Fantastic.

--Saw an "I hate poker" t-shirt the other day. I MUST HAVE IT!

--I met a guy in my pool league several months ago. He's a really nice guy. He and I are very close in skill level. We both are among the best players in this entry-level league. We REALLY enjoy playing each other--besides being equally-matched, we also have similar Good Sports dispositions. We want to win, but we don't get mad and throw things and pout after a loss, the post-game congrats are always sincere compliments. It's just a pleasure to be around this guy, is my point.

When he asked what I did for work, he responded, "oh yeah? I play there sometimes!"

Last night was the first time I've seen him in there since we've met. He called out to me while I was waiting to push into a nearby table. Big smiles, handshake, small talk, then I had to push.

Later that night, the young dealer at his table who saw this exchange asked how I knew that guy. He heard my answer, then gushed about what nice guy he is.

That's where we work. We're surrounded by folks who play a game, and a guy who's a good sport about it, makes us feel like we saw a unicorn.

Button is in 7, seats 8 and 1 are empty, seat 9 has a $5 chip in front of him.

Me to table: There is no small blind this hand, there is only a big blind right here. I tap on the chip at S9. Now I make eye contact with seat 2. He is not wearing headphones, having a conversation with anyone, or watching the TV.

Me: You are not the big blind, you are under the gun.
S2: Is there one big blind?
Me: Yes, over here (gesturing to S9)

I deal out the cards, he limps under the gun, hand finishes and I prepare to deal the next.

S2 puts out one dollar.

Me: You are the big blind.
S2: I was just the big blind last hand!
Me: No, you limped in under the gun.
S2: That's not what you told me! You said there was one big blind!
Me: Yes, and it was over here.
S2: That's not what I heard! You told me I was the big blind!
Me: I can't control what you heard, I only know what I said.
S2: Well I heard you tell me I was the big blind!

Then why did you put your 'blind' out after you looked at your cards? GL

We had the main event of a big regional tourney last night. It was broadcast online on a delay, and we had the feed on tv's throughout the room. Mostly local guys at the final table, first prize just over $100k, so it was tough to keep the games moving with everyone so invested in the tv's.

One guy was WAY too into it. He was literally hopping out of his chair and running over to the nearest tv to get a better look, then coming back and giving his play-by-play commentary to no one in particular. He couldn't sit, he couldn't stop talking, and he certainly couldn't be bothered to know when it was his turn to act. It was getting old, for me. We had this exchange, as I tried to get him to post his BB:

HIM: (excited) The big blind is 80,000!

YTF: (annoyed) The big blind is $2.

(wow, he actually posted the $2. A few players chuckled.)

PLAYER: I got knocked out of the tournament already! It took me more time to drive here, than I spent playing in the tournament!

YTF: I had a date like that once.

BIG MOUTH: (pointing to empty chair) What happened to that guy?

HIS NEIGHBOR: He got sick of listening to YOU.

Dealer just askd me my opinion on the following.

2 players are heads up on the river. Player 1 leads for $15. Player 2 says "raise 30" and proceeds to throw out $30 total in chips. Player 1 insists that that "raise 30" means the raise should be 30 more and thus 45 total. Player 2 states that he only wanted to make it 30 total.

What is the correct ruling?

You use context clues to determine the bet because this happens every other hand.

The bet is now $30 because it is exceptionally clear that was the intended bet. Anyone who argues against this is a supernit angleshooter and can gtfo. "but he paused 0.32 seconds between 'raise' and 'thirty' so that means blah blah blah'". No. Stfu.

Had he said "Raise thirty" and released $45 in chips, the bet would be $45 for the same reason.

Am I the only one that hates when the small blind raises and says "800 on top" and places 800 on top of the 75 small blind when facing a previous raise of 400?

I'm always dreading 3 different people at the table shouting about what they think the raise amount should be.

Nobody shouts when this happens at my table, because I immediately correct him to put in 75 more.

YTF: 800 on top, makes it 950 to go! 800 more to you, BB!

Dealer told me the floor ruled player 2 had to make it 45.

Floor is terrible then.

To someone new to poker it is perfectly reasonable to believe that raise 30 means increase the bet by 30. It's in my opinion correct to think that.

However that is not in fact how poker is played. In common usage raise 30 means raise TO 30. Because of this conflict it's best to use the other context clues to figure out the players action.

PLAYER: (snaps out of daydream to see me looking at him) What!

YTF: (rolling eyes) What do you think???

(I swear, this happened TWICE tonight, within an hour or two, on different tables.)

BBJ hit at our place tonight. As I pushed into a game at the far end of the room, the players were listing all the bad parts of winning a BBJ: the taxes, the fear of being robbed, etc. One guy opined that he'd request a check, but another countered that he heard of a guy who ended up with a worthless check because they voided the BBJ *after* they had paid it out, and stopped payment on the checks issued, while those who didn't elect to receive a check were able to leave with cash-money.

I stood there for five minutes while this final hand of 2-100 SLHE played out. Five minutes of BBJ horror stories, real and imagined. While someone tanked endlessly, I cracked to the dealer I was pushing, "Every silver lining has a cloud, I guess."

Is anyone here currently dealing or flooring in PA? Please pm me I have some questions? Thanks

sb was facing a raise to 400 in my hypothetical.

It seemed like BBJ urban legends were more of a thing back in like 05 when I played limit.

Dont talk about the BBJ during the hand or they will void it.

Dont wear a hat/hoodie or they wont pay you.

If the shuffler is down/slow and the dealer hand shuffles it wont count.

There are probably more. Im pretty sure I heard them all at least once per session.

If your phone is on the felt they won't pay the BBJ is another popular one.

Or if you have your chips in a rack it voids it.

My standard joke, when sitting down after pushing a cute girl, is to tell the guys on either side of me, "OK, she's gone--move over!"

Then, when they grumble about it, I assure them, "It's not just you guys, I gotta say that at *every* table when I'm pushing her!"

Last night, I tagged it (as the comics say) with, "I gotta join the #MeToo movement, to get you guys OFF me!"

That joke bombed.

You gotta know when to get off, as the comics say.

Talk about BBJ being voided, one was voided yesterday due to the fact they were both on the blinds and agreed to see the board and not chop (this place pays bonus hands for quads, str8 flushes and royals).

Needless to say, small blind completed, big blind checks... and they both keep checking really fast as dealer just burns turns and burns and rivers.
One of the players gets up and starts cheering yelling “see that’s why wanted to see the board, I got quad A’s” as the other dude flips over a Royal and everyone starts cheering!

I’ll leave it all to you guys to guess WHY IT WASN’T paid!

Guess away!


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Gonna guess the pot minimum wasn’t reached. Had the same thing happen at our place a few months back except they weren’t checking it down, they were just the two biggest nits on the planet.

Minimum wasn’t met in the pot.