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Originally Posted by pfapfap
This started out awesome, and then was wrapping it all up nicely, when it turned around with a surprise little coda. More!
yeah, it was pretty amazing that those two completely distinct events happened in a continuous, unfiltered stream. Now that I'm back in Pittsburgh, I don't miss much about LA, but the hilarity of lower limit poker there is one thing that I will always reminisce about. The local charity games and games in WV are just as juicy, but they lack the racial tension that made LA games so entertaining (yes, I know that sounds horrible, but race was a factor in just about every hilarious event that I ever witnessed in a casino).
I do have one pretty good one from WV - not as awesome as the last two but still quite nice:
I'm playing in a 3/6 limit game while waiting for the nightly tourney to start up. Typical hand with about six or seven limpers, and then four folding on the flop - but I notice when as the dealer grabs the mucked cards while getting ready to deal the turn, she takes UTG+1's cards and I was pretty sure that he had called the flop. Sure enough, dealer puts the turn card out there, it's a third heart, and UTG+1 reaches for his chips to bet what I assume was his flush, and voila, his cards are gone. Of course UTG+1 says that he had a flush, and obviously floor is called and the verdict is that UTG+1's hand is dead as it is his responsibility to protect his cards with a chip or his hands, since if they end up in the muck for any reason they are dead. Having never seen this situation before, I commented that it seemed a tad harsh and shouldn't he at least get his preflop and flop bets back (yes, I know, I had no place doing that - I would like to hear if this is the correct ruling - the guys cards were clearly behind the line). The player to UTG+1's left takes the pot down with top pair crap kicker and UTG+1 comments on how BS it is. everyone kinda nods in agreement.
Anyway, play goes on - a few of us make jokes about protecting our cards with a bowling ball, or losing a hand due to a strong headwind, etc...while the guy that lost the hand is CLEARLY steaming. so a couple hands later when the victim was in the cutoff, he does one of those slam-the-chips-on-the-table-my-$3-means-BUSINESS kind of raises, the button, who had won the contraversial hand, cold calls. flop comes with two tens, checks to cutoff who bets, button calls, everybody else folds. turn is a blank, cutoff bets again, button announces raise...and while he is reaching for chips, cutoff reaches out, grabs his cards, slides them into the muck, says "should have protected your cards", and starts to drag the pot towards himself!! fantastic. Floor is called again, guy starts yelling "he didn't protect his cards! you said ANY REASON!" guy is finally booted from the casino, but not until yelling that he is coming back WITH HIS LAWYER. nice.