I think I am done with gaming. I mean if the right offer came along, I would go back to gaming, but it would have to be just right.

You ever listen to the Gambling with an Edge podcast? Layne Flack was the guest a couple weeks ago, and made a similar statement. I agree with both of you.

The reaction to that Australian "decision" tonight was pretty lol in the pokerroom.

Forget the decision--the excitement leading up to the fight was LOL. When will these suckers learn? They are ALWAYS surprised when this sport screws them (just like they're always surprised that someone called a pre-flop raise with a bad hand). How can you dare to act surprised, when it happens every. Single. Time!

What are you guys talking about?

Pacquiao boxing fight

http://www.sherdog.com/news/news/Box...acquiao-124215

Board is something like 98652r. Player tables 7x to win side pot.

The all-in player, seated next him, shows him his cards and mucks. So I push all the chips to 7x.

I move the button, gather the cards, pull out a new deck to begin the next hand, and just as I'm about to cut, the all-in loser cries, "Wait! What....? Aw!" It is just now occurring to him that he never tabled his hand. He clearly knows what that means. But he has to try, any way.

"I had a seven! I showed it to him!" Turns to winner. "I showed it to you! You saw it!"

The winner hasn't started stacking the chips yet. He has to time to remedy this, if he chooses to do so. He is under no obligation.

Of course, he immediately starts stacking his chips, and adding them to his stacks as he does, to make them unidentifiable.

Broke guy now tells him it's not too late, he can still give him his half of the pot.

Winner smiles, keeps stacking and ignoring.

I can see this matter is resolved, even if broke guy doesn't want to believe it. I ask him if he wants to be dealt in. He says to deal him out, "for now."

I start pitching. Broke guy is pitching, too: "How about 40%? You know I had it."

Winner sees this guy isn't going to relent, so he cites the table stakes rule, saying he's not allowed to give another player chips out of his stack. No one corrects him.

The discussion ends. Broke guy sits there for two more hands, then finally says good night to everyone and leaves.

I told that whole story, because that was the part I found so interesting: he sat there for two more hands. I can't get my head around that part. That part is an enormous rabbit hole.

Losing your entire stack when you aren't going to buy in again or busting out of a tournament is the strangest feeling. You're done, as far as the rest of the table is concerned you don't exist anymore, and the game continues without you. Plus, there's no one in authority to tell you your game is over. You just have to get up on your own and wander away.

Eight-way capped, preflop. I pull in the bets, amid the usual cries of, "Pick me, dealer!"

As I count off three cards, one player punctuates his request with, "I'll kiss you right on your bald head!"

Well, I don't want *that* to happen.

Haha, you surprise me more than any other poster ytf.

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YTF should have his own thread, like Katana did.
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It's been his forum since about 1997. We're all just living in it.


Regarding the break-ins. Two have shown up so far. One has already been shipped out to a different casino. The other looks like they're going to make it.

Typical poker game with typical poker people. 6 seat comes open. 4 and 5 want it and make it known so at the exact same time.

"Well it looks like you both want the seat. How should we decide who gets it?"

You'd think I had asked them to make calculations with Bernoulli's Equation. Absolutely did not compute. Stunned silence. These two adults have no concept of how to decide something of this magnitude.

As far as I know, the 6 seat is still open right now.

Actually I like this approach .... if you can't work it out we are just going to take the six seat out.....

I can't believe one of them didn't try the "I told the last dealer I wanted it when it came open!" BS.

I prefer seniority at the table over "who called it first."

Rock-Paper-Scissors best 2 out of 3 for the seat.

We use buttons. Seniority seems like a problem in a game that has been running and a dispute as to seniority arises.

My favorite was the day a regular who knows about our buttons decided that our rule was seniority at the table and held up the game insisted I call the floor and then proceeded to argue that we always use seniority and never used buttons..... It was like he honestly believed if he argued this enough he could make us believe it.

Seniority is easy to figure out if you use Bravo. Not always perfect, but usually works OK. Of course, my room uses buttons too. At least half the time the well is missing the right button, so they they start giving out numbered lammers, or even just the clear ones. Might as well just pray to the Gods for guidance. (Actually, the players usually have it in hand and no one complains, at least in my game.)

The seat change buttons in our Omaha game got to be so stupid. Players would come and check in for the specific start time super early so they could get the 1st change button. Finally we decided to give them out to the top 3 cards of the button deal. These are the same guys who forced us to not allow washes/scrambles in the whole room because they kept taking advantage of dealers and floors.

This part sounds like a benefit. Hopefully they forced you not to allow new setup requests anymore as well.

Very true except that since we made it a blanket room rule it affects good players who don't abuse it.

Good players wouldn't be using it at all. Unless by good you meant well behaved.

That isn't completely true. A good player might ask for a setup so that the live one that just ran to the bathroom doesn't miss his blind and think "maybe I should just leave since they are making me pay to get back in."

But this requires calling the floor over to figure it out because this info is not available at the table. It needs to be looked up by the brush or a suit at the podium/desk.