It is bad, and once cards have been tabled and I'd imagine everyone at the table can confirm the "losing" hand that was killed, it should be a simple enough task to confirm the mucked hand with the dealer, admit a mistake was made, and split the pot, as both hands have been shown.

When a player who folds asks the dealer to:

"keep them to one side. I want him to see what I folded for him"

This always gets a nod and "ok", and then slid straight into the muck while waiting for the next player to act. By the end of the hand they've forgotten all about it anyway.

Have to come clean and say I'm guilty of calling straddles a strudle, but without the shit eating grin as I do it. Though in my defence it's picked up from pretty much every reg in the 5/10 at the Vic.

It seems pretty standard in 1/1 and 1/2 games now, but people still seem incapable of announcing their bets clearly. Someone bets 10, guy says "raise 20" and throws in 20. Tosser, throw in the other 10 and learn to announce bets, rah.

Anyone who acts like they're on TV, taking things too far when all in, or jumping up and down when they hit a card to stack someone/double up. Always like telling them to sit down or I'll deal them out.

Commentry, when they annouce what the cards are is really tilting and must be annoying for the dealers. Ilike it when they announce someone has raised and the amount they have raised to, but they do not need to tell eveyr player what the action is, we should be paying attention really.

With the board, everywhere I've dealt before the big London festivals this month have always wanted the boards read, but I do prefer not announcing the flop/turn/river. It just seems unneccessary

I dont mind fiddling with the muck or w/e spose it must be a bit boring so id fidget too i reckons.

Dealers commenting on hands is THE MOST tilting thing imo, like saying "well played" or stuff like that - I like to have banter with the dealers, and friendly fast dealers are so good, but shouldn't be anything related to the hand

Also, looking at the cards is pretty worrying, dont like it when they do that - but then Id struggle to resist temptation myself.

For me, all those things are really bad, mostly because the muck is supposed to be a mess, so that in case of any post-river drama where someone decides the hand they mucked was a winner, or something equally ridiculous, they can't just easily see which are their cards.
I've never felt the need to comment on anyone's play, and have been aware of it ever since seeing a dealer saying "nice value bet on the river" to someone in a 12k pot in a 5-10 game, the looks on the faces of everyone at the table as the dealer got up pretty much said everything.

Gah, meant to post this in Rail, any chance of a mod moving it?

And with the sliding vs pitching, a great pitcher always tends to be as good as, if not better than a good slider. But there's little to no danger of mishaps with not-so-good sliders, whereas bad pitchers are a lot more likely to make a mistake (usually just exposing a card).
Personally I always prefer sliding, it's a lot easier to keep a game going, and avoids a lot of bad habits that come with holding the deck through a hand after pitching (rolling the deck especially tilts me when playing).
Obv if a dealer slides, it usually goes hand in hand with dealing the flop one card at a time, another personal preference.

Just been thinking lately about how every poker venue seems to have it's own way of doing things, and just randomly wondering what the general players seem to prefer in terms of the little things dealers do.

All too often when taking a dealer off (though I only tend to notice if it's a big pot) it seems like they tend to be messing around with the muck pile, or the stub of the deck after the river. Obviously there are little things that all of us do without noticing, but I'd guess very few that would be likely to distract someone involved in a hand at the time.

Also, what do you all tend to prefer when it comes to~

Pitching from the hand, or sliding, when dealing
Game commentary - announcing every action, bet amounts as they're made, etc
Setting bets as they're made (say player 1 bets 300 in 3x100 chips, player 2 raises to 1000 with a single 1k chip, dealer brings in the 300 and makes 700 in change from the pot to show the raise only)

Just some ponderings that I've wasted time thinking about recently, lol.

Oh, and hai