What do you do at the tables?

[Mike Gallo]

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The sandwich was invented to permit food consumption simultaneous with gambling.

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It was actually called a "gamblewich" in the early days.

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[Rottersod]

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The sandwich was invented to permit food consumption simultaneous with gambling.

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It was actually called a "gamblewich" in the early days.

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[memphis57]

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The sandwich was invented to permit food consumption simultaneous with gambling.

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It was actually called a "gamblewich" in the early days.

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from http://www.wordsources.info/words-mod-sandwich.html



The word sandwich that we use today was born in London during the very late hours one night in 1762 when an English nobleman, John Montagu, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792), was too busy gambling to stop for a meal even though he was hungry for some food. The legend goes that he ordered a waiter to bring him roast-beef between two slices of bread. The Earl was able to continue his gambling while eating his snack; and from that incident, we have inherited that quick-food product that we now know as the sandwich. He apparently had the meat put on slices of bread so he wouldn’t get his fingers greasy while he was playing cards.

[Assani Fisher]

I drink as much free alcohol as possible. Sometimes I use the IPOD if I don't fee like being social, but mostly not. Stacks of 20, pyramid tower. Constantly shuffling or doing other chip tricks simply out of habit. I don't use a card protector of any sort, and I've never had my hand accidentally mucked. Never wear sunglasses.

[esch]

Wow. I'm a clone of the OP. except the music. And I might see the Hijack before heading for a bathroom/smoke break.

iPod earphone in one ear only so I can hear what's going on/participate in relevant conversation.

People behind headphones who don't know what's going on is a peeve. "What?" Takes off a cup. "What?" "Is it on me?" etc.

The noise of all the chip shufflers bugs me. A little. Why don't I just bang a chip on my stacks of twenty all the time? How would people like that?

I'll rotate my chips in their stack so that the side markings are aligned if the game is going really slowly. I can probably calculate some hands/per down number based on the percentage of my stacks that are aligned.

OJ, Coke with Lemon, Beer, Water depending on my mood and depending on whether I need to energize, caffeinate, relax, or hydrate.

I've tried prop betting, but apparently I haven't been able to make it fun enough yet.

[Mygtar]

I do not wear sunglasses, but I also play 4/8 LHE so I find it to be a little ridiculous. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Definately no IPOD. Pet peeve is when someone with one constantly asks about action, what was said etc.

I bring some breakfast bars (I start playing early AM) and a bag of trail mix. I get up between noon and 2pm for lunch depending on how I am running.

Drink only water and lots of it. Which causes frequent bathroom breaks that I time according to my position. Getting back in time for the button/blinds.

I bring my own card protector and yes I change it for the seasons. I am breaking out the pumpkin next visit.

Always chop low limit (4/8 LHE) no need to give Foxwoods more money.

Always chit-chat otherwise I might as well stay at home. This is part of the reason I enjoy the game.

My $.02

[Mr Rick]

I play @ Foxwoods so no food at the table.

I play long sessions 10-18 hrs. I drink tea rather than coffee so that the caffeine can be more evenly spaced. I am awful when I play tired (too passive)

I have been skipping lunch lately. And it seems to make no difference.

Bathroom breaks I try to take either UTG+2 or UTG+1 immediately after I fold. I don't mind buying the button. Also when there is a "fill" I can usually not miss a hand.

No iPod, sunglasses, I enjoy the people. Usually there are 2 or 3 who will engage.

Dinner break when the excellent players are all back from their breaks.

I tend to stretch my legs when there is a gorgeous woman behind me who I can't see. I can tell she is there because the entire table cranes their necks and goes on tilt. There is an occasional "All-in" that tips me off too. I play LHE.

[SellingtheDrama]

Sunglasses only because I've found that I don't get headaches as bad when I wear them. Used to have trouble playing more than about three hours before having to leave because of the pain. I will take them off happily anytime someone asks, which is great for screwing with their heads.
Ipod - its with me, I rarely use it though.
I don't drink booze while playing, usually just water.
I eat when I'm hungry.

