Wow. I have seen someone with no hands eating with his feet, but I have no idea why someone with working hands would practice the years it must have taken to manage that. Also pretty surprised the house let him to that.

Keeps the germs from the table/chips/cards away from your food

I too have seen someone with no hands having assistance but using his feet to muck/peel the cards. I also have seen those who are blind who have people whisper in their ears about their hands etc.. But this took the cake. I wish I would have just asked this person, "Why?"

I saw a good one yesterday. Tournament table. Player in seat 5 gets into a hand with seat 9. On the river with the pot being fairly large, seat 5 checks to seat 9. Seat 9 tanks for a bit. As he is thinking, someone walks behind him and bumps his chair. Seat 9 quickly turns his head to see who is behind him. As his head turns, his airpod falls out of his right ear. He tries to catch it. He ends up batting the airpod (rather hard) directly into the gentleman sitting in seat 8. It bounces off of seat 8's shoulder and goes high into the air ending up in the middle of the table right near the board.

Without missing a beat, seat 5 takes his airpod out of his ear and sets it down over the betting line and says "I call." The table erupted with laughter.

Was the call binding?

Love it, but I was hoping you'd say the airpod landed in someone's drink!

Approximately 20-25 years ago at a small card room in Northern California which is now closed, there were 2 funny incidents involving different prostitutes who did their business at an adjacent cheap motel. In 1 case, the ho won, and in the other she lost. Note: I was not there to personally witness either event, but heard from credible sources. I was a regular local player at the time, and friends with a floor manager and several dealers and wait staff, so I believe what I was told to be true.

Ho wins: Idiot guy takes ho into card room to play 3/6 holdem, and makes a deal with her that he will buy her in. If she loses, she owes him nothing, but they split whatever she wins 50/50. There is a bad beat jackpot that gets hit. Ho wins the big share of jackpot for $5K+, goes through the procedure to get paid while completely ignoring the dude who bought her in. When she starts walking towards the door with the money, idiot guy asks her for his share, and ho refuses to pay, denying any deal was made between them. She then asked security to walk her to her car, saying this guy was harassing her, and she did not know him. She leaves with the money, escorted by security. Idiot guy freaks out, tries unsuccessfully to convince a floor manager to enforce the private deal he made with the ho, loses his temper and gets kicked out and temporarily banned.

Ho loses: Ho goes to cashier to try, unsuccessfully to cash in $400 in tournament chips (no cash value) that apparently she accepted as payment for a trick. Poor stupid woman had to work for nothing that night. I never found out who the guy was that pulled that one off.

Honorable mention: I'm playing in a game with another reg, who gets a call on his cell phone from his wife at about 6:00pm on a very nice sunny day. He tells her he is still working, and not sure when he will be finished. There is a window with curtains open, because the daytime employees wanted some natural light. Wife tells him to look at the window, where she is looking back at him. Doh! Deal me out. Dude packed up his chips and belongings very quickly and left without saying anything else. The rest of the table politely waited until he left, then had some fun laughs at his expense. Some time later, a curtains closed at all times policy went into effect.

Hysterical. Personally, I don't think she owed him half the bad beat, and since she got the big portion, I assume she lost all her buy-in chips -- or at least most of them. Bad beats aren't poker winnings

Wonder how the guy got the idea to pocket tourney chips for that one. I guess when you get low enough, a ho is your best shot at "one time."

The only casino I've played in with windows is Ocean's 11, but I don't think they will never close those permanently because of the view!

When did you see windows at Oceans 11? I haven't played there in years, so wondering if they're remodeled since or if it's been even longer since you were there.

Maybe I'm just grumpy this morning, but I didn't find any of those stories either weird or funny.

Many, many, many years ago when it was really dangerous to walk to walk more than two blocks away from Fremont Street there was a casino called "Western" that was the nut low of crappy low end casinos. It makes modern day Circus Circus look like a luxury resort. It was a few blocks off of Fremont and it was a dump. Just by entering the place you were gambling you were going to avoid tetanus or syphilis.

Anyway, their $1 chips were black and poorly marked. So it was really easy to think they were $100 chips.

