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Originally Posted by Fore
Not accurate. Even in cash games you are supposed to keep your chips is a reasonable manner to allow stack estimates.
Do what ever you want would include just a single "massive" pile with large denom clearly visible. I have not played in a "good" room that would allow this. They may cut you more slack in a cash game but the line is somewhere before do whatever.
I think most "good" rooms give slack based off of what the other players at the table want.
I have played in games in some of the best rooms in the world (Wynn, Bellagio, Aria) where players could not keep their chips stacked. They were drinking, but not necessarily drunk. The issue was that they were constantly distracted. The cocktail waitress was always talking to them because they tipped well. A pretty girl would distract them. They were more interested in conversations with their neighbors than they were stacking chips. Whatever.
As a result, whenever they won a pot, they would drag it in close, it would knock over the rest of their chips into a big pile. They would start to stack them and with in 2 seconds would be distracted by something thier neighbor said. As a result, 4 hands later thier chips are still unstacked.
If the player is a fish losing lots of money, most of the other players don't care. They know if the floor is called to force him to stack his chips, it makes it that much more likely he will leave. A good floor won't care if none of the other players care.
However a good floor also needs to be aware of the players who care but are afraid to speak up. It is a fine line.