If I go to vegas and wanna play on WSOP.com 2 tables or something while I play live cash games can I do that? Or is it not allowed?

I'm not aware of any Vegas card rooms that restrict electronic device use during live games, however almost universally they will restrict use during live tournament play. If you are just grinding cash, no one will hassle you about what you are doing on tablet or phone.

why would you want to do then when you're not allowed to be on your phone/computer while your in a hand?

It would be for cash not tournies and these first two posts (after OP) are contradictory. Can you be on your tablet while in a hand or not? Because if you can't it would be pretty much impossible to play online at the table, you would time out every time you played a live hand.

in most rooms, you can not be on a phone/tablet while in a live hand in a cash game. between hands is fine but you should check with that specific room for their house rule.

I can confirm that Bally's allows it.

can you confirm that they truly allow it or that most dealers don't enforce the rule

I think it's bad if they truly allow people to text while in a hand, or use pokercruncher to figure out equity vs. ranges while in the actual hand.

But mostly, it makes it too easy to text your friend who is sitting across from you that you folded a king on a KK8 flop when your buddy has K2.

I mean there are other players at the table, and the dealer too.

Surely you can see how different two guys texting back and forth frequently during hands and one guy grinding poker on his tablet by himself once he has folded his hand are pretty much two totally different things.

it would be almost impossible not to touch the tablet while in a live hand. So it will be hard to play only while he is in between live hands without sitting out constantly both online and live.

Keep in mind that any rooms which allow you to do this aren;t going to allow you to do it if you keep holding up the game.


Perhaps your question should be:

Are you allowed to play online poker on a tablet while attending a GA meeting?

Yes you can do it at most places I have played at, and occasionally you see people doing it. But if you are going to be that guy don't forget the rest of the gear!

Well anyone I've ever seen grinding poker on a tablet or phone while playing, was being a nit in the live game, only playing say a hand or two an hour.

No you're not going to be able to play a bunch of live hands while you grind because yes then you would have to sit out way too often online.

The rule is you can be on devices, but you can't hold up the action. So texting between two buddies in a multi way hand or running equities through pokerstove would hold up the action too much and the dealer would not allow it for that reason. Also in the texting case everyone else at the table is going to get wise to that collusion pretty quickly. There are also better/smarter ways for two buddies at the table to collude with each other that are also much harder to spot/catch.


Anyway OP I have seen people grinding on tablets plenty of times while playing and at bigger more reputable rooms as well, like Aria, Venetian and Wynn.

You can definitely do it, but you can't hold up the action while doing it. That means you have to be aware enough to know when it's your turn to act preflop, if the dealer or other players keep having to 'give you a nudge' to look at your cards and act don't expect to keep being allowed to grind online.

And while you are in a hand live you're almost definitely going to need to sit out a hand or two online, thus you'll probably want to be playing pretty tight/nitty in the live game.

OP specifically asked about this while in VEGAS. In almost every room in Vegas you can be on tablet while playing live (can confirm Rio, Aria, Venetian, Bally's, Orleans, Planet Hollywood, Bellagio, Harrah's, Caesar's all allow electronic devices while playing cash).

Doesn't matter what your house rule is to OP... unless your house is in Vegas.

Pretty sure literally every reply was referring to Vegas poker rooms. I don't think anyone was talking about none Vegas rooms.

Playbig's was. "in most rooms..."

i know that while playing at the wsop they will allow it. there is actually a big banner up that says "multitable, like never before, while playing on wsop.com on your mobile device during the wsop"

I would assume that this is all dependent on whether or not a room allows you to be on an electronic device while you're in a hand. I don't see why they care exactly what you're doing on said device as long as it isn't something that can be considered offensive to others.

My room allows it and I've definitely seen it.

maybe it's a pet peeve of mine. But I hate the players who just sit there waiting for their nut hands to play and either read a book, or play online poker while blocking everyone else out because they feel they don't have to interact with anyone because they're so much better than everyone else and they're just there to make money, so **** everyone else.

Don't be that guy. I hate that type of player. Yeah, we're all there to make money, but have fun while doing it. Life will be so much more enjoyable at the same time for you and for me. If you really want to play serious online poker, stay home and multi-table. It will be much more profitable than sitting in a live game with a computer while holding up the game and blocking everyone else out.

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are you also one of those guys too.. please reconsider. Life is too short

Playbig

If the guy doing it is a good winning player, you're actually better off with him playing on his tablet than not. It's better for your bottom line in the game.

Ill spare you the lengthy post about actually interacting with real live people, and just ask if you wont be able to play either live or online optimally why do it? Just pick one and go with it. If you need to the action, then stay in your room and be a hermit. If you actually want to be part of a functioning society in the real world, then leave the tablet in your room and go sit at a table

Life's too short to be a nit, too.

What if I am a misanthropist who finds it enjoyable to annoy people like you?

do u really think I'm gonna google that word for people like u

I play in a lot of charity rooms. The nearest charity room that has pokere tournaments is 1.8 miles from my house. The nearest casino that has tournaments is 103 miles away.

I get real nervous about all the texting going on in my local room. Family and friends come in as a group, we have husband and wife, bf and gf, many very close relationships. Since no one pays any attention to the texting it would be so easy, for example, for John to tell his gf at another tournament table that Joe has open-raised suited connectors from early position twice.

Of course he could tell her that during the break as well. But if Joe and gf wind up at the same table before the break, he has information that he wouldn't otherwise have. That doesn't seem right to me at all.

Well he could get up from the table walk over to her and tell her privately even when not on break. And probably get back without missing a hand.