"Seat open" pet peeve

[smarterthanyoda]

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Whats even more annoying is when your on a wait list for a game and have been waiting for 2hrs only to find out that an incompetent dealer never called the floor for the open seat when a seat has been open for 20mins.

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Something similar, I was in a 4/8 game recently when one player left with his seat locked. When he didn't come back, the floor refused to pick up his single $1 chip because there was no board. It was middle of the day and after a while we were playing three short. The problem was, new players kept getting sent to the other table because our dealer always reported one less empty seat than we really had. This went on for an hour and a half until I complained to the brush and they started sending us players.

By the way, I'm not one of those that will complain whenever the game is 8-handed. But, we were down to 5-handed, and with a couple of rocks there just wasn't a lot of action going on. (Not that the othe table was much better.)

I'm not listing the name of this casino because generally they have some of the best employees anywhere. I consider it one of my top 2 in terms of management and dealers. This was just a situation where the floor made a reasonable decision that had unintended consequences. Still, it was frustrating watching fish after fish walk past us to the other table.

[youtalkfunny]

What I like is when that seat stays empty for two hours, and then, when a new player finally approaches it, some nit pipes up, "I WANT THAT SEAT!"

Or better yet, when they act like they own the seat: "Don't sit down, son. I'm moving there once the button passes."

If I'm the new player, I take great pleasure in saying something like, "Look, you can have this seat, or the one you're in right now. But I'm not going to stand here for five more hands, so make up your mind."

Then they act grumpy, as if THEY were the one who was inconvenienced.