LHE. A few limp, BB raises, they all call. Flop 234. BB bets, gets callers.

Turn is a medium card, like a 9 or T. BB bets, gets callers.

I pull in the bets before putting out the river. BB cries, "Keep it low, dealer!"

"What have I BEEN doing?", I crack. Put out a 5, board is now 234T5.

BB bets, gets raised, his wheel is no good.

"Well, you asked for it," I could not stop myself from saying.

***

Player busts, leaving us 5-handed. "Dealer, call the floor, see if there are seats open in other games (at this limit)."

Floor arrives, tells the players there's only one seat available. Says they can draw, encourages them to be patient, it's still early enough we might get some more players right here. No one wants to take the slim chance of winning the draw, we play on.

As soon as the floor leaves, the player who had requested the floor stands up and looks around the room. He thinks he sees a table with THREE open seats on it, wants me to call the floor back.

YTF: "This is the first time I've ever had a player demand a recount!"

(there were not three seats available. A second seat DID come open. We played on. Floor asked the players to resist the urge to check for updates every MINUTE, lol.)

I like "Be careful what you ask for.".

You are BRUTAL lol

I had watched the Three Stooges the night before, and Moe dropped an awesome "You asked for it!" right before dumping a bucket of water on Curly.

Chatting with a guy in my pool league today, he says, "Oh, you work at that cardroom? I've played there a few times. One time...."

Ugh, here comes the bad beat story. At least this wasn't the usual:

"...the dealer DELIBERATELY screwed me out of a pot, to help his buddy!"

Cliff Notes: Maniac bets every street, hero calls him down...except on the end, Hero didn't move any chips, he merely said "call" and tabled his hand. Dealer mucked Hero's hand, starts pushing pot to maniac. Everyone involved insisted they didn't hear hero say anything. Even though hand was tabled, it was scooped and mucked before anyone could fully read it, cards are now irretrievable, pot goes to maniac.

(You all owe me $1 for condensing the endless story I sat through today into Cliff Notes.)

I try explaining a few things to this guy: that I see people all the time announcing actions at a volume no one can hear; that you shouldn't let go of your cards until you get the money; etc. He would have none of it. Every word bounced off him. This was Somebody Else's fault, certainly not his. Oh well, I tried.

I ended up playing this guy in our match, a race to five. He's WAY better than me--I told my teammates that my goal was to win just one rack against him, try to deprive him the bonus point for the shut-out. But I surpised myself by shooting really well--I won the second rack, then came back from down 3-1 to tie him at 3-3. He got the next one, to go up 4-3, he's "on the hill", one rack away from victory.

He had control of the next two racks, but both times, he scratched on the 8-ball, handing both racks (and the match!) to me.

I tell this story, because as we shook hands after the match, he vented, "Did that guy HAVE to walk by the table as I'm shooting the 8 in the hill-hill game???"

This guy--it's NEVER his fault!

So who's the buddy? The Hero who didn't pay off the River bet or the Maniac who won with a lesser hand?

And why would he pick that moment to come out of the closet? Was the 'walking by' guy THAT good looking? GL

Guy who didn't protect his hand, or his action, wants to blame someone else.

Please Psand can you work on having your comments on what a DB means tattooed on the left thumb as part of completing a poker dealer cash. I am completely amazed at how many floors and dealers can't comprehend this simple fact. If they would just learn to not move the button to the empty seat, so many other issues become so easy.

Always annoys me as a player when a dealer moves a button to an empty seat. Fixes nothing and leads to nothing but confusion.

How do you think I feel when a PLAYER does it?

Lol, probably makes you even crazier than it makes me! Tell us a story about some time when it happens...

I for one dont usually mind when a player moves a button.....as long as they let me know they are moving it.

Dealing 4/8 Omaha a few months ago I finish dealing a hand and then move the button and begin dealing the next hand....before I finish pitching seat two says he should have been the button to which seat three (where button was) says he was just big blind.....so I bring the cards back in and move the button back to two and finish the hand....once again get ready to deal the next hand and as I am moving the button to seat four I stop and realize the button had already been moved.....sure enough seat one had moved the button both times without letting me know......I tell seat one thanks for moving the button but let me know next time....to which he replies....well you should be paying attention to the game.....I give him the evil death stare and just tell him let me know alright. (was in a foul mood that day and didnt want to get into it)

One round later same things happens....get ready to deal the hand and notice the button jumped once again.....and once again tell seat one (more sternly) to once again I dont mind if you move the button but let me know to which he once again lays into me that I should be paying attention to the game (of course seat one is one of your typical 62 y/o 4/8 omaha playing miserable sack of **** who is so miserable he can barely stand himself) I argue back this time that others dont seem to have a problem either letting me move the button or letting me know and that he seems to be the only one who doesnt grasp this....he replies well the customer is always right to which I replied "I worked in retail for 8 years and it wasnt true in retail and sure true at the poker table...so just stop moving the dam button"

I think after my down there were at least four more floor calls and numerous misdeals by every dealer because of seat one that day and yet he still couldnt figure out he was the problem the whole time.


....oh yea the whole point is I dont mind if players move the button just let me know when you do it.

Dealing tonights omaha tournament and another gem comes up....

