Never heard of a straddle rock but it sounds fun. I think it wouldn't be too hard to get he table to buy in, nobody wants to be the jerk killing the action.

I thought the way a rock works you obligated to straddle UTG or on the button, whichever comes first. This is the way it works in EVERY game I've played that had a rock. I never heard of "hoarding" the rock. That's ridiculous and defeats the purpose of it. If you fail to straddle at the first opportunity, it is supposed to just go into the pot on the next hand. Why does the host/floor allow someone to hold it?

Winning regulars that tilt on every hand they lose.
Players that say "what did you have?" Every hand I win and muck.
Players that lean over and look at your cards when they're out of the hand because you showed them a hand once.

Anytime when a player says what hand or card is "running hot" and that we need to adjust our strategy based on those cards, and almost the whole table agrees with them.

Isn't it possible that the person saying this and 80% of the people who agree are just playing nice for the fish?

Crybabies.

(The set-up: Starting stacks of T5500. Player in 6 seat loses a coin flip and is left with T900. Blinds are 100/200.)
Seat 6 announces all-in on the next hand. Dealer says "Player all-in". Dealer moves a button that says "ALL IN" in giant letters in front of the player. Seat 1 says "Call" and throws out T400. Seat 4 also says "Call" and puts out T400. Dealer informs both players of the mistake, and Seat 4 loses his ****.

"You didn't say RAISE!! How are we supposed to know how much to call if you don't tell us it's a raise or give a number?!"
Dealer keeps her cool "I'm sorry sir, but I'm not allowed to touch an all-in stack or give a count unless another player at the table asks for it".
"But you didn't say raise! This is unbelievable! I've never heard of this before, and I bet you've just got an excuse for everything..." blah blah blah. On and on this ****head went for about 3 more minutes before finally putting the extra in the middle.

Really dude? It's the dealer's fault you were too impatient to ask for a count/confirm the bet before running your mouth? How about you either a) complain about something worthwhile (like the T100 chips being black and the T500 being dark blue in a dark room, making them almost indistinguishable), or b) stop ****ing slowing the game down and cut out an extra T500 from your stack of T17000+. Idiot.

A few people have mentioned smelly players, but the one that gets me the most is when the guy next to me decides to suck down a cigarette in 20 seconds then sits back down and smells like he just got done chain smoking a whole carton. I have gagged a few times from that. Thank goodness they can't smoke at the table anymore.

I really hate the talkers that want to talk poker. Seems silly, but I don't care what you just folded or what a great call you think you made. I don't mind those that try to start conversations about non-poker topics though (except sports )

- asking for new setups because you are running bad

- and a big +1 for everyone who mentioned the idiots who won't show their cards when the hand is done, i.e. you lost, stop staring at your cards and muck them already. same goes for the flip-over-showdown.

- berating other players constantly really gets to me too. I can understand the occasional "how did you call with that", but not constantly directing attacks at them. When I lived in KC, Harrahs was the juicy game in town and there were a few regs who did this constantly and nobody did anything because they were regulars and knew the floor staff fairly well. I'm talking getting verbal to the point of full on intimidation.

When they would try to do it to me I'd just tick them off even more by looking at them and smirking. I have to admit sometimes I'd induce a full blown tilt and then watch them spew chips to everyone at the table.

- Players who think they are being sneaky by putting their high denomination chip stacks behind their low ones. It is usually against the rules, but hardly anyone says anything.

- People who think I'm being an ass because I don't show them my cards after they mucked.

- Someone mentioned people who have the nuts or 2nd nuts and don't turn their cards up in an all-in situation. That annoys me too, so much that I always turn mine over pretty quick after making sure there is no action left. The quicker the hand gets over, the better.

I agree completely. I play for a living but I'll say good luck to someone next to me if we've been talking and are friendly with each other. I can't see how that would annoy people. I'll also say good bet sometimes if I feel like my opponent made a good bet. It's not to give some back handed compliment. It's because I actually thought it was a good bet by putting me in a tough spot.

Rudeness is the worst. And the worst I've ever seen was at at 3/6 limit game many years ago when I was new to the game. There was this nice grandma-type lady in seat 1. I was in seat 3. She was sweet and friendly.

This grumpy old redneck man sits down in seat 2. He reeks of disdain. He plays one hand, raises every street and loses on the river. He looks over and sees the lady in seat one (who was not in the hand), and starts berating her. It's super awkward, he's calling her a stupid bitch, says he refuses to play at any table with her. He stands up, collects his remaining chips and storms out of the poker room.

The whole thing is sickening. I'm not adequately describing how inappropriate his comments were towards this doting grandmother of a lady. I felt like telling the floor, but the curmudgeon had already left the room.