Lots and lots of people tried to pay off people (including prostitutes) with $1 Western chips hoping the mark would think they were $100s.

I have seen someone buy a fake Rolex for a couple of $1 Western chips. Conning the con men.

Where are the black ones??
http://chipguide.themogh.org/cg_chip...E&v=3202403613
In my memory, the Western never even HAD 1$ chips until very near the time they were closing shop.....I distinctly remember playing 2$ BJ there with 1$ slot tokens......

amusing, or "you had to be there" type of story to me, not hysterically funny.

The $1 chips that are listed as blue look much more black in real life. Especially when they are dirty and worn.

Sorry, Seven Mile! Was picturing the ocean and was at both recently.

Ah! That makes sense. I was out there when Seven Mile first opened but have never visited them.

A first for me....maybe amusing

1-2NL in Manchester NH tonight.....
Annoying Dude whose stack ranged from 125 to 900 and was up and down like the Assyrian Empire 300...600....200---500--150-900, then down to 0
He gets up from the table and another player says "Are you leaving or coming back?"

Dude says...."Are you going to be here for a while?" Other player says 'Yeah.'
Dude says 'OK, save my seat, I'll get another buy-in'

He leaves the table and I immediately look at the dealer and say "I'll take the under...." The dealer figures out what I mean and says "How much ya got on it?? "

I smile and pick up 2$ and say "All of this." He says "ok"
I said "You're in??" He says, "Yeah"

We agree on the end of his down as a time limit (about 12 minutes.)

With about 2 minutes left in his down, I win a decent pot and ask the dealer if he sees the guy (dealer is facing the direction of the ATMs etc and my back is to it) He says "I don't see him."
I tell the dealer "OK, I'm tipping you the 2$ for the bet; We're even...and if the guy shows up in the next 90 seconds, you win and I owe you a tip....... He laughed and agreed....Dude doesn't show, and I win my first dealer prop bet.

OMG you just reminded me of a player we have at our casino. He is a great guy. He takes care of the dealers really well. He never complains, he is always, and I mean always, very friendly and understanding of any mistakes. Literally the best type of customer a dealer can ask for.

The problem is he likes action, so everything is a bet with him. Everything. There is nothing he will not bet on and he goes out of his way to bet on anything. All of the floorpeople suck up to him because they know casino management loves him because he dumps tons of money in the pits, without complaint.

Great, except that l almost almost all of the time dealer tips are based on bets. This isn't too bad of a problem because he is more than willing to take the short side of a bet, so a vast majority of his bets are profitable for his opponent. Again, great, except that occasionally miracles happen and he wins.

I have absolutely no problem with this except that a vast majority of casinos frown upon dealers going into their own pocket to give customers money. For good reason. I totally understand why a casino would frown upon a dealer they employ reaching into their pocket and giving a customer money (or chips). In many casinos it is a fireable offense. Not a good look.

So anyway, one time he wanted to make a bet that was hugely favorable in my favor, but there was a reasonable chance I was going lose and have to pay him. I explained to him that I would love to take the bet, but that it would be hard to pay him if I lost. I basically explained that we could not pay off customers. He understood and said he would offer credit to future bets. I won, and he paid/tipped me the amount in question.

To his credit, he adjusted all future bets so it wouldn't require dealers to reach in their pockets to pay him off if he won. He would do stupid stuff like make the dealer say something silly if he won or crazy stuff like that. Since he didn't care about the money it was the same result to him. He cared about the action.

Anyway, one day I tap into a table and he is there ($2/$5). We exchange pleasantries. After a couple of hands, it is quite clear that this is a terrible table. There are no flops. Most hands are won with a preflop raise and everyone else folding. Probably 40% of the hands result in the blinds chopping.

Terrible for the players and terrible for me, the dealer.

This has to be literally the lowest level of hell for a player like him. He likes action, there is none.

Anyway, a cocktail waitress comes by and he orders a rum and coke and a bottle of water. After she leaves he turns to me and says "I bet you she will forget my water." I laugh. He says "No. I am serious. She always forgets the water." I recall who the waitress is and I nod in agreement. As politely as i can be honest, she isn't the best waitress in terms of service.

