Making change in Tournament poker.

[kinboshi]

How about when you're in the sb and you put a 1k chip in front of you to cover the small blind which is 500 and a player next to you reaches over and changes your 1k chip for 2 x 500's, I know people are only trying to be helpful but this does wind me up a tad. I'd friggin ask if I wanted you to change it.

You said it he's just being helpful. Take your 500 change, say thank you and save your "winding up" for when the same player calls your raise from the big blind with J3 off and busts your pocket kings when he flops two pair!

It annoys me as well - as does people putting in a 100 and taking out your 50 to make the correct amount for antes (for example). I think it comes down to - once bets have been put on the table I think it's the dealer who should be dealing with those chips and not any of the players.

Agree, as an occasional dealer it is profoundly irritating when people do this.

Out of interest. Is this because you do a scan of the chips out there before you even start touching them so you have a mental picture of what you need to do before you start doing it. Then some squarehead messes it up.

I've always assumed so which is why I only make change on request, always willingly and usually with the chips ready. In a way I'm the perfect dealers companion

I liken it to when somebody nicks a chip of your plate without asking, it's rude.

If somebody asked if I'd like my 1k chip changed I'd appreciate the gesture and accept. Otherwise just f**k off.

Chips always taste much better when they're nicked from someone else's plate though - and they aren't bad for you then either.

[smurf]

Never realised it would be so easy to tilt everyone, can't wait till I play again and try some of these tactics 

[DMorgan]

People being uncooperative with giving change is a legit contender for most tilting thing in live poker.

It's a power thing Dan. They refuse, or get awkward, because they can.

I always assume when they do that it suggests they are hen-pecked at home, but at a poker table, they have that ounce of power.

There's one at every table, but when I'm donning my Thom Yorke personna & am King for a Day, instead of lining them up against the wall & shooting the lot of them, I'd make them all share the same table.  It has the bonus of segregating them from all those dreadful average recreational players who put us proper players on life tilt.

This might be my favourite post ever, wp

[Sulphur man]

So good agreed.  my hero.

[Junior Senior]

Lots of over reaction itt.

[Sulphur man]

Good to get it out of the system on here though, at least we can give each other
a knowing smile next time we are sat opposite one another. Change yes no problem 

Does irk me when players insist on using all there change for every action. BB 1k two stacks of 25's counted out
in the slowest most awful fashion. #lovethelivegame

[kinboshi]

Lots of over reaction itt.

No there isn't.  Troll!!

[scotty77]

Biggest thing that tilts me is when the dealer is short/small and has to reach over to gather in all the antes every single hand.

It is amazing to me how completely oblivious how most players are to this and still put in their antes right at the very edge.  Tilts me so much.  Always end up saying something (usually its ignored and they continue being absolute dicks) or I end up putting the antes closer to the middle for the dealer on my side of the table..

[jgcblack]

Lots of over reaction itt.

No there isn't.  Troll!!

I won't even pretend...

For anyone that has ever spent time at a table with me -

I am the changemonster... and I freely admit that I am a childlike creature who just likes to have lots of chips.  I've even agreed in a cash game before to change a £25 chips for 24x £1 chips.

I had a bad experience one in Brussels when playing a £1/2 game and I had E400 with most of it in E1 chips (they didn't have many/ any 25's and i didn't want 5's).
After a while the cardroom manager came over and insisted that I change up... I agreed, but gave him a little 'look' and then proceeded to lose 3/4 of my stack in the next couple of orbits.
After painstakingly rebuilding up to 450 again I now had ALL the 1's in the room, and point blank refused to change! I insisted he go and get more out of the back - which he did very quickly.

I'm not pretending my love for chips is ever since then but since then its been cemented.

Best experiences ever @ a poker table were at Coventry during the 2011 Goliath and at the Vic the previous summer on £1/1 or £1/2 tables when I've had over £1k and had most of it in 1's/5's.

So sue me, I like building towers, I make no excuses for it.

[X] have and will continue to change up other peoples chips to give change even if not asked
[X] have and will put in a 100 to get 3x25's so 'top up' my 18 high stack of 25's.
[X] get tilted to **** when i have all the change and have to do it for the table
[X] am often the one who calls for more change to the table
[X] would trade a £25 for 24x £1 every day of the week @ the table
[X] realise I'm a tool
[ ] likely to change as a result of this thread
[ ] does any of this deliberately to annoy people

[rfgqqabc]

Lots of over reaction itt.

No there isn't.  Troll!!

I won't even pretend...

For anyone that has ever spent time at a table with me -

I am the changemonster... and I freely admit that I am a childlike creature who just likes to have lots of chips.  I've even agreed in a cash game before to change a £25 chips for 24x £1 chips.

I had a bad experience one in Brussels when playing a £1/2 game and I had E400 with most of it in E1 chips (they didn't have many/ any 25's and i didn't want 5's).
After a while the cardroom manager came over and insisted that I change up... I agreed, but gave him a little 'look' and then proceeded to lose 3/4 of my stack in the next couple of orbits.
After painstakingly rebuilding up to 450 again I now had ALL the 1's in the room, and point blank refused to change! I insisted he go and get more out of the back - which he did very quickly.

