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Originally Posted by The Apex
If there’s a dispute over this the floor can see when each player was swiped in.
In theory, yes. The problem, with this and many other official room policies, is that too many of the floor staff still don't know or care about abiding by it. Just the other day: player who was relatively new to the table asked for seat 10 when it opened. A player who had been there longer said HE actually wanted it. A dispute ensued. I chimed in, knowing the policy, and told the new player that the senior player had first rights to the seat. New player suggested I mind my own effing business. The dealer called the floor over. After hearing out the facts, the floor said to the new player, "You called it first? It's yours then." And he was thus wrongly awarded the seat, and got to feel all smug and vindicated about it too.
This is not to say I'm advocating for seat-change buttons. I wholeheartedly agree with what Coasterbrad said above. I just, perhaps naively, yearn for a poker room with a floor staff that's on the same page and cares about consistency of rules enforcement.