Background check is done and I start next week!

I know we all know the rule, but how many can actually say they saw it happen?...now I can! I was substitute DR floor/dealer at one of our sister rooms across town.

9 seat cash game. Button on 1. Board; 10 4 7 A 8. On the river 6 bets, 9 shoves AI. 6 calls. 6 turns over A6. At this time 9 nudges me and shows me 10 8 and proceeds to throw hand face down. My first thought is she is giving this guy the pot because he was on a bad losing streak and seemed sad, and she had some chips. However the pot was still around $250 (its a 1-2 NL) so that couldnt be it. Then I just figured she didnt see she hit 2 pair. Oh well tough break...or was it. 6 has a bad habit of asking to see hands in these situations because he called the bet on the river, and wants her to show. I managed not to grin, but for some reason couldnt help but ask "are you sure" (I was holding back saying her hand is live if she shows because it felt like I would be swaying his decision because of what I saw, so the "are you sure' came out instead). He said yes. I flipped her hand up and gave her the pot.

He was a bit upset but stayed calm. All of a sudden players were searching the Internet to find if this was the rule. I said after the dealer came back from break I would show them the rule (they even searched here too - OBVS in agreement with my ruling). I showed him the rule and he grunted and said "gee, I guess Im not doing that anymore".

I'm resisting the urge to criticize "Are you sure?", because I probably would've said something even worse.

Such as, "OK, you asked for it...."

"Ladies and Gentlemen, the winner is..."

Love it!

Step 1: Volunteer to deal A 50k guarantee across town for the weekend.

Step 2: Show up and deal their mother ****ing jackpot in a live game.

Step 3: Leave after half a day's work and ride off into the sunset never to be seen again.

Or 2+2 forum pages....

Aren't the jackpots pooled between the properties?

WSOP 2012, I was dealing cash games. At one table, I deal out a Royal to a guy who didn't get paid off. The next table, I dealt another Royal (with 4 on the board) that the guy did get paid off on. A table later, yet another Royal (4 on the board); I think he got something but not a big pay off.

I was the floor for this exact situation once several years ago. One of my favorite floor calls ever!

When I dealt (and how I trained dealers) when turning up a hand asked to be seen by an apparent winner, I always announced "this is a live hand" as I turned it up.

Yeah I say that when appropriate.

Only had it change the result of a hand once.

Never heard of this. It's terrific.

It's just so satisfying when it is one of those guys that wants to see the cards every damn time they can. I hope you all get the opportunity to have this result at least once in your career. It will at least make your day.

I'm sure when that "opportunity" knocks on MY door, I'll try to push the pot to the winner; the players will howl and stop me, because they never heard that rule, and they've all been playing for 20 years and know everything; the floor will be called; and I'll draw the floorman who's never heard of it, either.

Daily tourney. All-in, call. Daily Tourney Reg turns up the better hand, but loses the runout, and most of his chips. Frustrated, DTR manages a stoic, at-least-half-sincere "Nice hand," as he pays off.

As I ship the pot, DTR repeats a little louder, "Nice hand," and gets more frustrated. "I've said that twice now. He still hasn't said anything!"

Still no response. His frustration builds, off an already sky-high baseline of getting most of his chips in while ahead and losing. He adds, a little louder, "Either he didn't hear me, or he's a d***!" The old passive-aggressive, "Don't accuse me of calling him names, I wasn't talking to HIM, I was talking to this guy next to me!" page out of the Adult Day Care playbook.

Still no one will acknowledge any of this. Not the winner, not me, not any other player, so he keeps going. "I'm betting 'd***'!"

Man, the way these guys tie their delicate, fragile, brittle, easily-shatter-able egos to the outcome of a hand of poker!

He finally lets it go, but a few hands later, he gets his tiny stack in there, and happens to get busted by the same player. He was ahead on one of the betting rounds, so that makes this, too, a provocative injustice beyond endurance. A super-sarcastic "Nice hand," and as expected, he draws no response. He gathers his things, and announces he's going to the cage to re-enter, and "I *hope* I draw this table again!"

SMH.

