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He asked me about 2 hands later what I had and I said I had kings with nut flush draw.

Do you have bad beat jackpots where you deal?

Not anymore
We offer straight flush and royal flush jackpots on cash games

Do you make a decent living? Most of the dealers where I play mostly at Foxwoods seem to be doing pretty well.

I make somewhat of a good pay. I get bonus tips based on hours I do which is nice.
Its a manageable wage.

Do you like straddling? I don’t really understand the guys who do it at every opportunity. Why not just play higher stakes?

I understand why people straddle, especially when it’s £1/£1 and 3/4/5 handed, just to build a pot I guess. But when it’s a full table 8/9 handed, straddling is basically just dead money and you’re asking for someone to 5x you when wake up with a hand you’d never play.

>What’s your best hand you’ve hit?
Royal flush on the turn
>What’s your favourite hand?
Jacking Off
>Any bad experiences playing live?
The family plays random games when we get together, poker was one of them for a time. The hand that killed it had the action fold around preflop to the blinds. Small blind checked and the big blind folded. Never again.

Tell some rude player stories. Ever catch anyone cheating?

He had aces, teddy thought he had him again, Matt adjusted his game

Should I eat Oreos while playing?

Nope, that's a tell you have a great hand

I’ve never caught anyone cheating before but I have suspected colluding. These two french guys joined the cash table and kept speaking french to each other. The rule is English only on the tables. One of them played like he’s never played a hand of poker before and couldn’t speak English that well. So his friend would tell him what to do in french.
They were building huge pots and betting massively against other players but as soon as they’d build a pot 3 or 4 handed, say they got to the turn and they’d bet really strongly to try get the other players out, and if it worked they’d play very softly against each other.
It annoys me just slightly that I couldn’t say something to them on the table because, obviously accusing someone of cheating during a game is just about the worst thing you could do, and of course that would look horrible for the casino. But I was finishing soon after that so I stopped giving a fuck.

Ok. What’s some shit that we may do as players that we don’t realize grinds your gears?

I do have a funny ruling in a tournament I heard.
I remember it vaguely so I’ll be brief. It was already on the flop and someone had pushed all in for 50k, someone had called for 36k (all his stack), the guy next to the under call had folded but as the dealer went to reach for the folded card he also managed to muck the guy who called his whole stack.
So he was all in for the rest of his stack and the dealer had killed his hand by accident.
Dealer had called floor and explained what happened. The floor allowed him to take his 36k back but forced him to forfeit 3 big blinds (9k).

The proper rule is his hand is dead and his full call must stand. Basically, all in with no claim on the pot.

Which one is harder, hold em or 5 card draw? And why is hold em so much more popular?

Players who seem to think the betting line doesn’t really exist.
Players who count their chips by themselves when they’re all in and someone’s asked for a count, then proceed to take a century to count their own chips instead of letting me take 5 seconds to count their chips.
Players who are adamant to enforce the “last aggressor shows first” rule despite having the nuts themselves. In effect, slow rolling.
Players who purposefully mark the cards, slowing up the game when I need to call for a new deck.
Players who blame me for them getting shit cards over and over again (this actually happens).
Drunk players.
Players who keep asking what and why I’m taking rake out of cash game pots, despite being a regular cash player.
Players who seem to be unaware what a shower or deodorant is.

Hold em is more popular just because it’s simpler to grasp.
I’ve not really seen much 5 card draw myself.
Some of the regulars play it during tournament break though.

Any game with fewer exposed cards is going to necessarily be harder because there’s less information available.

Hold Em is easier because it’s easy to establish how far off the nuts you are and much easier to put your opponent on a specific range of hands.

One time I was at the casino and the guy to my left said that on his last trip he had finished playing poker, went and got chili fries, took one bite, and puked on the table.

I asked him if that night he had also been double fisting chocolate milkshakes and scotch for six hours and he said yes.

I’m scared incase this ever happens on my table.

>Any game with fewer exposed cards is going to necessarily be harder because there’s less information available
Not if you go all-in on every hand. Then nobody has the advantage.