Friday, January 28, 2005
Life Imitating Art?
Made my first visit to my local cardroom since restarting the "9 to 5" grind. Finished 15th out of 91 after AQ in my small blind ran into the monster that is J9 suited in the big blind!
This isn't a "bad beat" post though.
There have been some changes at the cardroom. Now once the cards are shuffled they are now cut by the player on the button and a "cutting" card is mandatory and placed at the bottom of the deck.
These are probably basic things in most UK cardrooms, but the reason why they were introduced was a bit shocking. In fact it sounded (3rd hand from chatting last night) like a scene from Rounders!
This is what happened. The cards were dealt out in the early stages of a competition. The dealer (who was also playing), said to the first player to act "Your turn to speak". "I'll speak alright, you just dealt the Ace of diamonds off the bottom to your friend" he replied. The floor person was called, the accused player had been dealt Ace of diamonds, leading to the dealer being escorted off the premises and barred. Amazingly his co-conspirator was not banned.
Just shows you have to be vigilant even in a £20 competition. Especially in a £20 competition!
This isn't a "bad beat" post though.
There have been some changes at the cardroom. Now once the cards are shuffled they are now cut by the player on the button and a "cutting" card is mandatory and placed at the bottom of the deck.
These are probably basic things in most UK cardrooms, but the reason why they were introduced was a bit shocking. In fact it sounded (3rd hand from chatting last night) like a scene from Rounders!
This is what happened. The cards were dealt out in the early stages of a competition. The dealer (who was also playing), said to the first player to act "Your turn to speak". "I'll speak alright, you just dealt the Ace of diamonds off the bottom to your friend" he replied. The floor person was called, the accused player had been dealt Ace of diamonds, leading to the dealer being escorted off the premises and barred. Amazingly his co-conspirator was not banned.
Just shows you have to be vigilant even in a £20 competition. Especially in a £20 competition!
# posted by redsimon @ 9:36 AM 
