Feel free to share any and all encounters with A holes at the table and how you shut them up or otherwise handled it.

This should be a videos only please thread lol!

When i saw the title of this thread a Phil Hellmuth meltdown compilation passed through my mind

Back 20 years ago, when Truepoker was a 3D online site, one of the avatars had a gun, which , if she knew the Easter Egg, she was able to pull out of her holster and shoot an opponent.

With tournament blinds at 500/1500, Utg fakes an accidental raise to 15k. He put out three 5k chips instead of three 500 chips and said he meant to call.
I fell for it and jammed with AQo. He calls and turns over AKs. I river a queen for the win, stand up and yell “IN YER FACE!”
Dude said he would take me outside if it was 20 years ago. I ask him to describe what he would do to me? Table laughs and dealer verbally steps in and tells us to knock it off.
Haha serves him right for angling.

Poker players are soooo easy to tilt. One little comment will tilt them all day then they usually knock themselves out. Haha. I’m talking delicate �� flower emotions. I take full advantage of this and tilt the a holes and know it alls. Very entertaining �� haha

Or perhaps it was a genuine mistake and he meant to limp UTG in which case your over the top reaction to a rivered queen finely displays the “delicate flower emotions” you so fondly apply to others.

I played on this site almost everyday, and don't remember ever seeing that. True Poker was my favorite site of all time. I started playing there in the spring of 2001. I had my worst losing session ever the night before 9/11. That site brings back a lot of memories.

At Commerce, seen a couple of people start a verbal fight with threats and then get tossed. Of course yelling all the way out.

Also at Commerce, saw a guy at my table stealing chips out of the pot as they were being pushed to the winner. Reported him to the floor.

At Hustler in a 3/6 O8 game the table boss told a woman she couldn't rebuy for $40, had to be $50.

At The Bike had a female table boss calling all kinds of rule violations.

At San Manuel in 3/6 O8 half kill get pissed when I raised about a dozen times in a row preflop to keep the kill button.

Wow rare poker justice on the queen ball

Saw a cash table flipped over with chips going everywhere in a fight - angry drunk guy vs security guards in Tropicana Las Vegas. Not much anyone could do after but just try and sort it out. Weirdly after everyone had claimed what they thought was their money there was extra left over, about $60. It got put in the middle for the next hand ($1/2 NL).

PokerStars launched on 9/11, talk about bad timing.

Are you sure about the tournament blinds and the chips your opponent put in the pot?

How long ago did this hand happen?

I pried a white farmer dudes hands from around this short asian dudes neck once. He was lifting him off of the floor and chocking him. it was 3/6 limit of course. both got a 24hr ban

did you have trouble understanding what "altercation" means?

BUMP

Please share more!

This is probably the best one on video

If you've ever seen those "power slap" contests, saw basically the poker table equivalent of that at 2-5.
College kid was yapping, called another guy a ****** and a fish, dude stood up, walked over and knocked bro clean out with an open-hander to the jaw. Ambulance and fire came.
Permaban for slapper, day ban for slapee but he never came back.

Saw a guy pull out one of those expandable batons and chase another dude around the table until the redcoats got there. Neither party was truly motivated to get at it, but there was a 2 or 3 second instant of anger where the baton guy probably would've yoked the other guy if he had caught him.

Saw a gangster in the big blind flash a gun in his waistband after being shown a bluff by an early raiser (in a pot of blinds). Everyone played it cool but obviously extremely nervous, floor saw it and called security. The coats showed up in a trot, one with a taser, the other Glock drawn and at low ready. Table scattered, dude got put out.

I will die on this hill- there is literally no place on this earth where you will have a broader cross-section of society than a poker room... and thats a huge part of its appeal.
You will have CEOs sitting at tables with actual murderers, having casual conversations about football. Its a big part of its draw, but something to always beware of when you're playing. You're sitting at a table with someone whose values on violence may be quite different than yours and if you don't understand that world and its parameters, beware, because its different than the cul-de-sac you grew up in.

i was waiting for a post like this! thanks for sharing. i'll die on that same hill with you.

spot on

While I agree with your sentiment about poker being a cross-section of society, something especially so when playing small stakes in Las Vegas, or Panama or elsewhere in Central America, I think you overstate the point about "literally no place on earth".

I suggest that the DMV, a McDonalds, and pretty much any airport, will provide a more broad cross-section of society generally than does a live poker venue and will also include people under the age of 21.

Do rich people go to the DMV or McDonald's? I haven't been to McDonald's in 25 years or so myself.

Disagree.
Fast food and public commercial air travel are heavily filtered for the top/bottom ends of society.
Yes, Warren Buffett eats Egg McMuffins and we all have to go get a drivers license, I suppose you could say a courthouse would also have a similar cross section, what with the contract disputes happening on the 3rd floor and the felony cases on the 1st floor, but that's an autistic argument and the point stands.

As far as voluntary social environs go, Poker room has the broadest cross section of the top and bottom of society's strata, at any given time, that will see wildly different people in very close social proximity who would otherwise have nothing to do with each other, or actively avoid each other, yet for that one glorious session, sit together as one, trying to gank each other's cash.

Nothing else like it.

The greatest example of peaceful assimilation of races and cultures is a poker room. I’ve been going to public/private poker rooms for more than half a century, and I have never one time seen any racial incidents. White, black, brown, and yellow people all sitting/working together peacefully. A study in how people should try and get along.

we get it. you're very wealthy!

while i agree with the sentiment i wouldn't exactly say poker rooms always bring out the best in people. there is a lot of douchebaggery at play at these places during any given time of day. but yeah, **** racism.

You beat me to it! I love how Redbeard not only completely ragdolls him, but is having such an easy time beating the bully down that he casually throws in some smack talk. The suplex onto the dealer was epic. Farm boy strength > steroid strength!