Last week I heard this one at different table


$2-$5 NL game. Regular in the 4 seat. Unknown non-regular in the 5 seat.

Button in the three seat, 4 seat is the small blind with a $5 chip out fo rthe blind.

Action folds around to the small blind who starts tapping the table. This is taken by the dealer and a bog blind as a call. Big Blind raises, small blind throws her cards in, dealer pushes the pot. Small blind objects .... says she never called, her tapping the table was a chopping motion she was asking to chop. She wants $3 change. This ends up with multiple floor people and several minutes of argument over this $3. She leaves the game over it .... though I did see her back later that night.

I'm at another table and the players can't believe the ruckus being made over $3.

When the BB raises, this should be a sign to the SB that the BB has no interest in chopping. That being said, yeah, lol that $3 caused this type of ruckus.

Well actually technically it is $5 ruckus.

My wife told me a story today from her shift that made me laugh pretty good

Grumpy tournament regular is annoying but doesn't get too out of line. Just known for complaining a lot.

Somebody antes with a 500 chip at 100/200/25 and she gave the 500 chip to Mr Grump because he had a big stack of green. He throws it back and says "you're gonna have to get change somewhere else" so she does with no issue.

Blinds become 200/400/50 during her down and eventually and guy runs out of his own change. She makes change for his 100 units for antes a couple of times but finally he has to put in a 500 chip on the last hand of her down. She looks at him and says "you're gonna have to get change somewhere else" and he sheepishly gets his own change

Obviously it's rude and it's hard to translate this story on a forum (I'm no YTF), but she said it was so satisfying

I'm no Mr Grump, but I also have a very minor problem with someone wordlessly demanding change from me. "Oh look, here's my chance to give an order to that guy with all the green chips, I'm not gonna pass this up! Here you go, you! Start counting out those greens, and make it snappy, I'm eager to get this next hand started!"

I often need to ask a tournament player for change, and I'll always couch it with, "Could I impose upon you for some change, please?"

While we're on the topic, more venting from me on this issue:

--Why does the guy with the 500 chip have to wait until the very last minute to ask for change? He anted away his last green chip the prior hand, folded preflop, KNOWS he's out of green...he's surrounded by other players not involved in the hand he can get change from....but why do it now when you can hold up the game later, right?

--And then when he DOES try to get change ahead of time, he goes to the chip leader, whether or not that poor guy is in a hand at the moment, and insists upon prompt action on his directive. Never mind there are 5-6 players at the table NOT involved in this hand who can spare the change.

--But worst of all is the guy in LS' story, who can easily afford to make change, and refuses to, because he thinks he looks more intimidating with all that green in front of him.

Why does the guy with the 500 chip need all green? No more blacks left? Couldn't he get 4 blacks and 4 greens?

Guys she politely asked him from the start "sir, may I have some change please" and she didn't ask for 500 in green, she was looking for 4 green 4 black though, or even 5 black would have been fine

Got a call today from this place. They said they want me to come in and interview with the Room Manger (whom has already interviewed me for ~45 minutes), The VP of Casino Ops and The Director of Casino Ops. Neat.

Congrats. Good luck with the next interview.

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How silly of us not to assume that.
I played a tournament where one dealer would always make change for the blinds before he would deal the hand.
Come on you can make change after the action starts. Or you can give him change from the calls.


Same dealer, with a player who has never played at the table...

Every time the action gets to him he looks like a deer in the headlights.
He has no clue what to do and is waiting for the dealer to prompt him.

And the dealer sits there silently until one of the players finally helps the player.

For a dealer position, really? Is it a small, local type casino? Seems strange that a Director level would ever be involved in dealer interviews.

Anyway, what's your gameplan?

Believe it or not, I did actually assume that Lord_Strife_Wife said something polite to the player when requesting change. Reason being is think about how strange it would be if she had just flung the chip in the player's direction. Not only would it have been rude, but the player might have picked up the chip and put it in his stack or stared at it blankly because he didn't know why it was being flung at him. Instead, he said, "You're going to have to get change elsewhere."

Not that I know diddly poo about how interviews in the gaming industry are handled, but that does seem odd to me as well. Do you think there's a chance they're considering you for a different position in addition to dealer?

I made no assumptions about what she did .... but I have seen plenty of dealers who say nothing or just bark "change." Years ago when I dealt at the WSOP I had a well known player say that I had been the only dealer there he heard say "please" when asking for change.

That is surprising and if I were more into hyperbole I'd say it's horrifying. ****ing common courtesy, how does it work?

