I railed Jason Mercier on a few final tables this last summer and Marshmellow was in his lap for a big chunk of the time. Don't think Marshmellow is a service dog though. Still made for a bit of a comical sight at times. Surprisingly well behaved too.

There's a guy in Vegas who plays the LLHE who brings his little service do with him....sits on his lap, usually. Apparently, it's trained to check his blood sugar by licking him...or so he says.

The lick is probably the trained response for a hypo sugar level. The dog more like is trained to smell the on coming hypoglycemic attack. It is known that a dogs sense of smell is such it can detect changes in blood sugar level by a persons aroma

This happened at a DJ Wild table. I don't know if many are familiar with this Carnival game, it has been gaining popularity lately. It is a very expensive game as there are multiple bets you have to place. Its pretty much 5 card stud hand yours vs dealer. There are regular bets and optional side bets (trips and bad beat). There are 5 wild cards (4 deuces and 1 joker). Best possible hand is obviously 5 wilds, that pays out the max $ 50k
Anyhow this Indian drunk guy is playing at my table betting 15 to 20 $ on all bets, thus him hitting 5 wilds would ensure max payout. He is extremely loud and obnoxious, constantly getting up when the dealer tells him he has to be seated or his hand will be dead, constantly yelling at others who sit down and change order of the cards etc. Both the dealer and pit boss are very annoyed by him. Now this hand comes up, it is late at night, most other tables are empty so the pit boss is standing watching our table. Drunk guy looks at fist 2 cards and its 2 deuces, he backs up his bet and puts the cards down (he is guaranteed a winner at this point). everyone else folds. Dealer flips over
K,10,7,5, Joker for pair of kings. Indian guys jumps up and asks the dealer to slowly reveal his cards one by one as he believes he has 5 wilds. Dealer opens bottom 2 and slowly reveals a 3r 2, than the 4th. Now the drunk guy is screaming out of his lungs for a Joker saying he will tip the dealer a purple ($ 500) if he pulls out a Joker. Other people at table start giggling as they realize there is no chance for Joker as dealer has it. Indian guy is screaming out of his lungs for a Joker and jumps up again. Pit boss reminds him to be seated or he will kill his hand. Now as he proceeds to sit down he trips and his beer goes all over the table and the cards. They call the clean up crew and this poor girl is carefully wiping down the beer as not to reveal his cards. He is seated as he is afraid to get his hand disqualified. All this time he is telling everyone how generous he will be if he gets the Joker. I am cracking up as this takes about good 15 min to clean up. Than finally when they are ready to reveal his card the dealer asks him if he wants to borrow his Joker instead. I think at the moment it finally dawned on him that his 5th card can not be a Joker and he just quietly sat there and watched as they turned a 4 over for 5 of a kind. He still won around $ 1200 that hand but did not tip the dealer or anyone at the table.

Yeah, pretty ballsy (and probably pretty dangerous) to laugh in that guy's face in Hialeah. Plus isn't the teardrop tattoo supposed to signify that person has killed somebody? I know people get tattoos all the time that don't mean what they're "supposed" to mean, but given the specific situation and location that they were in it's probably prudent to error on the side of caution and assume the guy was a murderer who wasn't shy about advertising it.

As for the support dogs, I've yet to see one on a player's lap. I did have an older man sit next to me at a table with his German Shepard support dog lying on the floor between that gentlemen and I. The man wasn't blind, so I'm not sure what the reason was for having the dog. The dog kept sniffing my pants leg and I think it licked my shoe a couple times. I was in a house that had a cat earlier in the day, so that may have been the reason. I like dogs, and German Shepards are one my favorite breeds, but it's still rather strange to have a random dog sniffing you and licking your shoe at a poker table.

I'm sure that there are people that take advantage of service dogs laws (they fall under the Americans with Disability Act.) But yes, emotional problems due to PTSD are a real thing, and the comfort of a dog can make a big difference. I know that for a fact, as my sons who served in wartime (Iraq and Afghanistan) have PTSD and they both have service dogs.

One example: My youngest son is more patient and much less likely to snap at his children since he got his service dog.

I have never seen a service dog in a lap size., the combined weight of my son's dogs is probably around 150 pounds.

I've heard similar stories, and I saw a video of a cat who was acting very agitated around it's owner. It turned out that the cat could detect when someone had cancer. They ran a test with a few people, one of whom had been diagnosed with cancer. The cat picked out the correct person.

If he has ten dogs, that's not very big.

[QUOTE=branch0095;51780461] ... I did have an older man sit next to me at a table with his German Shepard support dog lying on the floor between that gentlemen and I. The man wasn't blind, so I'm not sure what the reason was for having the dog. The dog kept sniffing my pants leg and I think it licked my shoe a couple times.....[QUOTE]

Dog was obviously trained to detect your bluffs via aroma changes due to heightened stress and adrenalin levels, and to pass info on to owner.....

