Low Stakes Limit Game - Guy Hollywooding every hand

[surfinillini]

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I don't spend a TON of time deciding, but I do generally take a couple of seconds while I consider my options. Sometimes a player will try and act out of turn. Oh well. Thing is I try and keep my routine the same so I go thru the same thought process each action so nobody can get a read on me. If I only think real hard for 10 or 15 seconds when I have a real good hand...

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What limits do you play?

[Photoc]

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I was in the exact same situation, and I called the floor. The floor asked him to keep up with the game. He didn't. What can the floor do in this spot? Do they have discretion to just boot the guy?
Personally, I don't care how bad the guy is. If it means I only get to play 10 hands per hour, he's killed my winrate.

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Yes. The floor can boot him or ask him to leave for the day or pretty much do what ever they want. The casino is a private business. Now the question is WILL the floor do any of that?

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Yep, I've been a witness to it.

[jeffnc]

Try ridiculing the guy (without getting kicked out yourself). Don't know why the dealer doesn't push the action - his earn rate is getting killed. Your earn rate is getting killed too. Every casino has a time limit. You can call "time" every single time. But this won't help - could even make it worse since now he thinks it's "in the rules" for him to take up to 2 minutes or whatever.

Move tables if possible. But if I were that guy, if 2 or 3 people told me "it's your turn" every single time it was my turn, I'd get awfully sick of that.

[SellingtheDrama]

Sounds almost like the guy was on a power trip - making all of you wait for him to make himself feel more important (to himself).

[PorkchopDJG]

1)Mock and ridicule him relentlessly until he realizes how much he is pissing people off

2)Ask dealer or call floor to see if anything can be done

3)If 1 and 2 don't work within 10 minutes get a table change

[Phat Mack]

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What should we have done?

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I would have asked if it was his first time to play live poker.

Maybe he's been watching in on TV for a few years, and has developed an idea about how the "pros" do it. If so, you could point out that TV was just TV, and it was really OK to play a little faster.

[Myttazz]

take all his money and send him to the atm or hopefully he leaves.

[bav]

In Vegas in a cash game, I don't recall ever saying anything to anybody about such stuff. There's always another table to play somewhere close by.

In tourneys, it's sometimes a problem. When it's not a huge issue, it generally just gets tolerated. When it IS a real problem with one player ALWAYS taking unreasonable lengths of time, anybody can try to correct it.

In a Mirage tourney eons ago the approach one person took at our table was to just call time on the guy pre-flop after he'd taken 20 seconds for the 10th time in a row. Each hand he'd call for a clock, first after 15 seconds, then 10 seconds, then finally the instant it was the slowpoke's action we heard "CLOCK!" Table got a laugh out of that one and FINALLY the player got the message and did start acting pre-flop within a few seconds.

I've seen dealers use polite and/or humorous comments to speed up a player. And I've seen dealers just break down and spell it out... this is NOT the WSOP, there are NO TV cameras, you did not pay $10,000 to enter the event, and you only have two cards to think about---ACT, DAMMIT!

Whatever works.

[zunni74]

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take all his money and send him to the atm or hopefully he leaves.

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Unfort. the cards were on his side while I was there (I on the other hand busted out on set K's over set 8's over set 4's)

Re others: I actually thought about singing "Hooray for Hollywood" everytime he touched the cards, but figured that would be considered rude.

I'm also pretty sure it wasn't his first time, but that he was far from a regular player. Perhaps I should have said something quietly to him.

[dave88]

If you know his name start referring to him as "slow bob" (or whatever his name is). If you act after him don't look at your cards until he has acted, some of these guys do this habitually to see the action after them. Repeatedly say "I'm waiting for slow bob" "come on slow bob" "It's on you slow bob" [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

If it really is bothering (tilting) you change tables if possible, or quit.