A little war broke out the other night over a woman asking to see a new player’s called hand. The new player wasn’t new to poker, just to the game. The new player was enraged and took it to the max. He wanted to see her hand every time she was in at showdown and he was letting me know now that that’s the way it was going to be.

Right at the end of my down, sure enough, she called a hand and the new player almost jumped out his chair demanding her hand be shown. I did turn it over. He was still belligerant and stated that he would see every hand she called down as long as she was at the table.

I politely informed all of them that we allowed player’s to see called hands but not when it became excessive. He was still ranting to the table that he would see her hands as I was leaving the box.

I went directly to the Floor Person and informed him of the situation…he was heading that way as I was leaving the room for a break.

The funniest part of it was that the woman didn’t have any idea what was going on with the guy that was so excited about the showing of hands. She was visiting and having a good time playing poker, completely oblivious to his outrage and could care less if he saw her cards.

I’ve often wondered why a person can’t be a quiet idiot…

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Still the high limit section is quiet. Not a heart breaker for me. The only thing running on top lately on Swing Shift is the $10-$20 Blind NLH and $80-$160 Holdem

While dealing $40-$80 7 Card Stud tonight, Sam G. walked up to the table and a stranger in the 4s said, “Hi Sam.”

Sam said hello back and muttered something about the room being a graveyard (as in no games in the high limit section), and one of our dealers, Mary, walked by and said, “Hi Sam. I saw you on tv.”

The 4s looked at me and said, “I did too. That’s how I knew he was Sam.”

Chuckle, Chuckle. Sam was right, everyone does know him.

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I’ve dealt through four of the $1-$2 Blind NLH games. One of them was dead as a doornail and the other three were great little games with lots of action. Not sure how they’ve been overall but the lists are long. It’s just what the Dr. ordered for all the people that have been cutting their teeth on the WPT.