Donni, what are average stacks for 1-2 plo

at least 1k when I played

Was the game actually 5-10? Their bigger games are usually 2-10 nl and 5-25 nl. I have no idea why the blinds are set up this way.

The Bravo App had it listed as 5/10 NL.

It was 5/10

This, and usually much deeper. I haven't played in this game because I'm a PLO donkey. Looks fun tho.

Yes, it was 5/10 and I think it was the first time. It's been 2/10 and 5/25 to encourage regs to play (saves them $ per round w/ reduced small blind). At least that's what people in the 2/5 game have said.

Had to LOL at this and say it is right on pont. Recently played a circuit event where this scenario happened several times. One player finally said rather loudly to the clueless dude "You have your music turned up way too high, that is why you can't hear me, and keep asking stupid questions." No reaction from Clueless while the rest of the table laughed at him.

On Sunday afternoon, I started a brand new table of 1-2 NL. I was the first to sit down and then players started to fill up the table.

The second player tried to sit in for $700. While the 3rd player tried to sit in for $45. The dealer welcomed the short stack and asked if he had ever been here before. The short stacker replied no but he has watched some poker on tv.

After a couple of hours, Mr. TV went busto and bought back in for $50. Two players limp and he raises all in. Everyone folds.

A few hands later, Mr TV open raises to $40 out of his $50 stack. Another player reraises him all in. TV thinks for about 90 seconds and finally calls with AQ.

I don't know what it is, but it seems like there are either eight bad players, or eight good players at the table where I am originally sat. After being there nearly a dozen times since they opened, I have yet to be sat at a table where there are a couple of good players, and five, or six fish, i.e. the water is always warm, or the water is always cold.

I am still enjoying the room though. I haven't had a dealer/floor problem in nearly a week, and the waitresses have really stepped up their game also. I don't drink alcohol when I play, but I really don't like getting up to go to the bar to grab a redbull, or the free beverage station when I need a water if I'm parched, and just happen to be in the middle of a rush.

Kudos for getting everything to work as a pretty cohesive unit, guys.

Tip: Everyone is still pretty passive. If you're playing 1/2NL, small balling from late position is the way to go in my experience so far. As my High School math teacher used to pound into my brain, K.I.S.S. - Keep It Simple, Stupid.

I can't speak on any other games because I have yet to play larger stakes since I'm trying to slowly build a roll to do so.

I saw one of the funniest things last night.

I'm in the 10-seat, so I didn't entirely see everything he did, but this guy sits down in the 1-seat, has a cowboy hat and no teeth.

He tries to bet $15 out of turn before he even has cards from the BB his first hand. Then he makes it $10 in the BB with a $4 straddle - hand plays out, he has 54s.

At another point, he signed the letters in his name in sign language, randomly, for no reason.

He reloaded a couple times for a small buyin.

Then finally his last hand, it limps around to him in the SB, he has about 20bb, he completes, then comes back and adds a $5 chip. Then adds a $1 chip. The dealer only sees the second action, he was gathering cards on the other side of the table.

He tells him he can't do that, and a couple other players argue that he can't raise at all because he already completed, then string-raised.

Player says "Fine, them I'm all-in"

So the floor is called, floor guy says "well you're definitely not all-in. And rules it's a complete after the discussion.

Cowboy says Fine, I don't care, here, someone take my chips and gives them to the guy in the 7-seat and walks out.

So now, he has a $5 chip in the pot - the floor rules that he can give it to the other player, who has to pocket them, since you can't pass chips in play to another player, but they're not in play, and that the dealer has to make change for the chip, which the $3 just sits in purgatory at the table, while we watch the doorway worried the guy went to his car to get a gun.

Anyone care to speculate about the likelihood of players receiving retroactive comps for poker?

Very likely -- they've very consistently told anyone who has asked that we will get credit for all time logged thus far.

I haven't personally seen any horrible floor rulings, but my friend told me about an initial ruling at his table that is laughably bad. I really hope most floorpersons know better than this...

Guy raises preflop, but the dealer accidentally exposes the flop while someone else is debating whether to call. The floor is called, and the initial approach was just asking the person if they wanted to call the preflop raise or not while keeping the same flop. My friend (not in the hand) objected and they ended up getting it right, but holy hell how could a floorperson think that's the way to handle it? This was recently when you would expect them to be getting the hang of situations like that.

The dealers have gotten a lot better, but I still see a distressing number of "Uh where's the button? Oops misdeal!" and have seen several near-misses in almost shipping the pot to the wrong person, especially in a split pot.

Also 90% of the dealers do not understand how minraising works preflop. For example, if someone raises to $8 and someone tries to reraise to $12 or something, the typical dealer will force them to make it $16 total. I have tried to explain that it only needs to be $14 since the initial raise was $6 on top of the big blind, but most dealers just say "Well they told us the minimum raise always has to be double." I've never really been involved in the hand when this happens but if I am I guess I will call the floor. Growing pains...

That's what they did in Toledo. Only $0.50 per hour though.

We learned last night that only a player active in the hand can call the clock.

Drunk really bad guy was taking forever, was so annoying.

Thought you might be talking about me for a second.

I don't agree with this, but if it's house rules, it's house rules.

I will say that it is etiquette that only an active person in the hand calls the clock, and I've never done so without being in the hand, but anyone at the table should have the opportunity.

yeah yurk, you're such an annoying drunk!

I agree - I've personally never called the clock on someone. I believe in keeping the really bad players happy, and it's usually them that do this.

I have fallen asleep while waiting for a player to act in the middle of a hand before.

Are there really people calling clocks in small stakes cash games?

Terrible.

My theory on this is to keep it quick and simple for new dealers to calculate.

But it is incorrect.

honestly I wanted to last night and I wasn't even in the hand. this guy slowed the hands per hour to prolly 15. every time he folded it took 20 seconds no matter what the situation. the hand in particular was a good 2 mins for no reason. also what does the stakes matter if anything higher stakes shouldn't call clock

Was this at 2/5? There was a guy at my table making it close to 15 hands/hr but he was also calling preflop with ATC, playing $2k behind and donating quite generously.

no black dude at 1-2 only 50bbs deep so annoying

Getting real sick of this:


If you're going to play at a table in close quarters with eight other people, please have mercy on the rest of them, and brush your stankass teeth. Or, at least bring some mints with you because damn...

That's terrible. It lets people in the hand use it as an angleshot and it keeps the people at the table whose time is being wasted from doing anything about it.

These are the exact circumstances under which I'm most likely to call clock. If someone has a legitimate difficult decision for a lot of BBs, give him/her all day. But if someone is taking his/her sweet-ass time and slowing down the game on a routine basis, I'm going to call clock, get the floor over, and let him/her know what's going on.