Man this thread is forming many legs. Here are the facts:
- the dealers did not know the pot size at all times (forget about dealers should know, 3 of them did not but 1 of them did).
- the players did not volunteer pot size information except for 2 players (official pros), the rest were NL Holdem specialist players that were bored. (opinion -->
There probably were 3 others players who knew the pot size as well but didn't speak up.
- I assumed a messy pot slowed the game down and a neatly stacked pot would speed things up hence I wanted a neatly stacked pot to get more hands played
- I need to work on my game selection. I was with the ignorant NL Holdem pack
Next time this happens, I'm just gonna ask the dealer to leave the pot neatly stacked. Hopefully at this level, the house will let the 5/10 players do what they want. There wasn't any dispute of any kind but we wanted to get things right. At this level, there aren't as many 1/2 NL television know everything because they heard it from a reliable WSOP/WPT show. Sorry to throw that in, had to vent a little. I don't miss the 1/2 NL days.
Think of big boobs. Keeping it safe for work.