Haha. Definitely not the right vibe.

Plus you don't want to offend him and have him pounce on you. What with his pants being around his ankles and him being 350 lbs and all.

Reading through this thread just reminded me of one of the funniest things: I was at the Borgata years ago and I was up from my table, probably on a bathroom run. While I'm up I realize I need to go somewhere, probably dinner, so I trot back to the table, grab the stacks of chips, and trot away. About 10 steps into the trot, I start thinking, those people didn't look familiar at all...

All of a sudden it becomes obvious to me that I had just run over to a table, grabbed someone else's chips, and ran away! I trot back to the scene of the crime to put the chips down, and everyone is just staring at me with their mouths open, including the dealer. The dealer went to say something to me and I just said "wrong table!" and ran away over to my real table, to do the same thing.

That is pretty funny, but you are very lucky to have suffered no consequences from your mistake.

I was working in a newly opened room and a player came up to the counter to let us know someone had taken someone else's chips off the table and was currently standing in line at the cashier. While the manager talked to security more people from the table came up to let us know that they definitely weren't his chips.

The manager insisted that we aren't allowed to confront him and needed to let security handle it. I'm watching the guy get closer and closer to the window, seemingly in no hurry at all. I figure he just made a mistake but the manger (#2 in charge of the room) keeps saying we can't do anything. The guy cashes out and walks out the door. Naturally, 5 minutes later, someone comes up to say he went back to his table and his chips are gone.

It took a while but eventually we figured out that the thief actually had been at that seat 6 hours earlier with almost exactly the same number of chips (literally $1 difference) and happened to finally come back when player #2 was on a break. His chips had been bagged up by the day shift and were sitting under the counter so we just gave them to the other guy.

Seriously. That could have gone in a completely different direction.

I once came back from a tournament break and played a couple hands until someone else said that I was in their seat...I had been moved during the break but no one told me.

get called to take my seat at Golden Nugget.. as I'm approaching lady in seat 1 says she wants to move to seat 8, dealer helps move her chips.. I sit in seat 9.. french lady comes over and starts yelling at me.. no clue what she is saying..

turns out that when the dealer moved the chips, I guess he thought the chips in seat 9, were part of the chips that he was moving to seat 8 from seat 1, I get to the table and see an empty chair and no chips, sit down and start getting yelled out by french lady wondering why I'm playing with her chips.

It wasn't too funny but at my last session (Columbus, OH Hollywood) had a guy immediately on my right who was a total nit on perpetual tilt who trash-talked everyone for two hours straight. It was somewhat amusing but mostly annoying. The guy felt like all of our moves were garbage while his was pure genius. Even though he was a total trash player. He also did not like pre-flop raises....he would constantly fold and then bitch at the person for raising. this is a 1/2 table and he felt he should be able to see the flop for two bucks every time. Just bizarre.


I made him leave the table for an hour. He was down to $40 and did a pre-flop raise for $5. Alarm bells go off--given how he has playing, this indicates he has a strong hand. Probably a monster. I was going to fold but looked down at A-K and decided to call (note--I am not playing normally because of how he is). Everyone else folds. Flop comes out something like 8-6-2 rainbow. He checks, I bet $20. He says "your aces are good" and folds pocket tens face up. Dude....you're extremely short-stacked, get a perfect flop for pocket tens and still fold. Just ****ing goofy. I showed him my A-K and thats when he gets up and leaves the room. The whole table was cracking up

I know this is just a lame hand history but it truly was one of the weirdest experiences I've had at a poker table

Columbus is my home casino. Some version of this story seems to happen daily there. It's like the telephone game in there, people pass those stories around all the time. it's amazing how many people go crazy over simply raising hands. Ive never seen it in other rooms like I do there.

The fun part of it is when someone starts VPIPing 100% and literally raising every hand just to watch the other player go crazy. A couple weeks ago something like this happened, and it led to a lot of back and forth trash talking which culminated with one player threatening to shoot the other and getting a permi-ban. I was like "WTF, are we in Detroit or something?".. Good times!

mod: perhaps take the crime arguments elsewhere, they are neither weird nor funny

Last night at 1/2 NL maniac is playing any two cards, two fisting Coors Light, hitting everything, crushes my KK with 99 when he spikes a 9 on the flop. I buy in for another $300 because I know it's just a matter of time. Sure enough he runs his $100 buy in up to $1500 and then leaves with zero after about two hours. He would ALWAYS bluff on the river for a pot bet with nothing, all I had to do was call with any pair to win.

what part of this is weird or funny?

Not all that funny but it was to me at the time, this reminded me of it. An older guy sits at table, buys in for the minimum. This was in FL and at the time it was a $1/2 and there was a $200 max and $40 Min buy from what I remember. It's been awhile. I had only started playing at live poker rooms myself. Lots of home games and had been doing the online thing for a bit, and decided to try my luck at live poker, since the FL rooms were reasonable close now. This was during the poker boom.

The guy sat there for at least an hour and never played a hand. I think maybe it got limped to him once when he was in BB, but he folded on flop. Then he raises UTG and it was like the wave everyone throwing their cards in the middle.

The guy gets a disgusted look on his face, and throw his cards in angrily racks up and leaves. Everyone at table stated laughing.

Early levels of a tournament and as usual, all of the players were looking down at their phones and not talking. Suddenly a woman in seat 4 looks up at seat 1 across from her and screams "I'M. RIGHT. HERE!" with this look of pure fury in her eyes.

Seat 1 had just texted his girlfriend to ask what table she was at after playing directly across from her for 20 minutes.

Dang, don't you hate texting the wrong girlfriend?

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Pretty risky playing in the same tournament with both of them.

Reduces Variance ?

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Haha above 4.

It seems like it would increase variance, but if you hit your two-outer trips are almost always good.

Just remembered one time, I was at a table and this mawg was in a hand with a mouth-breather, and mawg goes all-in when the turn or river (doesn't matter) brings a flush. The mouth-breather goes into full-on tank staredown mode, "damn, I got a good hand, ugh, what do you have" yadda yadda yadda, and the mawg is just nonchalantly looking back, looking around, sipping his water, etc. A few whole minutes of staring go by and while all-in is taking a sip, the staredown guy looks at the board and goes "hmmmmm, you COULD have a STRAIGHT here..." Mawg obviously didn't expect to hear that (had the nut flush), busts out laughing and accidentally does a spit-take all over the dealer. Hilarity ensued, mawg won the pot and apologized profusely, and tipped $20.

I've always found the spit-take to be a pretty reliable tell.