Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Another day at the casino....
Story of my run in with this really old mean bastard. Maybe you had to be there, but he was sooo funny to watch implode.
Playing $100 NL tonight at Seneca Allegheny casino. Sat down and there was this
pissed off looking 75 or so year old man playing. He was the meanest crotchety
person I have ever seen playing in a casino. (Granted I havn't played that long,
but this guy was crazy).
One hand is 3 way pot. Me, guy1 and oldfart. Board is Qxxx on turn, and
oldfart is first to act and checks. He then turns his hand over, QT. The dealer
hesitates for a second and mucks his hand and action progresses. Me and guy1
look at each other, shrug and check it down. he wins with jack high. Oldfart
doesn't say anything until the kid gets the $3 pot pushed to him... then he went
apeshit. Dealer explains once he showed his cards (he tossed them face up into
the muck) that they were dead. The guy is yelling, swearing and carrying on...
so the floor comes and the guy spazzes saying he doesn't want the pot, not to
call the floor, etc etc but the floor is already there and tries calmly to explain to him why his handwas dead.
In the middle of him explaining the old fart ripped the deck outof the dealer's hand and attempted to reenact the hand. At this point the floorreally started yelling at him, telling him to drop the cards and never touchthem again. The guy like gets up and walks a few feet away swearing under hisbreath at the floor. The kid that won the pot was like... its only $3 and he didhave the best hand, I'll just give it to him, no big deal. The floor told dealerto push pot to winner and he could do what he wanted
The kid told the guy, no big deal you had best hand take it. Old fart was like Hell No, they don't wantto award the pot to the winner, who am I to say otherwise, etc etc. Kid slid the3 $1 chips to the guy anyways. The old fart took the 3 chips, spun around in hischair and THREW THEM. FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORR!
Floor came for the second time in one minute, yelled at him again, told him ifhe ever did anything like that ever again he was gone for good. Told him to gopick up the chips or else. Guy finally went and picked them up.
Awile later a guy bets $25 and the old fart tosses in a $5 chip and says call.Dealer is like no, its 25 to go, and old fart says well then, I'm not going toplay and tries to take the $5 back. Dealer says that he couldn't. He could put$20 more in or fold. He grabs the chip and slams it onto his stack and gives thedealer just a horrible look. She says put it back or she calls floor and hepicked it up and flung it at her so hard it bounced into her rack, but somehowstayed on the table. He then called her a name and said that he would reallllytip her biiiig next time then he was like "you wanna know HOW big?" and hepulled out a $100 bill and threw it down and was like THATS how big I'm gonnatip you (this was all stated about as assholeish as possible).
The guy was sitting across from the dealer I should add, and was being a dickabout mucking his cards. He wouldn't just fold them, he would fire them at thedealer. He nearly put them off the table multiple times, and was basically usingher as a backstop. I was in the 10 seat and nearly had his cards go into my lap.Anytime the dealer corrected him, told him it was his turn to act or to post ablind the table had to wait for 10 seconds while he stared down the dealer giving him/her a look that would melt steel.
His final adventure came when he called a river bet. The guy showed Q2 for toppair, and the old fart had 77. He mucked his hand by flipping the 77 face up,stacked the cards on top of each other, slid them into the middle of the tableand picked up all of the board cards. Then he whipped all 7 cards back at thedealer. Somehow she kept her composure and didn't call floor. He'd have beengone so fast. He got up and left shortly thereafter.
He did all this stuff to like 5 dealers while I was there, and I don't thinkthey knew what a total ass he had been all night long, as floor would havebeen constantly called if they knew. But I gotta commend all the staff in thepoker room for putting up with the guy and settling all the disputes in a quickand decisive manner. I don't think I could have kept my cool as well as them.
Hope this was entertaining, it was hilarious to watch in person. Please post any similar stories you may have! Old mean bitter guys are funny.
Tad
Playing $100 NL tonight at Seneca Allegheny casino. Sat down and there was this
pissed off looking 75 or so year old man playing. He was the meanest crotchety
person I have ever seen playing in a casino. (Granted I havn't played that long,
but this guy was crazy).
One hand is 3 way pot. Me, guy1 and oldfart. Board is Qxxx on turn, and
oldfart is first to act and checks. He then turns his hand over, QT. The dealer
hesitates for a second and mucks his hand and action progresses. Me and guy1
look at each other, shrug and check it down. he wins with jack high. Oldfart
doesn't say anything until the kid gets the $3 pot pushed to him... then he went
apeshit. Dealer explains once he showed his cards (he tossed them face up into
the muck) that they were dead. The guy is yelling, swearing and carrying on...
so the floor comes and the guy spazzes saying he doesn't want the pot, not to
call the floor, etc etc but the floor is already there and tries calmly to explain to him why his handwas dead.
In the middle of him explaining the old fart ripped the deck outof the dealer's hand and attempted to reenact the hand. At this point the floorreally started yelling at him, telling him to drop the cards and never touchthem again. The guy like gets up and walks a few feet away swearing under hisbreath at the floor. The kid that won the pot was like... its only $3 and he didhave the best hand, I'll just give it to him, no big deal. The floor told dealerto push pot to winner and he could do what he wanted
The kid told the guy, no big deal you had best hand take it. Old fart was like Hell No, they don't wantto award the pot to the winner, who am I to say otherwise, etc etc. Kid slid the3 $1 chips to the guy anyways. The old fart took the 3 chips, spun around in hischair and THREW THEM. FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORR!
Floor came for the second time in one minute, yelled at him again, told him ifhe ever did anything like that ever again he was gone for good. Told him to gopick up the chips or else. Guy finally went and picked them up.
Awile later a guy bets $25 and the old fart tosses in a $5 chip and says call.Dealer is like no, its 25 to go, and old fart says well then, I'm not going toplay and tries to take the $5 back. Dealer says that he couldn't. He could put$20 more in or fold. He grabs the chip and slams it onto his stack and gives thedealer just a horrible look. She says put it back or she calls floor and hepicked it up and flung it at her so hard it bounced into her rack, but somehowstayed on the table. He then called her a name and said that he would reallllytip her biiiig next time then he was like "you wanna know HOW big?" and hepulled out a $100 bill and threw it down and was like THATS how big I'm gonnatip you (this was all stated about as assholeish as possible).
The guy was sitting across from the dealer I should add, and was being a dickabout mucking his cards. He wouldn't just fold them, he would fire them at thedealer. He nearly put them off the table multiple times, and was basically usingher as a backstop. I was in the 10 seat and nearly had his cards go into my lap.Anytime the dealer corrected him, told him it was his turn to act or to post ablind the table had to wait for 10 seconds while he stared down the dealer giving him/her a look that would melt steel.
His final adventure came when he called a river bet. The guy showed Q2 for toppair, and the old fart had 77. He mucked his hand by flipping the 77 face up,stacked the cards on top of each other, slid them into the middle of the tableand picked up all of the board cards. Then he whipped all 7 cards back at thedealer. Somehow she kept her composure and didn't call floor. He'd have beengone so fast. He got up and left shortly thereafter.
He did all this stuff to like 5 dealers while I was there, and I don't thinkthey knew what a total ass he had been all night long, as floor would havebeen constantly called if they knew. But I gotta commend all the staff in thepoker room for putting up with the guy and settling all the disputes in a quickand decisive manner. I don't think I could have kept my cool as well as them.
Hope this was entertaining, it was hilarious to watch in person. Please post any similar stories you may have! Old mean bitter guys are funny.
Tad
