Who is the person you least enjoy playing with (types, not names please)? (2 Viewers)

[GreatWhiteDope]

No lie, at a recent game, when I gave a guy his stacks of $5s, $1s, and quarters, all of which have the denom on them, all of which he’s played many times at my house (and we’ve been playing .25/.50 forever,) he looks at his fracs and says how much are these?

I almost lost it and then I looked at his stack and the top chip was actually the one single starbursts in the whole rack. Ha!

I think a lot of these fall into the same general category of stupid people.

 

[BigSlick4523]

The person that takes an hour to act on every hand who thinks they are playing in the main but it's a $50 a month poker league lol

 

[chippitydoodah]

The person that takes an hour to act on every hand who thinks they are playing in the main but it's a $50 a month poker league lol

But is he a frequent winner?

 

[Quicksilver-75]

The inevitable "phone guy".
It's cool out of hands. If you slow the game even once, if your showing a TikTok or some shit to someone else and it's distracting, the phone ban is enacted.

 

[BamaT8ter]

@Beakertwang

 

[Beakertwang]

@Beakertwang

 

[btbmason]

I’m not a fan of the person that says what they folded every single hand after seeing that they would have connected with the board.

 

[roughrabbit]

I’m not a fan of the person that says what they folded every single hand after seeing that they would have connected with the board.

Personal pet peeve, reactions during the hand post fold is additional info that can influence players actions and shouldn't be shared. After the hand is fine but can get annoying like you said

 

[chopper]

Oh for me, 100% the player that doesn’t pay attention. Be present people! I can just barely tolerate the constant reminders that action is on them, and what the blinds are. But I play at self-dealt games, and when the dealer has to be reminded to deal we’ll OMFG!

 

[shorticus]

I don’t enjoy playing with anal people. I don’t mind chatty Kathy, OMC, or anyone really. Just don’t be a dickhead and we are good.

Its typically the guy who read somewhere that “good players are always quiet” and took is entirely too seriously.

 

[GreatWhiteDope]

The person that takes an hour to act on every hand who thinks they are playing in the main but it's a $50 a month poker league lol

I stole a phrase from a friend of mine that I love to describe these people, "The human rain delay."

 

[Organista1]

The guy who wants to eat hot Cheetos without any napkins

 

[BleedingChips]

People who come into your house without any contribution to your liquor cabinet or fridge, barely say "good evening" and head straight to the table. They usually stink, too.

This drives me nuts. I charge $10 a person for dinner, snacks, and drinks. I put on a real spread and am always trying to get the best stuff I can to make people feel like they are getting their money’s worth. We’ve got an old school Coke machine with 7 different glass bottled beverages, whiskey, a mini fridge with more drink options, candy, beef jerky, cheese sticks, pretzels, pizza, etc.

I have one regular who aside from being a non-talker and pretty much only there for the poker, brings a cooler with his own snacks and drinks. No big deal, but it kind of feels like bringing your own beer to an open bar at a wedding. So I offered to get whatever stuff he liked so that he wouldn’t have to bring his own stuff. After going back and forth for a bit over text, he insisted on bringing his own stuff and I felt bad asking him to contribute money for food; I told him not to worry about it.

What has made my blood boil (I know it really shouldn’t but it’s the principle) is multiple games after that watching him reach in to grab snack after snack. I haven’t said anything as a couple close friends have suggested I keep it to myself. Pretty much every other player is very generous with either bringing something or throwing extra money in because they see the value, so it’s disappointing that this one player does not see the value.

 

[BigSlick4523]

This drives me nuts. I charge $10 a person for dinner, snacks, and drinks. I put on a real spread and am always trying to get the best stuff I can to make people feel like they are getting their money’s worth. We’ve got an old school Coke machine with 7 different glass bottled beverages, whiskey, a mini fridge with more drink options, candy, beef jerky, cheese sticks, pretzels, pizza, etc.

I have one regular who aside from being a non-talker and pretty much only there for the poker, brings a cooler with his own snacks and drinks. No big deal, but it kind of feels like bringing your own beer to an open bar at a wedding. So I offered to get whatever stuff he liked so that he wouldn’t have to bring his own stuff. After going back and forth for a bit over text, he insisted on bringing his own stuff and I felt bad asking him to contribute money for food; I told him not to worry about it.