I'm not pretending my love for chips is ever since then but since then its been cemented.

Best experiences ever @ a poker table were at Coventry during the 2011 Goliath and at the Vic the previous summer on £1/1 or £1/2 tables when I've had over £1k and had most of it in 1's/5's.

So sue me, I like building towers, I make no excuses for it.

[X] have and will continue to change up other peoples chips to give change even if not asked
[X] have and will put in a 100 to get 3x25's so 'top up' my 18 high stack of 25's.
[X] get tilted to **** when i have all the change and have to do it for the table
[X] am often the one who calls for more change to the table
[X] would trade a £25 for 24x £1 every day of the week @ the table
[X] realise I'm a tool
[ ] likely to change as a result of this thread
[ ] does any of this deliberately to annoy people

Cashed out 1725 int 1/2 the other day. Had exactly 1 $25 chip. In b4 thin, was still a losing trip.

[jgcblack]

Lots of over reaction itt.

No there isn't.  Troll!!

I won't even pretend...

For anyone that has ever spent time at a table with me -

I am the changemonster... and I freely admit that I am a childlike creature who just likes to have lots of chips.  I've even agreed in a cash game before to change a £25 chips for 24x £1 chips.

I had a bad experience one in Brussels when playing a £1/2 game and I had E400 with most of it in E1 chips (they didn't have many/ any 25's and i didn't want 5's).
After a while the cardroom manager came over and insisted that I change up... I agreed, but gave him a little 'look' and then proceeded to lose 3/4 of my stack in the next couple of orbits.
After painstakingly rebuilding up to 450 again I now had ALL the 1's in the room, and point blank refused to change! I insisted he go and get more out of the back - which he did very quickly.

I'm not pretending my love for chips is ever since then but since then its been cemented.

Best experiences ever @ a poker table were at Coventry during the 2011 Goliath and at the Vic the previous summer on £1/1 or £1/2 tables when I've had over £1k and had most of it in 1's/5's.

So sue me, I like building towers, I make no excuses for it.

[X] have and will continue to change up other peoples chips to give change even if not asked
[X] have and will put in a 100 to get 3x25's so 'top up' my 18 high stack of 25's.
[X] get tilted to **** when i have all the change and have to do it for the table
[X] am often the one who calls for more change to the table
[X] would trade a £25 for 24x £1 every day of the week @ the table
[X] realise I'm a tool
[ ] likely to change as a result of this thread
[ ] does any of this deliberately to annoy people

Cashed out 1725 int 1/2 the other day. Had exactly 1 $25 chip. In b4 thin, was still a losing trip.

eugh... how was vegas overall mate?

[Junior Senior]

Biggest thing that tilts me is when the dealer is short/small and has to reach over to gather in all the antes every single hand.

It is amazing to me how completely oblivious how most players are to this and still put in their antes right at the very edge.  Tilts me so much.  Always end up saying something (usually its ignored and they continue being absolute dicks) or I end up putting the antes closer to the middle for the dealer on my side of the table..

Yeah but I have seen it deliberately done when dealer is female, fit and with a low cut top on.  #justsayinglike

[smashedagain]

Biggest thing that tilts me is when the dealer is short/small and has to reach over to gather in all the antes every single hand.

It is amazing to me how completely oblivious how most players are to this and still put in their antes right at the very edge.  Tilts me so much.  Always end up saying something (usually its ignored and they continue being absolute dicks) or I end up putting the antes closer to the middle for the dealer on my side of the table..

Yeah but I have seen it deliberately done when dealer is female, fit and with a low cut top on.  #justsayinglike

i'm a legs and bum man myself and you better believe I wanna see her reach for chips when I am in seat 1 or 9. I can tell you the style and colour pants of most of the girls in Dtd.

[Junior Senior]

Biggest thing that tilts me is when the dealer is short/small and has to reach over to gather in all the antes every single hand.

It is amazing to me how completely oblivious how most players are to this and still put in their antes right at the very edge.  Tilts me so much.  Always end up saying something (usually its ignored and they continue being absolute dicks) or I end up putting the antes closer to the middle for the dealer on my side of the table..

Yeah but I have seen it deliberately done when dealer is female, fit and with a low cut top on.  #justsayinglike

i'm a legs and bum man myself and you better believe I wanna see her reach for chips when I am in seat 1 or 9. I can tell you the style and colour pants of most of the girls in Dtd.

Obv you do.... Pervert! I prefer to avert my gaze

[jgcblack]

Biggest thing that tilts me is when the dealer is short/small and has to reach over to gather in all the antes every single hand.

It is amazing to me how completely oblivious how most players are to this and still put in their antes right at the very edge.  Tilts me so much.  Always end up saying something (usually its ignored and they continue being absolute dicks) or I end up putting the antes closer to the middle for the dealer on my side of the table..

Yeah but I have seen it deliberately done when dealer is female, fit and with a low cut top on.  #justsayinglike

i'm a legs and bum man myself and you better believe I wanna see her reach for chips when I am in seat 1 or 9. I can tell you the style and colour pants of most of the girls in Dtd.

Obv you do.... Pervert! I prefer to avert my gaze

call

(my first time junior, hope you enjoy it)