most disgusting display of poor sportsmanship at a poker table . . .

[Turning Stone Pro]

In Kansas City a few years ago, at the Station Casino, I saw a fellow through his chair down the stairs to the poker room, almost taking out two old ladies in the process.

What prompted this counduct? I heard he lost a $30.00 pot playing 1-5 stud.

TSP

[bdk3clash]

Chalk another one up for the "$1-5 stud players are the most miserable pricks you'll find in a poker room" theory.

[MRBAA]

Well, I still remember the article a few years back about a business traveler who had a few drinks on the plane and when he was refused further alcohol jumped on top of the drink cart and defecated. I've never seen anyone do anything that bad at the poker table.

[Sponger15SB]

A guy was all in on a pot and then ended up losing to a flush. He stuck his middle finger in the air and said "[censored] you man" about 10x and walked out of the poker room with his middle finger still in the air.

Kinda funny considering we were playing $2-4, and he was all in so he lost like $7 on that hand.


2 days ago I saw a "table expert" who was berating EVERYONE drop 4 racks at $3-6, that was awsome. Not the worst conduct, but that was funny as hell.

[dogmeat]

I was playing some $2/$10 limit HE at Harrah's Reno several years back and got into a hand that was capped with five players preflop. The pot got pretty large with rags on the flop and turn. I spiked a K on the end which prompted the AA pre-flop raiser, sitting at the far end of the table to throw his cards, which flew all the way over to my side and hit the fellow sitting next to me in the face.

What was funny about it was that several years later, in the middle of a NL game I brought this up to the AA guy, saying that he had hit "me" with the cards. He promptly mucked his hand in a pretty good pot, said "Yeah, I always wondered who that was", and left the game. So, I got two pots out of him. /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Dogmeat /images/graemlins/spade.gif

ps: If you are reading this AA, Got any grapes left?

[cardcounter0]

The poker room at the Station Casino was upstairs, so how did he throw his chair down the stairs to the poker room?
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[spamuell]

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I was playing some $2/$10 limit HE

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Is this a typo or did this game actually run? Does it still? Sounds fun.

[Boylermaker]

Not neccearily a 'poor sportsmanship' thing, but amusing nonetheless...

3-6 game, 10 handed. One of the players in the game is a 'regular'. He is a table'expert', is often crabby, and often berates other players. He also frequently is absent from the table for extended periods checking the horseracing results, which to the players in the game, can get a little tiresome. So, on one of his forays away from the table, the 9 remaining players agreed to all fold for 2 consecutive rounds. As the house rule states that any player who missed 2 consecutive sets of blinds is automatically removed from the game, the player discovered, upon his return, that his chips had been removed and that he had lost his seat. He threw a tantrum, kicked the houseman's podium, and left.

[midas]

Setting - Foxwoods 4-8

Poker expert (20's,cap/sunglasses) sits down and proclaims he's just killing time after "crushing" the 5-10 game and puts 2 racks of reds on the table. After about 90 minutes of trying to "outplay" the table and dropping about $500 - he is steaming and complaining about poor table play.

The next hand he picks up an obvious flush on the River (no board pair) and raises the only other person left in the hand who raises back at him. Steaming he yells "You mf-er you must have the straight flush because I have the Ace high flush, shows his cards and mucks. His opponent refuses to show after the fold and this guy gets up and stalks the table shouting back at the player until security escorts him out.

[drewjustdrew]

They were "the stairs to the poker room" not "the stairs, to the poker room". So they were the stairs that lead to the poker room. The chair was thrown from the poker room down "the stairs to the poker room".

At least that is my understanding.

[Turning Stone Pro]

Drew, you get an "A" for literary interpretation.

[Fitz]

I've played in that same room in KC. There is an immense amount of whining and crying in the $1-5 stud game and $3-6 hold 'em there.

I got bubbled out of a stud tournament in that same room one time by a particularly annoying, toothless jerk. I seriously considered throwing him down those stairs.

It took a while, but they have since moved that room away from the top of those stairs... lol.

Good luck,

Fitz

[mike l.]

at commerce last night i saw a guy take a beat and then empty a can of gasoline he happened to have on him onto the dealer and ignite him. but that wasnt the worst thing ive seen there.

[sfer]

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Well, I still remember the article a few years back about a business traveler who had a few drinks on the plane and when he was refused further alcohol jumped on top of the drink cart and defecated. I've never seen anyone do anything that bad at the poker table.