Just goes to show that in general the dealers who post on 2+2 are among the best in the business.

I have seen it before. When I got hired for a dealing job the shift manager who did the audition then took me to meet the Manager and the Director of the Sportsbook.

I think sometimes it is because the The Director, Or VP or whomever wants to be able to say that they have met each employee .... so they just do it during the hiring process.

I was expecting you guys to give us credit for being decent at our jobs, I don't blame anyone that doesn't though. My experiences shouldn't be expected to be mirrored by strangers.

And why is it that when you need change the guy with the the chips you need is also the guy who can't count chips.....

It a 17-table room, which isn't huge but it's the biggest room where I work by a wide margin. Fills up every weekend with a long list.

I doubt it.

This is what I'm thinking.

This happened to me THREE different times tonight.

LOUDSPEAKER: Player in on 28 from a broken game.

ME: (dealing on 28) Thank you!

ME: (as next hand is about to begin and new player arrives) Would you like to be dealt in right away, or come in behind the button?

SEVEN PLAYERS: (talking to me like I'm an idiot) But she's from a broken game!

The third time was the worst. It was a $3-6 LHE game, and the broken gamer sat in a spot where the only way I could deal her in immediately is if she buys the button. Now 90% of all players will wait one hand, but some folks want to be dealt in right away and will even post for the privilege, so I have to ask. But I'm gun-shy after being shouted down twice in a row, and I'd like to get through it this time without getting yelled at, so I phrase the question in a way that makes it perfectly clear that I KNOW she's from a broken game:

ME: Would you like to post $4 this hand, or nothing next hand?

HER AND THE GUY NEXT TO HER: (scowling) But I'm/she's from a broken game!

ME: (why do I bother?) I understand that. You can buy the button this hand, or you can wait one hand and come in for free--

HER AND THE GUY NEXT TO HER: (interrupting before I get to "free") But I'm/she's from a broken game!

ME: So that means you'd like to wait one hand, then?

HER AND THE GUY NEXT TO HER: (look at me like I'm from Mars)

Reminded me of a line I heard in this thread once, "Listen to the nice dealer!" Same night, early in the tourney, two players on the turn, first bets 4k, second announces "Call", and puts all his chips in. I think he's got a little more than 4k, and I move in to investigate, when first player says, "I call."

"He said 'call'," I told the first player.

First player isn't listening to me. He's holding his cards like he's about to table them, and asking his opponent impatiently, "What have you got?"

"He said 'call'," I repeated, even louder. This is the third time the call has been announced. I again turn away from the non-listener and try to count this other guy's chips...and the non-listener tables his hand. And of course, the caller has more than 4k, so the action isn't complete yet, we still need to see a river card.

Now non-listener is mad at ME. "What would you have me do?", I asked him. "The player announced 'call', then I announced it two more times, each time louder than the last."

"But I didn't know you were talking to ME!", was his reply.

Poker players. Gotta love 'em.

Oh, wait. No you don't.

Had my favourite double-bind player tonight get mad at me for not reminding him it was his chance to straddle, because he likes to straddle every time. Okay. So next time it comes around, I try to get his attention to tell him it's his chance to straddle. He yells at me for interrupting his inane chatter with the guy next to him. And he doesn't straddle.

Same guy earlier when I was chip-running handed me $260 in bills and $150 in greens, asking for $530 in reds. He had said the bills were $280, so I counted them a few times and said that it was only $260, so the total was $510. He got belligerent and with great condescension in his voice informed me that with the green chips it added up, and how stupid was I not to be able to get him $530 in reds. Okay, buddy.

Of course, him only giving you $410 should've been a problem as well.

Speaking of straddle, I had this happen Saturday night.

*Before the deal*

Seat 10: Blind raise. *puts out $5 UTG*

Me: ...I'm sorry? (acting like I just didn't hear it)

Seat 10: I said blind raise! (like I'm a moron).

Me: Ok. Blind raise to $5, guys! Blind raise! $5 to call!

Seat 1 (quietly): Did he seriously say blind raise?

Me (quietly): I double-checked... Yep.

Somebody raises anyway so it made no difference. Next hand seat 1 straddles.

Me (quietly): Oh, is that a blind raise, sir?

He chuckled.

i just want to tell you guys i appreciate it when you say "thank you" when players tip, even if it's robotic and emotionless. i played in a room that i'm not familiar with over the weekend. i saw a dealer go a whole hour without saying thank you once. the room is filled with regs and he was on a first name basis with most of them, but that's not an excuse imo. especially when you're going to do the same thing with new players b/c you're not used to saying it with the regs.