We could not get any of the runners to come give the dealer a fill at the table, so I jokingly said someone should call the desk at the front of the room and say we needed a fill on 7...sure enough some guy decides to do it, one of the floor guys picks up, insantly turns around and comes back to our table and goes absolutely apes*** on everyone...I think he pretty much knew which guy did it but he didn't really single him out...just erupted for 30 seconds and then walked away. Another good one was in a 3-6 limit game this older woman kept going back and forth with this guy on the river til they capped the betting and he says "do you have a boat?" She says "DO I GOT A BOAT? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH" his response "whats so funny?" "You was asking if I got a boat! HAHA!!!" "Yeah...do you have a full house?" "Oh yeah..." flips her hand over and has a boat. I guess she thought he was asking her if she owned a boat that you take on the lake.

In most cases this is the correct decision. Well, actually in most places I think they would give the blind money back to those players as well and redeal the hand. Two boxed cards is generally a misdeal no matter when in the hand it happens, and all bets returned.

I don't think so. I can't speak for most places, but I hope they wouldn't call it a misdeal.

I have never actually seen a hand with 2 boxed cards, but it was my understanding it was a misdeal. Does your room have an explicit rule for this?

I guess I should clarify. It would be a misdeal if it happened before the flop and before two players have acted. <--Standard rule

The scenario we are talking about happened after the flop. At that point the hand would be played out. <--Standard unless you get "that guy" as the floor

"that guy" is the floor that always wants to "chop it up" or refund everyone's money in hopes to make everyone happy. Don't be afraid floorman, be a boss!

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1-2NL at Mandalay a few years ago. Table is 7 guys, 2 women. One of the women was inexperienced (IW). The other had played a lot (call her experienced woman EW).

The hand plays out, and it's showdown time between the two women. EW runs a failed bluff, and then says "I have eight high" and I think even showed her hand. The IW says "Oh, I can't beat that." and mucks without showing. The table can't believe it. IW then says, "Oh, I thought you meant you had an eight-high straight!" (She had two pair). EW takes it down. Table tells IW "Always show your cards, you never know, cards talk, etc."

Playing 1/2 with two cousins. One from Libya, one from Turkey with names making it clear they are Muslim. Obviously "westernized" as they are all Ed Harveyed up and drinking whiskey like water and have more money than sense as they are making the chip runner tired doing fills they are rebuying in so often. One of them has an absolutely smoking hot blonde girlfriend and I'm thinking, "Any woman would have to be nuts to date someone emigrating from the Middle East". Then I was thinking, don't be racist donkatruck.

At one point the dealer asked how they are related being from two different countries and they said their something about where one of their mothers lived and moved. The dealer said he visited that place and maybe met your mother. Libyan guy says you would not like it if you met my mother. I pipe in and ask is she mean or something? Libyan guys says, no, if anybody tried to talk with his mother he'd cut their dick off and shove it down their throats. He was serious.

Then I remembered why I thought it was insane for an American woman to date anybody from the Middle East.

I just remembered this one from a few years ago.

Normal-looking guy sits next to me at a 1/2nl game and starts cleaning up his spot. After a few minutes it was obvious he was going beyond the normal stuff and was sweeping up the felt in front of him and using hand sanitizer on the rail, scrubbing out the cupholder, etc. Doesn't stop the whole time he's playing. He's seemingly OCD or germaphobic but has no problem handling the chips. He gets up a few times in an hour so maybe he is constantly getting hand sanitizer. It's early and there are many very old people there.

While he is up, someone at another table spills water all over themselves and their chair. This person gets up and switches chairs with my OCD friend. It didn't register with me because I was concentrating on the game. Another few minutes goes by and OCD friend comes back to the chair and plops right into a giant puddle before anyone can realize what's happening. WTF!!! he screams and we all look. He is looking around at a bunch of old people and is like DID SOMEONE WET THE CHAIR??!!! The old people look uncomfortable for obvious reasons.

He insta-racks and leaves cursing and yelling all the way out of the room. We were all dumbfounded and no one actually told him it was only water. The people at my half of the table all looked at each other silently for a while until someone broke the awkwardness by laughing, and we all just embraced being bad people and cracked up for about 10 minutes.

Oh, please tell me this thread hasn't died! It's so great, I've been reading from beginning to end. Here's my contribution... I have two, first one is just a weird fun hand, the second is straight out weird.

Funny how you remember certain hands you played like they were yesterday... this one happened at the Golden Nugget in Vegas in 2009. One thing that's important to know about the Nugget poker room is that they don't have any high stakes games, the biggest is 1/2 no-limit... but since there's no cap on the buy-in, it really plays like a much bigger game. I bought in for $300 which looked like about the average size of stack at the table.

