Any Port in a storm? Southampton get it right. For some.

[boldie]

Yeah people acting that way is quite sad.

The first player to get knocked out was on our table, he had already has his double chance and the TD didn't notice and put the 5k in front of him after seeing him lose the pot, the player then picked up the chips and threw them across the table! I would not expect that from a child!

Another player took a beat, a very bad one as it happens, and was kicking chairs over! He then finally returned to the table and just berated the guy who made the call for a solid 20 minutes (it was Dimiti the cricketer who is clearly new to the game) a great way to ensure these people come back!

People like that ruin the comp for me, i play live poker for fun, i am finding it hard to enjoy events more and more these days as people act in this manner. I was telling tighty earlier, i was praying to be moved onto your table as all we heard were laughs.

This is why I have decided to only play online for a while. I am fed up with people who can't take a beat or who think it is necesary to shout abuse at someone even if they beat them. (Or people who show up somewhere for the first time but show no respect for anyone)

If I want value tourneys I can find them online, if I want higher prizemoney I can find that online to..live tourneys are supposed to be fun and although I always managed to ignore prats at the table I found it's starting to bug me now.
It's just not worth the aggravation when I can spend a wonderfull evening at home playing a 100$ MTT in the hope of picking up a few grand for the same money as I would spent in a tenner rebuy trying to win 600£.

I think TD's should be MUCH harsher on people who don't know how to behave. Kicking over chairs? throwing chips over the table? Abusive language..Banned! naff off! go play somewhere else. Untill that happens I can't be bothered with live poker.

[tikay]

Yeah people acting that way is quite sad.

The first player to get knocked out was on our table, he had already has his double chance and the TD didn't notice and put the 5k in front of him after seeing him lose the pot, the player then picked up the chips and threw them across the table! I would not expect that from a child!

Another player took a beat, a very bad one as it happens, and was kicking chairs over! He then finally returned to the table and just berated the guy who made the call for a solid 20 minutes (it was Dimiti the cricketer who is clearly new to the game) a great way to ensure these people come back!

People like that ruin the comp for me, i play live poker for fun, i am finding it hard to enjoy events more and more these days as people act in this manner. I was telling tighty earlier, i was praying to be moved onto your table as all we heard were laughs.

Flushy is not wrong - from the outset, our table was laughs & fun all the way. We set out to make it like that, & succeeded. Win or lose, the idea is to enjoy. And we did.

[tikay]

Yeah people acting that way is quite sad.

The first player to get knocked out was on our table, he had already has his double chance and the TD didn't notice and put the 5k in front of him after seeing him lose the pot, the player then picked up the chips and threw them across the table! I would not expect that from a child!

Another player took a beat, a very bad one as it happens, and was kicking chairs over! He then finally returned to the table and just berated the guy who made the call for a solid 20 minutes (it was Dimiti the cricketer who is clearly new to the game) a great way to ensure these people come back!

People like that ruin the comp for me, i play live poker for fun, i am finding it hard to enjoy events more and more these days as people act in this manner. I was telling tighty earlier, i was praying to be moved onto your table as all we heard were laughs.

This is why I have decided to only play online for a while. I am fed up with people who can't take a beat or who think it is necesary to shout abuse at someone even if they beat them. (Or people who show up somewhere for the first time but show no respect for anyone)

If I want value tourneys I can find them online, if I want higher prizemoney I can find that online to..live tourneys are supposed to be fun and although I always managed to ignore prats at the table I found it's starting to bug me now.
It's just not worth the aggravation when I can spend a wonderfull evening at home playing a 100$ MTT in the hope of picking up a few grand for the same money as I would spent in a tenner rebuy trying to win 600£.

I think TD's should be MUCH harsher on people who don't know how to behave. Kicking over chairs? throwing chips over the table? Abusive language..Banned! naff off! go play somewhere else. Untill that happens I can't be bothered with live poker.

I agree - TD's SHOULD be harder on bad behaviour. When was the last ime you saw childish or moronic behaviour in a poker tourney punished? In mainland Europe, every day, in the UK, hardly ever. TD's lecture us regularly, but they have to do their bit too.

[TightEnd]

FLushy's poker playing "child" is the tiltiest player in the world...runs lap dancing bars on the South Coast as it happens.

[tikay]

Kev has it spot on, if its a unanimous with all the players and the house, yes then go for it, although as a TD now i will be getting suggestions from every tom, dick or harry as how i should run a tourny to their advantage. I do listen to players, however when 10 people come running up to me with their own different suggestions, should i now listen to the one that is the most well known? Or should i remember the meeting where all the cardroom supervisors sit down and discuss at length what structure we should use and why, what are the pro's and con's for each structure, because someone decided it should have been 7500 on a 45 min clock for some reason? Not saying it is right, but someone has just had a row somewhere me thinks. The idea is to get the structure right before announcing the event. It used to be a gaming board requirement for the structure to be posted 24 hours in advance. Say for instance Gus Hanson walks in after TK and says probably be a better tourny with 12,000 chips and Phil Ivey says make it 15k on a 90 minute clock. Where do you draw the line. Manager says yeah your the pro, wouldn't want to upset you, lets do it. (Sounds good actually, but i digress) but do you understand what i am saying?

".....as a TD now i will be getting suggestions from every tom, dick or harry as how i should run a tourny to their advantage...."

Running Tourneys to players advantage? That would never do, now would it......?

Seriously, I think you are reading this all wrong. I made a suggestion. ANYONE could have made the same suggestion. A WPT Winner made the same suggestion. A local guy also made the same suggestion. Thats all. It was up to the Cardroom Manager to say yes or no. He was not pressurised, there was no lynch mob, he is a big bloke, a sensible question was posed in a polite manner. He chose to agree, because, as he said, "we only have 70 odd runners, so we may as well, we were worried we would get 120+".

It was just that wonderful thing working as it usually does - "common sense".

[dik9]

Tikay, it's not a pop at you sir! It is a very sensible suggestion, that should have been listened to, and adopted for their next one.