Re: Why do players think they can do this when not in a hand?
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I get this at least a few times a week:
NL holdem ring games, a player will push all in, and another player WITHOUT cards will ask how much that is. I always say, sorry, you don't have cards. Then they get all pissy that they think they are mystically entitled to slow down the game to get a chip count when they have ZERO PENDING ACTION in the hand! Man, these F'in learned fom the WPT morons are really getting ridiculous. They all think they know every single rule and yet have zero clue.
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I could live with this one* if we could find a way to put an end to group decisions on a heads up pot after one player pushes (or group decsions in general). In recent months I've had as many as three players openly advise a player whether or not to call my all in or covering pushes. This isn't the biggest limits, but usually in games with $5 or $10 blinds and $300 to $2000 stacks. Often this total breech of ettiquette is done be decent players currently beating the games.
I have three or four ridiculous true stories already written in my disorganized mind - if I get the chance and mood I'll post them. But I'm thinking of a more important post, sorting out the problems we probably have to adjust to as players (that can't easily be controlled with policy or whatever), versus ones that the card clubs could control that in fact hurt the growth of the game. **
Anyway, TV poker has brought in lots of new players, but I get the impression when they watch the WPT or whatever they actually believe that the players can hear Mike Sexton's commentary.
~ Rick
* Photoc - In all seriousness, I'd like to get rid of the problem you mention too, but I haven't seen it much and it doesn't effect (affect? -grammar brain fart in progress) the action much or isn't super unfair compared to some of the other BS I'm seeing.
** An example of something that we probably can't stop and should be able to live with is players giving away the fact that they are folding in multiway pots with hand motion tells. But a top player understands he gets helped by this more often then he gets hurt by it and it's difficult for the dealers to put a stop to it in the real world.
Third party coffee-housing is another story. I have the feeling the Las Vegas dealers do a better job of controlling this than the LA dealers for reasons I'll get into in a future post.
PS Sorry to hijack your rant [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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