After a while I was winning about $100, when a new player arrived and took a seat on my right. He was a slim guy in his 50s with a pencil mustache, wearing an all-white suit and white hat with a rose tucked into the breast pocket. He pulled out a huge wad of bills secured by a gold money clip and dropped about $3000 on the table. I was thinking Wow, the only reason someone would normally do that is if they plan on trying to push everyone else around... or at least want everyone to think that's the plan! I decided I should have little extra ammo just in case, so I pulled out a few more hundreds in bills, dumped them on the table, and put them under my stack of chips. No problem to add as much as you want as long as it's not in the middle of a hand in which you're involved.

There weren't really any opportunities to get involved in a big pot for some time, and I was surprised that Mr. White Suit (WS) actually seemed to be playing pretty tight. About an hour later I called a raise to $12 with JT of clubs... the flop came 89Q with two clubs. The nuts plus a redraw to a better hand! A random guy in early position led out for $30... it seemed like he had something so I raised to $80... he looked over and announced all-in for about $800 total! For just a second I envisioned a bigger flush draw or a set where I could possibly lose a huge pot, but of course I called quickly. Our cards went on their backs and we saw that we had the same hand -- except for the fact that I had a flush draw. The guy screamed "****, he's freerolling!" as soon as he realized he couldn't win, but could lose if a club showed up. It was a huge pot compared to the ones we'd been playing, I barely had him covered and there was about $1700 in the middle. Everyone was on their feet, a blank hit the turn -- a 6 of hearts or something -- and then came the dream card, a deuce of clubs.

It was if he knew it was coming, the guy started mumbling and counting out his chips, and shipped them all over. He flipped his last chip in and left the table in disgust -- Mr. WS turned and told me "Nice hand. He said he didn't realize you had that much money." But the only reason I had that much money was a result of the extra bills I brought out because of Mr. WS himself! There wasn't much strategy involved in this hand, but it was funny how everything had to work out perfectly for me to win such a big pot. With one possible exception I think it could still be the biggest 1/2 pot I've ever played.

Second weird poker-related occurrence... I once actually witnessed someone burst into flames at Edgewater Casino in Vancouver.

No joke... I'm playing a 1/2 NL game, it was otherwise a rather unexceptional session. All of a sudden I smell something burning and look around... an older Chinese lady at the table next to me had smoke coming out of her left jacket pocket. The player next to me noticed it at the same time, we just look at each other and all of a sudden flames appear at which time multiple other people notice the same thing. The guy next to me jumps up, grabs his water off the side table and douses her... I don't think she even realized what was happening until that moment, she screamed and stood up, knocking her chair over and trying to get the jacket off.

After she was extinguished we learned she'd been out smoking on the covered patio, but hadn't finished the cigarette and for some reason decided to try and save it by wrapping it in a paper napkin and stuffing it in her pocket. Not too bright... I can only imagine what kind of pandemonium would have ensued had the fire alarm and sprinklers been set off, haha. Usually when you tell people you were on fire at the poker table last night that's a good thing!

^That's a funny story. Never heard one like it.

Was WS the Duke?

Sound like the Duke for sure. Pencil mustache, suit, wads of cash... The Duke!

The guy next to me thought he hit a big trifecta while watching the races above us and jumped up screaming and dancing all the way to the racebook. Came back 5 mins later moping, having won something like $20 because it was in the wrong order. Then busted out. Haha.

boxed cards are insignificant pieces of paper.

That's true for the first instance, but most rules say two boxed cards being revealed in the deal means a misdeal, I believe regardless of significant action.

Am I the only person on this forum who doesn't know what a boxed card is?

By regular rules, all misdeals are held to the "provided there's no significant action" rule. From RROP:


As for "what is a boxed card?"...

A boxed card is one that is upside down in the deck after the shuffle.

I understand that is what RROP says, but it clearly has other sections which call for a misdeal regardless of previous action. I don't have it in front of me, but there is a current thread regarding misdeals being standard if a card of the wrong color is found in the deck at any point.

Bold is key. For it to be a misdeal the boxed cards need to be actual players hole cards. If they are found in the stub or community cards they are placed in the muck and the hand continues. It is hard to have significant action before all cards are dealt, but it doesn't matter in the case of 2 or more boxed cards during the deal.

I just googled this and found some pics... yeah that's him! Only played at the Nugget a handful of times so I don't know all the local characters. Funny the things you learn 5 years later.

Sort of a low buy-in for the duke, though.

Few years ago, at the Tampa hard rock poker room, I went to the bathroom just to find a man without legs clinging on top of one of the "pissers" (is that even a word? I'm not native English) with one hand on top of the "pisser" and the other youknowehere.

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