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Originally Posted by 6bet me
But it changes the odds.
It doesn’t.
You just have to look at a players stack as liquid [pun intended]. When you start a hand, you know the other players stack is $180 minus whatever he spends on various things during the hand.
In most casinos that charge for drinks, customers pay for them when they are served, minutes after ordering them. So other players already know the guy will ‘lose’ $10 from his stack in the not too distant future and can adjust for that by calculating the odds of the waitress getting there within the hand. Maybe the odds of his beer getting there are 20% before the turn, 50% before the river and 50-100% during the time he tanks on the river.
Btw., I just remembered a somewhat funny drink service anecdote along the lines of this thread: guy faces an all-in decision on the river, thinks for maybe 30 seconds, then looks around and sees the waitress serving drinks two tables over. He yells to her that if she wants to have a red chip as tip for his beverage, she has to come over now before he calls all-in. So she walks over, hands him his drink, collects the tip and then walks back to the other table. Took the rest of us a couple more minutes before she got back to us with the remaining drinks for our table. And the guy who got his beverage early, obviously had won the all-in and voiced his excitement for getting served early.