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Originally Posted by dcfc17
Stated below are both pet peves and things horrible players do. However, they seem to only happen at the 1/2 nlh cash games. When you move up in stakes, it becomes way less frequent.
1. A player's first buy-in is at the table! This annoys me to no end. Rebuys are one thing, but your first buy in should always be at the cage. The cage is maybe five feet away and they still insist on the dealer taking chips out of the tray. They do this even when theres a list! They just sit and wait by the board. You arent doing anything!! go buy your chips!! It slows the game down considerably and it forces the floor to make fill more frequently. Its gotten to the point that i will tip a dealer a dollar if they ask a new player to go buy chips at the cage.
Side note: Stated above may be a "foxwoods only problem." Ive only been to a few other casinos on the east coast and i found that other casinos ask their players to make the first buy in at the cage.
2. When calling a bet or posting a blind that forces the dealer to make unnecessary change. Example: 1/2 nlh cash game. The big blind posts one red chip ($5) for his bb and has a whole stack of whites ($1) in front of him! Put up your whites. Put two whites in and stop wasting everyones time! I understanding saving a white to tip the waitress or w/e, but if you have 3 or more, post it.
3. They buy in or rebuy in strange/random incraments. Or use non one-hundred dollar bills. Using 20s, 10s, etc... says to me you havent given this much strategic thought or planning. Or they buy in for the minium. Buying in for less then 100bb just screams "I have no confience in my dicision making abilities and plan on losing"
This is a whole lot different in Florida at BestBet. For example, when a new table is started, the chip runners park themselves at the table and get chips for the players as they show up. It's actually a rarity to go to the cage to get your buy-in. Interesting that it's so different at Foxwoods. Atlantic City, I remember, was insistent on you getting chips from the cage.