YTF: You guys act like you've never seen a break-in dealer before. Oh, that's right--you haven't!

I don't know how many of you guys are in Las Vegas....but it has been an absolute joy, sweating your hockey team in!

ETA: I didn't think I'd like Game of Thrones...but these VGK pregame shows have me reconsidering that position.

ETA AGAIN: great tweet from a Capitals beat writer, to the effect of: "This is the most incredible atmosphere in the league--and this is during warm-ups!"

When I did tournaments there would sometimes be a small buy-in PLO-8 tournament on the schedule. I'd often start by leaving bets in front of players but the combination of nobody having exact change and many players being new to split pot games made things way more complicated than they needed to be so I'd just pull everything in.

Then I'd go to a new table and the one old split pot reg would start bitching about how it's easier to just leave the bets out. Not in pot limit tournaments, I say. That doesn't make any sense! How could it possibly be harder to leave them out!

Now in addition to keeping track of what's in the pot, I need to keep track of what's in front of each player, how much extra is in front of each player, and I need to keep answering questions about all of those numbers while calculating pot.

That doesn't make any sense!

My room is mostly made up of break-in dealers so the floors are in the habit of running over every time they see people gathering around a table, which they do when a huge pot develops. They're worried one of the new dealers will screw up.

I haven't trained all of the floors yet so they still do it to me sometimes, especially in PLO. After I get everything right they say they were watching (yes, I saw you hovering thanks) and tell me I did great but I'm not quite sure how to answer this. I don't feel like I did anything special other than stay calm and do simple math. I also know that if I mangle a pot it won't be in some crazy 5k pot with multiple side pots in 2-2 PLO (not exaggerating, just did one of those) it will be for $60 in 1-2NL.

I am picking up a few shifts at a local poker club as a dealer. Would appreciate any tips y'all might have. I understand poker pretty well, especially tourneys, but obviously it's different in the 0 seat! I have dealt a couple times for a casino party company, and dealt in a couple of poker academy classes.

There is no rake (membership/hourly fees), so don't have to worry about that.

I had my first shift last week, and dealt several tourney downs and one PLO8 cash game down with no big mistakes, but I would love any insights/resources that y'all might have.

Give yourself credit. Make it the 11 seat.


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But then I can't find it if we are playing 9 handed!

More brilliance from the land of 3/6

"If they took all the money these NFL teams paid their players, you could give every person in this country a million dollars. You'd instantly cure poverty overnight!"

Me: "So... there's 300 million people in this country. If they each got a million dollars, how much money is that?"

Whether he couldn't figure that out, or whether he realized how moronic what he said was, either way the silence was golden.

I had two guys battling the other night over who could say make the most factually-wrong statements. Within this discussion, they hit these particular points rapid-fire:

--The Florida Panthers no longer exist (they do)
--They moved to Winnepeg (they did not)
--The expansion St Louis Blues won the Stanley Cup in 1967 (they did not).

The last one was particularly bad, because they googled it, and that's the conclusion they arrived at! Guy has his phone in his hand, page opened to the result that said StL reached the Final in '67, and they promptly agreed that the Blues won the Cup that year.

These guys spoke for 20 straight minutes, and almost everything they said was factually inaccurate. I asked a friend at the table, "Are they putting my on?" I'm pretty sure they weren't. I told my friend that I feel like I should ring a bell every time they assert something I know to be incorrect.

I said "Ding!" five more times that down, before the push mercifully arrived.

BTW, I fact-checked myself before typing that, just to be 100% sure...and I found out something interesting during that process:

(trying to embed tweet so you'll see video, that never works easily for me.





https://twitter.com/youtalkfunny/sta...288104448?s=19

Haha love the Johnny Dangerously background

Answer what? Is there a question I missed?

He gave you an "atta boy". Say thanks.

PA: Yanni, your seat is available.

YTF: Did he say Yanni? Or Laurel?

I know, I just don't do well with compliments.

It wasn't a he, though.

To you it was an insult? Did she sound surprised that you got it right?

Couple of days ago a player paid a nice compliment to the waitress.
She looked at him like he called he a whore and said "This isn't my first time doing this." and stormed off.

SMH

Once when dealing a special event at a casino I didn't usually deal for (so the players didn't know me). A player who was eliminated said to me "You run a good game." As he left .....

All the other players immediately leapt to my defense.

Ugh. Screw WSOP

I got a gig where we get our tips in cash at the end of the night. It's interesting, everyone there declares the exact minimum that they have to. That seems like it's begging for a future audit. I figure it's gotta be a major red flag for the IRS to work a tipped position and happen to make exactly the bare minimum every single night for 2 years. Then again, maybe the figures they look at don't go day-to-day and wouldn't reveal that glaring oddity.

They probably have GITCA (tip compliance agreement).


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If they had a tip compliance agreement they would have no need to declare anything ... It is automatically declared.

I have no idea what that is, but it operates a lot like being a waiter/waitress. You clock out and declare what you made in the timeclock. You have to at least declare what puts you roughly at minimum wage, and that is precisely what everyone does. I'm not doing it, I like keeping money in the bank and not worrying about getting audited 5 years down the road. Also, it's the right thing to do and whatnot

Tip compliance is an agreement between the IRS, the employer and the employee on a certain hourly rate to be set for tip reporting. It is voluntary but if you agree to it your tip income is not subject to audit. So a dealer who works at a room with a tip compliance rate of $X who works 40 hours a week pays taxes on 40($X) per week. No need to declare a daily amount.

Well in the case of WSOP tournament, I don't seem to hear this often. They seem (or at least I seem to recall) they figured out several years ago, the pots in the tournament are chips with no specific cash value. The final hand may be a 50 million chip pot, but its cash value is maybe about $10 million and net closer to $5 million. (Both of which depend on the number of entrants and structure.)

It was a lot more common on the WPT final tables. I can even hear the above quote in Mike Sextons voice.

Some pretty girls walked by the poker room the other day. My table was at the railing. One of the girls was singing Lady Gaga's Poker Face song and another was needling the poker players in general ("I'm all in!" "He's got the nuts!"). One guy at my table said:

"Show us your [breasts]! I haven't seen a pair all day."

The tip compliance rate is between $10 and $11 depending on your shift, with night shift paying more. I'm not sure if you pay that in taxes or if your income is assumed to be that amount per hour and you pay taxes based on your assumed income.