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Originally Posted by Vintage00
Question for the poker dealers itt:
How strict do you have to be on the "kicking people out for swearing" rule?
Room and table dependent. Especially the latter for me. If I am dealing 5-10 NLHE among a bunch of salty regs, I don't say anything. At a lower game, especially one where a woman is there, I will respond to an F-bomb with "woah, sir, there's a lady present." That usually stops the problem and will often get the woman at the table to like me a little bit, even if they say they don't mind.
As for drunks...
It's hard to kick a drunk player out because nobody at the table wants him to leave and I have to delay a game (which nobody likes) just to get a floor person to address it and then have to potentially upset the drunk when I talk about him to the floor person while he is there watching... It's never pleasant.
A month or so ago some guy was completely plastered, unable to do much of anything except spew chips. The table had some other guys who had too much but they were just a little loud, not calling off their chips with Queen high and struggling to get more money out of their wallet after that.
I called the floor and someone actually got mad at me. "The other guys here are drunk too," he complained. I told him that there was a huge difference to me but the floor would decide anyway and he was free to make his case.
Another player said to me "No, you're doing the right thing," but he was solidly in the minority.
As a player, I would consider it immoral to take money from someone in hat state but my moral code is not the same as everyone elses...