A younger woman is in seat four who hasnt played much omaha but is a good poker player and routinely does well in all of our tournaments and has picked up omaha pretty well. Seat five is a older gentleman who at least once a night throws out the fact that he has played omaha for 30 years and is probably one of the top Omaha players in the state.....spoiler, he is not. Well much to the chagrin of seat four he has been giving her coaching advice the whole tourney (most of it poor advice) and critiquing every move she made.


Well a hand breaks out and the board comes out A5679 rainbow on a pretty substantial size pot

Seat three tables A-x-6-8

Seat four 2-3-x-x

Seat five tables A-2-9-x

So i push the pot to seat three and four to which seat five instantly chimes in that he has nut low to which I reply "no you have live deuce and seat four has nut low". He argues a few more times and then changes that he had the high as well to which I once again say that no seat three has a live 8 for the straight to which he states he didnt see it and still thinks that some how he lost his part of the pot.

A couple hands later he is still going on how he thinks that he should have won that hand when seat four says to him "for someone who has played omaha for a long time you misread an awful lot of hands". Now while Ol'Gil is trying to keep from breaking out in laughter seat four goes into explaining to seat four "sweetie I have been playing poker and omaha longer than you have been alive and know more than you do....I won a bracelet in 1990-whatever in omaha" Seat four then replies "well true you have been playing longer than I have been alive but age doesnt mean you are better than anyone.....just means you have been losing money for longer than I have been around. Ol'Gil has now flipped a card because he is shaking from trying to control his laughter to which once again seat five brings up his bracelet from years ago and that he is better than she will ever be.

Little bit later she asks his name and looks him up online (guessing hendon mob or whatever to which she states you have no bracelet on record and only two cashes at circuit events and proceeds to pass the phone around the table to show everyone his limited results. After some more banter back n forth she tells hims to politely to shut up and that she is doing just fine without his crappy advice.

Too bad this woman has a fiancee because I think Ol'Gil fell in love with this woman....smart, good players and a quick wit....

Once I had a woman argue that I should know where the button is supposed to be anyway.

I told her if that were true we wouldn't need to have a button.

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Not sure if I'm in the wrong here and made a boo-boo or what but this guy had me questioning myself. I've seen many other dealers do the same thing, so, curious on your guys' opinions....

$2-$4 LHE, Had a player go off on me tonight....

Button, small blind, big blinds were out, and then UTG had just won a pot and there was a $1 chip out there pushed more towards the middle of the table than where a blind would be. You know, the "danger zone".

So instead of just scooping up the toke, I asked him, "Is that for me?". You know, because both blinds are out and there's a random $1 chip pushed towards me after he just won a pot. Makes sense, right?

And then he proceeds to say that I should never say, "Is that for me?" instead say, "Is that yours?" starts calling me names, starts muttering under his breath stuff I chose not to listen to. He hadn't tipped on the winning hand so IMO it was very legitimate to think that it was a tip given the placement of the chip and the situation. Apparently he just thought he was small blind (somehow).

I guess I may have been in the wrong in asking that question, but I have asked that question a million times when unsure and have never been met with such a negative response like that. 99% of the time it IS a toke, but I always want to make sure if it's not clear. If it's not a toke, the players just say "No that's my blind" or "Oops, I forgot to take that chip, sorry. Did I get you?"

Then, at the start of the hand, he proceeds to call $2 UTG and he throws his $2 into the middle of the table, and I ask, "Is that yours?" (per his advice, lol)

And the whole table starts laughing. He shut up after that.

He got up and took a break shortly after losing a couple big hands, and a couple of players at the table said they thought that guy made a big deal out of nothing and that they thought it was a tip, too. Proceeded to tell me he'd been miserable before I even pushed in.

So, is that a bad question to ask? Should I have phrased it differently? I've seen a million and one dealers ask that question when unsure. As a matter of fact, I've had it asked of me when playing. I never thought it was a big deal, I always thought it was a dealer being prudent in taking someone's money when unsure of if it's a toke.

Thoughts?

Sounds like the guy was a a typical miserable sack of **** and it didnt matter what you asked he was going to take exception. Normally I ask the player if it was theirs or mine but I think that was a situation where it didnt matter what you asked they were going to get mad.

Don't worry about bending over backwards for people determined to be miserable.

I worked in a forward moving button room previously. Since my between-hands autopilot reaches for the button, I would move the button to the right-edge of the past (effective button) seat. Should anyone attempt to come into the open seat and buy the button, I would fully move the button into the seat to reduce the ambiguity.

I would be super nice to them and pretend to not notice the miserableness. Confuses them and puts em off guard.

That's usually what I do, maintain good customer service regardless. It usually works.

I've turned a few stiffs into tippers this way. I will even go out of my way to say hello.

This. It's a beautiful sight to see their misery turn into confused frustration because I didn't engage them the way they had planned.

I have a few "rare/non-tipping regs" that tip me just fine and I always brag to my co-workers after I push out of the table to rub it in. Sometimes you CAN kill them with kindness.

Ordinarily I would say there's nothing wrong with what you did. Some dealers would have just dropped it which I'm not crazy about if there is even a slight uncertainty. The only way I would say you didn't handle it properly is if this player was a notorious non-tipper. If that's the case honestly I would have pushed it back to him without a word. If he is a tipper or a player you don't know very well, IMO what you did was fine.

He was a player I've never seen before.

I'll add to this: he probably left that chip there deliberately, to bait you into this nonsense.

We serve an audience of very, very emotionally damaged people. It seems even worse this time of year, these folks are even more attention-needy than usual.