Stop raising pf.

How will we know your a bald guy if you wear a red sox hat?

Not sure if serious..
Lol

BBJ $603,411

not off by much... yet

Roughly 80% in my estimation...YMMV

Regarding chasing the BBJ. I think everyone should be playing 3-6 LHE and calling every BBJ eligible hand until it hits!!

Ask anyone you see wearing a Red Sox hat to remove it for a second.

On a more serious note, if any of you are calling raises preflop with hands that you would normally fold (8-J suited for example) because of the bad beat, then I am serious about hoping you sit at my table.

i lost all my room offers. this happen to anyone else?

Hey Stan,

You should change the rule. If a player posts his blinds, and then stands up from the table mid-orbit, the dealer should continue dealing to his stack. If he returns and says to the dealer "why didn't you deal me in" the dealer should never say "because you were not in your seat". If a player pays his blinds, he should get dealt in until he misses a blind. You have to actually remember to say to the dealer "deal me in next hand" if you want to stand up for a minute... and even then they often forget to deal you in. Why is this even a rule? Am I missing something here?

Why can't we deal to a stack until said stack has a missed blind button?

I hope you consider this. I would really appreciate an answer as well.

Thank you!

I am baffled at why people who aren't at the table expect to be dealt in.

smart person here. 2-4 is unbeatable!

Maybe Stan doesn't feel like retraining 200 dealers when the current system is 100% fine.

ignore me. i waited 45 minutes before posting... i should have waited an hour.

Depends if it is a time game or not. Many places if you pay time you get a hand until you miss a blinds after all you did pay the blinds and the rake. If you are on your way back from the bathroom and it is a time game you should get a hand. Raked games is a different story.

I should have been more clear. I was talking about time games (20-40 limit). If I am paying $7 per half hour, I should get dealt in after paying my blinds even if I am not at the table. Retrain dealers you say??? Let's hold a 4 hour seminar for them!?!?!? I am baffled at how utterly stupid you assume dealers must be. This is all it takes: "Dealers, hence forward you shall deal to a stack until said stack has a button".

Makes perfect sense to me.

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(1) 40-80 Mixed
(1) 75-150 Stud
(1) 100-200 Mixed
(1) 300-600 Mixed


(14) 1-2 NL
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Stan

Stanstrickland@theborgata.com

This is standard in most timed 20/40 games around the country. FWIW

Last weekend I heard a few conversations among regulars discussing a certain player who they now consider to be the best in the game. Their argument was "he'll raise with K4 and then flop trips".

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(5) 2-4 LHE
(3) 3-6 LHE
(3) 10-20 LHE
(1) 20-40 LHE


(1) 1-2 PLO
(1) 10-20 Omaha H/L
(2) 20-40 Stud
(1) 40-80 Mixed
(1) 75-150 Stud
(1) 200-400 Mixed
(1) 300-600 Mixed


(17) 1-2 NL
(9) 2-5 NL
(4) 5-10 NL
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Stan

Stanstrickland@theborgata.com

Oh yeah, that guy is really good. But most of them are fish, that's all I'm sayin...

Why would the players in a timed game want a rule change that slows the game down? Makes ZERO sense to me.

That's fine but I consider Borgata to be the standard for how just about everything should be done in a poker room and I am not terribly interested in them adopting anyone else's rules.

Slowing down the game? I don't understand. Are you referring to when the player on the right of the "dead hand" simply keeps playing b/c no one is there. And then either he or the player to the left of the hand mucks it? This is also not a jackpot game FWIW.

I'm so flattered right now

I didn't remember the hand, but I assumed he was talking about me.

DES I am not very clear on why you would want this. It is also a mystery to me how it does not seem obvious how dealing in dead stacks could and would slow the game down. I will try to give a few examples below but this is the kind of thing that can be very difficult to properly convey on these internets...

All dealers at Borgata are told starting today to deal to dead stacks in timed games.

Situation A.
Dealer is dealing in a 1/2NL (rake) game and moves to 20/40 time charge with a full table. After one hand seat 3 gets up. Dealer forgets about the insane rule change that Stan and Borgata just stuffed down his throat and deals around seat three. Seat 8 notices this and calls for a misdeal because he has 27os AGAIN but seat 5 has american airlines AGAIN and demands that the hand be played out as dealt because 'there's no one there anyway and this was a stupid rule change!'. FLOOR!!! Ten minute argument and discussion follow whereupon a random ruling applying only to that hand is made because twenty minutes from now when the same thing happens at another table and a different floor person is called the ruling will be different.

Now imagine the dealer, the seat numbers and the cards being slightly different but the same situation repeating itself every day in every game that they institute this stupid rule.

I could go on but do you really need another reason why a rule like this would 100% slow the game down?

You cannot play a hand that you are not IN YOUR SEAT for at the start of the deal (situation #2 btw) so why bother throwing the cards? Please make me understand what the upside is.