"Honesty doesn't pay in poker"

[thetank]

What contingency plans do you have - phoning a friend to play the game is obviously not one of them?

Sever the internet connection by removing my usb modem's wire from the back of the PC, then firing up the laptop.

[RobS]

Just as an aside to Tank's post, it goes without saying that the Cryptological software allows precisely zero extra time for a disconnected player to reconnect. In fact after the first hand is folded following the disconnection, all following hands are turbo folded.

[thetank]

Another reason why Stars is the bees knees.

Post Script - Don't play on Crypto 

(Note to Pokerstars - Give free stuff)

[Sheriff Fatman]

I would guess that we make many of our moral judgements in this context, not just at the poker table?

With the possible exception of fellatio. 

RED-DOG needs to watch out.  You are quickly taking over as the funniest person on this forum!!!

For anyone confused by Tank's reply (I had to think about it for a bit) you need to pick up on the bit in my earlier post below:

would I like it if the situations were reversed

 

Sheriff

[thetank]

No contest, RED_DOG can make us laugh without using naughty words.

[Sheriff Fatman]

No contest, RED_DOG can make us laugh without using naughty words.

But you've both now given me 'coffee spat all over the monitor' moments now!

However, I acknowedge your right to defer to the original king.

Sheriff

[TightEnd]

This is great stuff, as I expected


There is one person at Luton (old guy, miserable, always thinks the world is out to get him) who routinely shows his neighbour his cards (assuming neighbour to his right has just passed) when he is passing to a raise pre flop. Or when he is passing to a bet post flop. As if each hand is a remarkable pass etc. A sotto voce comment usually accompanies this action.

Now whether he likes it or not this is giving information to the remaining players yet to act and those already acted.

He has been warned to stop but no further action has never been taken

The player sees nothing wrong with what he is doing.


What would you suggest the cardroom maanger does about this gentleman?

[thetank]

A sotto voce comment
 

Had to look that one up.......

Spoken low or in an undertone, as not to be overheard

[Sheriff Fatman]

This is great stuff, as I expected


There is one person at Luton (old guy, miserable, always thinks the world is out to get him) who routinely shows his neighbour his cards (assuming neighbour to his right has just passed) when he is passing to a raise pre flop. Or when he is passing to a bet post flop. As if each hand is a remarkable pass etc. A sotto voce comment usually accompanies this action.

Now whether he likes it or not this is giving information to the remaining players yet to act and those already acted.

He has been warned to stop but no further action has never been taken

The player sees nothing wrong with what he is doing.


What would you suggest the cardroom maanger does about this gentleman?

Says, "Mr Kendall, I know your eyesight is poor but you still cannot ask your neighbour to read the cards to you."

[TightEnd]

A sotto voce comment
 

Had to look that one up.......

Spoken low or in an undertone, as not to be overheard

I thought you were language cognoscenti.

you seriously didn't know "sotto voce"? You know "fellatio" though!

No Latin GCSE?

[thetank]

I thought you were language cognoscenti.

Is that the Godfathers right hand man?

Huge gaps in my knowledge I'm afraid Tighty.

[Dingdell]

Increase his medication?

it should be enforced but cardroom managers are often cutomer led and unless a real fuss is made en mass i see no reason why they would do anything about it.  Why antagonise a good long term customer unless they have to?

Obviously as he gets even older and his longevity comes into question perhaps they will rethink it!

Im not sure what it tells others though as he does it routinely anyway.

I get more wound up by players teaching at the table. Or on a recent on line cash game a player predicting that I had a full house when I made a big bet on the end, I was sucking a fish in beautifully, and the fish folding because of it and costing me $75.

[thetank]

If someone ignores repeated warnings, you have to follow through at some stage with punitive measures. After all, a poker player is likely to know a bluff when he sees it.

Even if it is just a small infraction of the rules.

Here's what I would do...

Inform grandad next time he sotto voce-ies (or whatever it is he's doing) that it's his last chance and next time he'll get a 10 minute penalty.
If his offences persist, slap a 10 minute penalty on his ass.

Any loss of buisness I'd hope would come back fourfold when players come to realsie they are playing in a safe enviroment where the rules will be fairly enforced.

[thetank]

Actually, I'd probably just leave Grandad be on that one. Choosing your battles and all that.

He would be aware of my dissaproval and be on the recieving end of a very heavy "tch" or "tut tut" after every infraction. 

[RED-DOG]

If his offences persist, slap a 10 minute penalty on his ass.

Twas ever thus. Man commits the crime, and a dumb animal suffers the consequences.