Looking for some interesting B&M stories

[rusty JEDI]

Just curious to hear some of the crazy stuff any of you have seen out there. Like the craziest casino fight or something like that.

Or maybe a story where someone was carrying their racks back and tripped and it became a mad scramble for the chips.

Anyone have any cool stories like that to share. Im not writing a book or anything, just looking for a laugh.

I will also post this in the news views and gossip.

[nicky g]

did you read limon's 2nd essay with the story about the 2 greeks? it's in the pot-limit forum, very funny.

[Ted Geisel]

One day Dave, the front podium guy at the Bellagio, remembered the names of two players who had been playing there daily for over a year. Neither was a woman under 40.

He then noticed that a table had an empty seat and read the list to fill it.

Finally, he walked to the back of the room, returned to the front AND remembered why he had done so.

Thse events remain unexplained to this day.

[illunious]

It was a friend of mines first time playing poker at the casino, he was up more than $300 (all white $1 chips) when we had to break up the table and switch. I watched him balance 4 1/2 racks going to the new table, and I'm not sure how it happened, but a few seconds later I heard the sound of hundreds of chips falling all over the table and floor. He said it was the most embarassing moment in his life, but thought people were giving him more action because they thought he was a dumbass. He ended up -running- the table like I had never seen anyone before. The poker room was completely out of white chips, people had to buy racks from him. He jokingly said after we left he might purposely do it again.

There's a bunch of stories at:
http://gocee.com/poker/pokertale.htm

[Scottnyce]

I was playing with a friend of mine for the first time in a casino. It was his first time, so he didn't know a lot of the "house rules" or etiquete of playing live....

He's in the SB and the table folds to him, the dealer asks him if he would like to chop...with a confused look on his face he says "NO, Raise!". Well the BB obviously didn't like this as he rolls his eyes and then checks his cards and says "fine, re-raise", my friend then Caps the betting and they go to the flop as I watch in amazement. The flop comes A /images/graemlins/spade.gif2 /images/graemlins/club.gif4 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif

My friend bets out, the BB Raises, my friend re-raises, and the BB caps. People at this point don't know what to think, I am clueless on what I think my friend has, I can only think AA at this point....

turn is a Q /images/graemlins/club.gif

My friend bets out and the same thing happens, the round gets capped.

River brings the 8 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif and we again have a capped round. With a hush on the table as the betting stops my friend confidently says.."straight", and shows his 3 /images/graemlins/spade.gif5 /images/graemlins/spade.gif

At this point my mouth drops at the same time the BB throws down his AQ and begins to curse at my friend as he's pulling in his pot....The BB left the table right there, cursing the whole time.....

It was a scene....and till this day my friend still won't chop....

[pokerlover]

At the World Series this year on the first day a player and a dealer almost went to blows as they stood toe to toe cursing each other out before security finally got there. The player was given a 10 minute time out and I'm not sure but a lot of people said the dealer was fired. Seemed interesting, but not as interesting as the cool fight I saw last night at the baseball game.

[ElSapo]

Low limit hold'em table at the Taj. I've been there about an hour, having a blast and playing a lot of hands since this was my first time playing in a casino. Anyways, one of the cards in the deck, the 8-of-something, is all screwy. Not the back - the backs are all perfect, to my eyes at least - but part of the 8 is essentially smeared. No idea how it happened, I assume some weird printing error.

Anyways, this woman sits down next to me, we play a few hands, and this one comes up.

UTG raises. He gets called in three spots (2/4 at the Taj, remember), I fold, CO calls and the woman looks down at her cards and tosses in four chips, while saying "what the hell is wrong with these cards?"

Both blinds call, and the flop comes down 8K8.

Action checks to the woman, who bets.

All fold.

True story.

[baggins]

the betting will never get capped heads up. why did your friend stop betting?

[youtalkfunny]

I'm dealing. A young man folds his hand, and says, "Dealer, this card is bad, and needs to be replaced." I take his hole cards, and set them aside, so I can inspect them after the hand is over.

I look at the two cards he folded, and I can't see anything wrong with either card. "The ace," he says. I look harder, and I don't see anything.

He takes the card from me, annoyed that I can't see something so obvious, and turns it over! One of the letter A's on the Ace of Clubs has a scratch on it (again, on the FRONT of the card; you couldn't see it from the back, and you couldn't feel it with your finger).

