I have seen a player at 3/6 limit ask another player how much he has behind.

I play a lot of $65 daily tournaments. While I love the guys wearing the Young Poker Pro uniform, as they are usually very exploitable, for some reason, I find guys wearing sunglasses very annoying. It is the combination of putting on airs with being unfriendly (so much of interpersonal connection is made through eyes that anyone who shields those off presents a very unfriendly air).

I mean, c'mon, these are low stakes, high variance, turbo tournaments. You really think someone is going to pick up some killer tell off your eyes?

If I ever make it to a televised poker table, I am going to wear a hoodie and sunglasses, take them off when I am in a hand, and put them back on after I muck.

At low stakes, probably not. But it is worth noting that some players will visibly react when they get aces or when they hit their nut flush on the river. Pupil dilation is one of those tells. It wouldn't be hard to see if that player was sitting across from you.

Be honest. In all your hours of live play, when was the last time you altered a decision or had an actionable read from a pupillary response. Or any eye based tell.

And do you honestly think that the information you hide is more damaging than the value of the information you lose by purposefully diminishing your eyesight?

Clif is on record as the consummate professional: he'd rather hear a barrage of insults about his family than lose out on a single dollar. I have no doubt that he is good for multiple soul reads per session.

Small tournament with $1000 Guarantee. 60+10 for dealers. 15 players entered, registration still open. Guy in charge of the tourney announces to the poker room there is an overlay of X.

No, there is no overlay. The casino has collected $1050. The fact that they have to give $150 to the dealers is none of our business.

Not a big deal, but for there to be an overlay, the players have paid LESS than the prize pool.

This is classic. I'm going to do this at a local tourney tomorrow just to screw around. Well, just the glasses part....but I'm doing it!!

The players would have had $900 in the prize pool for the same buy in, now they have $1000. That's an overlay. You're wrong.

From MTTs recently:

1. The cool guy with shades whos short stacked cutting out chips from a C-bet asking the biggest stack how much does he have behind when the mountain of 1k chips dwarfs his tiny stack by at least 4x 5x only to tank fold every time!

2. the bust out analysis from a villain to you saying i was in X spot and my range was this how did you not put me on this? you're stacked! Unless you want to get me a coffee for a white chip fxxx off

3. The hot girl who needs to be the center of attention even when not in a hand. and when you take a baby chunk of her stack the beta males who would shine her shoes right there are now trying to attack your blinds and play every pot with you to defend her honor haha that **** is hilarious.

guys that have their gf/wives sitting behind them showing them their hands slowing the game down everytime.

I've had luck with this relatively simple solution; I just say "fold or show man". That alone does the trick 99% of the time once they realize theyre either giving me the pot uncontested.

I know someone already told you that you're wrong, but if it's not still in overlay (according to you) then why isn't the prize pool getting larger than $1000 with the next person's entry?

Just say that you're annoyed that the house is trying to get people to buy into the tournament so they don't have to eat the overlay.

They'd only have $900 in the prize pool if there's no vig.

If the tourney is 60 + an optional $10 dealer addon then no you don't count that in determining if there's an overlay.

Most $60 dailies are something like 42 + 18 vig + optional 10 for dealers. You can argue if that 18 counts toward the guarantee overlay or not. Personally if the prize pool is bigger than it would have been without a guarantee I think there's an overlay.

I love these guys. With the exception of one nitty old guy at a local place these guys are usually young frat bro types looking to show off for their GF (who is typically bored AF). Nothing's better than calling their bluff shove with 2nd pair and watching them slink away defeated.

actually your both wrong... I highly doubt all $60 went to the prize pool u forgot house take. so the overlay is even bigger.

Yep, it's all about the Benjamins.

In a 16-minute Ted Talk by Dylan Evans (link at the bottom) Evans put poker players that he interviewed into three groups: problem gamblers, leisure gamblers and expert gamblers.

Evans talked about how some of the expert players get very rich, and he attributed that to the way they approach the game. He said that the experts approach the game with "a cold, rational pursuit of profit."

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jyokhjUCyk

People who wear flip flops in the poker room. Either I can smell your feet or you are offending my eyes by wearing socks with your sandals.

Makes more sense to me.

You can smell all bare feet?


But yes, wear shoes to the poker room.

Calling for setup every 30 minutes or hour.

SETUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!

I think that this is the first time that I've seen the word "setup" used this way in a poker forum. Is it a cash game thing? I only play tournaments.

It is a common thing to hear in a cash game. Moreso in places which allow it (bad). In locations which don't cater to this sort of superstitious behavior, you will never hear it, because it's not allowed (good).

even in cash games never seen it in vegas, never seen it in canada.

pretty specific spots but yeah, never seen someone ask for a setup and have it honored.

People ask for them fairly often at Bellagio and Orleans, unfortunately.

Between Commerce, Hustler, and the Bike I've only heard it in Commerce. You can request they bring in two new sets of decks. It can happen after someone loses a big pot. Deep down inside they know there's nothing wrong with the cards, their just doing it out of frustration.

It happens much more in lower limit cash games, when you see the table jam packed full of old regs with their neatly pressed clothes from TJ Maxx or Ross grinding away their social security checks (2-4 to 3-6 limit hold em, mostly 2-4), there was this one old nasty woman at Commerce (if you have ever been a reg there in the past 5 years you know who I am talking about) who use to scream for it like clockwork at regular intervals the moment the floor would allow her to. Like clockwork.

SETUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Like you would be drinking a beer enjoying a meal you got off your player's card and thenSETUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Like she did it right next to me a few times and I was so startled the first time I heard it. I had never heard someone yell so loud. She was so miserable. My mom told me a story about winning a huge pot off her and then her staring her down like she wanted to fight but then just walked off........................................ But I always got along with her LOL

This is a good one. Tons of fl rooms honor this and it is never for a fouled up card. Always because someone just took a bad beat.

Tilts me sooooooooo much

Tournaments won't allow this, as it is important that all tables play at roughly the same pace. So no setups, no washes. If not all the tables have an auto shuffler, then none of the tables can use the shuffler.

The only legitimate reason for a new setup is if you feel the cards are damaged, marked, or tainted (as in, sticky or dirty). The people who wanta new setup to change their luck...well, on one hand, it is good to have idiots in the game, on the other hand, it is annoying when they slow the game down