The guy with weed thread got me thinking: Strange things happen at poker rooms. Post the some of your most bizarre stories here.

Here goes one:

Many years ago I used to play at the Seminole casino in Tampa, FL (it is now the Planet Hollywood Casino). There was this old guy who was a regular there that would play for hours. When he got up I noticed a puddle around his chair and that his cushion was drenched. The dealer told me he did that all the time. Later that day he hit a Royal Flush in Hearts.

A few weeks later he dropped dead in that casino. (Strange, True, but not funny).

Go to the Bike they got it all, midgets, quadriplegics, Asians with down syndrome, Men the Master, obese mess of humans, you name it they got it.

OMG!! I got a visual. I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING.

Tried to edit the post but the edit button is not there.

Should read: Seminole Hard Rock in Tampa.

In the late 90's there used to be this man over 100 years old that played stud at the Oaks in Emeryville. He always swore at the dealer and threw cards. One day he got kicked out for getting in a fight with another player. Of course, that other player was a spring chicken, himself being at least 80.

Must have been on a Friday (clam-chowder day).

Isn't this a bit redundant?

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

I have been at a couple of bridge tournaments when a guy died. They put some kind of screen over him and kept on playing. Then they hauled him off.

At a dance at a bridge tourney, a guy died. They put up a standing screen. The music played and they kept on dancing which freaked me.

I wasn't there but Bill Smith wrote a short article about this giant lizard. (Mexico? Igjuana or something) getting lose in the poker room. Morgan the Pimp at 350 pounds jumped on the poker table and it broke.

one time I played and a guy had a mechanical monkey with him

at Harrah's in K.C. saw a guy get up from the table to go to the restroom, just made it outside the doorway and wham!!! got taken down by two security guards. Seems like the guy had robbed a convenience store to get his poker bankroll on the way to the casino. i asked if the players at the table could divide his chips, it was not met with enthusiasm by the casino.

A local charity room here in Detroit ALWAYS has Special Olympics for their charity. Not sure if this is a coincidence or not, but the deaf mutes come out to play in the tournaments. And then they sign to each other IN the hand. Good thing they suck and are not cheating...

I was playing one night when my cardroom was packed. A couple different security guys had walked by seperately and given our table a really hard glare. Several minutes later, cops and security people occur from all directions (at least twenty cops and a half dozen security guys). They remove somebody from our game, who we all decide must have been some kind of axe murderer or something... An hour and a half later, the gentleman they removed sits back down in our game. Mistaken identity for some kind of crappy assault.

Was playing some 2/5 @ the River Rock when this Vietnamese player ordered noodle soup and proceeded to slurp it down..no biggy as I see it 100x/day. Anyway this crusty old guy who was stuck losing around $1K to this point mutters some racial craap under his breath....and well the Viet guy throws his soup and bowl square in his face! Now we have full out war with chips flying around I grab my stack and get out of harms way when all said and done the old dude needed prob 50 stiches and was perma banned as was the viet guy who was also arrested.

Playing at the Flamingo late night a few months ago...a player goes all-in like 2 or 3 hundo into a 20 dollar pot and eggs on a drunk to call, who eventually does...the all-in player turns over the nuts and the drunk is steaming mad and frozen...after a few quiet seconds (the drunk was sitting on his right) the drunk drills him with a hard right fist. Security is there pretty quickly and they question the whole table for like an hour...by now everyone has calmed down. One security guard is still sitting next to the drunk when, suddenly, the drunk makes a run for it through the lobby where he, no surprise, was tackled by security. This time they cuff him. Not sure what happened after that though.

Playing 1-2NL at Greektown in Detroit, two players get involved in a hand. One player is on the button and has been loose aggressive all night. The other player is two to his right and a solid player, adept at changing gears. Heads up to the flop, earlier position is the PF raiser, and checks a 542 rainbow board. LAG on the button makes a pot sized bet, which is called. Turn brings the Jack of Diamonds, putting two diamonds on board. Check, pot sized bet, call. River brings a 5, and first player goes into the tank. After about 20 or 30 seconds, LAG says, "Bet whatever you want, I'll call," and starts putting chips out. As soon as the first player sees this, he says, "all-in" and LAG insta-mucks.

