poker pet peeves.....

[trader1499 0]

I was sitting at 1/2 table and a guy had his shades upside-down ala Marcel. My No 1 pet peeve is the Florida betting limit!!!!!!!

Yea is this florida crap gonna change? they passed the bill to allow real slot machiens... we have the lotto which people can go broke and never win a dime playing, but we can't play some real poker.

This is the dumbest pet peeve anyone has posted. Congradulations. By the way, I can look at my cards at any time.

He's saying about not looking at the cards til its your turn because its what the pros generally do. They are watching other players body language until its their turn to act.

[Mercury69 3]

OK, here's one for online only...Idiots who take the whole clock and then use their time bank to let time slide by while the tourney is in hand-for-hand mode. wtf?

[MyPlayIsRAB 0]

OK, here's one for online only...Idiots who take the whole clock and then use their time bank to let time slide by while the tourney is in hand-for-hand mode. wtf?

or when they use their entire time bank to call wtih top pair top kicker when you know theyre claling anyways .. as if theyre trying to make an impressive call or something (hopefully you ahve them pwned)

[mtdesmoines 3]

Thats nothing...I played 2/2 once here in florida and this guy at my table had...a Hat, sunglasses, and was doing everything very deliberate like Jesus Ferguson.....he would also take the 10 seconds to decide every move...I almost lost it.

Oh, jesus, 10 seconds is nothing. I played someplace a couple weeks ago where some azzhole took literally 3 minutes for every action. Bet. Raise. Fold. Didn't matter. Same three minute routine: • look at cards. • put cards down and look at felt.• shift eyes right without moving head.• shift eyes left without moving head.• look at felt. • action.It took about three rounds of this **** before I said during one of his routines, and I quote, "Oh for the love of Christ, can you give me a ****ing table change as soon as possible?"

[coesillian 0]

at pokerstaars-------all those dog avatars!

[Ward 0]

home games when people insist on dealing out the flop turn and river to see what they would have had, had everyone not folded. Drives me crazy I will not go back to a game where this is done more than once.

[David_Nicoson 1]

I have to work at it to stay patient at home games. I played in one yesterday and I had some pain.As a generalization, people seem very resistant to any suggestion that the experienced players have.One of the experienced players tried to explain the correct use of a cut-card, and the other player cut him off and said, "I think I can figure it out." So we shrugged it off and literally 8 of the 10 players proceeded to cut the deck by inserting the cut card in the middle and pulling the bottom part of the deck onto the top, exposing the bottom card.If we didn't use a cut card, then that's no big deal. It's just strange to go to the trouble of using the cut card but then to completely defeat its purpose. It's the same thing with people who burn a card and then deal the flop face down prematurely. It's rather a lot like airport security, actually.The use of chip denominations was absurdly complicated. A lot of chips sets are poorly constructed for hold'em without an ante. They contain way too much white. But in this instance, the host assigned white to the largest denomination. So we had:

black	 10green	 25blue	  50red	  100white	500

We clearly have an unnecessary denomination. Which isn't a big problem in itself, except people took it as some sort of challenge to construct the bet amount using a unique combination of chips. E.g., the PFR makes it 125 with a green and a red. A middle position caller asks, "How much is it?" Someone tells him. He puts out two blues and a green. The button asks, "How much is it?" Someone tells him. He puts out 4 green. The blinds naturally call with some combination including black.I'll give our host props for keeping the denominations the same between the cash game and the tournament. There was an opportunity to make matters worse.The blind progression was sane from a math perspective, but it was pretty bad from the perspective of chip usage. We had a 20/40 round and a 400/800 round.

[XXEddie 0]

People who get pissed off at you when you having bad connection problems.As if youre unplugging cords at random just to see what happens

[Jimmy_v 0]

the other day someone was using his entire time bank on every single hand. I told him to sit out and he said "you make bad bets, you wait"so he was punishing us in this $1 tourney for bad play. very mature!

[nutzbuster 7]

Too much talking, period.And what the heck ever happened to Alf anyway???

[alf13 0]

Too much talking, period.And what the heck ever happened to Alf anyway???

Dead?

[David_Nicoson 1]

[fryer98"]When at the showdown, showing 1 card...and then thinking they only have to show 1 to win the pot. That one used to really get to me, and I mean REALLY get to me. Now I just don't let people get away with it. At a casino, if the dealer doesn't immediately say something, I ask the dealer to flip over over the other card. At home games, I flip it over myself, or wait till someone elese does before I show or muck my hand.

Eeek! Other people shouldn't be showing down a person's hand. If he doesn't showdown both cards, he's not eligible to win the pot. If the pot has already been awarded, it's OK for the dealer to expose a hand upon request. Random dudes shouldn't be flipping up their opponents' cards.

[CBass1724 1]

I played in a poker tournament this weekend where the first 2 rounds were half hour blinds and then after that was supposed to be 15 min blinds. This one guy at the table spoke up for everybody and asked that it be changed to 30 mins like the first 2 rounds. Nobody had a problem with this so it was changed. Anytime him or the other drunks at the table wouldn't be paying attention when it was their turn or when they were supposed deal a flop, etc, he would chime in and say "what is your hurry...I just got the time extended from 15 mins to 30 mins so we can take our time."

