Dude hardcore digging for gold (picking his nose) like nobody can see him do it just to touch the chips right after with the same hand...awesome those are chips I want to win.

The girlfriend who sits behind her husband, and feeds him her reads on everyone at the table.

Or when the observing wife finally saw her husband's cards and verbally tussled with the dealer over why her husband didn't "really mean" to call all-in, and should be allowed to pull his chips back. Made worse when the argument was listened to by the floor.

These are blatant violations of OPTAH. It's not a peeve when it's breaking a rule. Call them out on this.

I am almost certain this is illegal

people saying thats sick when its not sick at all

Hollywooding with the 2nd nuts or a highly nuttish hand over a trivial bet amount

You can't really blame someone for poor eyesight If it bothers you that much and you're in the 5 or 6 seats you could offer to switch seats.

Also, in the casinos I've played in (AC) you're not allowed to have a card protector that covers the cards. I and other players have asked players to remove drinks, cellphones, napkins, large card protectors, etc from the table. Some players have explained that having such items on the table is against the rules and they didn't want to give the casino any excuse for not awarding the bad beat if it hit. I don't know if that would ever happen, but still, rules are rules.

1) Players who you keep having to tell it's their turn to act, because they can't take their attention away from whatever game is on the tv's.

2) Players who disappear from the table for an hour at a time especially if a) they're sitting at the blackjack tables or the slot machines, b) they're also playing at the casino next door and they go back and forth so they can get comped at both places at the same time (happens in AC), or c) they come back to the table, play a few hands, then disappear for another hour.

3) Players who just toss their chips in the air then seem surprised when they land and all roll in different directions across the table (it's junior high physics, people. When you throw a round object, it rolls) They always say "sorry". No you aren't. If you were, you wouldn't do it every hand.

Yeah, that one's annoying, but it's even worse when it's the dealer. I was playing at Talking Stick (Scottsdale AZ) this past Friday night and the dealer could not take his eyes off of an MMA bout being televised. He's looking up and over the 3 seat at the screen on the wall while he's dealing the cards...eyes cutting back and forth from each card to the TV.

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4) The player who, every time he calls a river bet and the bettor shows his hand, holds his cards in front of him and stares at them... then stares at the board... then looks at his cards again... then looks at the board... then looks at his cards... then lowers his cards and stares at the board... before... finally........ mucking............... them

Busted a wannabe durrr like that once when he shoved 25 pre, some old granny called and I was last to act. Called with KJspades and spiked a jack on the river after checking it down with granny all the way. Dude honestly was holding his cards staring at them, not mucking, for 2 of the longest minutes I've experienced at a poker table.

Right before I was about to ask him if he was slowrolling me he pushed his cards into the center with his fingertips slow as hell and got up and left.

When your turn to act and the cocktail waitress arrive at the same time, act on your hand first.

This is a tough one. When a player has to weigh making a bet/call against flirting with the hot cocktail waitress, usually the boobs win out. It's simple physics.

Actually, I usually go for the waitress first and it has nothing to do with flirting. I don't want to hold them up in getting me a drink and the less I make them wait the less they seem to make me wait for the next drink.

This is not really a pet peeve but it is something I see otherwise decent/good players doing again and again and again. They just don't seem to get it.

Was in a pretty good game late at night with one very loose player who was on a rush who had begun racking his chips to leave. If you play a lot of live poker, you know this player is just waiting for an excuse to leave, but if you do not give it to him, he will often stay for another 30+ minutes playing, and every once in a while will start losing back his winnings, lose control, and decide to stay.

Anyways, another player at the table who was losing (mainly to our action player) who I know to to a professional player decided this was a good time to call a deck change. Of course the action player took this opportunity to rack up his chips and leave. I don't know what to say. Some people just don't get it and never will.

I remember a story once where in a shorthanded live nosebleed game a pro who was stuck (David Benyamine I think) said he held going to the bathroom for several hours, because he knew the second he stopped the action the other player would leave.

Constantly asking for the deck to be 'washed'

In order to discourage this the casino I play at requires the floor to approve a deck wash. Basically they expect the conversation to go something like Fish: "Hey can I get a wash?" Dealer: "Well the floor needs to come over and approve it." Fish: "Oh. Nevermind" Had some guy a few weeks ago insist on a wash, then insisted on waiting for the floor while he bitched about how stupid the rule was.

The dealer even flat told him the rule was in place to discourage it because it holds up the game. The guy then says "Well we don't care, we'll wait", as if the rest of the table gives a **** about him getting his wash. All the while I'm just shaking my head thinking "yeah this is fun waiting around five minutes for this nonsense". The worst part is the guy won the very next hand after the wash.

Five minutes for a wash? Was he rinsing hem too and hanging them up to dry? I've never seen a wash take more than a a half minute. Maybe the dealers where I play don't wash them thoroughly enough. Also, I don't think I've ever seen a player request it more than a couple times in a day. Granted I may not play as much as many people on here seem to play.

I think he meant the waiting for the floor took five minutes.

Yeah it was the waiting for the floor that took forever.

Yeh I guess that makes more sense.

In my opinion, though, I think requiring the floor to approve a wash is the ridiculous part. I've been playing seriously in casinos for a little over a year now. I've had many 6 or 10 hour (or longer) sessions and have never heard a wash request more than once, or possibly twice in a day, and I've never heard anyone object to it. To require the floor to approve something that would otherwise take a half minute seems like a stupid idea. Are wash requests a lot more common in NL games than in the limit games I'm used to? Or do players in AC just request much fewer washes than in other casinos? I never knew that wash requests in other casinos had become so frequent as to pose a problem.

fan face, re-fan face, fan back, scramble.

5 minutes and 30 seconds are both exaggerations but yeah it can take about a minute per deck. It's just a colossal waste of time.

I've only seen it requested once and I was shocked the floor obliged without any argument whatsoever. I guess it's not very often a nit buying in for 50bb manages to hold onto chips long enough to suspect the deck is unlucky.

You spread the deck out, mix them for 10-20 seconds, and gather them up - 30 seconds. But whether it's 30 or 60 seconds, once a day, I wouldn't exactly classify that as a "colossal" waste of time, at least not until you start requiring the floor be called over.

I guess that's the definition of a "pet peeve"- some small thing that bothers you more than it bothers many other people. I have my own share of them. I just don't find washes annoying, that's all.

Maybe the people who request so many washes are doing it because they know it bothers you so much and are trying to put you off your game.

The only thing I've noticed that causes multiple wash requests in a short period of time is older players who are card-dead for what they think is forever, when in fact it's usually just an orbit or two. Beyond that, I very seldom see multiple requests in a given 8-16 hour period.

So forgive my ignorance, but a wash is just when the dealer shuffles them out on the felt by spreading and mixing them around?

Every place I've played the dealers do this most times the blinds chop it. Doesn't take long at all, but I've never seen someone request a dealer do it.