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11-07-2007, 05:42 PM
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Ever Been Threatened in a Card Room?
I hadn't until today.
Head to the local place for a little 2/4 this morning but nothing was happening, so I put my name down for the $40 NL tourney. I haven't played NL let alone a tourney in a long time, so I'm not too worried about it. It ends up with three tables, and I'm sat with a pleasant older bunch of retirees which is fine by me. Until "Sunglasses" sits down. That's what I mentally named him, and somehow I knew he was trouble. Maybe 25ish, track/jogging suit, NY baseball cap, 5-day stubble and wraparound sunglasses. Yessir, he thought he was the next WPT champion, but I simply inwardly smiled and played. The very first hand he loses 90% of his stack to AQ when the guy holding it rivers a Q. He's seething. I run hot for a few hands, raising all of them and taking them down without a flop. Then it's his BB and my button, and I look down at AKo. It's folded around to me, so I raise to a pot-sized bet, and he seriously goes in the tank. To help him out, I say that we can just move to the next hand and he can bust me there, and he mucks, shouting that he's "been doing this a long time" and that I should show my "pocket jacks". Okay bud. He doesn't let up, so I put on *my* sunglasses (upside down of course) and then kinda skew them a little, and get a good round of laughs from everyone - including him! Fast forward about an hour. I get moved, he busts out, I move back to the original table and I bust out with JJ (the irony!). No biggy, put my name down for 2/4 and step out of the cardroom to go to the bathroom and Sunglasses steps out from behind a pillar and squares up to me "Listen man, you call me out like that again and we're going outside and you ain't coming back..." I honestly thought he was kidding, so I kinda blinked and said "okaayyyyyyy" waiting for the "hahaha gotcha kidding!" from him, but it didn't come. Uh oh. I told him I didn't want to go outside, especially over a 300 chip pot that in the end didn't even effect either of our placings, and he backs up a little saying "You gotta go outside sometime, man. You can't stay in here forever". At that point security was called and he starts walking towards the nearest exit, then runs to it and runs out of the casino. It's the only time this has happened to me and I will admit it's shaken me up quite a bit. I've seen this individual at this room a few times, always playing tournament (never cash games) and pretty much always wearing the same outfit. Needless to say I will be playing somewhere else from now on. 
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#2
11-07-2007, 05:47 PM
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Re: Ever Been Threatened in a Card Room?
Don't be scared of him, let him hit you and then collect some money!!! Whenever someone wants to fight me I say "you go right ahead and throw the first punch so I can take everything you own." Typically, if they value money at all, they realize they are dumb and let it go.
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#3
11-07-2007, 05:52 PM
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Re: Ever Been Threatened in a Card Room?
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Don't be scared of him, let him hit you and then collect some money!!! Whenever someone wants to fight me I say "you go right ahead and throw the first punch so I can take everything you own." Typically, if they value money at all, they realize they are dumb and let it go. [/ QUOTE ] One day you might run into someone like me who doesn't own anything......
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#4
11-07-2007, 06:02 PM
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Re: Ever Been Threatened in a Card Room?
Threatening to sue is a bitch move.
In my experience, people who are going to do something, just do it. They don't threaten to do it. If you want to alter where you play based on that incident, that's your call. Personally, I don't let punks dictate where I play.
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#5
11-07-2007, 06:09 PM
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Re: Ever Been Threatened in a Card Room?
The thing is that if he got that bent out of shape with me over a 300 chip pot when it was plain as day I had a decent hand, then what happens if I suck out at a later date, or something else?
I've had people swear at me many times, call me all kinds of names while playing but this was the first time I've ever actually been threatened in a casino. I just thought it was worth a post and a little discussion that's all.
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#6
11-07-2007, 10:45 PM
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Re: Ever Been Threatened in a Card Room?
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In my experience, people who are going to do something, just do it. They don't threaten to do it. If you want to alter where you play based on that incident, that's your call. Personally, I don't let punks dictate where I play. [/ QUOTE ] DING DING DING.
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#7
11-07-2007, 06:22 PM
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Re: Ever Been Threatened in a Card Room?
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Don't be scared of him, let him hit you and then collect some money!!! Whenever someone wants to fight me I say "you go right ahead and throw the first punch so I can take everything you own." Typically, if they value money at all, they realize they are dumb and let it go. [/ QUOTE ] Right. Collect money from a degen poker player. When pigs fly.
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#8
11-07-2007, 06:25 PM
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Re: Ever Been Threatened in a Card Room?
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Don't be scared of him, let him hit you and then collect some money!!! Whenever someone wants to fight me I say "you go right ahead and throw the first punch so I can take everything you own." Typically, if they value money at all, they realize they are dumb and let it go. [/ QUOTE ] This reminds me of my days at Penn when the weanies from Princeton, who couldn't take a little good natured ribbing, would retort, "Oh yeah, well you'll be working for us someday." But I have the last laugh now. I'm not working for them, and no one makes better Big Macs than I do.
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#9
11-08-2007, 12:41 AM
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Re: Ever Been Threatened in a Card Room?
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[ QUOTE ] Don't be scared of him, let him hit you and then collect some money!!! Whenever someone wants to fight me I say "you go right ahead and throw the first punch so I can take everything you own." Typically, if they value money at all, they realize they are dumb and let it go. [/ QUOTE ] This reminds me of my days at Penn when the weanies from Princeton, who couldn't take a little good natured ribbing, would retort, "Oh yeah, well you'll be working for us someday." But I have the last laugh now. I'm not working for them, and no one makes better Big Macs than I do. [/ QUOTE ] ahahahah. VNH! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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#10
11-07-2007, 08:47 PM
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Re: Ever Been Threatened in a Card Room?
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Don't be scared of him, let him hit you and then HIT HIM BACK!!! Whenever someone wants to fight me I say "you go right ahead and throw the first punch so I can take everything you own." Typically, if they value money at all, they realize they are dumb and let it go. [/ QUOTE ] when i came home with a bloody nose for the first time at age 11, my dad told me 3 things that i'll never forget... at the time, they made no sense, but now, i'll use them when my own son gets into his first fight.. 1. if someone hits you, hit them back 2. if you think someone is going to hit you, hit them first 3. never get into a fight blew my mind at 12 years old, but now, it's makes perfect sense... i don't back down from sunglasses dude. i'm fairly sure my response to 'listen, you call me out like that again, we're going outside, and you're not coming back' is: 'let's go outside, then' at that point, it's a freeroll. i take my chances against most people...if he gets me, i call it a loss. if i get him, which i'm fairly sure of at that point, i remind him that he called me out, and if the cops are involved, i'll tell my story.. win/win. i've said this once or twice on this board, but i'm looking for those kinds of free chances nowadays...i'm 28, 10 years ago, we'd fight over words. now, i'm worried about hurting someone/jail. if i'm convinced i have a reason, we're throwing... don't let people intimidate you like that..you'll regret it later..
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