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Originally Posted by youtalkfunny
When they're grumbling as I push them the pot, my standard line is, "I'm sorry, sir, but you just have to take the money."
I frequently run into players who grumble when i let them know its a kill pot, they seem to forget the two pots they just won and focus on the $6 or $8 dollar kill they have to post.
So, it goes like this sometimes...
push the player the pot triggering a kill, "Its a kill pot !"
grumble grumble grumble
"You don't want to kill it?"
No
This is where i stand up reach out and start to retrieve the chips i just pushed them and at the same time saying "Ok then, ill just take these back".
of course i never do, but it brings some levity to the situation, they always just laugh a little and then happily( it seems) post the kill amount.
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A story ive told here in other threads several times im sure about an experience with an angry player.
15 or 16 years ago dealing 1-3 stud on a riverboat in the midwest.
one guy is losing every hand he plays, he is getting crushed.
about 1/2 way through the down, he decides it is my fault, not only that, i am doing it to him on purpose. He continues and it the level of anger escalates over the next 10 minutes or so "*^&* dealer you are just trying to kill me aren't you" etc etc.
Finally after he calls me something or other i stopped the game and i looked him in the eye and asked him:
Do you really think i have the skill to intentionally "DO" this to you?
Yea your an ( insert expletive).
Then there is something you need to think about.
whats that?
IF i actually had the skill that you seem to think i have, why would you want to piss me off? and i smiled : )
The blank stare on his face was priceless, you could almost SEE the light bulb come on over his head. He didn't say another word to me the rest of that down or any other time i dealt to him that night( small room and we often rotated through the same game several times a night).