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They are your best friend. Make sure they have fun. Even if they draw out on you and you actually give them some money it just ensures they'll be back to lose more later. Don't belittle them. Don't make them feel bad. They want to gamble. They are on vacation. If it's a fun community game rather than an individual game. Make them want to stay and give more away. Make them want to come back to the hottest game in town. They are your profit.

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Great Post... I was playing in Vegas one night where there were 2 guys from Mexico City playing. They spoke very little english. They played every hand to the river no matter how many bets and showed down every hand. This went on for about 10hrs. There was a higher limit game breaking, and a couple of the guys there were trying to get the guys at the lower limit table to change the stakes and play the higher limit. They were being beliggerant about it. When the two men from Mexico City refused to play the higher limit, no one wanted to leave the lower limit table. (of course) So the higher limit players continued to be belligerant until I said, "Listen, these guys are down double digit racks. They are beginners, and they dont want to move. Why don't you fill in the rest of the seats here."

Needless to say the higher limit players shutup and sat down. I played a 15hr session that afternoon/evening/morning. In the morning the only players left was a dealer, me, and one of the higher limit players. I was running over the other two, and about the time the higher limit player is burning through his last bill in his clip, I ask him "You wanna raise the stakes?" I thought he was going to explode.

We had been giving each other a lot of crap playing 3 handed, and he just laughed it off after the initial moment of being stunned. Quite an enjoyable evening that could have been ruined if no one had stood up for those nice men from Mexico City.