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The dealer is busy dealing the next hand and has inexplicably decided not to say anything. I finally pick up a hand and raise to $12 dollars, still arguing with the guy that he should have to remove anything above $300 from the table.

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It's always enormous fun when someone with attitude comes to a table talking smack and putting a giant bullseye on his/her forehead. They ALWAYS bust if they stay a while. Their only chance of survival is to snare a pot early and run. My last such instance was a moron coming to our NL1/2 table (max $200 buy-in) from a broken table with >$700 proclaiming "I'm a playa! I'm here to play! I turned a $38 buy-in into THIS! Those suckers on that other table actually let me buy in short for $38 and looky at what I done with it!"... he lasted about 60 minutes and left without a penny, losing $100 here, and $200 there, and $200 again, and $200 more.

It's not just the dealers at The Orleans that fail to control the game as they should. It's pretty rare for a dealer to tell an incoming player that he has too many chips. Or to catch a player taking 'em off the table later. 90% of the time it requires a player at the table speaking up. Dunno if it's that the dealers really don't notice, or if they just prefer to never say a discouraging word unless forced to. But it is inexcusable for the dealer to not say something once the issue is brought up, and particularly when this yahoo pushed all-in the dealer needed to clarify how much was being pushed before any further action was allowed. But... I agree the guy was committed for at least $300, not $100. I just don't see that you can put chips on the table, refuse to remove them, and then say they are not in play when the result turns out poorly for you. The ONLY question is whether >$300 was in play. That I dunno. I don't disagree with the ruling, but I'm not sure it was "right".

So what are the gaming legalities of the max buy-in on the placards? If a table has a stated max buy-in, do gaming regulations require they be followed? I know the stated rake on the placard cannot be exceeded. I have seen the max buy-in be intentionally ignored by general consensus of the players at the table when someone sat with too much and the dealer actually asked if anybody objected and nobody did. Just dunno if that's kosher.