He might have stolen it from someone but that doesn't change the fact that I am stealing it from him!

Hey, I think of LOTS of things that others have thought of long before me.

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Guy tosses in bet, one chip rolls out of control across the table.

A player remarks that round chips make no sense, square chips would prevent such accidents.

I assured him, "Then you guys would just throw 'em on the floor, or something."

It finally happened y’all

I watched somebody with the current winning hand invoke IWTSTH only to be shown that the other player didn’t see they had the nut flush.

Top-5 work moment right there.

Awesome

These are moments we live for.

Did anyone at the table start laughing? How much was the pot?

Ah... that’s great. Tournament or cash?

My room does not allow IWTSTH and I’m glad they don’t because believe me, our regs would abuse the **** out of it.

First down of the night tonight, first hand I deal (4-8 Omaha Hi):

Hand gets to showdown, player A tables a King high straight, player B tables a Queen high straight. I ship the pot to player A, gather the cards, push the button on the shuffler for the next deck, then....

Player B says “what happened? I had a straight too??”. I could tell she was new to the game by the way she handled her cards, chips, and how she would constantly look back at her hand and the board to figure out what she had.

I tell her, “Yes, you did have a straight but it was to the Queen. The winning hand was a straight to the King. You had J-8, the other player had K-J.”

She proceeds to argue with me, saying no she had J-9 (on a 9TQKK board). 4 other players chime in, saying she did indeed have J-8. At this point, I tell her I’ll call the floor and do so.

While waiting for the floor, I say to her, “If I did indeed make a mistake, I apologize. The floor will sort it out and make it right if I made an error.”

Floor comes over, asks me what the situation is. I tell them. Floor asks me how much was in the pot, I say $32 minus rake. Floor says they will be back shortly and go to the cameras.

A few minutes later, Floor returns and informs the woman that she did indeed have J-8 for a Queen high straight on a 9TQKK board and that the winner had K-J for a King high straight.

She says nothing to me. Continues to give me the evil eye as if I cheated her but wins a pot and still gives me a toke.

This is something that bothers me about low-limit poker players. They can never be wrong. If I make a mistake then I apologize, admit that I was wrong and have made a mistake. It happens, we’re all human.

Still would have rather had an apology or admission of a mistake having been made than the toke because I know by the way that she handled the situation it will inevitably happen again.

FYP

Just want to thank the mods here for keeping the break room clean.

Cash. I’d be all for abolishing the rule as well. If somebody suspects collusion, I’m okay with that, but if a player is going to ask to see a hand because they think collusion is happening, they’re going to have to give me a damn good reason why.



Maybe a bit more than $50, nothing major. Nobody laughed but I had to withhold my laughter till I got back to the podium.

Pleads guilty today. 10 days jail, 18 months probation. No alcohol at all during probation.

Permanently barred from that casino.

Just found this thread and enjoyed reading the last 10 or so pages. I'm just starting to considering going to a dealer school or something of the sort.

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A *lot* of PITA, disruptive, attention-seeking children to deal with last night. It seemed like at least one at every table.

The worst one came near the end of the shift--or at least, he seemed the worst because my patience was exhausted by the time I got to this table (and patience isn't exactly my long suit!).

This guy is in the 1-seat, and never stops speaking. 30 minutes of nonstop hyperactive nonsense. He's wearing my ear down to the nub. He's speaking every thought that pops into his head, and it's relentless.

After he loses a pot, he asks me, "Can I fire you?"

Easy answer: "I wish!"

Another player LOL's, tells me I'm the 4th straight dealer to give that exact answer.

Do these people just like the sound of their own voice?

These days I think I lean towards drugs (adderall or amphetamines) or mental illness being the cause. Not being mean, but it is some level of manic/social unawareness.

We have a few weekend regs who can’t physically stop talking.

I used to BE "that guy".

Yes, I DID love the sound of my voice. I also thought everything I said was hilarious...

... but above all, I didn't get enough attention as a Child, and grew up into an attention-seeking, disruptive, annoying person.

I was in my 30's before I realized that I was the problem.

I'm better now.

Today's poker room april fool's jokes...

1. Got a dual rate friend to write up a memorandum stating that effective immediately when running chips for a player, cash bills must be placed in an upside down chip rack held in one hand kept in full view of the cameras at all times.

2. Our tables are too large, to the point where some of the smaller dealers use a croupier stick to grab chips from the 3/7 seats. Today I'm using a Popsicle stick.

3. Got a supervisor in on the deal for the preshift huddle. "Working on improving hand counts for the month of April. Whenever you have a hand that does not go to the flop, simply push all the mucked cards aside, move the button, and deal out the next hand with the remaining stub. This will reduce shuffle time."

