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Ok, here's a new one, almost too boring to post, but low content posts are still better than working:

New table, 2/2NL $100 max buy-in. Seat three asks to be put on the list for a higher limit game.

Dealer checks the decks, cash is traded for chips, runs the cards and seat three will be the button.

Before the first hand is to be dealt, Seat three is called away to his new game.

Dealer has NO IDEA what to do. Do you:

1. Deal everyone including seat 3 and muck the empty button?
2. Move the button to seat 2?
3. Move the button to the seat that had the second highest card?
4. Redeal for the button?
5. Call the floor?

(2.) move the button to seat 4, adjust blinds accordingly, deal.

reasoning, if the three seat had been empty the 4 seat would have gotten that high card.

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12-18-2012 , 07:47 PM

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RobFarha

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Can't think of a better place to ask this but I've always been curious.

When cashing out a good chunk of money in the poker room sometimes the cashier will say "double!" to signal a supervisor to come over and verify amount etc...

What does double refer to?

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12-18-2012 , 08:56 PM

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junior15

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Originally Posted by RobFarha

Double check. The supervisor is double-checking the cashier's work.

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12-18-2012 , 09:01 PM

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RobFarha

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Originally Posted by junior15

Double check. The supervisor is double-checking the cashier's work.

Wow I feel stupid.

Thank you lol

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12-18-2012 , 10:30 PM

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AlaskaGal

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Originally Posted by RockyMoose

I don't know the right answer but another choice would be to give it to the 4 seat because they would have had the card the 3 seat had if he wasn't sitting there. I've never had that come up before.

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12-18-2012 , 10:33 PM

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AlaskaGal

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Originally Posted by UbinTook

(2.) move the button to seat 4, adjust blinds accordingly, deal.

reasoning, if the three seat had been empty the 4 seat would have gotten that high card.

Yeah, what he said.

sounds reasonable and fair to me.

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12-19-2012 , 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by RockyMoose

Once you deal for the button it is done. You don't redeal if a new player comes and joins the game so you wouldn't redeal for a player leaving the game.

Seat three was the button he gets up and leaves. Seat 2 is now effectively the button go ahead and move it back and deal out the hand with seat 4 being SB and seat 5 BB.

The tougher question would be if seat 4 was the player to get up and leave. now is seat 5 the SB or the BB?

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12-19-2012 , 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by youtalkfunny

I say play 'em hard. Most players can respect how much money it costs you to softplay them, so they don't expect it.

I think this is pretty safe in No Limit games. I almost never hear a No Limit player grumbling about dealers in games.

But in limit games (low limit) it is more common to hear people upset by dealers playing in the game.

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12-19-2012 , 09:11 AM

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Originally Posted by psandman

It depends on if the room uses the forward moving button. In a forward moving button room (if I had to rule on this) I would rule that seat 3 got up on his button and seat 4 gets the button and pays a small blind on the button and two big blinds. Of course that will look funny for the first hand of a new game.

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12-25-2012 , 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by AJBergy

I've gotten in the habit of saying "Let's see a winner" as a general broadcast to the entire table.

if no one flips anything up, I'll turn to the last aggressive bet and tell them they can either show their cards or muck their hand.

Any cons to this?

No, that's how I do it.

And if still no one shows it's "FLOOR TABLE 19".

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12-26-2012 , 02:15 AM

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I like to mix it up. Sometimes I go with "Let's see a winner". Sometimes it's "Who wants it?". And sometimes "Showtime". (If I'm feeling spunky I'll say Showtime, HBO, Cinemax").

If nobody turns it over my go-to's are "First one to show me wins the pot" or "If nobody wants the pot, I'm keeping it for myself!". I haven't had to call the floor... yet.

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12-26-2012 , 02:08 PM

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NYCNative

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Originally Posted by AJBergy

I've gotten in the habit of saying "Let's see a winner" as a general broadcast to the entire table.

I used to do this too but after an incident of posturing nonsense that escalated into hurt feelings that took a floor to calm down, now I say the same thing, but I do it in the direction of the player who should show first. It kind of kills two birds with one phrase, subtly.

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12-26-2012 , 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by NYCNative

The other day i found myself telling a player to "show em or muck em" and he just stared blankly so i told em "You know I have no idea what they are until you show me" I think he really thinks I know what all the cards are.

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12-27-2012 , 12:06 AM

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soxfan1962

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Originally Posted by bolt2112

Real original.....I'm sure the players get a HUGE laugh out of saying I'll take the pot for myself

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12-27-2012 , 12:41 AM

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Originally Posted by soxfan1962

Real original.....I'm sure the players get a HUGE laugh out of saying I'll take the pot for myself

No, but it is the type of remark that wakes people up.

Trying to get some players to turn over their cards is sometimes the most challenging part of a hand. No one thinks that the dealer is going to drag the pot to himself.

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12-27-2012 , 12:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Dealer-Guy

Trying to get some players to turn over their cards is sometimes the most challenging part of a hand.

Seems quite a few dealers have a problem with this. I don't.

What's challenging for me is getting players to act in turn and not talk about a hand in progress.

Last edited by steamraise; 12-27-2012 at 01:10 AM.

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12-27-2012 , 05:25 PM

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Ah the holidays in the poker room....

Christmas morning, it was amazing to see poker degens walk in who genuinely did not understand why the room was slow, asking staff members the reason. They seriously couldn't comprehend it.

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12-28-2012 , 03:34 PM

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We do not talk about tipping in this thread for a multitude of reasons.

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12-28-2012 , 03:50 PM

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youtalkfunny

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First day back after vacation. Incredible how good it feels while working after getting a week off to refresh yourself.

Too bad we can't afford to take annual vacations in this job.

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Originally Posted by Quadstriker

We do not talk about tipping in this thread for a multitude of reasons.

To be more specific, there's a "containment" thread to discuss tipping, you should have no trouble finding it, because it's never far from the top.

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12-28-2012 , 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by bip!

do you dealers remember ?

I remember.

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12-28-2012 , 05:50 PM

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You know our vacation pay, if we get any (and who does, in an industry where people are kept on as "part time" for years on end?), is min-wage, right? That saving for the vacation is only HALF of it, you need to save for the money you won't earn that week?

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01-01-2013 , 04:28 AM

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youtalkfunny

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Another NYE where nobody resolves to play tighter when the clock strikes twelve.

I'm starting to think Caro made that story up.

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01-01-2013 , 03:22 PM

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Smiley928

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Originally Posted by NYCNative

Although I live in a suburb of Philly, my nametag says The Bronx. It does start conversations, almost always "You commute that far?" But I have it for a reason: I talk loudly and I root for the Yankees. My tag means the locals can begrudgingly concede that I am allowed to do both.

The wig, now that was a great conversation starter. Especially when they realized that you actually have hair!