It's a bit silly .. but we do have some 1/2 match tables in our area. It's just like a PLO table that's been open for hours .. the blinds mean nothing.

You'd think V would win or take down 1-2 pots per orbit to slow the fall unless these 'heroes' just weren't folding any pair and crossing fingers and everything fell into place. GL

The first week my previous room opened I sit down at a $1/2 table and seat 1 loses a couple hundred the first hand I dealt. He says "You F-ing piece of S- dealers should all be F-ing shot!"

I say something like you need to watch what you say, I didn't come in here to have someone threatening my life. I do this rather than calling the floor because I figure he'll either apologize and be fine or keep going and I can get him kicked out.

He does neither. He sits there silently with the ~800 he has left and spends the next 3 hands lighting it on fire. Then he continues to sit there for the next 15 minutes. Silently. Motionless. Staring straight ahead. It's the most afraid I've ever been of a player but I already laid out a path where I feel like I can't call the floor unless he starts talking again.

Finally, his friend comes over and says "Ready to go?" then they both leave together. I never saw him again and so far have not been shot.

Golden opportunity to deal around him and when he questions it that’s when you call the floor and advise “Seat 1 either said ‘You effing piece of s—- dealers need to be shot’ or ‘Deal around me’, so I dealt around him”

Nah. You get him straight 86ed for saying something like that in a room that is at all competent.

In that room he'd get a mild warning at most. There's a reason I'm not there any more.

Yeah that's sad, but I totally understand.

I had a funny one today.

I sat down at a table and my second or third hand, there was a flop, a bet and folds. As I was about to push the pot, two players who were not involved in the hand were discussing something and one of them openly asked me to rabbit hunt.

The policy of our room is no rabbit hunting.

Most rooms are like that for obvious reasons (slows the game down). Now I have practiced a technique where I can take the stub, while dropping it flip up the top few cards, push up the relevant cards up for a split second, then take the flipped up cards along with flop and flip them back face down. If done right, it takes no extra time and shows the cards that were going to come and is done in one motion. Plus, if push comes to shove, it can look like a fumble. Most players would not notice it unless they were looking for the rabbit hunt. I can play stupid if called out on it. It looks like some accidentally flipped over cards.

So these two guys not in the hand are talking and one asks to rabbit hunt. The player who asked is familiar. He is a semi-reg who I know his face, but I don't know him very well. Since the board had a straight flush draw on it and I know the face, I do my thing (straight flush never comes), and move on the next hand. The two players do nothing. No thank you or even acknowledgement.

Whatever.

In the ensuing few hands they continue to mumble and whisper among themselves.

Then the player who asked me to rabbit hunt wins a medium sized pot. Not large, but decent. Most dealers would expect a $1 tip. There is nothing. I am one of those dealers who never expects a tip. I always figure that I don't know their situation and that that one hand does not matter, I will make it up in the long run. So no biggie. Whatever.

A few hands later, the two players are whispering and not involved in the hand, and the one asks to rabbit hunt.

I look at him and say, I am sorry sir, it is the policy of this room that we do not allow rabbit hunting. I move on and start to shuffle.

He starts to get angry. He looks at me like I slapped him. He starts to say I am being unfair and I have already done it once. I repeat my speil that it is the policy of the room of no rabbit hunting.

He sputters, turns red, then gets up and walks away from the table. As I am dealing the next hand he comes back with the floorman in tow. As they get to the table, the floorman asks what is going on. The guy starts saying I wouldn't rabbit hunt for him. She immediately shuts him down and tells him that rabbit hunting is not allowed in the room.

The player says that I rabbit hunted for other players. I asked who I rabbit hunted for? He points to his friend and says I rabbit hunted when he asked (untrue, his friend never asked previously, he did).

To her credit, the floor quickly realized that this was stupid. She repeated that rabbit hunting was not allowed in the room.

A few hands later, there was a small hand, a reg I know wins the hand with a bet on the turn. He knows exactly what he is doing. 100%. There was a flush draw on the board and he bet his oppenent off it. As his oppenent folds, he smiles and asks to see the river.

It catches me completely off guard, but I quickly recover. I do my thing and show the river would have missed the flush. The player who went to the floor goes ballistic. He (correctly) accuses me of playing favorites. He asks why I showed the river to him.

I play dumb. It is one smooth move after all. No way to say otherwise.

The reg throws me a redbird while literally laughing his ass off.

It is rare, but when karma and life match up, life is beautiful.