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Originally Posted by pfapfap
I tell ya, these level games are the worst for player sophistication. They don't know as much as they think they know, and they're too high on themselves to listen to anybody else, either. Give me a 1/2 or a 10/25 any day over a 2/5.
NL, I agree. PL, the 1/2 players are the worst about this; with the 2/5 players, you've got a chance.
And I'm with you on the chip denominations, too. While I agree with everyone who says, "but the players want mountains of smaller denominations", I disagree with WHY they want them. It's not to make the pots look bigger, it's to make their STACKS look bigger, and more intimidating.
I was dealing a final table once, and the TD brought some rarely-used 5k chips during the break, and instructed me to color up many of the 1k chips on the table, as there were way more than needed out there (the blinds were up to 10k-20k and soon going up to 15k-30k, and everyone had a few-hundred 1k chips in their stacks). And every single player who saw what I was doing barked at me if I took "too many" of their useless 1k chips, and left them with puny-looking stacks.
I don't watch tv poker, but I caught a glimpse of some EARLY ROUND ACTION of a recent WSOP, and everyone had a mountain of chips in front of them. One guy stole the blinds/antes, and it took the dealer 2-3 pushes to get all the chips to him! He was only halfway stacking that pot when the action was back to him on the next hand! WTF???
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Originally Posted by William Murderface
I never heard the term swiping the board. The way he described it made me believe he's killing the board. If that's not the case, then sorry and obviously my comment doesn't apply.
Yeah, "swiping" isn't a term I've heard before, either, but there's no better word to describe what we're talking about.
The floorman in my story kept using the word "killed" to describe what I was doing, and I pointed out that we seemed to disagree on the definition of killed--that to me, "killed" means "buried irretrievably in the muck". By leaving the board face up, it was still "tabled", and if anyone still want to read it, I'd be happy to spread them back out. He allowed, "Ok, you didn't 'kill' the board. But you 'destroyed' it!"
This floorman is the nittiest floorman in the history of floormen, and I've worked with some nitty floormen in my day. And when I say that, I don't mean "strict about following procedure", as I expect that from every floorman. I mean he's the guy who pulled me aside to chastise me about bellowing "ANTES, PLEASE!"
once to get the attention of a table full of players who had tuned me out. "Really? I've been doing this 13 years, and every floorman I've ever worked with has seen that it was a harmless joke--until you!" And he stood his ground, so I don't do it any more. Heh, actually, his suggestion of patiently tapping the table in front of the zoned out players until they anted was one of the biggest favors anyone has ever done for me: now, instead of getting frustrated that no one is listening to me, it has helped me stopped worrying how long it takes to get the next hand out! Thanks, SuperNitFloorGuy!
(I want to point out that despite my complaints about this guy here, I still have plenty of respect for him as a floor. These are teeny, tiny issues in the grand scheme of things, and I'd still rank this guy over 95% of the floors I've worked with in my career. I love the floor/management staff where I work, and now that I think about it, it's been a long long time since I could say that. It's almost certainly the main reason why my current job is far and away the best job I've ever had in this business. And no, this isn't ass-kissing, as I learned last night he doesn't read 2+2.)
Last edited by youtalkfunny; 11-11-2013 at 04:52 PM.