Originally Posted by Unklesamm
About 4 years ago, when I just started going to the Borgata on a regular basis, I didn't know many of the regs there and mainly played $1/2.
I did recall one guy from a few other times I seen him, I'll keep his name out but he's a Russian dude from Brooklyn (I know some of you frequent the Borgata) and we played a pretty long $1/2 session of about 5 hours.
Long story short, I was up to about $1100 from a $200 buyin, he was down about $700ish just from me. And when the game dried up, I decided to do a $120 SNG's and left.
As I get up, he asks me where I am going, in this angry, russian accent.. I tell him. He promptly gets up and follows me to the SNG table.
I draw a 3 seat, he draws a 1 seat. At this point, not only am I dieing laughing inside that this guy is mad enough to stalk me, but now I have position over him.
So anyway, 10 minutes later, and about 4 hands in - I look down to AK @ the SB. I make it 150 to go after folds all around, and he firmly says RRRAISSE, and throws in a 500 chip. Its HU now, and I simply shove.
He snap ninjitsu phil hellmuth chip punch calls and shows Queens. had no idea why he didn't raise it preflop, but now I know that he does crazy crap like this all the time.
Needless to say, I turn a king and he is busted.
After some muttering in russian (which I understood, since I am also russian) he asks me if I will be staying at the poker room. I tell him yes.
I ended up bubbling or coming 4th or something in that SNG, but a few hours after that, I'm at the $2/5 and here he comes, with a fully loaded tray of red chips. Sits down and gives me this evil smile.
After a few hours, we didn't really get into any pots together (although he tried reallly bad) and he eventually calmed down and stopped stalking me.
Fast forward to today, and we talk whenever I come down there, he's actually a cool dude.
But yea, anyway, some of the regs. in AC are friggin nutcases.
As far as the things that people do that tilt me.. There are tons, but here are a few:
1. Slow rolling - If you got the damn nuts, stop being an immature jackass and show your hand.
2. Flipping one card at a time - I'm glad the Borgata started to finally enforce this rule in tournies and cash. It is so damn annoying.
3. Lessons at the table - This isn't blackjack. I don't care to know if I should split 9's against a dealers 10. If people want to flat a large 4bet w/ A8o OOP, then god bless them.
4. Crappy dealers - Now the dealer quality has definitely gone up over the last few years, but it's still apparent. Dealers who deal so slowly you could of gotten up, took a dump, came back and still not get your card @ a the btn. Dealers who try and deal so fast that they turn over at least one card every 5 hands. Dealers who do not know simple math and just completely shut down when there is a side pot involved.