Card protector - the smallest chip in front of me.

I'm friendly at the table up until the point when I have about 20 big blinds in a pot, by then all my attention is going to be on the hand. I don't get mad at people - players or dealers.

I always chop, in part because the marginal equity isn't worth the negative attention. A friendly table is a good gambling table usually.

[nineinchal]

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So I have been playing live games fairly regularly, and my poker buddy is always amazed that I don't listen to music (IPOD/MP3 player), while I am playing. I also don't wear sunglasses and will use a standard table chip as my card protector. My chips are evenly stacked in 20. I will try to constantly drink water, and take frequent bathroom breaks once I am pass the CO. (once an hour)
What are your habits at the table?
Any good advice on what you should do during a long session?
Sunglasses?
Ipod?
Eating?
Drinking?
Card Protector?
Chop every time, or sometimes play for bad-beat?
Chit-chat?

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1. I never talk about how hands are played at the table, ever.

2.During long sessions, I get up and go back to my apartment on the boardwalk and take a nap, which I bought with the money I won by following rule number 1, above.

3. I never wear sunglasses, that would be rude and tighten up the bad players.

4. Ditto for the i-pod, however, I am technologically challenged since I am old and going to die soon.

5. I eat if I am allowed, only if I am very very hungry, since that slows up the number of hands played per hour, especially from the french fry grease and mayonnaise, which I love on my fries. No wonder I can never lose a pound.

6. I drink whatever.I start off with coffee, cream and eight splenda, since I am watching my weight. I progress to bloody mary's, since I figure that is lowest in calories of all the alcoholic drinks, have two or three of those at the Borgata (they make great bloody Mary's). Then I progress to diet cokes (shaken, not stirred, with maraschino cherries). Then Fiji water if they stocked it that day. When I am about to rack up, I go for a double shot of Jack Daniels, straight up, followed by a Bud chaser (its draft, yum!!!).
When I on my way out the door, to my car, I stop in the horse betting parlor, bet a horse for 2 bucks, get the free drink coupons, have a knob creek shot straight up, wtih a Stella Artois draft. There is no place better for free booze than the Borgata.

If I play at the Taj, then all bets are off. I just stick to the diet cokes, bottled beer, and the bottled water (Trump Ice, how tacky).

I take my bathroom breaks after I play my middle position hands, since I want to play as many hands as possible, in those loosey loose games. I am usually able to make it back for my big blinds, even leaving enough time for me to wash my hands after taking a whiz, or a dump.

7. My card protector is my left hand, leaving my right hand free so I can touch myself if there is a hot chick passing by. This let's me know I am still alive.

8. I chop every time, I don't like it, but I do it, especially if the recreational loose players are around. That extra dough I make from their loose calls is well worth forgoing blind play, even with real bad players to my immediate left and right. Besides, we get right to the next hand, where perhaps we can get a nice multi way pot going.

9. I chit chat or I am quiet, it depends upon whatever will keep the bad players around. If I talk, I make a lot of jokes about how, fat, old, how much I suck at poker, how stupid I am, what bad luck I get, how much I drink and eat, porno, girls, anything but the game in progress or the quality of the play of the other players.

If I am asked by another player how well he played the hand or if he played the hand correctly, I always retort, "You played that hand really well." As bad a player most of them are, they appreciate that type of dishonesty from me.



The above routine is a consistent winning strategy for me.

[nineinchal]

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The sandwich was invented to permit food consumption simultaneous with gambling.

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It was actually called a "gamblewich" in the early days.

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For all of your edification, due to your collective lack of education:

It was called a sandwich because the Earl of Sandwich invented it and loved to gamble in card games. This left one hand his hands free to gamble.

Then he was surpassed in his intellegence only when the theory of relativity was conceived and formulated by Albert Einstein.