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Your comment on regs is valid. My view is that you must understand the influence and stature they have (for good reasons) in smaller casinos and rooms. If you think you will always get a "fair shake" from dealers, floor and other players , you are dead wrong. So it is best to not get into confrontations or demand rulings as an outsider. If you can't accept that situation you should try to find a different game.

If you live around Lafayette, there's l'auberge BR to the east and the Lake Charles casinos to the west, including the Isle of Capri. Might technically not be the closest but that would be nitpicking imo.

To the north is Coushatta and Paragon. But again, these are all small communities of poker players and your ability to entertain them will lead to a more enjoyable, more successful experience.

Also just researched this, Cypress Bayou to the south has reopened their poker room as of Jan 14. Too bad they don't have their favorable DD 21 offering anymore.

Welcome to (and get used to) small town poker and politics in Louisiana

Very dedicated trolling effort ITT.

Where I play cursing at another player is enough to get you a temp ban.

Of course OP isn't perfect. No one is. But unless he's leaving some important details out he's right to be annoyed at the room's policy of allowing players to curse at each other. That's just a fight/lawsuit waiting to happen.

And not preferential.

Coushata in kinder is also west of Laf and significantly closer than LC. Heck depending on where in Laf Marksville may be closer than the Isle

I stopped playing at L'Auberge due to annoying/obnoxious dealers. I haven't been in 2 years, but over the six months that I played there regularly, I saw at least a half dozen situations where the dealer/floor were seriously out of line. Blatant favoritism was just one of the problems. Again, I have no reports from the last 2 years because I've restricted my play since then to Lake Charles.

Being drunk and swearing at people at a poker table or any other public place is unacceptable 100% of the time. At a real casino, poker room like Foxwoods, both the dealers and floor would have this scum removed by security immediately. No business, no matter how good a customer or tipper can tolerate drunk swearing people. This guy may leave that place drunk some night and kill someone.......... The casino will be liable for serving him and creating the liability.

But where in LC? Since Nugget opened the dealers are horrid and when a dual rate is on the floor, you now have two people without basic poker knowledge. I have never played in LB BR, but I suspect the floors at Nugget probanlbly lean as much to regs as anywhere. And I say this as one who probable could and maybe have benefitted from their bias (I almost never call the floor because of this. Unless I am positive that the ruling that I want is also the right one).

So do you wind up at LB LC? If you want to play bigger than 1-3 LB is your only choice.

Stay away from the L'Auberge in Baton Rouge is the simplest response. I was there Friday night and I was verbally harassed and the floor would not let me change tables because it would leave the tables unbalanced. Guess what, when I left, the tables were unbalanced. Letting me sit at a different table would have remedied my problem and the "rules" could have been bent due to the reasons for the request.
The staff at L'Auberge are consistently poor at customer relations and clearly favor the regulars.

That's on you. L'Auberge did the right thing and you handled it as if you were Veruca Salt.

My guess is the floor didnt "verbally harass" you until you got upset that he wouldnt bend the rules for you. If rooms started bending rules like this every time someone wants to move for whatever reason seems appropriate to that person, before long the rules will be broken in half and there will be no rules.

Ill give the opposite side of a similar story. Last night we were playing 7 handed at a 10 man table. A guy got up and said "Im changing tables" and walked to another table without permission. The floor got called and when he came over there happened to be a guy coming to sit down putting us back at 7. The table the guy moved to was now full with 10. The floor said "How did I do?" Referring to the fact that another player came in and that should appease the players. The dealer said "but we are still short handed". Floor said "Ill look into it". He didnt even ask who the player who moved was so he obviously had no intention on looking into anything. He walked back to the brush stand right past the offending player (who he had no idea of knowing was the offending player). I watched the floor for a couple mins and the he did nothing but lean on the counter of the brush stand.

I was about to leave anyway so I racked up and stood back and watched as they had to break the table because the other 6 players wouldnt play 6 handed.

How did he do? He did a ****ty job. Actually he didnt do his job at all. Thats how he did.

Moral of the story? Its not all about YOU.

Maybe, maybe not.

He says he was being verbally harassed. Nowadays people claim they were being harassed over the smallest imaginary slight, but it is also possible that someone at his table did in fact go over the line.

That would not be a reason to let him move from a short handed game. But the floor did not do the right thing if it didn't deal wth the harassment (if in fact ether was harassment and this was in conveyed to the floor)

Perception, I'd like you to meet my friend Reality.

Super aggro move on your part that 100% of people noticed as starting the conflict.

lol yeah this is a year old, but you gotta love people who want you to think they took the high road when they were clearly the instigators. "What? What did I do? Tell me what I did??"

It's 1/3... how salty could you have really been about a pot? Answer the dude's question about the hand... even people who play for a living aren't that tense. Lighten up, it will help you stay away from tilt, and it will invite soft players into pots with you if you are inviting and cordial.

Also, how much have you played? Have u really never encountered a drunk reg without etiquette? it's low stake poker, it comes with the territory..

And it's Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Culturally everything is everyone's business, it's super rude to ignore someone, especially when they're following up on something you said.

You went on tilt. Yes it was an irritating situation, but you see these types of occurrences constantly in casinos.
You should have taken a break. Leave the table and walk around the casino for a few minutes. No matter the cause or how justifies your getting angry will not help you play better. And if that few minutes did not help that just call it a night and go home.