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Originally Posted by Hacim36
Does anyone know another B&M where you can show your cards after the hand to one person but not all?
No, not anywhere I have played in the US or outside.
The Sands is a disaster for the rules, and the dealers seem to only enforce them when another player intervenes, and calls the floor often when that happens. Three examples from last weekend:
1. Player in BB mucks his cards in an unraised pot as he did not realize he was the BB. Dealer tells him and pushes cards back to him. I ask what is going on and dealer tells me "He didn't know he was the BB.". I answer with "So?" and player mucks and says "I wouldn't have played those cards anyway and gets angry with me.
2. After about 4 hours of play I raise a pot UTG and player on button who has been very tight calls. I turn to him and say "We have not played a pot together all day." We have been talking between hands and were friendly and I was joking. Dealer tells me "You cannot talk when other players are in the hand." I tell him, I was not discussing the cards, and he tells me it doesn't matter, I cannot talk at all while other players are in the hand. He asks if I want to call the floor, and I tell him yes. He calls the floor and floor sides with me, and once floor is gone dealer says "That guy is new and doesn't know the rules." When have you ever been a rule that you cannot talk at all during a hand if other players are involved?
3. This one I am technically wrong, but... Post flop I am in BB ad have a str8 draw and check and button makes it 7 to go, SB calls and I go to call, but because the chips stick together in the Sands a lot, I end up tossing in 3 red chips that are connected like a block. Dealer immediately says "Raise", but I explain I was just calling, and show her the chips are locked in mortal embrace. She says it does not matter, and makes me leave the minish raise in, everyone calls. Luckily I turn my str8, and shove and because the button thinks I am steaming about leaving the raise in he calls and I take down a decent pot. Technically she is right, but after everything I have watched go on, and the fact that the chips were obviously connected she could have let it go, but it seems not for me. Technically she is right here though at least.
3 different dealers and 2 out of 3 don't have a clue. Sands needs to improve training and not have players be the police.