Funny Sight at Binion's: How Do You Handle These Guys?

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I was in Vegas last month and saw something pretty funny:

I showed up early to play in a tourney and sat in on a 2/4 game for a while. There was a player sitting across the table from me who looked like this:

Bigger guy, sports jersey (no problem with that) on top of a long sleeve, big chain, beard, WWF style sunglasses (it's 9:30am inside), hat.

up to this point nothing outside of the regular schmuck look.

But this is the great part. In front of him was a stack on $100 bills reaching just over the pad. They weren't crisp or tightly stacked, but there was a significant amount of money there. If that wasn't weird enough, on top of these bills was a huge prescription bottle filled with pills (I couldn't see what they were).

Every time someone raised a pot he stared them down as if they had smacked his mom. When he wasn't in he stared straight ahead with the most stern/angry poker face I have seen

The only thing that detracted from just finding this guy amusing and getting a few laughs was the fact that he was being very harsh to a drunk guy throwing his chips away. This guy had obviously been up all night drinking, and had a drink going already. He was being friendly enough, very talkative and a little annoying with the occasional loud profane comment. But he was literally tossing chips in and announcing statements like "I know you have be beat, but I have a feeling here". He even told a few people that he had a mid pair during the hand! So pill-boy gets mad because he played a 56o on a raised pot and chased to pull a straight on the river.

I left to go play the tourney (would have made more if I stayed put). I came back after and both players were gone. I asked a lady who was still there what happened and she said the drunk guy got kicked out for foul language.

How can you get people like pill-boy to chill out and let people who would love to give their money away have a good time and stay?

If you can have any mental image of pill-boy like I do I hope you can get a good laugh. [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]