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Originally Posted by timex
Big blind dodging should have harsher penalties.
Incident 1) guy gets moved to our table, goes to put down his chips, sees he'll be the BB, acts like he got the wrong table, stands up walks around a bit, big blind passes and he comes back and takes his seat. It was the most blatantly obvious attempt to miss the BB that I've ever seen. We call over the floor, he issues him a 3 hand penalty(much less severe than the penalty everyone else pays each orbit by posting their blinds). I tell him to ask the person in charge and he talks to Danny and who confirms that this is the fair penalty.
Incident 2) much deeper in the tourney to where it is easy to keep a tab on all players in the field. A short stacked player who knows all the tournament staff gets moved to my table, sees that they're about to post the BB and starts walking around, talking to a member of the tournament staff. The player in the CO just says "I'm folding, just waiting for them to arrive" this carries on for a little while and eventually the dealer calls them over and they act surprised that this is their seat (the only open seat in the tournament)
After witnessing incident 1) if I ever got a table change I was planning to just walk over to my new table and wait for my penalty rather than for my big blind so I don't entirely blame people for doing things within the rules that are hugely profitable. Its important to make big blind dodging against the rules since it is a form of cheating and its ridiculous to get caught cheating and still profit
Mike you should play the cash games in Macau, where terrible things like angleshoots that result in players getting stacked, going south(or north), blatant cheating involving players communicating in another language than one of the officially approved languages about the hand while both having cards in front of them, let alone terrible slowrolling and slowroller then mocking player that lost the all-in pot.. these things are almost never punished. Rarely do players even call the floor over, and when they do, supervisors tend to just have a word with the offending player without punishment.. and if you're unlucky the supervisor will chat and laugh with the offender and pat them on the back. Sometimes other players at the table will even stick up for the guy who shot the angle or went south or whatever and think that you are delaying the game. Most of the time the victim not only loses the money but also gets embarrassed in the process for even trying to involve supervisors.
All that is just part of Macau poker, I've lost count how many times I've seen injustices go unpunished but what can you do? If they don't want to clean that **** up then either we still play here or we don't I guess.. I mean Commerce in LA is even worse and thousands of people still play there every week..
Last edited by 663366; 11-08-2014 at 03:52 AM.
