Heading to Vegas in about week. Interested in cash and tournaments. Is anyone able to comment on which poker rooms will allow my girlfriend to sit behind me and watch and which ones will not.

Thanks

No room will tell you that your gf can't sit behind you. You're good.

Don't be "that guy". Your girlfriend won't appreciate it and just get bored.

You'll tell yourself she'll like it. She won't.

Send her off with a fun ticket to play the nickel slots while you play poker. You'll thank me later.

Last time I was at the Aria, they wouldn't allow it.

First of all, if you have any respect at all for your girl, don't do this to her. I always feel so bad for the girls just sitting watching. Plus, it has to affect your game.

If you must: it's not about which rooms will let you, it's about which rooms have space. Aria and the Bellagio are fairly cramped. I'd recommend Wynn, which would at least give her some space.

My wife is never interested in "sitting in" behind me- however, there have been times when she got done shopping or at the spa and just wanted to wait for me to get done. Both MTTs. The Venetian would not let her sit anywhere in the poker room behind any player. The Mirage, OTOH, was fine with it.
room to room i guess.

The only thing worse than girlfriend sitting behind boyfriend while playing poker is the boyfriend sitting behind the girlfriend while playing.

Why bring your girlfriend if she is just going to sit and watch you? Doesn't she have something better to do?

I always wonder what kind of guy brings his woman just so she can sit behind him and watch. When he is showing her his cards and she seems to be interested in the game I start to think something is up, especially if there is whispering etc.

most rooms will allow it in cash games, and will not in tourneys. that said:


i hit reply just to say precisely this. Its boring for your girl, its disrespectful and irritating to the players sitting next to you and I nearly 100% guarantee that youll play worse with her watching you.

There is a reason that televised poker got about the same ratings as curling before the invention of the hole-card cam. Its boring as hell for a non-poker enthusiast to watch if you don't know what the players have.

EIther give her some monies and send her off to the slots, or if the idea of your girl being into poker gets you all warm and moist, give her some money and have her play poker.

The rare but not unheard of girlfriend sitting behind girlfriend is hawt, though.

this is when i call the floor.

"The rare but not unheard of girlfriend sitting behind girlfriend is hawt, though."

That only happens when they are the type that has wallets on chains tho. lol

Why? Sexist much?

I'd not call the floor why? He could be teaching her the game I see nothing wrong with this.

Yeah, he could be teaching her the game in the middle of a cash session involving other people's time and money. This is totally the right forum for teaching. Don't call the floor!! lol ...

Who calls the floor? I've never seen that happen. Doesn't matter if he's showing his cards to someone not in the game, that just makes him a worse player.

One player to a hand.

Who's the other player?

Showing the hand to the girlfriend = fine, go ahead

Having GF give advice or commentary on the hand = call the floor

Off topic, one time at the commerce this guy was telling the whole table that nothing bothers him more than a woman sitting behind a man playing poker, and that whenever he sees that happen on his table, he tells them to leave. About 20 min later a new player sits with his gf behind him, right next to the guy that was running his mouth. I tell the guy remember what you were saying earlier about kicking out people that have their gf behind them??? Guy racked up and left...

Wonder no more!

Since you (and your significant other) actually spent half an hour or so while snacking with me and my wife at the 2+2 party at the MGM a couple of years ago, you should have an idea.

Not that rarely, when my wife is done shopping/spa-ing/whatever-ing, she finds it cozy to pull a chair up behind me at the table and hang out for an hour or two.

Since it's not her motivation you're deriding, let me just clarify that usually I do enjoy it.

We might not interact much in the situation (after all I have a vested interest in focussing on the game), but at least it usually raises the average level of intelligence and social proficiency at the table.

Absolute perfection

All poker rooms will allow quiet spectators if they are of legal age--they are required to--but not necessarily a spectator sitting right behind the player. Not all rooms have space to allow it, and some rooms may just not permit it. Most do.

Why do they have to allow it? It's the law. http://www.reviewjournal.com/busines...g-agent-access

venetian does have the couches, i always just send my girl shopping, shes ok with it.

How did you learn how to play poker? Unless your answer is "I learned by sitting behind my boyfriend and looking at his hole cards as he played a session" then it should be clear that there are other ways to learn poker and other ways to teach it.

That said, i should clarify its not like im going to call the floor over the first time he shows his cards to her. I would obv ask him not to do it first.

You are correct. RROP does allow you to have a guest sit behind you and does allow you to show that guest your hand. This is easily the stupidest rule in rrop, and i can't imagine a rational justification for it.

However, the rule is qualified with the requirement that no one at the table objects. I will always object if hes showing cards.

It is not violative of OPTAH in and of itself. However:

1. Showing something to someone is the first step to talking about it. Once they talk about it, its too late. The floor isnt going to do anything except say "don't do it again", probably six or seven times before he even considers taking action. -- Also, i don't want to have to monitor him/her during every hand were in together.

2. Players can get reads off her. This can act to my detriment in a MW pot with him and another player, even if she doesnt say a word.

3. Because of her position behind players backs, she is in a much better spot to be able to spot other players cards or even front load the dealer. This is bad enough, and one of the reasons spectators sitting behind the players makes me uncomfortable to begin with. When youre adding to that her being able to know what his hand is in addition its just too much for me. Basically we play our hands at the table because everything is set up so that we cant easily get info we're not supposed to have -- so to my way of thinking the flow of information should be restricted to the players sitting at the table.

so by allowing this youre setting up an optah vioaltion that you can't remedy and youre making it much easier for people to cheat if they are so inclined. In exchange, youre gaining precisely nothing for the game aside from allowing a douchenozzle in a ed hardy shirt to feel more at home.

Why do you abbreviate Robert's Rules of Poker?

you mean aside from the same reason anyone abbreviates anything?

My Grandfather taught me how to play.. And one of the tools he used was when he hosted Home games was have me\ sit behind him and watch him play. And that kept up even when I started playing at casino's with him. We would talk of the hands on the way home or after the home game was over.