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Top 10 most annoying behaviors at the poker table..... (2 Viewers)
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Erich Wise
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Get yourself a glass straw. lol
BonScot
Straight Flush
We sit the clock in the middle of the table. If someone is taking too long anyone can flip it over and the countdown starts. It’s actually pretty funny.
Here's a few new ones for me:
- Fretting over making a call or bet because it will mess up his perfect stacks of 10 (two guys were doing this, but at least their stacks are neat)
- Constantly holding his cards in such a way that no one can tell that he's still in the hand (we hassled him for a while, then I gave him a card capper
) - Coming to a mixed game night, and unpleasantly refusing to play Omaha, because he "hates Omaha". He just insisted that he gets to sit out for that orbit.
JScott
Flush
Here's a few new ones for me:
- Fretting over making a call or bet because it will mess up his perfect stacks of 10 (two guys were doing this, but at least their stacks are neat)
- Constantly holding his cards in such a way that no one can tell that he's still in the hand (we hassled him for a while, then I gave him a card capper
- Coming to a mixed game night, and unpleasantly refusing to play Omaha, because he "hates Omaha". He just insisted that he gets to sit out for that orbit.
1.) I think this would be hilarious. They've pretty exploitable wouldn't you say if they make bet choices based on stack uniformity? haha
3.) I'd only be annoyed if I didn't know there was going to be mixed games and the stakes were high. I mean if I showed up to a game and it was some new one I've never played and had no strategy or knowledge going in, it would be annoying. I know that's not the case here though. I've started introducing PLO, bomb pots and Crazy Pineapple to our NLHE games I've allowed anyone to sit them out. No one has so far, but I like giving the option.
BonScot
Straight Flush
People who miss out #2 in their list
JScott
Flush
It's .25/.50 Fixed limit, with a single .25 blind. Plus, everything was split pot: double board, hi/lo, etc. And it's weird, because he's terrible at hold'em and knows it. He just views it as a chance to hang out with friends for $20.
Semi-snapped yesterday...
Tournament, someone makes a big bet, we're heads up on the river, I'm wondering if I'm ahead and am running though the hand in my head, and the one (other) guy who is pretty much the only guy who calls the clock and only calls it on me calls the clock. I snap and curse because I'm busy thinking and it's annoying. He gets surprised and I explain to him why I'm annoyed.
Previously:
- Guy browsing phone to find pictures of something, reaching over the table to show someone else that something, all while we're waiting for him to act.
- Guy going to the bathroom at the start of the hand with no chance of returning before it's his turn. (happened several times)
- Guy walking over to the snack table or kitchen to get something while his turn is coming up. (happened several times)
- Guy having a conversation about something else not realizing it's his turn. (happened several times)
- Guys leaving the table to say goodbye to someone while the clock is running and it's their turn (as if there was a break).
In none of those cases did the guy who called the clock on me say a single word about people speeding things up. None. (you can probably guess if he's guilty of not paying attention when it's his turn)
- Me: Always in my seat when it's my turn. Always focus on playing when it's my turn. Always act immediately once I've made up my mind, and I always make up my mind quickly and act without any delay if I have clear choices like killing garbage hands or raising great ones. Always keep an eye on the procedure of the game, i.e. cards dealt and bets made etc. Never on my phone when it's my turn. Never talk about cards on the table or what people can or should do....
So in other words; other people are slowing down the game which means we get less play per blind level and they're doing it doing other shit that has nothing to do with poker, whereas yes, I do sometimes take some time but it's always me thinking about a hand and I never do it to run out the clock... So just who's the problem here?
Drives me absolutely nuts.
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Tournament, someone makes a big bet, we're heads up on the river, I'm wondering if I'm ahead and am running though the hand in my head, and the one (other) guy who is pretty much the only guy who calls the clock and only calls it on me calls the clock. I snap and curse because I'm busy thinking and it's annoying. He gets surprised and I explain to him why I'm annoyed.
Previously:
- Guy browsing phone to find pictures of something, reaching over the table to show someone else that something, all while we're waiting for him to act.
- Guy going to the bathroom at the start of the hand with no chance of returning before it's his turn. (happened several times)
- Guy walking over to the snack table or kitchen to get something while his turn is coming up. (happened several times)
- Guy having a conversation about something else not realizing it's his turn. (happened several times)
- Guys leaving the table to say goodbye to someone while the clock is running and it's their turn (as if there was a break).