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He was, and probably still is, an investment banker and I can assure you that his behavior is slightly refined for that profession.

[dogmeat]

This was the main game at Harrah's in Reno from 1982 until they first closed their poker room in 1993. The game ran every day starting at noon and was a spread $2-$10. Usually there was a raise preflop, making it $12 to go. After the flop bets were almost always $10.

The game featured some very good players, including Tak, Red John, Brad Daugherty and Tuna on occasion, Peirre, Lamb Chop, Kenny the Clone (who you would swear was David Sklansky's brother), Freddy Deeb (maybe even Ray Zee, but Ray was mostly whipping new players at Omaha at the Hilton) and many other fine players. The spread took a little getting used to, but it was a great game.

Dogmeat /images/graemlins/spade.gif

[El Dukie]

Yeah, I've seen some pretty bad things at Commerce too. Immolation is a pretty regular occurence.... /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[spamuell]

Yes, I made that post and then went out.

In my drunker stupor I shouted to a girl who was leaning on me, "of course, SPREAD limit". She obviously had no idea what I was talking about and thought I was asking her to do something rather crude.

Now $2/$10 fixed limit, that would be cool (although I'm sure if I don't put in this disclaimer, someone will tell me it's a "flawed" game).

[Uston]

What makes this a great story is the fact that a 5/10 player thinks he's slumming by playing 4/8.

[West]

lol

[daryn]

tsp, were you at turning stone for the tourney sunday? the $500 nl? i was playing 10/20 with some semi-annoying clown and thought it might be you. seriously.

[bdk3clash]

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What makes this a great story is the fact that a 5/10 player thinks he's slumming by playing 4/8.

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To be fair, the 5-10 at Foxwoods is played with a full kill. Still, the dude sounds like a donkey.

[Sponger15SB]

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Not neccearily a 'poor sportsmanship' thing, but amusing nonetheless...

3-6 game, 10 handed. One of the players in the game is a 'regular'. He is a table'expert', is often crabby, and often berates other players. He also frequently is absent from the table for extended periods checking the horseracing results, which to the players in the game, can get a little tiresome. So, on one of his forays away from the table, the 9 remaining players agreed to all fold for 2 consecutive rounds. As the house rule states that any player who missed 2 consecutive sets of blinds is automatically removed from the game, the player discovered, upon his return, that his chips had been removed and that he had lost his seat. He threw a tantrum, kicked the houseman's podium, and left.

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that is freaking awsome. lol

[surfdoc]

Anyone see that ridiculous asian chick get all ghetto on ESPN. Limit championship I think. Gets busted with KQo, calls with no pair to be shown the nuts and gets all pissy turning her head sideways and glaring at the winner. Then she sticks up both middle fingers on camera. Utterly classless.

[Tuco]

Thanks Mike, need new keyboard now. Please send $24.95 to my Neteller account.

Worst thing I ever saw was at HP in the 20 game. Two young guys with a combined IQ of about 30 get into it. Guy who contibutes 5 to the IQ score picks up chair and throws it leg first at other moron while hes in a hand. Split the guys grill wide open. He looked like Earnhart Sr after the crash.

Tuco.

[Turning Stone Pro]

No, I dont play 10-20. I was there fri nite playing no-limit and 20-40, plenty of punks from out-of-town there acting like real a**holes and losing their ass, as well. Real dummies, throwing food, etc. I thought some state facility opened up for the weekend.

You were probably one of them, lost most of your money, and had to back up to 10-20.

I love it when the tournaments in town, lots of out-of-towners who think they can play. Made so much I closed the office Monday and went fishing.

Oh, by the way . . . f*** you!

[sfer]

Last night I watched Chris Daddy Cool eating a ham and cheese sandwich and french fries at my table. He spilled pork juice and ketchup on his shirt and licked some off.

[gcoutu]

umm...there was this one time...nevermind i got nothing that comes close to the shirt lick, flammable dealer, or spread legged chick. you guys are fantastic.

[Pokergod]

Hey, TSP, I'll be there in a couple of weeks, actually probably next Saturday night. Does the 20-40 run all the time, or does it start at a certain time of the day, or does it run some days and not others?

-PG

[Boris]

Isn't there a story where some dude was sitting in the 1 seat playing nl. He took a nasty beat so he unzipped his pants pissed on the dealers leg.