I say to the lady, "I can't believe what he said to you! I feel awful about it! It's making me ill that he would say such things to anyone, let alone you!"

She waves her hand at me and dismisses the whole thing: "He's always like that. He hates everyone. He never tips the dealers, either. We just ignore him."

Lady = class act.

Probably was her husband

-People that wear sunglasses
-People that slowroll
-People that bet on the river get called and want to see the other person's hand first

The thing that tilts me to no ****ing end are people that aren't in the hand slam their hand on the table or start whispering to someone else that they folded two pair.

An old guy did that in the middle of a hand I was playing and I said "seriously, dude?" After the hand he said he was "only kidding." Still doesn't excuse his poor behavior.

Players who use the floor under the table for the purpose of disposal. Particularly tossing trash under the table, but even empty racks or drink holders.

My pet 3 pet peeves are:
-People who Slowroll
-People who say "One Time" every time
-Superstitious People

People who say they have the nuts, then turn over like 4th or 5th nuts. Never understood that.

The smokers kill me, too! I've learned to try to stay at tables (if possible) that are farthest from the door as it seems the smokers tend to stay near exits. It works sometimes...

People who give lessons at the table. Let the donks be donks. Let the fish be fishy. Make money.

Some good ones here. But I hate the coach guy in the tables telling people how to play.
Stupid!
It's like being a salesman and telling people they really don't need the product they want to buy from him.

Guys that wear beanies at the table in Vegas in the middle of the summer...It's 110 degrees outside, why the intercourse did you bring a beanie to Las Vegas in the middle of july

Anybody mention dealers that can hardly take their eyes off of the football game yet?

Haha. Yea u right Howard.

the player who yells after winning a hand, or even worse when they suck out. any type of yelling at poker is just ******ed. you won $300, you're still the same broke joe plumber so there no need to celebrate, or rub it in the face of the person who you just runner runnered.

happened to me last night. got a player to call a PSB on the flop with J10 on Q104r vs my 44, then he shoved over my 2/3PSB on a turn 10. i show my 44, he slumps in his chair, sighs, rivers a J, hops out of the chair, BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM slams the cards on the table. i just flashed him a dirty smirk and said "there's no need", and got up and walked away.

nothing worse imo. but they are always the fish who do this, so its kind of like a fish mating call. like "hey everyone, im probably terrible at poker, come here and take my money"

Flopping top two against bottom set. ****ing annoying.

Don't remember exactly how the hand went down because it happened back in July, but it went something like this:

1/2 game at a local Quebec casino:

Both Hero and Villain are like 165BB deep

Action folds around to me in MP and I look down at AK, I pop it up to $8, tight player in the CO calls, BTN, SB, and BB fold.

Flop: 9 5 2 rainbow

I think I'm ready to at least double barrel this board. I'm firing on all cylinders assuming I don't face a ton of aggression. I c-bet like 2/3 pot, CO calls.

Turn: 10, bringing back door hearts.
I lead out decently big again, CO raises, leaving himself way less than a PSB on the river. I ponder a 3-bet bluff momentarily (wishful thinking) before taking one last peak at my cards, hoping they'll magically turn into a pair of tens.

This is where it gets ridiculous...

Guy to my immediate right wearing sunglasses, a giant douchey poker bracelet he probably got from a flea market, and earbuds blaring techno music says "oh my god do you have aces?!" in a thick French-Canadian accent. I slowly turn my head to the right and give him the death stare. "Do you realize that I haven't acted yet and that the other player in this hand still has money in front of him?" The guy looked at me dumbfounded. Not because I'd called him out on his behaviour, but because I didn't snap off the raise immediately. I just thought to myself, "don't even bother, he's not capable of understanding what he did wrong."

I threw my hand into the muck and he turns to the guy to his right and says "can you believe he folded aces?"

lol

What about having a bookie at your table?? I was playing 2/5 in Florida a couple weeks ago and immediately to my right is a guy who obviously has no interest in the game, has a notepad, IPAD, cell phone, all laid out on a drink table, taking calls every 30 seconds during the NFL Championship weekend. Talk about slowing a game down, it was ridiculous. Is this even legal to do in a poker room?

I always find this interesting. It can indicate passive-aggressive displeasure at the cards being dealt; it can be an attention seeking device; or it can merely indicate cluelessness.

swamp azz
B.O.
bad breath
cigarette smoke
dudes eating at the table and get the cards greasy and what not.
covers for their cards that are so large they cover the cards completely
guys that can't see the flop so they have to lean hella far over to see
pot splashers
idiots that have some many tells it ruins my action
cry babies
players ganking with their i-phone all night long GTFO