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I was having a great time visiting this casino and playing while i was in town for work until I got into it with two guys at the cash table. This loud mouth was all over the place and encouraging someone to straddle from the moment i sat down - no big, but he was getting called out by the dealer and the table about how he cannot say that. He was drinking and starting little verbal fights, talking talking talking.
1/2/5 (the new $5 bring in blind system is a joke that they disguise as "easier for the dealers to count" - truly ridiculous)
We have Q9ss in the SB, utg folds, villain raises to $20, cutoff and i come along. Flop is QJXddd, i check, villain $25, co fold hero flat. Turn Qh, we check, villain bets $65 hero raises to $200 villain flats. River Ax we quickly jam for ~$100
Villain is tanking - talking out loud about “i mean you just have it” “there’s so much out there beating me” - again, talking talking, talking.
This guy to his right, who i assume was a buddy, LITERALLY says “i mean it’s only $100 more” and the villain IMMEDIATELY slides in his stack.
Before any showdown i scold the guy to the villains right telling him how he cannot do that and that he just influenced action and i call the floor. Floor comes over, gives them both a verbal slap on the wrist, just like they the dealers had been doing for this guy for the last hour, and does nothing. MIND YOU this is all before we showdown. I was not reacting to a beat - we finally turn them over and i lose almost my entire stack to KT.
Where is the boundary? When does this become a penalty? I just couldn’t believe it. Severely disappointed in the way the floor handled this. Villain should not have scooped the entire enormous pot. Every single player at the table, including the dealers, were on my side.
Everyone, employees and players, all know each other and if you aren't one of them then good luck - you won't be treated equally.