I tell him, politely, that I'm not going to rip up a card that doesn't need to be replaced. He asks for a set up.

"It bothers you that much?", another player asked.

"I keep getting dealt that card EVERY HAND, and I'm sick of looking at it!"

So the man who was being dealt an Ace "every hand" called for a set-up, because he couldn't stand catching too many Aces.

***

I forget where I heard this one. It's old, but most people I've told it to haven't heard it:

Large pot; two players turn over the nut straight; young, inexperienced Asian female dealer does not know what to do.

"Chop it!", every impatient player barks at her. "Chop it!"

She looks unsure, but since everyone is telling her to chop it...

...she delivers a karate chop to the center of the pot, and pushes all the chips to the left of her hand to one player, and pushes the remainder to the other.

Most players, upon hearing this story, agree that she probably got within a few chips of splitting this one correctly. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Ashe]

I was at the Taj playing 10-20 and I had a few friends there playing 2-4. Anyway its was bout 5am and we had to be somewhere the next day at noon, so I was rounding em up. Got one to cash out, we went over to the other one to get em to leave. Turns out his whole half of the table was leaving at the same time, and they were drink kinda heavily.

Anyway, he decides to play his hand blind, makes this known and the 3 other players at his end of the table played along. There was one player at the other end of the table who looked at his cards, and he played too. The pot gets capped on every street, 5 players, 4 blind. After the final bet, the player at the other end turns over pocket aces, and everyone starts rooting for the guys playing blind. They start flipping their cards over one at a time down the row. My friend lost but the guy next to him hit a gut shot straight on the river and took it down amid a group of screaming/clapping fans.

I gotta tell ya it was a scene. There were players on the other side of the room asking what had happened, and the winner must have shaken hands with 10 random strangers... I still laugh when I think about the sucker stuck in there with pocket aces, and how they got busted /images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[Ashe]

illunious - most a these links are broken... I haven't found a working one yet

[Scottnyce]

yeah, there was some calling on that hand, the guy called my friend after 3/4 bets on the turn, same with the river....

[baggins]

i see. well, it's still a good story.

[Mason Malmuth]

Hi Ted:

One of the unwritten rules of this forums is to always be truthful. There is no way that any of those events ever happened and I'm sure that you are well aware of this.

If you want to post pure fantasy like this I suggest you go to either "News, Views, and Gossip" or "Other Topics."

Best wishes,
Mason

[baggins]

wow. who knew MM had a sense of humor? /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Mike]

This happened a few years ago, at a pot limit game. Old hunched over Gentleman with a cane comes in to play. There are two seats open, but he tells player in seat two, "Get the he!! out of my seat!"

Of course seat two doesn't move and asks the dealer to tell the Gentleman that seat two is his, as he sat down over an hour ago.

Old Gentleman (and I use the term lightly) yells, "Get the he!! out of my seat", and pushes player in seat two on the shoulder.

Dealer is now paying attention and calls for the floor. Old Gentleman isn't waiting that long and starts beating seat two with his cane.

Floor shows up as Old Gentleman is giving seat two a good pummling and grabs his cane. After everyone calmed down innocent player in seat two agrees to move to another seat.

For a few weeks after that there was usually a sheet of paper with the old Gentleman's name on it and 'Reserved' written on it taped to seat two.

Sure inspired me to want to be a poker room manager....

[daryn]

why would you type hell as "he!!"?

[Mike Gallo]

Scott,

What casino did this take place at? Most casinos I know do not enforce a cap once the hands gets heads up.

[Losing all]

I was playing some 4/8 at the Orleans around 2.5 years ago when everyone jumped up at the stud table behind me. I'm thinking jackpot, nah, some grizzly looking scumbag punched some old man in the nose. Turns out he warned the oldtimer not to check-raise him again. Next check-raise he followed through on the threat.

[Mike]

A few years ago I taught basic computing on a volunteer basis, in a rather unique situation. One day the object of one lesson was to unscramble a joke and cut and paste it back together. Kind of simple and straight forward right?

About a third of the way through the class, the Director Of Education calls me into her office. "We don't use that type of language here." What type? "The type you used in your lesson today." Okay. "Please don't use that type of language again in here." Okay. I go back and look at the text file. It contained the word 'crap'.

I also run a small daily joke list for friends and relatives - about thirty people. I have to have two distro lists, one completely clean list and a second list for all other jokes.

What I find acceptable, some find offensive.

[Scottnyce]

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