.

Now as someone else pointed out the bravo isn't (at least normally) connected to the shuffler and it certainly doesn't know where the button is and no I don't actually believe that live poker is rigged.

Go on...

https://www.benjoffe.com/holdem

So a company with a patent on a device (shuffler) is allowing a software from another company to communicate with it? I highly doubt it.

Setting the deck up for a certain seat to 'always' win ... even if the dealer cut changes by 1 card? Fascinating.

I've always wondered how many hours they had to play in order to finally hit the last hand in Casino Royal (Bond). They could've had one of these 'smart' shufflers ... Hollywood is always ahead of the curve ... GL

Some people struggle with average chip stack. Had one guy arguing that you couldn't know what the average chip stack was without going and counting each stack, because some people might have huge stacks, while others would have very small ones (guy was too old and a little too tipsy to explain mean vs median).

Another dealer, dealing a multi flight MTT where top 10% makes day 2, was stating that the Saturday flight would have a higher average because it was a bigger flight. And a couple of players quickly and stubbornly agreed with him. Tried to explain that while the Saturday flight would likely have a higher chip leader, the average would be exactly the same (discounting rounding errors).

I am amazed the amount of regular poker players who have such a difficult time processing these concepts. There is one one guy at my local casino who always insists that the average chip stack on the bravo board isn't correct because you can't always know what everyone had in their stacks.

I tried explaining once, but dude does not get it.

Lots of players have argued this on 2p2 in threads where tourneys play to a percentage, like the Aria WPT 500 and WinStar River. Pretty funny to watch.

This was at the River.

When the guy first asked how the calculated it, with a straight face, i started talking about chip face\recognition software linked to the cameras that auto calculate average stack size. He was buying it. His son happened to be at the same table and did not think it was as funny.

This really just happened to me.

I raise preflop with QQ and get a few callers. The flop is 78J rainbow. I C-bet and get one caller. The turn is a 9 which slows me down and it goes check-check. River is another 9. I check, villain bets some tiny amount and I call. He turns over 88. He says he would have bet more, but he was afraid I might have a 9 to give me a better three of a kind.

TL,DR Villain doesn't know about full houses.

Badugi in a private southern game. The older guys would have a hand like As2h3d4s and would ditch the ace to draw open ended . 3-4 guys in the game played this way.

I think intuitively they realize that median stack is probably a more useful metric to see where you stand, but don't remember middle school math to describe it. So in a sense they are correct, but don't know why.

just after reading that, I played online and what did I get? T5o on the button.

just for the lolz, decided to open raise, I figured I'd just go and see the flop, but then I get 3 bet and decided to just let it go.
flop comes
35Tr

Just overhead "I'm waiting for my variance to change"

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i think that is actually one of the SMARTER things you can hear in a poker room. You know since we, as poker players, dont believe in luck - we pray to the variance Gods!

Playing 1/2 and a Younger Guy and his neighbor start talking about position or raising the button or something.... To be honest I wasn't really listening, but Old Guy on my left strongly disagreed with what they were saying.

OG - Raising the button is a tournament move, people don't do it in cash games.
YG - It's certainly more common in tournaments, but it-
OG - No, you're wrong. I've been playing this game for 55 years and I'm telling you you're wrong.

YG does the smart thing and concedes and goes back to talking to his neighbor. Not 5 minutes later OG gets it in on a T64 flop with AT. Board runs out J-T and his opponent shows 44. OG proudly tables AT and states "I've got trip tens!". Dealer kills OG's hand and pushes the pot to UTG. OG stops the dealer and repeats he has three tens, dealer explains how his opponent has a full house. OG still doesn't get it. Dealer finally takes the 44 and moves it above the community cards and slowly explains how he has a full house by pushing up the correct cards. OG finally accepts his defeat (or at least acts like he gets it) and we move on.

Certainly not a rarity to see somebody confused about how they've lost in a situation like that, but it happening to a player who stated he had been playing for 55 years right before that made me laugh quite a bit.

Proper etiquette is to ask the OG if they had full houses 55 years ago or if they were a new fangeled way the youngins were trying to steal all their moneys

I just hope I'm still alive at 75+, let alone still with it enough to sit at a poker table.

Goldpeople:we'llallbeoneoneday,ifwe'reluckyenoughG

It doesn't sound like he still with it

I don't know about you, but I'm more worried about being totally busto by 75.

I'm busto now and I still have 22 years until I hit 75. It's not so bad.

yeah, but you are still handsome as ****. so there's that`

Please link to vlog.....just please?

Dude, what is your effing problem? Scientifically proven! Were you listening when they said that? Bro-Do you even science?

In all seriousness I had nearly the exact same exchange at a table once, guy called it "the computer hand" I asked what he was talking about and said something to the effect of- The computer hand is Q7, the punched all the numbers into a computer and ran it, Q7 won the most, computers proved it.
Dealer agreed, either to be nice or to most the discussion along. 1/2 game, still better than listen to the players in higher stakes whine about every little thing they can find.

I was always under the impression that Q7 was called the computer hand for being the half way mark between AA and 72o but i guess I learn something new everyday

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