Don't be this guy

[Broke Rounder]

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I was that guy [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

In the first no limit tournament I played in many years ago, I used my chips to cover my cards. In the process of mucking my cards, I put my chips in a forward motion in front of my cards and mucked.

A player at the table brought it to the dealers attention. The dealer had to call the floor. The floor ruled against me. I had a dead hand and lost all my chips.

I learned the hard way.

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Why would you use your chips to cover your cards if you were going to muck your hand? Just curious, later.

[youtalkfunny]

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"All the time people keep using me to make an example of. Over and over it's 'that's a string bet' or 'you broke this rule' or 'you checked' when I didn't mean to. I'm just sick of this. Not just this time here, but over and over it keeps happening."

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I'm convinced that paranoids, as well as other mentally dysfunctionally people, are attracted to poker more than other interests and hobbies.

People just don't behave this way in the bowling alley, or at the firing range (OK, bad example, but you know what I mean).

[johnnyrocket]

gotta love these guppies, if u see someone do this u instantly know u will be stacking him shortly.

[sternroolz]

I don't understand why people can't just stop being douchebags....guys that count out every single chip, guys that play out of a rack, constant string bettors, guys that can't figure out how to add up different denomination chips, etc.

[Photoc]

I played a tournament the other night and the guy in the 1 seat kept taking his stack of chips and setting them a good 6 inches in front of his cards, stopping, picking up his cards, then pulling his chips back and mucking. I finally asked the dealer after I was in a hand with him :"So is that an all in or what this time since the chips are right out in the betting area". Dealer says "no, he didn't say call" WTF, I didn't ask anything about a call. I bet 500 and there is 4k sitting out about 8 inches from the rail, looks like an all in bet to me, then the guy takes them back and throws his cards away. This happened with 4 consecutive dealers and not one would enforce that as a bet when the chips were clearly in the betting area.

[jalexone]

This is the type of idiotic decisions that keep "new" players away from B&M. People are afraid of losing their money because of some undisclosed rule or a simple mistake.

Warn the players, do not punish them!

[psandman]

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I played a tournament the other night and the guy in the 1 seat kept taking his stack of chips and setting them a good 6 inches in front of his cards, stopping, picking up his cards, then pulling his chips back and mucking. I finally asked the dealer after I was in a hand with him :"So is that an all in or what this time since the chips are right out in the betting area". Dealer says "no, he didn't say call" WTF, I didn't ask anything about a call. I bet 500 and there is 4k sitting out about 8 inches from the rail, looks like an all in bet to me, then the guy takes them back and throws his cards away. This happened with 4 consecutive dealers and not one would enforce that as a bet when the chips were clearly in the betting area.

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You should have asked the dealer to call the floor so that i could yell at him when he said no.

[Hass]

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I don't understand why people can't just stop being douchebags....guys that count out every single chip, guys that play out of a rack , constant string bettors, guys that can't figure out how to add up different denomination chips, etc.

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WTF? Why are you a douchebag for playing out of a rack?

[pfapfap]

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WTF? Why are you a douchebag for playing out of a rack?

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In some NL games I play, they use racks to make counting easier. But in limit, it slows down the game considerably. Even in NL, if you're not betting whatever's in the rack, pulling out chips slows things down. Maybe you're good at it, but most aren't, and there's no way that pulling some chips or a stack out of a rack and placing it on the table can be faster than simply sliding them forward on the felt.

[RR]

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He grabs a stack of 20 chips and counts 'em out in front of his cards (his cards are way far back). He grabs another stack of 20 and starts to count and the dealer says "no sir, it's going to be 20".

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I don't think that was what was goign on here, but where would these "in front of cards" guys like a player to count his own chips? It is very common for NL players to wnat to count out a bet and see how much they would have left to make a decision on whether or not to put the money in the pot. Any rule that forces a player to do something other than what he clearly inteded to do is a bad rule.