In none of those cases did the guy who called the clock on me say a single word about people speeding things up. None. (you can probably guess if he's guilty of not paying attention when it's his turn)
- Me: Always in my seat when it's my turn. Always focus on playing when it's my turn. Always act immediately once I've made up my mind, and I always make up my mind quickly and act without any delay if I have clear choices like killing garbage hands or raising great ones. Always keep an eye on the procedure of the game, i.e. cards dealt and bets made etc. Never on my phone when it's my turn. Never talk about cards on the table or what people can or should do....
So in other words; other people are slowing down the game which means we get less play per blind level and they're doing it doing other shit that has nothing to do with poker, whereas yes, I do sometimes take some time but it's always me thinking about a hand and I never do it to run out the clock... So just who's the problem here?
Drives me absolutely nuts.
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BonScot
Straight Flush
Maybe you take ages to make up your mind but you don’t realise it because you’re so involved in running through the hand in your head. We’ve got a guy like that and we bought a clock especially for him
Seriously use the stopwatch on your phone and time yourself next time you’re tanking. The guy we play with was clocked at over 7 minutes on several occasions before one of the other guys finally lost it.
If you’re genuinely not tanking then call the clock on the other guy and he’ll soon get the message. Plus if he knows it tilts you he’ll be doing it all the time. I know I would
Maybe you take ages to make up your mind but you don’t realise it because you’re so involved in running through the hand in your head. We’ve got a guy like that and we bought a clock especially for him
Well, of course I will tell you that I don't think that's the case, because if it was I wouldn't know it!
But you're right, I'm not going to say that it's 100% not the case because as I just said, I wouldn't know. My hunch however is that normally people take a reasonable amount of time to make a decision once they are focused. Reasonable to us is probably on average 10-40 seconds, and that includes me. So I think that's the case and when I do tank it might be closer to 2-3 minutes. I get it, it's a long time by comparison, but I think this guy is annoyed because he perceives this as a long difference and he cares when he is invested in the hand. When he's talking to someone else about something else and someone not me is on the phone holding up the game for a minute he doesn't say anything because he doesn't perceive that wasted time. So that'd be my guess.
Seriously use the stopwatch on your phone and time yourself next time you’re tanking. The guy we play with was clocked at over 7 minutes on several occasions before one of the other guys finally lost it.
If you’re genuinely not tanking then call the clock on the other guy and he’ll soon get the message. Plus if he knows it tilts you he’ll be doing it all the time. I know I would
I will absolutely use the clock at least on my self the next time I decide to tank. Good suggestion.
Don't play in Canada. To save your sanity.
People are always complaining about tanking, but in low-stakes, untelevised hands I don’t actually encounter it much, except when people have real decisions like you describe.
Meanwhile, as you say the same people who complain about a necessary tank fail to notice all the hundreds of times people carelessly or selfishly slow the game down — by talking with the waitress instead of acting, by not realizing the action is on them, by asking what the blinds or raise was even after it was already announced twice, by continuing to rehash a cooler from an orbit ago instead of looking at their cards, checking their phone instead of planning their action, etc.
All that stuff adds up to way more than one rare 30-90 second tank.
I almost never need more than that more than that, and seldom more than 1-2 times per long session, but some players will go nuts over one time. Even when I’m the guy who is paying close attention to every move and this rarely needs more than 1-2 seconds to act, because I already used all the previous players’ needless delays to think.
I also hate it when I get a dealer who, if I do take more than seconds, will tap the table and say it’s on me. I always know. I don’t need either their prompting or their calling attention to my pause.
I once had frequent player at the table who get on my nerve. He was not exactly "player", more suitable would be to referred to him as a "gambler". He spent long hours at the blackjack table and I belive he get a little bored when playing hołdem. Anyway what really started me off was the fact that he used to call the clock after 10 to 20 seconds when he was not even in the hand. We were playing cash game and sometimes pots were quite substantial.
Well finally I had to do a little pow-wow with him to streight him up. Well it worked... for a week.
Well finally I had to do a little pow-wow with him to streight him up. Well it worked... for a week.
1A25R
Flush
The guy who took his last shower 10 days ago.
Mixed and unstaked mess of chips in front of him, even if he has been told 3 times to make his stack visible to everyone.
At show down, the one that still trying to figure out what he have when winner already tabled face up the nuts.
The one that on a live table plays the whole session on his phone.
The one that says "I had to call" after hitting one of his 6 outs at the river.
Rabbit hunting.
Minimum rise after 4 limpers
The one now cover his cards with the hands inducing 2 out-of play actions before realizing that it has his turn.. and complains.
