Lee puts his foot down

Well it looks like I'm gonna be the only dissenting opinion here. Leaving because the live one isn't forced to leave is bad policy. I once did something similar this and there were mixed reactions at the table, a couple people were saying things to the effect of "I'm glad to see you didn't take that shit from tha guy", while others were saying "that guy was awful why the fu*k did you drive him away"!?!. Anyway it got me thinking, and I think I did the wrong thing by driving the guy off. This guy was worse then the average bad player here in California, in other words he was REALLY awful. Anyway his abuse towards me, the floorman, and the dealer are not the responsibility of the players to the point where we give the casino an ultimatum. This is just silly, I have two good friends who are full time dealers and the reality is that these guys make a fairly good living considering the education and skills required (let me say that I personally don't think I would make a good dealer) but this is just one of the tradeoffs. These dealers that have any sense shouldn't care at all about abuse from players- afterall how does it really effect them??? does it harm them or traumatize them in any way- of course not, and if they let that happen to themselves then it is merely a weakness on their part. Leave the duties of the floor personnel up to them, and if some idiot is being out of line just think to yourself that the most miserable person in the whole affair is probably the guy who is pissed and bitter. The dealer is usually smart enough to just let the stupid remarks and occaisional card/chip flung at them not adversely affect their day. Anyway, I guess the bottom line here is to never let some jerk at a table force YOU yourself to do something that you don't really want to do. Of course if this was an excuse to lock up a "sure win" session then I guess maybe there were other motivations but I'm assuming that wasn't the case here.


Finally I want to mention that I am in no way saying bad behavior should be tolerated, I have mentioned here in the past that tolerance levels for these jerks is too high, but I will NEVER let one of these clowns get me in a bad mood or feeling like I shouldn't be playing in the same game as them. If the world was closer to perfect, all the losing players would enjoy dumping their money off, but unfortunately most of them aren't that way. So just roll with the punches and let the floormen figure out situatons like this.


Kris