What has made my blood boil (I know it really shouldn’t but it’s the principle) is multiple games after that watching him reach in to grab snack after snack. I haven’t said anything as a couple close friends have suggested I keep it to myself. Pretty much every other player is very generous with either bringing something or throwing extra money in because they see the value, so it’s disappointing that this one player does not see the value.

it boils down to just this some people suck lol

 

[NotRealNameNoSir]

I haven’t said anything as a couple close friends have suggested I keep it to myself.

Curious, why? Just say something, the guy isn't clocking in hours at a casino he's in your house. He also sounds boring. If he's not good for the atmosphere, good for the game, or good for my chipstack I don't want him in my home.

 

[Jimulacrum]

I unenjoy most of the same things the rest of you listed. My addition is more about a specific behavior than a player archetype. For context, this is a dealer's choice game with a lot of double-board and other split-pot games, so showdowns can be tricky.

A regular player with a lot of other annoying habits has recently been dragging out showdowns like this. It makes me crazy.

Even after everyone else has tabled their hands, he sits there staring at his cards with his mouth half-open, trying to figure out what he has. The later into the night (i.e., more beers) and the more complex the game, the longer he sits there staring. Half the other players are telling him to just show his hand, and most of the time he keeps sitting there staring at his cards, prolonging showdown quite a bit.

Even that is only moderately annoying. It gets worse.

Suppose we get to a point where I ask if he's conceding—y'know, so we can move on with our damn lives—and suppose he says yes. I used to take this opportunity to chop up the pot, award it to the winners, and begin clearing the cards, as one does. Now I know better.

Even after he says he concedes, he often wants to hold onto his cards and keep staring at them. A few times, as I was clearing the board, he blurted out, "Wait, hold on, I think I have a flush!" or whatever. This is way past the point where it's appropriate to try to contest, as the pot has been awarded and the other players' hands (and sometimes the board cards) have been collected. He even did it one time after throwing his cards face-down. After I've already awarded the pot, he reached out, grabbed his mucked cards, and tried to claim he had a winner.

There's no way I'm awarding him anything at this point; that verbal concession is a done deal. But sometimes he gets irritable about it and acts like he's been done wrong because he voluntarily forfeited half the pot without showing his cards. Now, because of this, I won't accept a verbal concession from him. He needs to table his hand, or it needs to go irretrievably into the muck, and until that happens I'm not moving anything. Anyone else can verbally concede, just not him.

It's such a ridiculous babysitting task. If you want your hand protected, table it. Then we have to award it if you have the winner. It's so simple.

Two habits from the same player that have recently started to grate on me:

1. When we play Dramaha (usually on my deal), he often takes an inordinate amount of time to decide what to discard. I get that it can be a tricky decision, but by the draw round you've already had an entire round of action to think. He takes easily 4–5 times as long as the average, even when he's not first to draw (i.e., he has even had a little buffer time as other players do their draws). Leaves me sitting there for a long time with the deck in my hand, frozen, waiting for him to act. Sometimes I put my head down on the table and pretend to fall asleep. He doesn't even notice.

2. When it's time to cash out, if he has a lot of chips, he takes substantially longer to count them out than most other players. Part of the reason (aside from intoxication) is that he organizes them into weird combinations, usually mixed-denomination clusters of $100 or $50 or some other sum of convenience. Always 10 chips at most, sometimes 5. For example:

• 2 stacks of 5 $5s
• 1 stack that's a merger of 4 $5s and 5 $1s
• 2 stacks of 10 $1s
• 1 stack of 5 $1s
• 1 $20 and 5 $1s
• 1 loose $5 and 3 loose $1s

When he's done, he presents it to me like he thinks he did me a favor—even though he has seen me count chips many times and knows I don't do it like that. I cut them up by denomination in stacks of 20 like any sane dealer, and I have to deconstruct all his bullshit just to be able to start on it. His chips end up unnecessarily spread out all over his end of the table, since he separates them into so many weird groups (all in their own little areas) and uses a bunch of extra stacks to do it. Last time he played, there was confusion about where his chips ended and his neighbor's chips began because he put them too close.

I know he's not trying to angle. He's just oblivious. But it drives me crazy sometimes.

 

[Kyle]

Tryhards. Sunglasses and Hoodie types.