He is a bit animated and says that he will bet anything I want. Literally he will lay 100-1 odds. I laugh again and tell him he is probably right. He wants action though so after a second, he says if she brings my water, I can literally have the next pot he wins. All of it. In return, he says that that next time I see him at a table he wants me to acknowledge his greatness. He wants to be greeted as a king would be. That is the bet. He knows I will ham it up for him and make him feel like a king.

I agree that he has a bet (why not, no skin off of my back if I lose, potentially a decent size pot if I win). Again, he is just being nice.

A few minutes later, she returns and gives him his rum and coke and a bottle of water. He laughs and nods towards me acknowledging my win. I expect a $7 blind scoop as a tip.

The rest of my down is uneventful. He never wins a pot. I completely forgot about it. I tap out and go to my next table.

I am dealing my next down and it is near the end of the down. I am literally thinking about going on break.

A floorperson taps me on the shoulder. I turn towards him and he says "X wants to buy out of his bet for $100, and wants to know if you will accept". I am like "Huh? What?". I had completely forgotten about it. After a few seconds of mental processing, I realize what he is talking about. I think for a second and I realize that he wouldn't be doing this unless he had a reason and I just act in the spirit he would expect so I flippantly reply "Tell him $200 and he has a deal". The floor walks away. Again, I am somewhat confused but shake it off and deal the rest of my down.

I get tapped out of the game and am on break, I wander over to the previous table and greet X. He is all happy and it is clear the table is buzzing.

He smiles at me, and pats me on the back quite hard. He then grabs a chip and slips it into my palm. I take it without looking.

He tells me that he had just won a hand with a straight flush over quads. They each had over $2000 so it was basically a $4500 pot.

He had literally stopped the play mid-hand when facing an all in bet to send the floor over to me to buy out of his bet.

I congratulate him and walk away.

He had given me a $500 chip. One of the biggest tips I have ever gotten (probably the second biggest that I could recall). I immediately went over to the shift supervisor and explained the situation. He digested it all, thought a second and congratulated me on a good day.

Many months later he asked me if I was mad that he bought me out when I could have had ~$4500? I told him that he could have come over after the hand and given me $20 and I wouldn't have known any better. I was going on trust. I said I appreciated his honesty as a bettor and I knew that $500 was far more than I deserved for winning that bet.

More than the money though, the biggest thing in all of this is dealers making bets with players. Casino policies generally discourage stuff like this because they don't want to deal with the look of dealers giving money out of their pocket to players. However, there is the dark underside where the casino also want dealers to make their players happy. It is a fine line to be straddled.

Definitely not *the* funniest, but something new happened to me last night and it was at least *quite* amusing.

Was playing 2-5 at Rivers just outside of Chicago, new guy sits down on my direct right. Clearly new to poker. Knows the hand rankings but only sort of generally the rules, just from what he's saying and how he's acting (note, this is first couple of hands at table).

Hand 1 - he's UTG and says "no" to posting then doesn't understand why he doesn't have cards. We explain.

Hand 2- he's BB, mucks his hand when it's limped to him.

Hand 3 - he's SB and it's folded to him. He just ships in his $300. I am in the BB, laugh and say "guess you don't chop then?". He clearly doesn't understand really, I say ok then look down at my cards.

I cringe and say "this is going to look so bad" and call and turn over aces.

Now that is some luck boxing!

To his credit he laughed and said "that's what I get for trying to steal your $5", and also laughed when the guy on his right said "you just need that to work the next 60 times and you'll break even".

It would be funnier (not for you obviously) if he made a miracle hand.

Why did you think that would make you look bad?

because he was new to the game and I joked around with him for 20 seconds before I called?

Obviously I hadn't looked down but still it's cringey. It's cringey that it even happened lol.

Nah, I can't imagine that looking bad to anyone. You got a good hand. No one would expect you to fold. They might get disappointed if the guy busted right away and didn't rebuy, but no reason to think badly about you.

Now the guy who made a snarky comment about how many blind steals it will take for him to get it back, that seems unfriendly to a newbie.