LOL I do quite a long pause before I squeeze, most of it is to do the math though, calculating the SPR if 1 person calls, making it a size where I won't get rejammed on if I don't want that, adding up how much to make it a PSB etc

Having to sit in seat 1 or 9. Neither seats have enough room and when they come to change the rake & tip boxes i get shoved out of the way. In seat 1 i cant see seat 9 and vice versa. I always feel like these seats are the most card dead, this really just a psychological mind f*ck

I really dislike when you are all in in a tournament. The old guy is sitting in middle of the table and he is all in as well and points at the flop when he hits his card. It tilts me for some reason. Yes sir, I see you hit your card, nice hand.

I hate it when people ask how much I have left, I move my arms/hands so they can see, and then they ask again wanting me to count it for them.

I also hate people who say "Who Raised?" ITS RIGHT THERE!

Instant rage tilt whenever I ask how much a bet is and the dealer tells me to wait my turn. I know where the ****ing action is you stupid sack of ****, and I don't ****ing care what leveling games you think are in play about my influencing the action by indicating I'm interested in the pot when I could be asking for any number of reasons like, I don't know, that I can't see whether that's six or seven chips in a pile from clear across the table and want to make sure the table doesn't take substantial, irreversible action on a raise that wasn't legal to begin with or, for ****'s sake, maybe I just want to decide what I'm going to do before my turn so one ****ing hand doesn't take five goddamn minutes

I agree with the dealer on this one.

**** you too then. The only correct response to this question is "the action is currently on seat X, the bet is Y to call"

just stfu and let other people play their hands. As hard as it might be for you to understand you are not the only person at the table that's important. If the dealer wants you to wait, then deal with it. If it's slowing the game down it's by about 3 seconds.

I have to agree with the fiddles on this one.

What tilts me is people acting out of turn.

As much as I hate waiting on hands, I have to agree with fidstar and AlwaysFolding.

If you were the one making a bet in a hand, hoping to get called by the loose fish who happens to have position, but wish to get the reg in the middle out of the way (perhaps with a hand better than yours) because you believe he is a thinker that will consider another player left to act behind, you would lose your **** if the fish IP acted out of turn, or even showed disinterest in the pot before the OMC reg got to act.

Hmmm... maybe I should reconsider my position now...

lol

It's not even close to acting out of turn. Acting out of turn is what happens when people aren't paying attention, which is the opposite of what you're doing if you notice a bet has been made and want to know how much it is

It's also information that the people next to the bettor have clearly available but others don't. We're just supposed to tolerate this artificial information disparity?

Every other situation where players have an obligation to ensure the game is being run correctly (i.e. that raises are properly sized, that no one reopens the betting who isn't allowed to when a short stack goes all-in) requires that players speak up regardless of action or position. We're supposed to believe that the one exception to this is asking how much the bet is, regardless of what your motivation is?

I could want to know how much it is for any number of reasons, and it damn sure isn't my responsibility how some fish chooses to interpret my curiosity.

Your obligation is to wait your turn.

It's 4.30 am, I cant sleep and still I find myself agreeing with my old buddies MTT and fidstar. Yes, maybe reconsider lol.
No, acting out of turn is when you like act out of turn, surprisingly. Like you could ask how much the bet was.

Kindly classify the act of asking "how much is that?" into one of the following categories: fold, call, or raise

All of your superb arguments notwithstanding, Degen, I find it annoying when a player makes a habit of doing what you're talking about. It's not the normal flow of action and just seems narcissistic.

I would be sympathetic to that, which is why I don't make it a habit nor do I advocate making it a habit.

I only find myself needing to ask, at most, one out of every 15-20 sessions, and I think that's a reasonable accommodation

so if it happens this infrequently, why can't you just wait and not be rude?

There we go, you've cracked the case. Obviously I acknowledge that I'm being rude by doing this; it's just not possible that I think this is a reasonable question to ask once in a while as the situation comes up.

As much as I don't want to perpetuate this tedious conversation on an obvious fundamental difference of opinion, there would be no reason to ask if the dealer did the correct thing and spread an ambiguously placed/stacked bet out in order to speed up the game.

A quick game is a good game for everyone.

I imagine this being said by a old guy with a pipe and a plaid jacket, in an English accent.

Sir Wankerton Pennyweather

when you're playing blackjack and dont have anything on the three card poker hand, which i almost never do, and the dealer points it out every time it would have hit. yes b**** i know what a straight or a flush looks like.

lol

When the physically disabled man runs like god in the game so you give him credit on one hand where he takes a strange line and it's the one time he doesn't have it.