I was thinking the same thing, haha! What did I miss?

What's wrong with what the dealer said? He encouraged a player to play in one of their events. That upset you because you wanted him to stay and play the live game? So what?

When the dealer starts putting money on the table then they can make comments about how money on that table can move around. Until then, the dealer should not have an influence on a game or those players involved in that game.

Doesn't have much to do with this thread, but I agree that dealers should never be encouraging players to leave the game they're currently playing.

You must be a real pleasant one to be around. Maybe the dude was a stiff and the dealer would gladly fill that seat with a tipping player. Or maybe you're the stiff and he would talk the guy into playing the tourney just to get under your skin. Either way I think what the dealer said was 100% fine. Far from aburd.

You think dealers should be doing things just to get under the skin of players? You're disappointing me, Suit.

I don’t see anything wrong with what the dealer said regarding him entering the tournament.
Now other stuff regarding hands and such, big no no.

The dealer's conversation just sounds like good customer service to me.

Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm sure you can come up with better than that! If you can't then your games must be boring and I sympathize.

Definitely not the most absurd, but I've heard this a couple times recently. Guy flops a set with mid pocket pair on a monotone board, ends up winning the hand, some other guy chimes in 100% not joking "what a bad flop for you"... Seriously? He flopped a set and won ffs

No, I just think what the dealer said was perfectly fine. If he purposely did it to get under another player's skin it would be bad, but we will never know that as he would never admit that so again, perfectly fine.

Not threadworthy,

/derail.

Ha ha. Thanks for giving me so much credit of having the ability to write better stories!

The games are actually pretty good. I've been making some pocket change lately, and I'm really not that good

I'll keep you guys posted!

Yea about that
I wish you would stop blocking the door with your waving a tin cup around

lol

That was hilarious.
Full disclosure. Nobody knows me in Vegas. It'be a viable way of building up a bankroll on the strip. The thought has crossed my mind.

Vegas? Strip?
Think it’s that easy huh?

I remember dealing the start of a tournament and a player whose stack was already in play came up to the table and checked in. He then started whining about chips being taken out of his stack for antes [It was literally like 250 out of a starting stack of 15,000]. He then went on a rant about how he was being punished for registering early and asking why they didn't blind out people who haven't registered yet.


I was too speechless to respond to the actual argument of why a tournament wouldn't blind out player that haven't signed up yet [Or may not even up signing up at all].

I'm posting this so I can learn myself, but the dude wasn't actually arguing that they should blind people out that register at the time. He was asking why he is "punished" for registering early when he could just as easily just show up later.

What am I missing? This practice does seem kinda bleh to me and I think there should be a better solution in place outside of "just sit down and play". I would think that registering early would be just as favorable to the casino as it would to the player. Casino gets butts in chairs early in guarantee tournaments and allows them to be less busy when the tournament starts, and the player gets to ensure that they are not unable to play due to situations with alternates or not enough dealers/tables etc.

Help me understand why it's 'sooooo absurd' and that this guy has zero legitimate gripes about why they put a stack out and start blinding him off while someone else can walk in the door and start with a full stack. (can't they just wait to put his stack out when he is ready to actually start or at the end of registration? They can track early registration and put his stack out at the end of the registration period. His money is in there and there is zero risk to the tournament operators if he never actually shows up to play.)

'Punished'? Do you still miss the first innings of a ball game when you are late, but have a ticket? What if the game is sold out, do they still let you in?

In this case the tournament wasn't 'full' ... Here's my spot ...

There's a tournament I love to play in, very deep stacked the first 5-6 30 minute Levels but my kid has a thing so I'm going to be at least an hour late. If I pre-reg I can walk into a stack that's still over 120bb. If I try to reg when I actually do arrive I will be wait-listed and probably get into the tournament around Level 8-9 ... with less than 30bb.

So my 'punishment' is my blinds being taken to guarantee my seat when I arrive.

Is it any different than me taking one hand and then heading off to the bathroom sick?
Is it any different than me taking one hand and heading off to the pits for 2-3 Levels?

One can argue that these guys have a point ... but only up to all available tournament tables being sold, then perspective changes. GL

PS ... Depending on the venue, I don't really want to trust the cage and tournament staff being in sync to the point that they stop seating people exactly when the number of open seats matches the number of pre-regged no shows!!

Is this really that hard?

I have had the same thoughts, and have discussed them a bit with the dealers and floors at the local casino. Looking at it from the palyers perspective, it does seem oddly and unfairly punitive to the guys who early reg, especially since people who early reg help the game. But if you look at it from the standpoint of running the tournament, everyone who registers gets assigned a seat. Is it fair to the table to have people lock up seats but then not sit until many levels in, forcing a table to play short handed? It makes sense, from the perspective of the game, that an assigned seat be a live stack.

But I agree, I did not think this was absurd thinking and was going to respond to the original post, but i had to think about it a little more to make sure I wasn't missing something.

A bigger issue to me, is that allowing people to prereg, but then decide when they want to take their seat effectively allows them to table select, which would be unfair and logistically difficult. If I pre-reg, then no show by hanging in the back of the room, and a lot of other regs are doing the same thing, as soon as someone gets knocked out of a juicy table, you are going to get a bunch or people all trying to get a seat at the same time. Both unfair and messy. So you have to assign them a seat in the order that they register. I can't see any other way that makes sense.

This is a lol analogy.

Do people who buy tickets in the 3rd inning get to see a full game?

DUCY your example doesn't make sense?

DUCY where I've actually bold-faced my point ... the price you pay for a guaranteed seat is your blinds.

Do you pay a discounted price when you show up in the 3rd inning? No, they charge you just as if you had arrived earlier, but since you didn't tie up a seat they are happy to offer you the 'full' opportunity to enjoy the game ... just over a shorter time frame.

Should season ticket holders get mad when they discount tickets to fill the stadium?

OK, lets buy some tickets online for just about anything ... convenience fee ... So in poker you get the convenience of no waiting in line and the ability to show up 'whenever' to claim your stack.

There are very few perfect analogies. It's the ability (and willingness) to understand that you did receive some 'pluses' and sometimes those pluses just aren't what we thought they were worth. Ok, next time you make a different decision. GL

Posting on behalf of a friend with his permission. The game is 1/2 at a local casino. Table limps to Hero in bb with AK who makes it $17, many calls and the button jams for $70. Hero iso's for $400 since button is a known gambler. Utg+1 tanks for awhile then says "I think you have AA and you have KK," pointing at the button and Hero respectively, "so I can make something happen" and calls it off for $400 with QJo. Runout J4468 so a little bad beat story to go with the absurd thinking.

Cliffs: not only did guy call off $400 when in for $17 with QJo but did so *after* putting opponents on AA and KK

Good one! Glad we got back to posting absurd thinking

He was getting 1.35 to 1 on his double flush, nut straight draw. How could he not call?