I normally deal with people that are going to throw the cards before they throw the cards.

Anybody else dealing the WSOP? I've met a few 2+2'ers.

It's been pretty good so far. Kind of unorganized, but that's to be expected, I guess.

Don't really know anybody in Vegas, so looking for other degens to degen it up with!

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I was dealing a $2/$5 NL game the other night and had a lovely exchange with a miserable old man(MOM):

MOM: Why do you keep doing that? Do you have a problem or something?

Me: Doing what, sir?

MOM: That thing with your hand!

Me: Oh, clearing my hands? Sorry, it's been drilled into my head to do it every time I touch chips.

MOM: Well, I play in AC all the time and the dealers never do that, so stop. I'm worried it might be becoming a problem for you. Do you do it in your sleep?

Me: No, and only occasionally when using the restroom.

MOM: It's annoying. When do you get pushed?

Me: It will be even more annoying if you find out one of those dealers that isn't clearing their hands has been palming chips out of your pot. And my relief will be here very soon.*

MOM: Oh, I never thought about a dealer palming chips. It's still annoying though. Deal me out until the next dealer gets here.

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This just goes to show how correct YTF's post in the "Dealer messing with players" thread was. Not only does a player not appreciate something I'm doing to protect his money, h actually has the nerve to complain about it!*

Oh well, one guy threw me a redbird
and*another*guy*threw*me*a couple bucks as I was leaving the table just because I had to put up with the old guy's crap.***

Those AC players are something special. They hate it when I pull in the bets in O/8 when it's heads-up. They insist I'm slowing things down. Ok, maybe I am, a tiny bit (I'm used to dealing LL O/8, where it's NEVER heads-up before the showdown), but they complaining is costing us a lot more time than my habit of pulling the bets in.

Known trouble maker in our room would always mumble profanities under his breath just low enough that he had plausible deniability. One day I'm standing near the table and I witness the most amazing thing I think I will ever witness in a poker room. I hear the old man mumble something, and the next hand the dealer deals around the guy. He speaks up and shouts "Why did you deal me out?" The dealer says "because you asked me to". Grumbly replies (angrily) "No, I didn't". The dealer says, "are you sure? cause it either sounded like '**** you **********' or 'deal around me' but I couldn't quite tell which it was". I look over at grumbly and he says, defeated, "It was 'deal around me'".

How's the money this year? Please dont post numbers, but one word on a scale from good, decent, meh, bad will suffice.

Tournament downs started closer to decent and they're slowly creeping their way down to meh.

Live has been mostly meh unless you hit a good string of low to mid stakes NL games.

YMMV.

Knowing what you know now, would you have made the trip to deal this thing?

Why is that to be expected? Was this some new spontaneous event that they had no idea was coming and had no chance to prepare for?

See my post in the "wrong guy got the side pot, I spoke up six hands later and the floor wouldn't do anything" thread, about how people always seem to expect competence, are always disappointed, and never seem to realize that they should be expecting incompetence instead.

Ive heard some variation of that story from as many different dealers over the last 20 years. Its one of those self fulfilling prophecies, know one knows where it happened first, under the right circumstance can easily be implemented and probably has been many times.

We used to have a floor man who would be surprised by the day shift showing up, every day, on time, ready to deal and he would have to rush to get a rotation drawn up and posted. Shift meeting always started late as a result.

He left to go back to work in the petrolium industry on a pipeline. I guess schedules aren't important there. (no one really misses him)

It's the oldest gag in the book.

And has been already posted in this thread.

probably by me...
Ha

Have you heard this one?

Anyway, "I" was dealing a 1-3 stud game years ago made up of a geriatric group of regulars.
A hand comes down and "Bob" the curmudgeon of the group is first to act and blurts out " I Bet !"
Well, the effort of verbalizing of his bet loosened a denture at the same time, it pops out of his mouth, hits the table in front of him and bounces in to the pot.

Very quickly, and without hesitation, "Betty" the only player left in the pot, removes one of her dentures and tosses it into the pot while at the same time saying " I Call !"

Probably. It was just something I wanted to do. I wasn't expecting to get rich.

I've had a lot of fun outside of work and have done well playing cash games, so I'm pretty content right now.

Monday it happened again, heads up in a tournament and the two players agree to "chop" by the chip leader taking first and the other guy taking 2nd.

I went along with it, but the whole time I'm exchanging knowing glances with the dealer. I called the chip leader out on it after 2nd place got paid and walked away, and he seemed to genuinely not understand what a deal he just got.

This is now three times I've seen it happen. Twice at this casino, once at previous.

Not unless you make it 4 times.

$120 limit omaha8+ tournament today

Blinds are 150 - 300 and Limits are 300 - 600

Preflop, player A bets, player B raises to 600, Player C throws out an orange (1,000). gets back to the button who calls 600. Player C flips saying he said raise. Called for the floor, he enters my domain, i explain the situation and he asks the table. No one else at the table heard him say raise, floor ruled it a raise. Player C says "well i have a friggen raising hand and all of these chips why wouldn't i just put out 600 if i wanted to call" to which I asked "you still have all of those chips why wouldn't you just put out 900 if you wanted to raise"...

can't help but disagree with the floors ruling on this one a little bit but it is what it is

THINGS DEALERS CAN'T (OR SHOULDN'T) SAY WHILE IN THE BOX.

Player: "Who's it on?"

Dealer: "Well, everyone is looking at you, it's heads up and the other player has $100 pushed out in front of him, I've tapped the table in front of you 3 times and said "it's on you sir" so yes, I would feel safe is saying the action is on you."

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"WOW Lady, are those things real?"

************

"If you splash the pot (or act out of turn)one more time, I'm going to break the little finger on your left hand."

*************

"Sir, would you please SHUT THE **** UP!"

I love how the floor asks if anybody heard him say raise, nobody did, then he allows the raise any way. I would be unable to resist the urge to ask him, "If you're going to allow it whether or not anyone heard him, then why did you ask us if anyone heard him?"

Just another example of the ruling going in favor of the loudest player, seen it 1000 times.

(I had one old boss who used to love to say in this spot, "If you had announced your raise half as loudly as you're speaking now, we wouldn't have this problem, would we?")

i sat at a table once across the table from a lady with a nice rack. as she was dragging a pot, i leaned to the guy next to me and said "those things must weigh 10 lbs each." he just started laughing and the guy next to him politely informed me it was his wife.

Maybe all good floors should have a question to ask the loud players. I have used that one, and one that I used to use that I no longer do because sadly players have no shame these days. "Just so I understand what you are asking, you see he has the best hand, and you want me to rule that it is dead so you can win without the best hand?"

Witty, yet the reward for this is simply you get an ******* that will announce every raise he ever makes loud enough for the entire room to hear it.

For every ruling we have to make, there is potentially one miserable player who has to take it too literal and insists on lowering the bar of stupidity.


sidenote:

Player A raises to $75, Player B goes all-in as big stack, Player C all-in for $250, Player A calls with $175... With turn and river left to come, Player C turns to Player B and says " Chop no matter what?" Player B agrees. Player A was not included.

^^How there are people that play poker regularly that think this is ok blows my mind.

^^This is great, will use in future.