lol how does shining your shoes add to a tight conservative image

Shined Shoes add +2 to Tight Image, but only if playing at a glass poker table or if opponents have X-Ray Glasses equipped.

-2 to those who thinks observation of your opponent's start at the first deal

You could further enhance the image by nursing a black coffee (if you're not doing this already)....

Crappy dealers that fail to do the very BASIC things. Even more tilting when they cost you $$$.

Very low on the list of junk, but villians who stack off with aces pre and you call, they don't wanna show first.

Anybody mention this one yet?

Player tries to limp, dealer tells him there's been a raise, he looks up and asks 'Who raised?' when there's only one stack on the table.

Anything that needlessly creates more work for the dealer or slows the game is awful.

There's an old jackass who throws his limp high in the air and the chips splatter and the dealer fixes over and over. Sometimes I wish I were floor. I'd tell him not to do that again and if I got the slightest static I would have my 2 favorite words ready, "get out". Oh, the shock in some of their faces...

I don't drink coffee either, the hard stuff for me is Coke (the liquid kind.)

Board shows something like.....72993.....and the guy who is supposed to show first says
"Two pair". That bugs the hell out of me. Any 7, 2, or 3 is "two pair" and any pocket pair in your hand is "two pair". That tells me nothing. Show your freaking hand or at least say "I have a 7" or whatever.

It's a mini angle

I'm 66 and always bring my coffee when I sit down. But I somehow think a Grande Quad Flat White from Starbucks doesn't quite fit the *C* in OMC.

I agree with this being a mini angle. Some villains look so sly and shifty when they announce "... two pair..!"

Not even close to an angle.

Or do you also consider "straight" on 789JQ an angle? Could be 56, Tx, KT...

I don't understand why management won't do something about this girl who has been doing the same thing every time she plays, which isn't all that often, but often enough that you know the game is gonna suck if she gets a seat at your table.

She sits down and goes into Super-Hollywood mode every hand, and I mean EVERY hand. Pre flop she checks her cards, starts rifling chips, checks cards again, sighs loudly and finally makes the $3 call or mucks.

I mean, she really exaggerates things. Sunglasses on, UTG she takes forever to fold her hand. She's been asked about it and she says she's trying to figure out what everyone else is going to do. It would be comical if it wasn't so draining on time.

Literally looks at cards, plays with chips, looks back at cards, puts on sunglasses, thinks a while and finally, FINALLY mucks cards only to have them hit the shuffler and flip over to expose 3-10o.

Nobody asked to see her hand, it was exposed accidentally. I don't know if that matters, but I point that out to say now that it's out in the open she's obviously delaying just for the sake of delaying. Can't the floor/manager be brought in to warn her that she needs to stop this nonsense? I have no idea why that hasn't happened yet.

She's not delaying for the sake of delaying, she's delaying for the sake of drama. This is why a lot of people play nlhe. If she can't have her drama, she won't play. Is she a consistent winner?

I get those types around here at times. If there's one at the table I get to rolling my eyes at the dealer, asking where the TV cameras are, look back at my cards and say "It's been so long I forgot what I had", etc. Never really seems to help.

If there's 2 at the table then just table change.

If she's really really horrible I'd just refuse to sit at her table. If she comes up to the table and I'm there "Deal me out I need a table change" and I'll let the floor know I refuse to play with that person. If I'm sent to a table and she's there it's right back to the brush to ask for a different table.

I'm lucky that where/when I play and at the stakes I play there's normally 12+ games going so nearly always another option.

There's only 1 player in the pool that I'll avoid like this and it's not because of slow play it's because his lame ass jokes come off like nails on a chalkboard. It's always "raise it up buttercup" and "take it down charlie brown". Can't take hours of that.

She's not. I am probably exaggerating when I say I don't think I've ever seen her take a hand to showdown, but it's rare. That's not because she's betting people off pots, it's because limp/fold is her standard play.

On the rare occasion she gets to a showdown with her losing hand and the cards are turned over it's always "I knew that's what you had".

I'm sure I let it bother me too much but I wouldn't mind seeing her get told to knock it off.

Has anyone complained? Nothing is going to be done until someone asks a floor to do something. Even then, maybe nothing happens.

Just call the clock on her every time she takes more than two seconds preflop in a limped pot.

First sentence: He claims his opinion is fact, implying that ALL players who announce "two pair" are saying it with 100% integrity and not hoping for their inexperienced opponent, who may actually have the best hand, to give the nod and fold.

Second sentence: Introduces a strawman argument into the mix for added flavor.

Well done. I don't think I stand a chance against you in a debate, so I immediately concede, sir.

Agree that it kinda is, just show your damn cards, 2 pairs my ass. Some slimy players out there.

I think some of the players who say "two pair" are old stud players. Some may be doing it as an angle, but it's one that should have a very low success rate.

I still remember one guy I played with a long time ago flashing me his cards at showdown as he mucked and grumbling "can't even win with aces up". He had 33 in the hole, and the flop was AA8.

haha, that's a good one!

As far as actual pet peeves, I see this more than enough. Guy busts his stack and tells the dealer to hold his seat he has to go the ATM and then never returns.

Two orbits and I ask to get the seat filled, the ATM is 50 feet away. I usually get told by the dealer that if the player doesn't return by his down he will get the seat filled. Rarely, like 5% of the time if happens that way. I usually have to ask the next dealer once the blinds pass that seat again. Sometimes I get the same "wait until the end of my down" story and sometimes they get the seat filled.

If you are leaving just say you are leaving, wtf?

By "ATM", he means "slot machine".