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There’s a lot of stuff that I see in the poker rooms that just amaze me. From dealers who shouldn’t really be dealing the game because they can’t really do pot math… or worse than that, dealers who don’t follow the action correctly and then make bad decisions based on something, regardless of what the table says.
Last week, I was involved in some horrible etiquette by a player that simply topped everything I EVER seen before.
I was playing $3/$6 limit. I was in the cutoff position. Everyone is a limping sort of mood. I had a mediocre holding, so I limped as well. The button folded (or so I thought). The SB and BB call. The flop comes out. Everyone checks to me and hitting nothing on a drawing kind of flop (I didn’t have any draws, mind you), so I decide to check to.
This is where it gets weird. The button, who I thought had folded, puts a bet into the pot. The SB and BB insta-fold at about the same time I’m looking for how I missed the button still having cards in front of him. Before the dealer can even collect the folds, the button player lifts his hands to reveal that he does NOT have any cards. He takes back his bet and starts saying stuff like, “I was just joking.”
Wow.
I’m stunned. More stunning, the SB and BB simply take their cards back and never complain. The only complaint comes from a player in middle position (who’s still in the hand)…. but other than that, play continues as normal.
WTF?!
This was without a doubt the most egregious display of bad etiquette that I’ve ever seen. If I was in the SB, I would have probably raised a real fuss. Luckily, I wasn’t and therefore it didn’t really affect me one way or another… but still.
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John // Jul 8, 2008 at 10:42 am
I had $100 at a 1/2 NL table. The guy to my right (with about $500) faked a check, when I then bet $10, he said, “You’re betting out of turn.” He then proceeds to put $50 in the pot. Then, when I go to take my $10 back, he raises holy hell that I can’t take the $10 back, and that I either have to fold (with my $10 in the pot) or call his $50 bet. I look to the dealer to back me up, but apparently this bullshit was against me.
I don’t know if I’m the moron here, but half the time I wait for the dealer to look at me, he acts like I’m a F’ing moron for not knowing when it’s my “turn”, and then on an occasion like this when I read the player’s tapping as a check, I get screwed because the dealer didn’t explicitly motion to me to bet.
Now I never do a freaking thing until the dealer motions to me. It annoys people at the table, but fuck them. I’m not falling for that bullshit again.
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