[Iplaydrunk]

I was playing $1-5 stud at the Sands in AC about 2 years ago. It was about 2 am and I had a drunk to my right. I had folded and was reading cardplayer and I heard water running. I look up expecting to see a drink spilled and then looked over and the drunk had whipped it right out and was urinating on the floor while sitting there. I grabbed my chips, got up told the floor man exactly what had happened, and went up to my room. The next morning I went down to play again and one of the players who had been there the night before was still there. I told him what had happened and he said the floorman had done nothinh about it. I guess it's kind of tough to accuse someone of that on just my word, but that is gross.

[Randy_Refeld]

In a 6-12 Omaha game I saw a gentleman in a wheelchair give someone a bad beat. The loser then took his chair and swung it like a bat hitting the gentleman in the wheelchair.

RR

[Rick Nebiolo]

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at commerce last night i saw a guy take a beat and then empty a can of gasoline he happened to have on him onto the dealer and ignite him. but that wasnt the worst thing ive seen there.

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precious - wish i read this before thursday night. btw, if you replaced "can of gasoline" with "bottle of lighter fluid" i wouldn't have made note of it since it now becomes plausible.

~ rick

[Rick Nebiolo]

lots of good stories but perhaps the most disgusting to me are the "sneaky" abusers, those who know how to stay below the radar (i.e, not attract floor attention or get barred) and perform their deeds almost every day (i.e., anytime they are losing).

one of the worst is deliberately not pushing in your hand from the end seat when folding and making the short armed dealer reach again and again.

~ rick

ps i've heard conflicting stories regarding certain famous players pissing on dealers, but i was playing "top section" at one of the smaller card clubs about twelve years ago and outside the section near the 3/6 games a player in the nine seat (to the right of the dealer in so cal) took "it" out and sprayed the dealer with piss while sitting down. he ran out but i'm not sure he was barred. one player in the 10/20 15/30 did say he had a temper.

[Al Mirpuri]

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In Kansas City a few years ago, at the Station Casino, I saw a fellow through his chair down the stairs to the poker room, almost taking out two old ladies in the process.

What prompted this counduct? I heard he lost a $30.00 pot playing 1-5 stud.

TSP

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The most disgusting display of poor sportsmanship is...people tying in "nh" or "vnh" online after every single hand.

[PapaSan]

10-20 at Great Blue heron Ontario Canada

My friends and i drove an hour and a half to get there and theres a 1 hour wait to get on the table. I get on first make 400 in an hour on a killer rush and get off the table and play roulette. My friend gets seated in my seat and suffers a few bad beats then i watch him play this hand AKs capped 4 way preflop, flop AKx capped again turn 2 river 2, my friend turns over ak other play turns over ak retard turns over 23 or 24 i cant remember. The dealer (a guy we had played with in clubs many times) begins to laugh as he pushes the pot to the winner.

My friend then picks up his crads and rips them into tiny pieces and throws them in the dealers face . Security came in 10 seconds and threw my friend out and banned him for 24 hours.

[bunky9590]

Speaking of throwing chairs, I had been leaning on this older maniac all night in a 5-10 game. (He was like 45-50)

I had taken him single handedly for at least 400 then he became irate, reraising me at every opportunity. Finally he had like 300 left. We went like 20 bets on the river to put him all in on a board of 775KQ. I had KK, he had QQ.

He stands up throws the chair and the chair hits me. He's screaming. I ask him if he wants to continue to rant and throw things at me that we should "discuss" it outside. He stormed away to the MAC machine and went and played 1-3 stud. watta loser.

[thirddan]

I find it kinda shady that he wasn't asked to leave, or forced to leave...

[bunky9590]

He was gonna leave if he said one more word. On a stretcher.

[Chris Daddy Cool]

ahahahahahaah.

[pokeraz]

He had already hit you with a chair and you still required one more word before you were going to do something about it?

You are might tolerant.

[daryn]

some people like to avoid fights, even if they may be heavily favored. i call them intelligent.

[DrSavage]

Also some people beleive that if they get hit with a chair they should turn another cheek.

[The once and future king]

Unless it is with a spider.

Then you call them gay /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[bunky9590]

This guy was just an A-Hole. He didn't literally throw the chair, he got up and flipped the chair and the chair bounced off my arm. He received my warning and heeded it. Had he made a move at me, I would have dropped him to the ground, restrained him and let the security personnel handle him from there. Now, If he chose to take it outside...... his day would have gotten a whole lot worse. But, Beating his ass really wouldn't have proved much.