I feel naked without my wallet/ID. Cannot imagine leaving the house without either, even to run to the store for a pack of gum.

Generally from what I have seen, 75% of people in the casino who refuse players cards and or dont have their id's are barred from that place for one reason or another. However the way I look at it our room saved about $10k in promo money in people hitting promos and suddenly leaving and never coming back.



Tonight we were graced with the presence of about 6-8 folks from the local free bar poker league in our tournament tonight and about 6-8 of them were a giant pain in the ass. Couple of the highlights were a few of them who freaked out every single time they threw an oversized chip in and didnt get their change at that split second.....had to explain to them several times that I wait until action is finished to give change in case of a raise that way nobody gets confused.

Had a couple of people who decided they were helping out by handing out change while action was still going on and or grabbing other's called chips and making change for themselves. Had to call three different string bets tonight because they were making what I call "movie calls", the whole "Ill see your thousand and raise you a thousand"

Saw another player get a penalty tonight because he grabbed his buddy's mucked hand and exposed it with action still pending and him wondering what the big deal was. Had another middle aged woman scold me for enforcing the rules and not allowing the others to have more fun as she put it.

At the final table two of the dorks somehow backed their way into the final table and were heads up all in preflop and pull the whole you show....no you show....no you show until I barked at both of them to flip their hands to which they both were puzzled by this and wanted the floor to make the decision.......man I hate free poker players....

2 minutes? He must have wasted some of the allotted time somehow ... certainly wasn't a high hand promo, eh?

There was a reg slot couple at our local casino. They both knew there were $10K drawings going on that day. Grandma gets cold and sends Grandpa to the car for a sweater just as one of the drawings is about to take place. Of course, Grandpa's name is drawn ... Grandma starts calling him (flip phone, he don't do texts!) ... He thinks she just wants him to 'hurry up' with the sweater, ignores calls. Well, about 17 minutes later he was 2 minutes late for the $10K. (Luckily the next name drawn was a fish from the poker room who dumped about $4k of it that night!!) GL

$1M BBJ hit in Detroit Tuesday night around Midnight, 6 handed 2-5 RxR, $400K, $200K, 4x$100K

Word is the Dealer got about $12K GL


PS .. I know where the TCT is ...

I had to laugh out loud the time a sketchwad was asked to produce ID for a promo. He pulls out his wallet, opens it, and there is *nothing* inside. No ID. No money. No old crumpled parking receipt.

Did he think carrying around a wallet was a status symbol or something?

"RxR"?

I presume he means round by/for round, or a mix of NLHE and PLO. I can't imagine PLO qualifies for the BBJ, which makes this game qualifying kinda weird, but so is a $1M jackpot so who knows.

So is not having straight flushes qualify. I wonder how many times it would have hit over the time-frame if it wasn't just Quads.

??

TCT?

RxR is Round by Round ... PLO one orbit, then NL one orbit, changes at Dealer .. repeat.

TCT .. Tipping Containment Thread

This room does have it's own PLO BBJ (TTTTx beat by anything). It's much smaller and I have no clue how they calculate what to put in since there are RxR tables as well as PLO only games running and they don't pull the drops between game changes.

This room also has a 'mini' BBJ for AAAKK getting beat by Quads or better. This jackpot gets hit about once a month or so in this very busy room. So if Quads gets beat by SFlush it's a mini .. not 'the big one'. My pet peeve here is that it should be 10% of the main BBJ to keep the main BBJ under control, but it somehow has it's own pot that can be as low as $10K if it hits quickly, while the main is at $500K plus.

The main went 14 months, about 2.5 million live hands in my estimation before hitting this week. It normally hits about every 6-9 months.

This room also has a 'suit of the day' .. If you get a Royal in that suit you win some extra $$.

This room is due for a remodel as it takes about 6 Floors to run the 20+ tables that operate in 2 different (close) areas. One of the biggest challenges is all the table changes since most of the players want to be in the main poker room where all the TVs and less smoke are compared to the slot area the poker room took over for more tables. GL

I do mostly tournaments and there are several players who simply never have an id when they check in even though they know we always ask and they absolutely need one if they cash out. I think I figured out that it's because their backer holds onto the id. That way they can't cash in the tournament and dump it all in the pits before the backer gets their share.

Also for some it seems to be a status symbol. They're so important we should know who they are. I asked one guy I'd never seen before for his id so he shows me his Commerce players card with a picture on the back. At most casinos you have to dump a lot of money or know someone to get one of those cards, but given that it was a totally unrelated casino in Florida I told him I needed an actual id. He pulls out a card from the Bicycle club. He continues to argue that it has his picture on it and I should just give him his chips. I call the floor who begs him to show ANYTHING else or find one person who knows him there and he can't but eventually the floor gives in and lets him play. As the floor is walking away the guy laughs and pulls his passport out of his pocket.

When I hear a rule like that I assume it was a mistake made when they drafted the rules .... It seems more likely than it was intended that way.

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What a d-bag lmao

It boggles my mind when I ask somebody for their ID for whatever reason and they take more than 3 seconds to find it because they need to check 16 pockets.

My first sportsbook job, they give us ticket writers a device to detect phony $100 bills. We were instructed to rub the bill on this device, and a light would come on if the bill was good.

One day the light wouldn't come on. I called my boss over. He tried it, it wouldn't light up.

The boss told me to just take the bill any way.

I never bothered with that device again. Why bother, if we're going to use it in this manner?

I thought of that story when Reducto's boss said, "No ID? You SURE? OK, don't worry about it, sit down and play."

If I saw my boss do that, I'd never ask for an ID again. Why would I? We let people without ID play any way, what's the point of the charade?

I still ask for id because sometimes people grab someone else's players card by mistake and use that to register. Usually it's their wife or whatever but sometimes it's someone who happened to sit next to them in a cash game the night before.

If we don't catch the problem until after they cash it becomes a big mess and might come back to annoy me.

In some states gaming is actually watching and may write me up for not checking. If someone in a suit tells me the player is ok, I won't be the one getting written up.

How many hands of Omaha do you guys get in per down?

I'm going to say this is highly dependent on the players (and yes, sometimes the dealer obviously).

Some games it can go almost as fast as holdem and others it's like molasses.

It can probably go as fast as NL hold'em, but never as fast as LHE.

PLO? Limit Omaha? High Low? these things all matter.

Limit Omaha


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PLO or Limit H/L Omaha?

Probably not a huge difference between the 2. They're both slow. Almost as slow as 7 card stud.

Our Bravo reports show our dealers do an average of 21.79 HPH in O8. That's over 2 and a half years since we put Bravo in. Technically should be a bit higher as chopped (non-raked) hands are not recorded, but those are rare in that game unless it's short-handed.

My experience with low limit O8 is that I am happy if I can get 3 hands out .... Since there is usually at least 3 players who bring the game to a complete crawl. If they happen to not be there then the game moves much faster.....

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We spread midstakes limit Omaha high only on a regular basis. Average a bit over 25hph vs closer to 35hph limit hold'em at the same stakes.

I was referring to Limit Omaha Hi/Lo, by the way.