love it, these words dissolve any problems as long as the reg isnt psychotic and keeps the fish happy and in the game. even if i WASNT in the hand and the reg started berating the fish after losing a big pot.... id say something like "nice hand man" with a smile to the fish. also i like... no i LOVE putting bad regs on tilt.

i honestly cant think of a thing that tilts and bothers me more than bad regs abusing fish, because we all know good regs dont do that (most of them lol) its never anything but 100% bad for the game.

1/3 NL game. New guy sits to my right. When it comes time for his BB, he throws out a nickel. I had lots of whites, so I make change. He takes back the whites and posts another nickel.

Huh

I make change again. He says "I DONT WANT CHANGE!"

"Whoa there champ, you know I’m just trying to speed up the game."

"I DONT CARE"

ok. Whatevs

Next hand he’s SB and posts a nickel. I make change.

Dude goes ballistic. Calls the floor. I’m laughing like an idiot. He tells the floor I’m taking his chips. Dealer explains I was making change. Floor politely asks me to let the dealer make change.

Am I an *******?

Its ok to make change for another player IF they want you to, but... Floor was right. Don't touch other players chips, whether they have been put out as a bet or otherwise. Dealers would also prefer you let them make the change. When players do it, it messes up their mojo. Dealers are on auto pilot for this kind of thing and when you change up the way it normally goes it throws everything off.

I was thinking that post was written by a dealer. In which case I was thinking two things.

Making change of the blind before the hand rarely speeds up the game.

Doing it to the small blind while amusing ..... Was kind of dickish.

The pro move there would be to let the dealer make change and than snatch his change up before he can and be like "Oh, NOW you want change?!"

because
yes

Keeping YOUR hands off of other people's money is always the best idea.

You also combine antes, don't you.

Touching someone else s chips to make change without checking with them is usually OK, but can be considered borderline rude. Doing it again, after he clearly wants to post a nickle is pretty dickish. Doing it a third time after you were asked not to, then laughing about it means you are pretty immature, and 100% in the wrong. I know you tell the story like you think you were tweaking someone else who was quirky, but the whole table just made you for a child, and likely started targeting you, knowing that you were probably exploitable emotionally.

I really hate playing with you guys that appoint yourselves to help the dealer run the game. You're not helping. You're slowing things down and making the game worse. Don't make change. Don't gather in the antes. Just keep your hands off of the pot and other peoples chips.

FYP

You can help by offering to make change for your neighbors between hands if you see they only have large value chips.

Between hands or aside from the action, sure. But the blinds are in the pot. Keep your hands out of the pot. It's the dealer's job to make change out of the pot, not some OMC who has appointed himself to help the dealer run the game. I hate playing with those guys. Doing it after being asked not to is just being an *******, going out of his way to piss somebody off for no reason beyond "Because." I bet his family sees Thanksgiving as an obligation and a chore, just because it means 3 hours with him that they can't get out of.

You guys are jumping on this guy pretty hard. He didn't realize that he was the one breaking etiquette. Hopefully now he does. Let's not venture into guessing what his family thinks of him during the holidays.



Shifty, if you want to help speed the game up, if you see a spot that you know a dealer will have to make change, you can have change ready for the moment the dealer turns to the players and says "Who can break this?" or whatever. I can't tell you how many times I've had to stop for a moment and recalibrate my plan for giving out change because the 2250t I had prepped while from pulling in bets the left side of the table is no longer the change I need to give for the 5K chip I thought was there before I looked the other way for a moment.

Of course, that's way less annoying than 5 players calling 600t preflop all with 1K chips when most of them have exact change in some way or another. Offer a player change. Don't just reach out there and grab it.

The etiquette he was breaking was doing something nobody asked him to do after repeatedly being told not to do it. It would be a miracle this were the only spot in life where he behaves like this.

Aside from that, taking someone's nickel after being told not to make change can look indistinguishable from stealing the nickel. You're playing with fire for like no benefit.

The first time he did it, no big deal. the second time, pretty clear the guy didn't want change. The third time he did, after being specifically asked by the player to not make change, he was being 100% jerk.

The issue isn't the minor break in etiquette, it is repeatedly messing with a guy, then laughing his ass off like he pulled one over on him. I don't care about making change (at least not the first time). But by the third time, he was being a douche(and probably still thinks what he did was correct and funny)

How is your day? Actually witnessed Sunday ... 1-2-open 5 PLO

1) Three limps to BB, makes it 15 ... 4 to the Flop
2) BB looks at Flop, very deliberately cuts out a stack of reds to verify, re-stacks and puts 2 greens on top ... slides them out.

3) Dealer re-cuts stack and then puts greens back on top ... sits back.
4) 2 Folds, gets to Button who asks how much the bet is ... Dealer says 150. At this point two Players interject that the pot is only 65, so the bet is 65.

5) One of the two folds gets a pained looked on his face, realizing the issue.
6) Button says .. "So the bet is only 65?" Dealer confirms .. "Yes, 65 is the bet."

7) Button says "Well in that case, I call." and promptly puts out his chips ... all $45 of them!!


So, yes. Poker is alive and well .. and I may have to drive the extra 45 minutes to play here more often. $2K in less than 2 hours playing 1-2 PLO (1-300). GL

Poker dealers: I know its super annoying when you have to ask players for their antes but this is part of your job. Everyone has stuff at their job that is annoying. If you are a dealer that sits there silently or stares at a player that has yet to put out their ante, I will never tip you again and I will most likely make a complaint to the floor or your management.

I know this is a minority of poker dealers, but it seems to be a growing minority.

I accept that no matter what I do when I'm dealing there will always be a certain percentage of the players who don't appreciate the job I'm doing.

Or you could just quickly mention it to the dealer personally between pushes, to see if that solves the problem. If your goal is to resolve an issue in the quickest and easiest manner, actually speaking to the person you have an issue with is often a good first step. The offending action has just recently taken place, so immediate feedback is usually more effective than getting told something by a supervisor hours or days later.

Just a suggestion. I usually prefer to give a person a chance to self correct before escalating an issue to someone's boss.

Meh. A dealer sitting there and doing nothing trying to make a point like a five year old throwing a tantrum to a player that already obviously doesn't care enough to keep the game flowing, in hopes that the other players around him will goad the player into posting his ante...that's a dealer that's wasting everyone's time even if they think it's squarely on the player in question.

Just move the game along please.

Signed,

a dealer

Playing $1/3 on Saturday night. Most of the hand action is irrelevant. River puts a 7 high straight high on the board. Villain leads all in for about 1/4 pot. I call with 10x10x and table my hand. Villain studies my hand and the board for a bit. Says, "awww man," and tosses his cards to the dealer.

Players at the table quickly tell him that it would have been a chop if showed his cards. I tell the dealer to give him half the pot. Dealer asks if I'm OK with that and I respond yes. Two players call me a gentleman. The guy who was all in? He doesn't thank me.

Reminds of when you let somebody on the road in front of you in traffic but you don't get the little hand wave in response. That made me wish that I had kept the whole pot.

Where I play the dealer wouldn't be allowed to do that if he had already mucked the other players hand. It would fall under the rule of one player not being allowed to give chips to another, since all the chips are yours as the winner of the pot. Same as when a player tries to toss a player a " rebate" back after losing a big hand.