Not proud but I think I was right: Dinner list content

Hellmouth · #1 07-25-2005, 10:09 AM

I'm feelling a little bad about this now but I still think that I was correct and wanted to get some other opinions.

This weekend I'm at the Borgata in AC and me and my buddy are playing 2+4 holdem. We got there pretty early and when we decided to go to lunch we went and got our names on a list called the "dinner list." Basically, the dinner list is a list where a player can leave to get food and if they return within 90 minutes they are allowed to be put first in line to get back on a table for the same game they left.

We get back from dinner and announce our presence. We are immediately put on the top of the waiting list in a different color, which I assume indicates that we were put there because we were at dinner. We wait for a long time (probably an hour since there was only 2 tables running 2+4 at that point) and I finally get a seat. He keeps waiting. Then I see a seat open up and this old guy sits down. I recognize him as a regular and say to him, "Hey, I think that my buddy was next in line for that seat." He said, "I just got back from dinner so they put me at the top of the list." I say something to the floorperson but am ignored, so I start to get a little annoyed. I fold my next hand and go up to the front desk to talk to the girl who runs the seating. She said, "Sorry thats how I was told to do it," even after I explained what happened.

I go back to the floorman and asked him about it again. He said that he just seats the person he is told to seat. A few minutes later my buddy comes over and says, I dont know what you said but now they are yelling at that girl you talked to.

The worst part is it turns out that it was her last day. I hate to cause trouble but I still think that my buddy who was on the dinner list first and had been waiting first in line for an hour and a half should have gotten the seat before the guy who had just gotten back from dinner.

Did I handle this correctly? Am I wrong?

neotope · #2 07-25-2005, 10:45 AM

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You handled the situation incorrectly by getting involved. Let your friend handle it if he thinks he got passed over. The last thing the floor and the brush needs is you complaining about what is going on.

Alyssa · #3 07-25-2005, 10:49 AM

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I'm feelling a little bad about this now but I still think that I was correct and wanted to get some other opinions.

This weekend I'm at the Borgata in AC and me and my buddy are playing 2+4 holdem. We got there pretty early and when we decided to go to lunch we went and got our names on a list called the "dinner list." Basically, the dinner list is a list where a player can leave to get food and if they return within 90 minutes they are allowed to be put first in line to get back on a table for the same game they left.

We get back from dinner and announce our presence. We are immediately put on the top of the waiting list in a different color, which I assume indicates that we were put there because we were at dinner. We wait for a long time (probably an hour since there was only 2 tables running 2+4 at that point) and I finally get a seat. He keeps waiting. Then I see a seat open up and this old guy sits down. I recognize him as a regular and say to him, "Hey, I think that my buddy was next in line for that seat." He said, "I just got back from dinner so they put me at the top of the list." I say something to the floorperson but am ignored, so I start to get a little annoyed. I fold my next hand and go up to the front desk to talk to the girl who runs the seating. She said, "Sorry thats how I was told to do it," even after I explained what happened.

I go back to the floorman and asked him about it again. He said that he just seats the person he is told to seat. A few minutes later my buddy comes over and says, I dont know what you said but now they are yelling at that girl you talked to.

The worst part is it turns out that it was her last day. I hate to cause trouble but I still think that my buddy who was on the dinner list first and had been waiting first in line for an hour and a half should have gotten the seat before the guy who had just gotten back from dinner.

Did I handle this correctly? Am I wrong?

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:yawn:

D-

KenProspero · #4 07-25-2005, 10:50 AM

As long as you weren't an a-hole, I think you handled it fine.

Who knows what really happened -- maybe the girl screwed up, maybe the floor tried to sneak in a regular, maybe the guy had Alexander Hamilton or Andrew Jackson help him get to the top of the list (or is Abe enough for that at Borgotta?).

I see nothing wrong with trying to help out a friend who's been waiting for an hour so long as you do it properly

BottlesOf · #5 07-25-2005, 10:54 AM

Without knowing the facts, it's hard to say if you are right or wrong, but I don't think you acted in any way inapproriately.

#6 07-25-2005, 11:54 AM

If the old man really got back from dinner also, he could have been placed ahead of you. I've had times when a friend or two and I come back from dinner. In between one of us getting seated, someone else got back from dinner and they got placed ahead of us. It wasn't a big deal, but then again, there was more than two tables running at the time.

RollaJ · #7 07-25-2005, 12:27 PM

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You handled the situation incorrectly by getting involved. Let your friend handle it if he thinks he got passed over. The last thing the floor and the brush needs is you complaining about what is going on.

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Wow what an assenine comment. Has it occured to you that perhaps his friend was new to casino poker? When I go down with my friends, I take care of everything. Waiting lists, table changes, dinner lists, and will speak up when anything is done at the table that takes advantage of their newbieness. Why should they be taken advantage of because they are new?
I hope you also realize that there is a very good chance the regular was never even on the dinner list.

IMO the OP played this perfectly on all streets [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

BoxTree · #8 07-25-2005, 01:20 PM

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Wow what an assenine comment.

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It's asinine, you moran.

Luv2DriveTT · #9 07-25-2005, 01:29 PM

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If the old man really got back from dinner also, he could have been placed ahead of you. I've had times when a friend or two and I come back from dinner. In between one of us getting seated, someone else got back from dinner and they got placed ahead of us. It wasn't a big deal, but then again, there was more than two tables running at the time.

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See above.. thats how it works there, and yes personal favorite do occur. If she was getting yelled at it was because she took care of a "friend" and got caught.

PS: The girl in question was Denise. It was her last day. She didn't seem that happy it was her last day, one of the players at my table questioned if she had been fired.

TT

Hellmouth · #10 07-25-2005, 02:21 PM

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Did I handle this correctly? Am I wrong?

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You handled the situation incorrectly by getting involved. Let your friend handle it if he thinks he got passed over. The last thing the floor and the brush needs is you complaining about what is going on.

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Wow what an assenine comment. Has it occured to you that perhaps his friend was new to casino poker? When I go down with my friends, I take care of everything. Waiting lists, table changes, dinner lists, and will speak up when anything is done at the table that takes advantage of their newbieness. Why should they be taken advantage of because they are new?
I hope you also realize that there is a very good chance the regular was never even on the dinner list.

IMO the OP played this perfectly on all streets [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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This is exactly the case. He is an easy going guy who had only ever been there once before and didnt want to cause a stink. But when there are only two tables running and it takes an hour and a half to get on one even when you are at the top of the list, it's a little easier to get pissed.

However, I do not think that I was rude about it, I never even raised my voice.

Anyways, I guess it is all the better because we ended up playing 1-2NL after that fiasco since it was much easier to get a table and we both faired well.

Greg