lmao

well put.

Classic

I was playing in an afternoon tournament at Binion's a few years ago and heard a large thump and turned around to see an old guy on the floor. I went over to start CPR but luckily for me the guy next to me was an EMT and took over. Guy had no pulse and was dead by the time he hit the floor. An ambulance came and took him away. His wife showed up and said he was in the hospital a few days before for chest pains. We had a moment of silence and started the tournament back up.

Seizures are completely different from strokes.

They sure are.

Do epileptics react to flashing lights? Is this a rumor or will flashing lights actually cause a seizure? If so, i might avoid places like casino's where slot machines are surrounding me.

There are no slot machine's in this particular poker room for what that is worth.

Also as a non epileptic I would probably go lay down and take it easy after a bout like that rather than continue in donkament with less than a $50 buy in. I will give the guy credit for being a trooper. I will also admit that i am kind of a puss and would prob need someone to drive the 20 minutes back to my house so I could lay down.

Also I have played with this guy since then and he's definitely a decent poker player. I would even say it was +ev for him to come back and finish playing.

blind guy playing a live tournament. had his buddy read him the cards. blatant collusion imo

although this is a pretty gay move by the douchebag, he definitely should not be forced to pay the bet

Welcome to why I can't stand live poker.

guy we played with a lot walked out one day and came back an hour later with a ski mask on and robbed the casino. About an hour later they caught him and now he's in the big house.

lool

Thats why headphones and an Ipod are your friend.

Playing in a 2/3 games in Cali, An asian guy was up about 200, but had been sitting there for well over 12 hrs (i was next to him the entire time) Theres a pretty cute redhead on his left side and they had been flirting and talking all night/morning, getting close to each other stuff. The guy wins a huge hand (1k plus) and leans over and kisses the girl on the cheek. Next thing you know, theres this other women screaming in Japanese at the guy and straight slaps him across the face as hard as she could and continues yelling. The whole casino just stops and starts laughing at the guy who is just sitting there taking the vebal abuse from this girl. She finally storms off and the game continues. The guy loses eveything he had in under an hour (I got about half) and leaves the casino.

Appearently, the girl was the guys wife and was sitting across the room playing PLOH and he didnt know she was there. Havent seen the guy since.

Brief sidetrack:

Your talk of old poker players made me think of this.

I'm sure we've all been at tables where old men make a spectacle of themselves by hitting on 20-year-old dealers or female players. Obnoxious. Embarrassing. Etc.

Anyway, I was playing at Soaring Eagle this summer. There were a couple old guys at the table. One of them (probably in his late 50s or early 60s) was sitting out so he could chat up a cute young dealer who was spending her break at an empty table nearby. The old guy's friend made some comment as old dude strolled back over to the table. I can't remember what the comment was, but it had something to do with him hitting on the attractive young dealer.

Some kid at the table who had not said more than 10 words all day says, without missing a beat, "Oh, to be 70 again."

Haha. You probably had to be there, but it was one of the funniest things I have heard all year.

What did he have to lose? He already paid his buy-in. Freeroll, imo.

I wasnt there and I loled fwiw

Hahaha. I didn't even pick up on that.

Strokes...LOL

About 8:30 an older player(+-70) in our home game had a heart attack.The ambulance took him to the hospital. The door opens at 12:15 AM and he says DEAL ME IN !!!! True story.

Yes, that was funny. Well told ... didn't have to be there.

Don't ask me why, but the picture of Maury from Goodfellas popped into my mind.

A couple of month ago I was at Lucky Chances in the bay area at around 3 in the mourning playing 1-1-2 nl, there is this young square looking dude at the table named Ray, he is friendly, joking around and telling stories the whole time. Says he has never payed outside of a home game before,I believed him. He is quite nice but seems very edgy or uneasy. Could be coked out..not sure..He plays real bad losses around 500 in around 2hours. Thanks everyone and gets up. Game goes on 20mins later he sits back down but is dressed in a different shirt and is wearing a cap. He reintroduces himself as Rick or Rich, everyone is like WTF? He claims to be Ray's twin. Its obviously the same dude, although we are all confused now. The "twin" plays really tight until his food arrives and then he leaves. Never played with a Schizo before

Probably Nick Cage preparing for his next role.

i have a million of these stories (mostly because i have owned a small cardroom for a decade or so) i should have written most of them down as i can never seem to recall them unless something spurs me to. some are really good, this one isn't, but something made me think of it.

several years ago an asian exchange student walked into a local cardroom (not mine) and dumped a full mega tanker of pepsi onto a local degenerate gambling/alcoholic postman's head and began trying to both verbally assault him in cantonese (i believe) and make a feeble attempt at physically assaulting him. he was in full rage. they finally calmed him down and then the story comes out in very very broken english....

turns out the car that the postman had sold him the prior weekend for $1100 was a rental car that he had reported stolen after renting it and our visiting student had been arrested for having it in his possession and spent the weekend in jail. the level of mayhem in his eyes was epic. neuman! doh!

postman ended up in prison a year later for sticking up several local small casinos.
when he attempted to rob the place that i have the night bartender called him by name and said "andy, what the hell do you think you are doing? take off the ski mask." he wasn't as lucky elsewhere and is still in the big house i think.

Not that strange, but I was playing 2-5 NL a couple weeks ago at the Gold Strike in Tunica. Montel Williams walks in with an entourage of 4 gorgeous young white women. He was wearing a black shirt with gold trim that looked like it cost my annual salary. He sat down at my table- nice guy but pretty quiet. He was kind of a calling station and always opened with an anemic 12 dollar raise- not very balla. He did have one bad beat where his boat got beat by quads- he lost a lot of money including some to me. I kept a 25 dollar chip I got off him as a souvenir.

That's true- one time at a 2-5 NL table at the Gold Strike in Tunica a guy with a big stack called an all-in bet from a guy with a small stack of $5 chips and a thousand dollar chip that the caller didn't see. The caller lost the hand and refused to pay the thousand dollars. The casino told him that he could never come back if he didn't pay, and that was fine with him- he took his chips and left after paying the hundred or so in $5 chips.

In this situation, the caller had at least some arguable beef, but from what I gathered, it wouldn't have mattered if he just didn't want to pay for no good reason at all. Which is total BS if you ask me- what's to stop some guy from New Jersey or wherever coming down to Tunica and refusing to pay all-in bets he loses at each of the casinos? What does he care if he is banned for life in Tunica?