Hello all,

I'm a player lurker who has really enjoyed learning about the game from the dealer's perspective. Because this is the breakroom I have never posted out of respect for your space, but I hope I have been more courteous to dealers and respectful of game flow at the tables I play because of things I have become aware of here.

I had a situation at a 1-2 table a couple of weeks back that I'm not sure about and wanted to get a dealer's perspective on. I'm UTG+2 at the beginning of a straddle hand. The rules in this room are that staddles are $5 instead of 2x the BB. UTG+1 tosses out a redbird and I do the same. The button makes it $35. The straddle calls and UTG+1 folds. My weak speculative two cards are not worth $30 more so I fold also. As the dealer is pulling in the chips he seems not to have realized that UTG was straddling because he gives both UTG+1 and me $3 back.

I hesitate during the action on the flop trying to figure out whether what I thought happened, happened. I whisper to UTG+1 asking whether UTG was initially a straddle and he nods. I'm not sure if he didn't notice or was just content to take the $3 and not say anything, but I decide that in fairness to the eventual winner of the hand I need to return the $3 to the pot. So after the turn, while the dealer is waiting on action from one of the players still left in the hand I toss $3 back towards the pot and say quietly to the dealer, "It was a straddle." After I do UTG+1 does the same.

My question is, does this show up the dealer or create problems if anyone from surveillance should happen to be watching? I was trying to be honest and respect the integrity of the pot for that hand. But for the rest of the down the dealer seemed to have a scowl on his face, didn't say more than 5 words and never made eye contact with me. This dealer is normally a very outgoing and high energy guy. It could be totally unrelated of course, but I was wondering if by trying to do right I offended the dealer. Would you prefer that the player just keep the change and not interrupt the rest of the hand? Is there a different/better way of squaring the pot?

You did nothing wrong there. The dealer was upset with himself, and may have already been having a bad day. He may have just come from a table where a captain was constantly telling him what to do and you just triggered a flashback. It happens to me sometimes and I realize after the fact that I unjustly directed my frustration on a player.

As good as some of us think we are, we all make mistakes and rely on the players to keep an eye on us.

Don’t you take the hand and slap the muck with it and then Reveal it, meaning it’s a dead hand?

Standard rules state that if the winner (so far) of the hand asks to see another hand, that hand is now live and considered tabled at showdown, eligible to win the pot. I'd love to see that happen myself.

I had a bad Table Captains week. They're telling me how to figure side pots, how to make change...all with the perspective of "being fast is much more important than being right." I haven't needed anyone's help yet, but if I pause for 0.4 seconds to double-check my math before proceeding, they take that as a cry for help, AND as an opportunity to show everyone they're the smartest kid in the class.

I just want to ask these guys, "How do you imagine this room gets by without you, those times you're not here to help us?"

Had a great one the other night. Five minutes before we race off the green chips. TC grabs a rack, buys up all he can. He calls out to the TD that he has 3k in green. TD buys them.

Immediately I get 4-way action preflop. One guy all-in for 1575, another all-in for 3450, and two callers, who had little-to-none green chips.

I don't know if I have enough green on the table to make this work, but I guess we'll find out. The one thing I'm sure of: there's certainly no need to panic.

But panic, they did.

TC was the most panicked. He jumped out of his chair, and ran to the TD to get Green Chip Reinforcements.

I announce that I'm going to take 1575 from each player to the main pot. I start with the all-in player, which puts 3 greens in the main, so I'm able to make change for the other three guys! Change for you, change for you, and change for--

The last guy stops me. He doesn't have any green, so he has 3500 out there to call the 3450. He wants his 50 change. He hasn't listened to anything I've said yet.

"I know," I assured him, "but first, let me take 1575 to the middle..."

He repeated why he should get 50 back, and the player next to him echoed that notion. They're both talking over each other, and I silence them with, "Guys! Stop Talking, and listen a minute! I'm gonna take 1575 to the middle..." I took two of his 1k chips, gave him 425 change.

Whatever the next all-inguy had, I took a similar amount from the two callers...and had just enough green to pull it off. Maybe we'll actually see a flop sometime tonight...

As I'm setting up the side pot, TC and TD arrive, armed with green. TD announces, "Hold up, YTF, we're gonna give you some green--"

In my best Annoyed Moe Howard voice, I snarl at TD and TC, "What are you two *doing*???"

They freeze, shut up, and stay out of my way. I spread the flop, and vent, "if I didn't have all this help, we'd be on the river by now!"

I'm glad "one player buys up the green" has never caught on around these parts.