How About A Poker Room That Requires Players To Watch Rules Video?

[grandgnu]

There are SO many uneducated players who just don't understand various rules (string bets, splashing the pot, board/table talk, player collusion, etc.)

Wouldn't it be great if there was a card room that required every player to have a card from the establishment that testified that the player at the table had been put through a short initiation/training session where they are shown how to play correctly so you avoid people flipping their cards over, acting out of turn, blabbing about what they folded in the middle of a hand, etc?

Perhaps this would be a big hassle for the casinos to setup, but I've seen a lot of bad plays (at Foxwoods in CT) that the dealers don't do much about because they want to get tips and don't want to tick anyone off.

[slavic]

I want nothing required at all. Any person who has the gumption to play is welcome to sit down. If you make it the least bit difficult then the players that you really want to play in your game won't bother.

[grandgnu]

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I want nothing required at all. Any person who has the gumption to play is welcome to sit down. If you make it the least bit difficult then the players that you really want to play in your game won't bother.

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I don't think it would be "difficult" on the players, per' se. It's actually doing them a favor, so they don't play like a jackass and risk being penalized.

I guess I can see what you mean, it could be a hassle for people, and I certainly wouldn't want to scare off any potential players. I guess in my neck of the woods, Foxwoods is just it, so I don't see how they'd scare potential card players off to another casino, they don't have the poker competition of the Vegas strip.

[Michael Davis]

I think it would be much better if veteran players stopped enforcing stupid crap like string bets and discussing hands while in play (except when it's grossly unfair) against novices.

Is this Gary?

-Michael

[cardcounter0]

I think if the floor and dealers are on their toes and know what they are doing, all the things you talk about would get straigtened out in an orbit or two.

And the player's that don't get it by playing a few hands and getting warned --- aren't going to get it by watching a video.

[grandgnu]

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I think it would be much better if veteran players stopped enforcing stupid crap like string bets and discussing hands while in play (except when it's grossly unfair) against novices.

Is this Gary?

-Michael

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Uh.....the rules aren't "stupid crap", they're there for a reason. When you string bet, when you splash the pot, when you act out of turn, etc. all of these things can be used to give a player an unfair edge (i.e. to see an opponents reaction before you commit more chips to a pot, to raise out of turn to prevent a player from betting into you and then you just check, etc.)

[Randy_Refeld]

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When you string bet, when you splash the pot, when you act out of turn, etc. all of these things can be used to give a player an unfair edge

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Which is why the casino retains the right to apply the rules differently to different players. When it is clear someone wants to raise and a player calls a string raise (in rooms where the players ask for them to be called) they are shooting an angle; they have learned what this player wants to raise without having to pay the price of a raise.

[Dynasty]

That might be the ultimate nit idea.

[private joker]

No way. The players I make my money from at card rooms are tourists who come to have a good time, drink, and gamble away $100 or whatever before going home to their boring life and loveless marriage. Force them to watch a f[/i]ucking training video and they'll say "piss off" and just hit up a porn theater or peep show. Let the fish have fun, for Christ's sake. Consider the annoyances of their rule-breaking (as well as their dreadful suckouts) as "bills" you have to pay, or overhead in your business of winning poker.

[AKQJ10]

On one hand, the others are right: you don't want to have any qualifications to play in a game besides having the bankroll.

On the other hand, ignorance of the rules seems particularly bad at Foxwoods. I once had the pleasure of watching my table's drunk fish argue for several minutes that all queen-high flushes are equal (so his one diamond should split the pot with someone else's one diamond because the queen was on the board), summon the floor, and then storm out of the game. So yeah, a little background knowledge would be helpful, but in his state I'm not sure it would have helped.

I would think Foxwood dealers would pander less than other cardrooms', since they're sharing tokes with a million other people.