That's why it took awhile to convince them.

I mis-typed. Nobody had an ace, 2, 3, or 9.

I agree, but since he is wanting to know for an audition, shouldn't he do it the technically correct way or do most in an audition want it the other way?

I think this will depend. If the people giving the audition are people who actual deal and or play Omaha you should probably do it the way it is actually done on games. If you are auditioning for "instructor" types do it the formal way.

Very rarely do I make comments to players like this, but I was about halfway through a crappy 3/6 down and have only dropped $1 so far. And this was immediately following a crappy 3/6 down where I probably dropped $6 or $7 total, so I was pretty irritated when this hand went down.

Notoriously slow player who almost never tips was in the pot with another guy who tosses a buck your way on any pot over ~$30. Well it gets to the river, pot just hit $50 following the turn as I just changed the rake to a redbird, third club comes in, no paired board or straight flush possibilities. Decent guy bets, slow guy 2-bets, decent guy 3-bets, slow guy tanks for like a minute and finally calls. Decent guy tables the nut flush, slow guy shakes his head, looks at his cards, back at the board, back at his cards, the whole spiel. I swiped his $18 into the pot and pushed it to the other guy, and slow guy speaks up "why are you pushing him the pot, I still have cards." (I forgot to mention that he's a major rules stickler as well) So I speak up, "why do you still have cards, literally nothing beats his cards." The whole table started laughing, and the slow guy finally gave up his cards after a few more seconds. Decent guy said thanks and threw me $3, which is the first time he's ever tipped me more than $1 in about 2 years, and after this hand I was tipped on every hand by everyone, even people who are very hit or miss. Turns out not many people like that slow guy, and despite it being unprofessional I made myself some extra money that down.

Maybe just me .. but I don't want anyone to say 'nut' anything ...

... All it does is possibly pile onto the fact that someone was putting in chips drawing dead (and they might just win the next hand). GL

PS ... Can't say I've never used the phrase, just putting it out there that the implications are different when coming from the Dealer's chair.

The point was to pile on....

Stud players are eligible for Aces Cracked, so once a week we get a $2-4 stud game that rarely sees a $20 pot, despite the enormous $.50 ante (no joke, that's a stiff ante for a $5-10 game, let alone $2-4), full of folks who think they're the only ones smart enough to see that a third hole card gives them all the best of it.

Promo ends right before I push in, half the players have left, the other half of these "advantage players" linger in hopes of the huge Players' Share of the bbj. The following hand ensues:

Antes: $2.
3rd street: $1 bring-in, one call ($4 now in pot.)
4th street: check
5th: check
6th: check
7th: bet $4, call.

Showdown: KKK44 beats QQQ33.

What???

OMG.

Just shoot me.

My $.02 about the Omaha discussion. Some of "what you are supposed to do" varies by room. In our room we wait until someone asks, "what is his low" to announce what it is, and then at that point it is a top-down announcement, until you get to the point that one player has a better low. Early on you may not be as quick with the "live deuce" call but that will come in time. As someone said, be careful when one player has 1 live card and another has 2. Most cases the player with 2 live cards will win, but not if his live card(s) is higher than the board's low cards.

Again, room dependent, but in our room we do not push the cards up in Omaha unless it gets to a confusing situation where the dealer needs to confirm to the players as to what is happening. The reason for this that it is a hi/low game. The dealer could be pushing up low cards but the players get confused and think he's pushing up high cards. Best to just leave the cards out and make sure other players can see cards that just got tabled.

Wait how does aces cracked work in stud????

And yes that game sounds like i would want to swallow a gallon of bleach. Apparently lately in my room we have been getting a 2/4 omaha game in the mornings that is brutal....most pots don't make it higher than $20.....luckily the game either fizzles out or morphs into 4/8 by the time I come in. I heard a story of a dealer who actually fell asleep in the box dealing the 2/4 game a few weeks ago.

In all fairness I have fallen asleep in the box in all types and stakes of games.

It doesn't matter which hole cards were AA, first, second, or seventh. That's why these sharpies start up the game. They preen about the room, nodding and pointing to their heads, the way the bad-guy wrestler does to pantomime "I'm so smart!" to the crowd.

YTF that is interesting to have aces cracked available in stud......of course the regs thinking that they have an advantage with an extra card yet not realizing the slower game negates that.

One thing I think you should suggest to your management is that to qualify for any promotion you guys should require the pots to get to a certain amount (usually where you take your last promo $) It will instantly improve those wretched games you describe as there will actually be pots worth playing for, plus the house will be able to collect more rake, and hopefully you guys will make a few more bucks too it should be a win win for everyone. My room use to not have a requirement and we would have miserable games of nothing but checked down $5 pots.

We got rid of Aces Cracked on my shift. This current iteration is a football promo, winners get a scratch-off card, promo ends when all the prizes are gone...so it's usually over, or almost over, by the time my shift begins.

One other thing, this post needs more love:

I want to come play in this game.

I'd make you a big favorite to crush it. Enjoy the $7/hr!

Late rounds of a MTT, the blinds are 2500 and 5000 with a 500 ante. 8 handed at my table and the avg stack is a little over 100,000. I deal a full 30 minutes and not a single player is knocked out at my table despite a handful of called all-ins.

I feel like such a failure.

I think the actual result is the game would either break or the players would successfully lobby to not allow me to play.

OMG they would hate you. You'd be railroaded out in no time.

There was once a locals casino in Las Vegas that switched from 2 to 1 blind when I refused to play with one 1 blind when the game got short.

Another time there was a casino I worked in that the stud players lobbied management that I not be allowed to play for raising too often.

Ugh, I remember working Aces cracked where all the players would freak the hell out when someone was raising pots and all try to table change or school them on how to play. And I loved that person who was making their lives miserable.

LOL WTF man?!

Old-school dealer gets stuck running chips for a while. He comes over to my table, picks up some $20's that are folded in half. "Feels like $60," he announces, before opening them up, fanning them out, and proving $60 to the cameras. He then nonchalantly heads for the cage with the money.

A few eyebrows went up around the table. I cracked, "He used to work for the cartel, he counts his money by weighing it!"

Why get a fill for $60? Where I work, management gets on your ass for asking for fills too frequently.

Can we accept the fact that he might have been running chips for a player and move on?