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Originally Posted by 6bet me
At my casino, the only time you're allowed to take chips off your stack is if you're giving them to the waitress in order to buy drinks.
I saw a hand where a guy had a $180 remaining stack on the river and the other player puts him all-in. The waitress comes and he pays $10 in chips for a pint of Carlton Draught before calling the river bet. Then he calls the river bet, loses, and hands his remaining $170 over to his opponent.
What are your thoughts on this?
Wouldn't bother me at all. Paying for drinks with chips is the norm - I've almost never seen anybody not pay with chips at the table. The timing was simply bad for the winner here, but the losing player did not order a drink for the purpose of going south $10. He also doesn't precisely control when the server comes by for his order or how long the beer takes to arrive, and he certainly does not make the server wait for him to finish the hand.
I get the mathematical technicality, but socially? Don't make a fuss here.