Two minutes later, DTR is back, grinning ear to ear. He shows his receipt, and takes his new seat at this same table. He's so EXCITED. He's literally hopping from one foot to the other, as he sets up his backpack, drink table, etc. He's still seated next to the same player he was "talking to" before (who has yet to join him conversation, but politely listens to this nonsense). He takes his seat, literally rubbing his hands together rapidly in anticipation of sweet, sweet revenge against the villain in his mind...

At this point, I must share with the reader that I know something DTR doesn't: the guy he's angry at, for not acknowledging him? HE'S MUTE!

Remember that first hand, that started all this? "Villain" went all-in, and DTR called. At that point, "Villain", slightly agitated by the excitement of the all-in moment, gestured to DTR to turn his cards up. He was also grunting, slightly; and working to hard to portray, via body language, that he is eager to turn up his own cards, as soon as he sees DTR's. I have seen mute players act this way before when excited, and i quickly surmised that he was mute, too.

All this was lost on DTR (in fairness, he got sidetracked dealing with the highly offensive notion of being instructed to turn his hand up first after making the call--he didn't notice those instructions were wordless, closed-mouth grunts). That made those ten minutes of his running his mouth even more unbearable. I was relieved when he busted out, but when he came *back*, and showed no signs of slowing, I knew I had to get involved....but how? I know DTR enough that he won't take a word of "Hey, cool it, huh?" as helpful, he'll see it as provocation and escalate things. Calling the floor would result in the same. The best way to go is to point out he's angry at a mute person who won't speak to him, but how the hell do I do THAT? It does not sound like a polite thing to SAY in front of the afflicted person, does it? And imagine how embarrassed I would be if I were wrong about his perceived condition???

I decide upon my ridiculous plan: I've got to pass a note to this guy. This paragraph makes ME look even more ridiculous than HIM, doesn't it?

The only paper I have available is the down card, the paper I signed to get a share of the tournament tokes. The back of this card is blank, so I write, "Has it occurred to you that he CAN'T speak?" It takes a minute to write all that, when you have to keep dropping the pen to pull in the bets and put out the next card. While this was going on, DTR and his polite neighbor were quietly having a side conversation.

As I finished my composition, DTR politely pointed out to me that when I gave him his chips upon re-entry, I did not give him the bounty ticket that each player is issued. He used the words, "I need one of those." I gave him the bounty ticket, then added, "You need this, too," and shipped my note.

He read it, grimaced, and handed me back my down card. "Yeah, I figured it out about two minutes ago. That's what (my polite neighbor and I) were just discussing. "

The push came.

The apology didn't.

Mute? or Deaf? No reaction from a deaf person makes a lot more sense than no reaction from a mute one.

Probably both. Almost certainly one.

Almost all (maybe all?) the mute people I know have also been deaf. I've seen variations on this story over the years and usually they have a little notepad/pen and either give me or the aggrieved player a note if they notice someone is getting upset. I imagine other times they either don't notice/know/care.

Even though dude didn't apologize I feel better that he at least recognized he was wrong.

I've never seen the notepad thing...but then again, my only experience in this realm is with poker players, who take the word "inconsiderate" to new levels.

I knew a deaf mute poker player once that appeared to be able to say two words and sometimes combined them. "*******" and "dealer"

I'm always so happy to have a deaf player at my table. They are almost always way more attentive than everyone else.

I've come to accept that getting people with cards to redirect their attention back to the game when it's their turn to act, is now just a routine part of the job. I'm not even mad any more. That's my new job. Between pitching the cards and pushing the pot, I'm the "It's Your Turn" attendant.

Well if that is our job I feel we should be given better equipment .... Like a long stick.

We once hosted a tournament for a large deaf group, about 50 people, but they said anybody was allowed to enter as well. So my first table is 8 deaf people. It becomes clear very quickly the deaf people have all played a lot, they all follow the action very well, they have clear signs for raising, there are no arguments, this is the smoothest a table has ever gone for me. Not to mention the blissful peace and quiet. It was heaven.

A semi-reg(who is not deaf) late reg's and gets drawn on my table. He doesn't play the first few hands, he just watches the deaf people and their hand signals for raise amounts when they don't have the correct change. So the next hand, he gives me the raise signal (a thumbs up jabbing upwards) and shows me 6 fingers (blinds are 100/200). I cant resist.

"I should have mentioned, you are allowed to talk!"