[Startled 0]

People that slowroll.

And dolts who slow-fold. Show them the flush, and they sit there staring at their cards for 30 seconds before they snap them with their fingernail, show them to the donk next to them and slam them into the muck. For heaven's sake, you're beat. Muck and move on already!

[nutzbuster 7]

Dead?

Welcome back Lazareth.

[Ryan_Sanders 0]

1) I hate poker2) I hate online Poker3) I hate online Players4)I hate old people who play poker5)I hate it when people say "Im better then him"6)People who suck but think there good7)People who play drunk and then cry when they lose8)People who want to tell me stories of poker, I DON'T CARE9)Slow Rolling - I fight people over that10)I hate most pro poker players11)I hate the US poker championship on ESPN - STOP PLAYING IT PLEASE12)Poker pros who think there god's gift to the world cuz they can play a card game13)I hate poker magazines - I DON'T CARE WHO WON THAT TOURNAMENT IN THAT PLACE14)I hate dealers15)I hate tipping16)I hate how Sam Farha took $3500 from me in one pot17)I hate how Dan Alspach called all in with a queen high flush for $4300 and won booya i lose with a flopped straight18)I hate people who play at the bellagio19)I hate how I want into commerce or HG and I know 90% of the people - DO YOU PEOPLE HAVE LIVES? 20)I hate when I lost21)I hate that im addicted22)I hate people who play poker - ABOUT 99% OF THEM I HATE - MOST ARE DOUCHBAGS23)I hate how I once lived nicely in Vegas playing and now I live in LA and sucking24)I hate how im about to get banned - No SeriouslyThanks and have a nice day

[AaronHoward 0]

1) I hate poker2) I hate online Poker3) I hate online Players4)I hate old people who play poker5)I hate it when people say "Im better then him"6)People who suck but think there good7)People who play drunk and then cry when they lose8)People who want to tell me stories of poker, I DON'T CARE9)Slow Rolling - I fight people over that10)I hate most pro poker players11)I hate the US poker championship on ESPN - STOP PLAYING IT PLEASE12)Poker pros who think there god's gift to the world cuz they can play a card game13)I hate poker magazines - I DON'T CARE WHO WON THAT TOURNAMENT IN THAT PLACE14)I hate dealers15)I hate tipping16)I hate how Sam Farha took $3500 from me in one pot17)I hate how Dan Alspach called all in with a queen high flush for $4300 and won booya i lose with a flopped straight18)I hate people who play at the bellagio19)I hate how I want into commerce or HG and I know 90% of the people - DO YOU PEOPLE HAVE LIVES? 20)I hate when I lost21)I hate that im addicted22)I hate people who play poker - ABOUT 99% OF THEM I HATE - MOST ARE DOUCHBAGS23)I hate how I once lived nicely in Vegas playing and now I live in LA and sucking24)I hate how im about to get banned - No SeriouslyThanks and have a nice day

why are u here then

[Startled 0]

why are u here then

I hate that I'm addicted'

That reminds me. I hate "I quit poker" posts.

[Shizzmoney 0]

Also count me in with the, "I can't stand it when people say "I'm sorry" when they suck out" crowd. Biggest pet peeve, ever. You are not sorry. I can smell the ingenuious stench as you rake in the chips. If you were really sorry, you'd give the person half of the pot back.The best retort to this is while watching New York vs. Boston Poker Season 1 on NESN. New Yorker Maria Calabrese (who is JDags wifey), shortstacked, gets it all-in 3 handed with a dominated Ace vs AQ, and hits her kicker on the turn; winning the pot and staying alive in the heat. Right after, she immediately says, "Just to let you know, I'm not sorry. Not sorry at all." I LMAO'd at that one, because for every person who actually says they are sorry when they do suck out, that's actually what they really are feeling inside as they rake in the chips. Honesty is the best comedy.

[ratwastard 0]

The best retort to this is while watching New York vs. Boston Poker Season 1 on NESN. New Yorker Maria Calabrese (who is JDags wifey), shortstacked, gets it all-in 3 handed with a dominated Ace vs AQ, and hits her kicker on the turn; winning the pot and staying alive in the heat. Right after, she immediately says, "Just to let you know, I'm not sorry. Not sorry at all." I LMAO'd at that one, because for every person who actually says they are sorry when they do suck out, that's actually what they really are feeling inside as they rake in the chips. Honesty is the best comedy.

i met this chick last year and let me tell you -- what a B-I-T-C-H !!!that's assuming he's with the same one today as april 06damn i wanted to smack her. or at the very least ask him what the hell he was doing with her. he seems like a nice guy; i'm sure he could do better

[WowThats 0]

When a player hits runner, runner then wants to give everyone at the table a lesson in poker.Dealers who think you should tip more than one dollar per hand.Dealers who are not paying attention and screw up the hand.Players that will raise on "Ace" anything then get mad when they lose.Players who can not figure out odd/outs or barely understand the game.What I do Like:People who tell jokes at the table.Friendly people.My Ipod.

[MychCumstien 0]

i was too lazy to read this entire thread, but personally, I get real irritated with the beggars on full tilt. I usually just leave observer chat off at this point, but seriously, I've never seen anything as bad on any other poker website.