Chip placement at table (1 Viewer)

[99%evil]

I was at local card room today, playing 8 handed $1/2NL ( pretty much all they normally have, sometimes $2/5 pops up but only 4 tables today). I’m in #8 seat with $450 next to dealer on button sitting with 7h9h. #1 player, LAG on the dumb side is in a pot with me. Don’t remember how it went preflop, feel like someone in early position raised to $15 with 4 callers. Flop comes 3h 6h 9s. #1 bets out $25, other players fold I raise to $75, he calls. He has been calling a lot of raises and pull the all in at the end forcing others to fold. Turn comes 8c, #1 pushes his stack in 6 $5 chips and about 9 $1 chips. I’m thinking even if he has a set I’ve got outs and it’s only $30 something dollars with a $200+ dollar pot, shit I could be good with just my 9’s. River comes Js. He shows pocket queens, I’m like “nice hand” and look over and he’s kicking out 2 $100 chips from the bottom of his stack- i was shocked, this card room did not allow $100 chips at the poker tables ( only blackjack). And I argue the chips were hidden, but I know how it’s going to be called.

Suffice to say I was pissed, forked over much more than I thought. I was a prick for next few hours, mentioning angle shooting and hoping he’d want to go outside to discuss.

Anyway, put me in a dark mood and the cards didn’t help the fight. Left down a couple hundred more. I’ve been on a very good streak lately, so I’m not really concerned about the down session. I just felt a bit cheated and now know there’s $100 chips in play ( dealer informed me they had just started allowing $100’s in the room the week prior) and must remind myself to ask what I’m calling. My colorblindness bit me in the ass today.

 

[99%evil]

To be honest, if I knew he had that much, I would still have called him, but I would have paused to think it over before deciding. I just thought it was underhanded.

Sucked he was weak, but I never got a decent hands heads up with him after, played poorly as a result. But what does it really matter, it’s only chips

 

[Billy Baroo]

Had a very similar situation a few years back at a $2/5 home game that’s pretty much professionally operated.

Had a dirtbag at the table that got away with the hidden hundos all in move like you described. It wasn’t to me but it pissed me off probably more than it should have. He was just being an ass in general already and I guess that’s why it soured me so much.

Fast forward a couple of hours and he’s fluffed off most of his stack…he gets into a decent size hand with two others and myself. Specific hand details elude my old ass but I just remember post flop action gets it heads up with me and him. I turned the nut straight and we go check check. River is a cinder block and I check back again because I just know he’s gonna take a stab at it. I get a good 3-4 minute Hollywood from before he goes all in. I notice a couple of $100’ conveniently on the bottom of his stack of $5s. So I purposely ask him is that roughly $125ish so he could take the hook and say “yeah something like that”. So I tank for a couple of minutes and say I guess I’ll call. He can’t slam down his set fast enough. I paused for 10-15 seconds before saying “not bad…not bad…but not good enough”. I showed the nut straight and the table erupts in laughter. I also loudly point out that he tried the hidden hundo trick again as well. He got up and left. Only person at the table that didn’t thank me was the dealer and he was smiling like the butcher’s dog

 

[riesling]

That's frustrating. Without externalizing too much paranoia, I try to assume everyone is trying to angle / not playing with integrity to avoid getting burned. What happened to you is more egregious, but angle-shooting (faking a call, acting out of turn (by checking / folding) to induce a bluff etc) is sufficiently common that you need to be on high alert / skeptical of what villains do / wait for dealer confirmation, even from players who seem to be friendly / good folks.

 

[allforcharity]

High denoms in front/on top. That's always been our rules.

 

[upNdown]

That 1 seat vs 9 seat business at an oval can kill you. I remember being in a similar situation in a tournament, except I was the guy with the big chips in the 9 seat. Frankly I don’t even remember who was the agressor. I just remember the 1 seat being really pissed after he lost to me, when he realized how many chips I had.
I felt bad and started to say that I’d been careful to keep my big chips in my front stack, and very much out front. But the dealer and a couple other players quickly jumped in and confirmed that I was good.

Bottom line? Angle shooters suck, but ovals suck even more.