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Originally Posted by psandman
He might not be wrong to be annoyed by it, but it doesn't sound like his way of addressing was particularly helpful. There was virtually no chance that kind of tone is going to lead to "oh, I'm sorry I'll try to speed things up." But it seems very likely to lead to " I can do whatever the **** I like!". Which neither will speed up the game or make anyones experience better.
I'm not sure there is a good way to address it .... But I'm pretty sure being confrontational is not it.
In my experience, players who engage in bad etiquette almost always do it because they want to, and react in exactly the way you say.
A few days ago, there was a player in my four chip limit game who was insisting on stacking his calling chips to make it look like it was a raise when it wasn't. When it was 2 stacks of 2 chips, it was fine, but we got into a 3-bet kill pot where I couldn't easily tell whether he had put out 18 chips or 24, because he stacked them in 4 weird sized piles. I asked-- very nicely-- that he please stack his calling chips so that it was clear that he was calling and not raising. He said exactly your quoted words, and then doubled down and called the floor over. The floorman, who was really nice about it, told him that the complaint was legitimate and he was slowing down the game if the dealer would have to restack his chips. He replied "OK, but am I REQUIRED to do this?". He asked this 3 times after the floor said to him, in effect, "you aren't required to do it but you are being rude and slowing up the game".
Players who don't care about etiquette, don't care about etiquette.