just read your article and a bit peeved off!!!
For what its worth I think if you call to see a hand then you should see the hand unless the caller shows a winning hand straight away you can muck, but if they want to see your cards they can. If the bettor shows the winning hand and the caller mucks, then the bettor has no rights to see that hand.
The bit i was peeved off about is this bit
"Firstly, I'm not convinced that this rule is standard practice in UK venues. For a start, there isn't a set of rules that has been commonly adopted throughout anywhere in the world, let alone in the UK where most poker tournaments are run by incompetent staff who care more about getting the punters into the venue and fleecing them at table games than they do about running a decent competition. I therefore think its highly likely that the dealer in question either didn't know a lot about poker or was trained by somebody equally ignorant."
Yet another small minded customer who thinks the staff don't care......as staff why would we care how much you do on the tables? I run cardrooms, thats my job, I treat everyone the same to some managers distaste! The pit is not my problem, I just care that the people in the cardroom have a fair game.
Cardrooms are treated as second class to the pit by caisino's as it doesnt make them any money. Now i have to listen to people like you say we are incompetent as we only care about making money??? We get paid the same regardless of whether you play house games or not. My area is cardroom and thats my baby, so i look after my cardroom punters and treat everyone the same, with the rules i adopt to be fair to all. With impartial outcomes. I would love more than anything to adopt a universal set of rules for poker and a few of us have tried to get the ball rolling.
BTW How dare you slag us off!!
Well said
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