The one that never tips the waitress on a free-drink-while-you-play casino
The one who ask if it can be ran twice... in a tournament.
Mixed and unstaked mess of chips in front of him, even if he has been told 3 times to make his stack visible to everyone.
At show down, the one that still trying to figure out what he have when winner already tabled face up the nuts.
The one that on a live table plays the whole session on his phone.
The one that says "I had to call" after hitting one of his 6 outs at the river.
Rabbit hunting.
Minimum rise after 4 limpers
The one now cover his cards with the hands inducing 2 out-of play actions before realizing that it has his turn.. and complains.
The one that never tips the waitress on a free-drink-while-you-play casino
The one who ask if it can be ran twice... in a tournament.
1. Slow rolling
2. Questioning every ruling (and always being wrong)
3. Covering up your cards with your hands so no one can tell you are in the hand
4. Splashing the pot
5. Rabbit hunting
6. Hoodies
2. Questioning every ruling (and always being wrong)
3. Covering up your cards with your hands so no one can tell you are in the hand
4. Splashing the pot
5. Rabbit hunting
6. Hoodies
Yeah, see when it's cash I just don't see the point in that. It's not like the blinds are going up so I really don't see the big deal. A good time to either think about the hand yourself or check your phone or whatever.
johnnycnote
Flush
No clock in a cash game.
bsdunbar1
4 of a Kind
Played at a home game Saturday where everyone threw their bets out in front of them every round.
No one scooped up the pot, and each round everyone just threw out their bets to an unoccupied spot on the table.
Chips everywhere
No one but me seemed to care,
DROVE
ME
CRAZY
No one scooped up the pot, and each round everyone just threw out their bets to an unoccupied spot on the table.
Chips everywhere
No one but me seemed to care,
DROVE
ME
CRAZY
Unfortunately that seems to be the norm at every game I play in. They think I am just being a rule Nazi when I try to change this. I have given up. It's not worth the fight since I am the only one who cares.
I actually played at one game where this was standard practice. When I was dealing, I went to collect all the bets into one pot at the end of the round and absolute chaos ensued. "Whoa whoa whoa how can I know how much I have in the pot if it's not right in front of me?" Played there once, lol.
That guy that insists on being a table captain when everything that comes out of his mouth is incorrect.
6 players at the table trying to correct a dealer mistake, at once.
The same 6 players trying to explain a new game to a new guy, at the same time and getting it wrong/omitting important points.
6 players at the table trying to correct a dealer mistake, at once.
The same 6 players trying to explain a new game to a new guy, at the same time and getting it wrong/omitting important points.
Sounds like some people here need some STFU chips...
Self congratulating players who like to make condescending barbs when they win. "You had to call." "I don't blame you." or "What did you think I had?" etc.
I obliged a player famous for this type of behavior by showing him my 8 high bluff at the end of a NLHE hand Wednesday night, clearly irritating him. I then turned around and made a loose call for $29 heads-up in a PLO hand against him and missed. He threw in a dig about my horrible call as he stood up from the table doing a fist pump. Not satisfied, he threw in another jibe as he was walking away to go have a smoke.
Not to be dissuaded, I showed him when he came back to the table that I was capable of making two loose calls in one evening. This time for all of his chips, hitting my card on the turn and winning back the $29 I had lost to him plus another $43 on top. ($179 pot)
Moral of the story: Be careful you don't get on the wrong side of someone whose bankroll is deeper than yours.
I obliged a player famous for this type of behavior by showing him my 8 high bluff at the end of a NLHE hand Wednesday night, clearly irritating him. I then turned around and made a loose call for $29 heads-up in a PLO hand against him and missed. He threw in a dig about my horrible call as he stood up from the table doing a fist pump. Not satisfied, he threw in another jibe as he was walking away to go have a smoke.
Not to be dissuaded, I showed him when he came back to the table that I was capable of making two loose calls in one evening. This time for all of his chips, hitting my card on the turn and winning back the $29 I had lost to him plus another $43 on top. ($179 pot)
Moral of the story: Be careful you don't get on the wrong side of someone whose bankroll is deeper than yours.
detroitdad
Royal Flush
@WedgeRock doesn't like it when I chop split pots
BonScot
Straight Flush
Clock
WedgeRock
Royal Flush
@WedgeRock doesn't like it when I chop split pots
I don't mind you chopping pots...as long as you chop them 50/50.
And tip o' the cap to @Marc Hedrick for calling attention to the 80/20 split, despite your protests to the contrary.
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