I agree with YTF, horribly written morality stories do not belong in these forums.

Opened it. Saw length. Closed.

That's probably not what she said


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Cliffs Notes:

Basically good-hearted kid doesn't believe in tipping. The rest of the table takes exception, led by an old lady who used to be a dealer. The table overcompensates and the dealer makes out like a bandit. An old guy curmudgeon who doesn't tip and who also treats everyone like crap sits at the table. The young kid sees the error of his ways and becomes a tipper.

I know the story brought a tear to my eye.

I think my wife made me watch this movie on LMN.

Its a common story, I think we have all seen it before at sometime. Kid may have been new to live play and didnt realize tipping was a thing because you cant do it online (except on the WSOP free-play app). Eventually he figures it out or the dealer 'wills' him to get stacked and leave the table.

We have room to hire a dealer or two, and maybe a floor, at our rooms in SE Michigan, anyone know potentials PM me

Sorry if this post doesnt go here

For years now I felt I have been struggling to hear players at the table, and I was quite certain that I had incurred some hearing loss.

I finally got around to going to an audiologist to have my hearing tested.

Surprisingly my hearing is within normal ranges at all pitches.

So I now have the opinion of a professional that if I can;t hear you ta the table .... Its your fault not mine.

yea sometimes players can be too quiet, or others too loud (especially from the tourney tables). good to know you are within normal ranges

i am close to 10% under in some pitches, have had tubes in my ears 3 times, but its not too big of a problem - i just now have a habit of always asking someone to re-state a verbal action if I have any doubt in what it was, sux sometimes but players like that I try to be as accurate as possible

when flooring i just make sure to stand right behind the dealer and bend down so i can hear everything above all of the players freaking out about a situation

may need hearing aid in 20 years - lets hope not

I wish I was about 90% under at the table.

a filter would be nice.

PA announcement, calling players off the list: "Crooked Hillary, $3-6 hold'em."

Got a nice chuckle, from both sides of the aisle.

Here's one I've never seen before: $3-6 LHE, preflop. Newb calls two bets cold. Two more bets when it gets back to him, he calls. Somebody caps it at five bets...newb folds.

The first call was because he was priced in. The second call was to see where he was at. Smart fold, obviously.

So I push into a $2-$5 NL game and the six seat has chips in it and a missed blind button -- no player.

The outgoing dealer tells me that seat 6 is a new player but the blinds have passed twice (which in our room means he gets a missed blind button and either has to post his missed blinds or wait for the natural big blind and warns me he may argue about that).

I deal a few hands and the blinds pass the seat again and then the player comes back in the cutoff position and tosses me his missed blind button and the absent button I had given him. I tell his that will be $7 and he says "I'm a new player." I explain to him that the blinds passed more than once and therefore he has to post. He just looks at me and blinks in a really odd way that is noticeable. I ask him if he wants to post. And he repeats "I'm a new player" and does that blinking thing again. So I toss the buttons back to him and I deal the hand, dealing him out. He just looks at me and does that blinking thing again and picks up his rack of chips (they had never been removed from the rack) and goes to the cage and cashes out.....

I actually like this rule as it stops new players from holding up seats, watching the game a bit and sitting whenever he thinks is best. Tough he left but whatever, maybe its for the best, who wants that attitude at the table.

It was just really weird ... because he didn't come across as having an attitude. He was argumentative ... he did that weird blinking thing but seemed very mellow

That should say "wasn't argumentative"

That's pretty good.

I have a reg old timer who will limp UTG and it gets raised right
behind him and all call and he folds to one more bet, last to act.

I've seen him do this many times.

Isn't this a fairly standard rule? Here not only do the get buttons but on the second BB the clock is started to pick them up.

Sometimes a player with aMissed Blind button will return to the table mid-hand, and toss me the button. I know if it's not there at the start of the next hand, I'll mindlessly deal him in without first getting him to post, so I toss it back where it was.

...but then sometimes, they'll immediately toss it back in a second time. And I'll return serve.

If it comes back a third time, that's when I charge the net.

I also go through this when a player posts both blinds behind the button. They toss the button with their SB to the center of the table. I slide the Missed Blind button next to their BB. They immediately pitch back to the center. I slide it again to where I want it. At this point, they usually stop, surmising that I must have a reason for what I'm doing.

A few nights ago, I went through this with one of our nittier players. He looked confused, slightly annoyed, and asked me as respectfully as he could manage (an effort I truly appreciated) why I wanted to do it in a way he had clearly never seen before.

"That's there to remind the player to your left, that it's not his turn to act yet," I explained. He did not seem satisfied with that answer, so I continued. "Often, that player will see a bet out in front of you, and think that means the action is on him. And if my attention is following the action at the other end of the table, I won't see it, then the guy after HIM might follow his lead, then we've got a huge mess."

His face made it clear at he was still upset by this, tho he could not articulate why (answer, of course, is that most people don't like change, esp OCD-addled poker players).

"Look, just TRY IT my way. You might like it!" A few players chuckled, and he let it go.

I left the button there until he acted. Everything went swimmingly. The ceiling did not cave in.

He ended up winning a massive pot that hand, and was still all smiles as I pitched the next hand, so I cracked, "See? I told you you might like it!"

Yes, as far as I know, most rooms I believe have a rule that is something like this.

I figured the guy didnt like the rule and since he didnt get pref treatment he left.

May not be a see-able attitude, but certainly looking for a favor for some reason.

Possible he didnt understand what was happening but since previous dealer mentioned something I think he just wanted a pass...no passes because this is a good rule.

I've played in at least 30 rooms and have never once seen a rule like that enforced. I once heard a dealer complain about how a certain player always locks up a seat but doesn't play for 20 minutes and he swore he would make her post, but when she finally arrived he didn't go through with it.

The couple of rooms I dealt in where I was able to read the full rule book there was nothing about this situation.

Maybe rooms have this rule but dealers are hesitant to enforce it unless other players complain. They usually don't at least in the small stakes NLH games I play.

This is the only room I have dealt in that has this rule.

I actually didn;t foresee this turning into a discussion of the rule.

I just can't imagine what was going through this guys head ...

And its not the exact same everywhere, a good amount of rooms will just pick the player up after 10-15 minutes anyways if there are players waiting. My point was that a lot of rooms do 'something' about it rather then just let someone lock in a seat and then go away for 20 minutes or more, I didnt express that correctly....but I do like the post rule if blinds pass you twice, that a lot of time to lock up a seat and not play.

I still think the guy was wanting you to give him a pass based on other dealer comments, and when you didnt he left because he wasnt getting pref treatment

Our awesome TD got off a great one tonight:

TD: I gotta give you a one-hand penalty.

PLAYER: Why?

TD: You're not allowed to abandon your hand and leave the table before the action gets to you.

PLAYER: (annoyed) I had to go to the bathroom!

TD: (not having any of it) If those cards were AA, would you have gone to the bathroom?