[QUOTE=MJ88;51786592][QUOTE=branch0095;51780461] ... I did have an older man sit next to me at a table with his German Shepard support dog lying on the floor between that gentlemen and I. The man wasn't blind, so I'm not sure what the reason was for having the dog. The dog kept sniffing my pants leg and I think it licked my shoe a couple times..... Bluffcatcher would be a great name for a poker service dog.

[QUOTE=MJ88;51786592][QUOTE=branch0095;51780461] ... I did have an older man sit next to me at a table with his German Shepard support dog lying on the floor between that gentlemen and I. The man wasn't blind, so I'm not sure what the reason was for having the dog. The dog kept sniffing my pants leg and I think it licked my shoe a couple times..... LOL, classic. That's good stuff.

Are "emotional support strippers" a thing?

Asking for a friend.

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Yes, they're typically called "strippers"

I have three sons, two of them have one dog each.

This happened a couple of years ago at fallsview. It's late on saturday and the tables are playing at 5-6 handed across the room. Our table is 2/5 with decent regs and BBJ is close to 50k. One of the reg Asian ladies gets up and our hand is dealt.

New guy sits on seat 8 and gets dealt Pocket 6s. Guy to my left in seat 5 has like 34 of hearts. Seat 5 is the LAG and keeps betting on each street and on the river makes a straight flush and seat 8 had made quads on the turn and goes all in. Snap call by seat 8!

Seat 8 had just said down 2 hands earlier (first hand was AA, second was KK - bought it for like 220).

Seat 5: i hope you have quads
Seat 8: is like you damn straight broski, eat that!!! (holding his beer in his hand)
Seat 5: i have straight flush but......
Seat8: OMG, WTH dude, no way man. no F***n way. Not cool bro.

He proceeds to muck his hand before he's about to flip them over (clearly did not know about the BBJ).

We all yell WAIT!! DON'T DO IT, seat 5 lunges out of his chair to block the muck area like a baseball player making a diving catch lol, but before he can even release the cards, Seat 8 gets one of those frightening, WTF looks when some scares you out of nowhere, spills about half of his beer on himself.

Seat 8: WTF is wrong with you guys??
Seat 5: You just won 24k!!!
Seat 8: uhhh WHAT???

Then he gets what just happened and proceeds to join the celebration. In comes asian lady and is just gutted, however if it wasn't for her we would not have won it. So one of the older regs (late 60s or early 70s guy) suggest that loser pays 50% of the potential winnings of the Asian lady (we each got like somewhere around 1500-1700) the rest of us would make up the difference. Which we all agreed until we had a runner lol. They gave us tokens to cash out the cage for the BBJ, so we went to cash out and some guy from the table just took off, yelling I ain't giving **** bitches.

The two players in the hand took up his share and the the loser of the hand bought drinks and dinner for everyone on the table. What a night!!

I wonder how many people owe me money because they didn't get up from their seat at just the right time to make a BBJ.

"I AIN'T GIVING **** BITCHES"

Gonna be my line next time someone tries to convince me to pay out someone who doesn't deserve it.

"Let's pay the bubble..."

hahaha yes. It was a hysterical moment. Edit to the story, he offered dinner but no one accepted as we all just agreed for drinks. I think he was tourist or something b/c i haven't seen him since.

Nice guy though =)

Don't know why the guy actually ran out of there. It's not like anyone was going to chase him down.

Wait, you gave the Asian Lady walker a cut? WTF? That is the weirdest thing I've ever heard happen in a cardroom.

+1

I've never been part of any jackpot, but I thought it was pretty standard to give something to a walker.

It's not unusual, probably more than 50% of the time, but it varies a lot depending on the players at the table and (sometimes, especially) on who the walker is.... I saw 2 reg's at a 2/5 table convince the rest to stiff a walker who was one of the biggest jerks and anglers in the room... it absolutely made my night (I was at the next table).

Poker player to my left was watching some sort of fetish/torture Asian porn one late night with headphones on... but the sound was up so high, I could hear it. Probably the most uncomfortable I've ever been in a room before.

1/3
12 in the pot, river brings A high straight no flush possible
Old guy (******* chasing promo) 3rd to act announces all in with 200 ish behind and tosses a white into the middle
Next to act thinks for a minute then folds
Next guy goes into the tank.
Few minutes later supervisor comes stand behind dealer waiting until hand ends for a fill.
I'm frustrated by the tank and call clock.
Guy finally calls and other guy calls
Both callers table their hands.
Old guy flips his wrist up to show our end of the table and the dealer 10,9 suited complaining about missed flush draw, then throws his cards face down in the middle. Dealer scoops up all the cards and proceeds to chop up the 12 bucks. Supervisor and I look act each other in Surprise, then sup points out to dealer that old guy mucked.

Old man goes ballistic, saying everyone saw this hand (which was true). Sup explains that it doesn't make matter. Old man grabs his chips and leaves. Sup tells him he will be 86'd forever unless he pays. Old man yelling still leaves.

Fun times

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