 

[Jimulacrum]

Tryhards. Sunglasses and Hoodie types.

What about scarves?

 

[Kyle]

What about scarves?

Yeah that too I guess but havent run into that ....yet.

 

[Jeevansluck]

players who come to the game, and start spewing politics. it does not sit well with others.

im starting up a relatively new home game, and its a rule now, NO POLITICS

 

[slowplay]

Oh for me, 100% the player that doesn’t pay attention. Be present people! I can just barely tolerate the constant reminders that action is on them, and what the blinds are. But I play at self-dealt games, and when the dealer has to be reminded to deal we’ll OMFG!

this so much. There's always this one guy

 

[krafticus]

People who don’t pay attention, constantly
People who can’t put their phone down.
People who sit in the middle of the table and won’t help clean up cards or push pots

 

[upNdown]

im starting up a relatively new home game, and its a rule now, NO POLITICS

You shouldn't have to make that a rule. Its common sense and common decency. do you also have to tell these people that pants are require at the table?

 

[slowplay]

People who can’t put their phone down.

I forgot about this but I started noticing this being bigger and bigger issue. People CONSTANTLY on their phone, doing god knows what, not paying attention whether in a hand or not.

 

[Jeevansluck]

You shouldn't have to make that a rule. Its common sense

Stuff is in short supply at times, by otherwise solid individuals.

I’ve got 1 player, in particular who gets everyone riled up. A month back, I had a player up and leave because the guy wouldn’t stop with MAGA speeches and Trump affirmations. Pisses off 99% Canadians, even though the guy is pretty Canadian

Hard to be rude to the guy, he served in the navy his whole life and so I have a lot of respect for the man.

 

[TheYeti]

Two habits from the same player that have recently started to grate on me:

1. When we play Dramaha (usually on my deal), he often takes an inordinate amount of time to decide what to discard. I get that it can be a tricky decision, but by the draw round you've already had an entire round of action to think. He takes easily 4–5 times as long as the average, even when he's not first to draw (i.e., he has even had a little buffer time as other players do their draws). Leaves me sitting there for a long time with the deck in my hand, frozen, waiting for him to act. Sometimes I put my head down on the table and pretend to fall asleep. He doesn't even notice.

2. When it's time to cash out, if he has a lot of chips, he takes substantially longer to count them out than most other players. Part of the reason (aside from intoxication) is that he organizes them into weird combinations, usually mixed-denomination clusters of $100 or $50 or some other sum of convenience. Always 10 chips at most, sometimes 5. For example:

• 2 stacks of 5 $5s
• 1 stack that's a merger of 4 $5s and 5 $1s
• 2 stacks of 10 $1s
• 1 stack of 5 $1s
• 1 $20 and 5 $1s
• 1 loose $5 and 3 loose $1s

When he's done, he presents it to me like he thinks he did me a favor—even though he has seen me count chips many times and knows I don't do it like that. I cut them up by denomination in stacks of 20 like any sane dealer, and I have to deconstruct all his bullshit just to be able to start on it. His chips end up unnecessarily spread out all over his end of the table, since he separates them into so many weird groups (all in their own little areas) and uses a bunch of extra stacks to do it. Last time he played, there was confusion about where his chips ended and his neighbor's chips began because he put them too close.

I know he's not trying to angle. He's just oblivious. But it drives me crazy sometimes.

Is there a reason you haven't uninvited this guy? The tanking and funky chip stacks would be enough for me after a couple warnings.

 

[Josh Kifer]

@MrCatPants

 

[Jimulacrum]

Is there a reason you haven't uninvited this guy? The tanking and funky chip stacks would be enough for me after a couple warnings.

He only plays occasionally, and it's a small game in a private club with a group of long-time friends. Everyone gets irritated with him over something—if not the poker-related stuff, it's the fact that he's away from the table smoking half of the time. It's such a running joke in our game and his pool league that they had "Where's Adam?" shirts made, and everyone openly talks about how he's constantly wandering around.

But despite this, he's generally fun to have around and contributes positively to the, uh, fiscal aspects of the game.

He also likes to deal blackjack once in a while, which is ridiculous in a poker game. I don't even enjoy playing blackjack. But he pays 2:1 on a blackjack, so I can't argue.

 

[Josh Kifer]

@Gorbash

 

[Josh Kifer]

@RocAFella1