Low Stakes Limit Game - Guy Hollywooding every hand

[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.

[DesertCat]

Why not take him aside quietly, ask him why he is taking so long, and explain low limit protocol. I would nicely tell him you want him to do well, but hes ruining the game for others.

Only after that talk, and obv. If he doesn't stop, should you call floor, call clock, or ridicule. Or just switch tables.