Why do players think they can do this when not in a hand?

[Rick Nebiolo]

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You do realize that people want to sit down and play as fast as they can. They don't want to sit around and read rules or have someone teach it to them. I've tried, and they just say "yeah yeah, lets play" and so on.

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If my understanding is correct you are working as a dealer; in the case of the dealer they probably don't want to see any activity since they will percieve that it slows the game down.

When Hawaiian Garden and the Bike used hosts to start the games in the early days of the fixed buy-in no limit boom the playing hosts would, for the most part, keep the worse excesses under control (plus sell the re-buys from big racks with zero embarrassment/comment). Usually they would make a comment during the shuffle, so the game wasn't slowed down.

Once there were many games the host system was dropped at both clubs. Hawaiian Gardens does put up a "tip of the week" poster on the podium, often dealing with an etiquette issue. I'd say at this club the behavior is a little better, but it is hard to be certain.

~ Rick