First player calls the floor, and the floor rules that the verbal declaration of a call, even before a bet was made, was binding, and the LAG has to pay that man his money. LAG gets pissed, starts yelling at everyone, refuses to pay the bet, racks up and goes to the cage. Floor instructs the cage to confiscate the chips, and proceeds to call security. The cage takes his chips without paying him, and all hell ensues. LAG starts talking a hole bunch of stuff about suing the casino, getting everyone arrested, blah blah blah. Security tries to calm him down, but is unsuccessful in the 5 minutes it takes for the Detroit Police to arrive. They promptly handcuff the guy but don't haul him off just yet.

MEANWHILE, AT THE TABLE:

The rest of us sit back and watch the action, with the board, pot, and hands still in tact. The good player had turned his cards over to show quad 5's, and the dealer had turned over LAG's hand to show A4. About an hour goes by with the stalemate, and a few players get up to get some food/drinks/ have a smoke.

The cops get statements from a few players at the table, the dealer, and the floor. They inform the player that they have no way of forcing the LAG to pay the bet, and the floor backs this statement up. They give LAG a couple options; pay the bet and get kicked out for 24 hours, at which point he can return to the casino to collect the remainder of his chips; or don't pay the bet, go to jail for disturbing the peace and get banned from the casino for life, never to return and collect his cash (if he paid the bet in full, he still would have had about 700 dollars... the bet was about 300). Being amicable, the good player settles with the douche-LAG for 150.


So... the casino can't force you to pay a bet... interesting information.

-Andy

I was playing in a live donkament at a local Indian casino about a year ago. There were about 100 player left and I was seated at the end of the table and the player just over my shoulder at the table next looked like he was falling asleep sitting back in his chair with a hand and sunglasses on slouched over. Like this kind of:



I could hear the dealer at that table saying Sir action is on you. Then SIR the actions is on you, SIR THE ACTION IS ON YOU. Then the player next to him says is he alright? SIR? SIR? SIR? and boom it happened. He puked all over himself and went into a seizure. Literally Puke all down the front of his shirt and shaking violently like an epileptic. WAT!

The paramedics came and put him in a wheelchair covered him in a blanket and rolled him out of the room. The paused the game for about 10 Minutes at that table only while they cleaned up the puke off the table, chair and floor around where he was sitting.

That's not the weird part. Puke happens. The TD decided to break that table next in order to disinfect the area or whatever.

So I bust out like an hour or so later and on the way out I see him. WTF rather than go to hospital, he shakes it off and returns to continue his quest for poker donkament greatness.

Must have been a new strategy to get a better table draw IMO.

an old drunk guy that told me approx 5 min erroneous story while i never replied and continued staring straight ahead

LOL Pukeaments.

Jen Tilly checking Jacks full behind PA on PAD. Obv had KK. Strange days indeed.

hahahah, i love this

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As an epileptic myself, mild seizures do not take a long time to recover from. They're at most one minute and some lingering effects (slurred speech, loss of balance, twitching muscles) last for a bit longer. But overall, you're normally somewhat aware after an hour. Personally, I wouldn't play poker immediately afterwards as you would almost certainly not be on your best game. But hey, different strokes for different folks.

There's really nothing you can go to the hospital for. Once the seizure is over, that's it. All it becomes is a large, unnecessary medical bill.

I was sitting next to some guy, at least 75, playing 3/6 or something. He keeps talking to me, I am being polite but not friendly because I didn't really want to talk to him.

Some funny board name is called, and he says, "The board won't let me use my nickname."

Awkward pause.

...

I give in, since he's leaning towards me and staring, "What's your nickname?"

"Crowbar."

Another awkward pause.

He leans closer.

Goddamnit. Fine. "...why is your nickname crowbar?"

"When I was in the service, I went to Mexico, had a couple too many drinks and murdered a man with a crowbar."

Really awkward silence.

I ignored him and acted really interested in some WNBA game on TV, "OH THE LYNX ARE UP 4 IN THE 3RD, YES!!!"