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Originally Posted by PuraVida96
How do you guys deal with drunk players. Say it's late in the night and there's a guy that's obviously drunk, like slurring his words, can't follow the action, continuously acts out of turn, and clearly has a drinking and/or gambling problem. Do you ever speak up? Tell him to quit for the night? What if the table is a bunch of decent enough players and this one guy.
I played with a guy that was in such bad shape he was basically begging the floor to let him buy in for slightly less than the minimum when he busted. It was late in the night and two tables had just combined into one and we were playing 6 handed with maybe an hour or so left in the night before the room closed. Usually, I like to stay until close because good players become tired players and stuck players become desperate players but on this particular night this drunk guy was slowing the game down so much I felt a little dirty sticking around just to win this guy's $49.
After about 30 minutes I just picked up my chips and left early for the night.
Do you guys ever see people get to a point that you feel the need to speak up?
I remember playing in a 2/4 limit game with a totally drunk spewy noob. It was late at night, the second table broke so I was moved to his game. He was a goldmine, and early on I flopped the nut flush against another guys 3rd nut flush against drunky's total air and every street drunky and I managed to cap, even the river where drunky bet/3bet/folded (lol, awesome), all the while trapping the 3rd nut flush in the hand. The problem was that the guy was. So. Slow. Unbelievable slow. It was painful. And since my enjoyment of the game >>> making money (and lol, did I mention this was 2/4 limit?), I left the table.
I don't think it's my moral responsibility to judge whether someone should be in a game or not, I'll leave that to the room. After all, where would we draw the line? Wouldn't we also have to alert the room to a horrible horrible horrible whale who is just spewing money cuz he simply has no clue how to play the game? In the end, the villain made his own decision; he decided to drink, get drunk and sit in a card game with real money. It's a free world (or, at least, it should be).
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