Dealers that make you get up and leave

[Arbitrage]

One of the few non-Asian-woman-dealers at my casino (hes a young white kid) always deals me Aces and Kings, problem is he flops my opponents 5's full of 3's and OESFD's. He's a good dealer and nice kid, but I just know that I'm catching a cooler when he sits down.

[allbad]

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Thinking back on it now, I guess I could have taken off my shoe and used that as a card protector, but that seems pretty excessive.

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You didn't have a chip? You can't hold the cards in a way that shows *most* of the card? You can't tuck the edge of your cards in your stack? I have no problem... in fact applaud a dealer who tells a player they need to keep the cards in full view. I try to look in front of everyone before making my action and it pisses me off to no end when I act and someone says "yo dude, you gonna wait for me?" when they're groping the dang cards.

sorry for the diatribe, guess the point of it is I've got no sympathy.

[kkcountry]

casino windsor, there is an 50-ish red haired female dealer who deals slow, never knows who the action is on, habitually deals the turn or river before all action on the previous street is completed, and gives you the look of death if you mention her making an error. once i held 56 on an 234AT and she capped the betting at 4 bets even though i was heads up before the river (villain had a naked 5) she also talks really sleazily with the dirty old men thinking that it'll help her get tips, which is super disturbing. if i was planning on leaving soon, i'll leave, otherwise i'll continue playing and let her know that i won't be tipping her because she is an awful dealer.

[degenaholic]

Foxwoods, there is an asian woman dealer who straight up asked the other player in the hand at showdown if he had a straight (when he was going to muck his hand, bc he couldn't read the board).

Half the table left after this hand.

[bav]

Flippin' dealer made me get up and leave tonight. I flopped the flush draw with two overcards to the board with AJs but ran into QQ. I didn't improve and that was the end of the tourney for me.

[flytrap]

I would get up and leave when a bad dealer sits down to deal, but unfortunately I play in Detroit and this would mean sitting out 4 hours in a 10 hour session.

[bigshowmack]

He's a nice guy, but the hefty dealer at Casino Windsor with the shaved head and birthmark on his face is absolutely awful technique wise and also gets mad at people who criticize his dealing. He's been there for a while but still can't pitch the cards at all.

I also had an eastern european female dealer at fallsview who was totally incompetent. She dropped the deck twice in a half hour period, let someone buy in for $300 in a $100 max game, forgot to burn before dealing the river, and a long list of other mistakes that forced me to tell the floor I was table changing when she was scheduled to come back to our table.

[KenProspero]

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Flippin' dealer made me get up and leave tonight. I flopped the flush draw with two overcards to the board with AJs but ran into QQ. I didn't improve and that was the end of the tourney for me.

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Don't blame the Dealer -- Phil Ivey would have hit the Flush. Phil Hellmuth too, though he might have thrown a chair at the Villian with QQ afterwards, just because.

[Mr Rick]

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I've had dealers that really pissed me off, but I just stay there and tilt away my money instead of leaving the table (yes, I know this is a leak and I have no discipline). This has only happened 3 times that I can think of:

> Playing $8/$16 LHE, I raised villian's river bet with a board of As,Ks,Qc,Qd,Ts. Villian was deciding how to react and I said, "looks like we're splitting". After the hand, the dealer told me that my hand would be ruled dead if I talked about another hand I was in. I had the FH (obviously), and villian raised me with his flush.

> Playing $1/$2 NL, a dealer called my friend an a$$hole after my friend said that he wasn't giving the dealer another tip.

> Playing $1/$2 NL, I raised PF and got 2 callers. Old guy at the end of the table complained that he couldn't see my cards (my hands were on them). Dealer told me to keep my hands off my cards.

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1> I think dealer is correct here - you can't talk about your hand.
2> Is your friend an a**hole? If not, why didn't you tell the dealer you weren't tippiong him either?
3> Don't cover your cards. As said before, it affects others at the table who may act out of turn or make bets they wouldn't have otherwise made. Go with suggestions already made.

More to the point - why are you taking what a dealer says so personally? Keep an open mind at the table. I am always learning something I can apply to my game. Also, if I feel embarrased by a dealer's comments I just admit it out loud and move on. Recently at Foxwoods, Champagne a beautiful young Asian woman, was dealing and heard me say, "this has got to be a mistake" as I called pre-flop. When I folded on the turn she said "Why you keep playing that sh*t". Which was embarrassingly true. I laughed and wished it was me who was going out on a date with her that night.

[Diana Ross Fan]

I used to get mad at Foxwoods dealers for fishing my hand out of the muck pile during IWTSTH confrontations.

Then one day a guy somehow pulled an 84o out of the muck that didn't match the board in any way.

The whole table gave me incredulous stares. It was free advertising for the entire night. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]