It's early in the morning, a night of blackjack hell so I was wondering what are your gambling irritations, but really I just want to vent about mine.

1) The "how's the table" "how's it going" people.

This is an irritation because regardless of answer they are going to sit down. Maybe it is just me but when I'm playing blackjack I like to do it alone. 1 hand, 2 hand, 3 where able I just like to play at an empty table. So if I say well they sit down. But the bigger annoyance is that even if you say 'I'm getting killed" or "not good" they say "oh well I'll switch it up" as they plop down their twenty dollar bill. Great, some minimum bet mook is going to add variability to the situation. But really it's not even that it's the fact these people agonize over every fucking hand on what to do. They can have a 20, king/queen, 15 seconds to look and stuff it. Win 3 hands in a row, lose 2 in a row, then a minute diatribe of "Man they always showing a face" or "damn that dealer on fire". Followed by the stack peek and "man I wish I was coming up like you" completely oblivious to the fact you've lost 4 hands in a row for anywhere between negative 100-200. This actually melded into more than one irritation.

2) The observers

The people who stand around just watching and watching, then ask you "what's a pair square" or "I don't understand how the dealer beat you, you had a pair of aces(pai-gow)". Listen, I have no problem explaining things but if I'm in the middle of a hand and you're asking me questions I'm going to be annoyed. Further if I answer your questions and you still stand behind me with no intention of playing stop fucking asking me questions.

3) The "this is bullshit" people

The people who sit at a table, then have two friends sit at it or stand behind them then when the cocktail waitress comes orders 3 shots of jack or henessey or coronas and the cocktail waitress says "I can only bring a drink to those that are playing" and these people go "that's bullshit" and complain about it until the cocktail waitress gets back and doesn't tip then asks for something else like a rude prick and now for the next 30 minutes we can't get drinks cuz you're being a miserable prick cuz your leech friends/bitches couldn't get a free drink. Listen fuck head they could put a 10 in the slot machine 25 feet away and gotten their own fucking drink, why you bring all this negative bullshit towards us? Also the hop bettors in craps who wait till the last minute, box clearly yells no action, it hits then they try to start a fight and bitch about it forever. I'm not superstitious, don't believe in ghosts, supernatural anything of the sort but you play enough craps coincidences start piling up like a motherfucker and you start believing in a lil something and you know this negative shit is gonna tank the table. Always happens on good rolls too where the shooter got that rhythm going on, dice ain't bouncing all over the table, bets get parlayed and hitting, fuck you people.

/whine over

By all means add your own irritations especially the "people like you" posts.

People that cover basically every number on roulette and get really excited when they win.

People that take forever over the simplest decisions in black jack, even more annoying when they then do something really dumb.

People that dwell up on every fucking decision at a poker table.

I'm sure there are plenty of others that piss me off but I haven't been to the casino in a while.

Asians

people who sit way to wiiiiiiide

people who take ur remaining trny chips and give you a lesson

leatherasses that get a lil testy cuz i play 1 hand in let it ride and bink 2050

people who forget that the street isn't far away, whowannit?

 

Originally Posted by Niceguy

I'm not superstitious, don't believe in ghosts, supernatural anything of the sort but you play enough craps coincidences start piling up like a motherfucker and you start believing in a lil something and you know this negative shit is gonna tank the table. Always happens on good rolls too where the shooter got that rhythm going on, dice ain't bouncing all over the table, bets get parlayed and hitting, fuck you people.

I mean, you might not be severely superstitious or anything, but, by definition you must be at least a little bit, based on the stuff in that quote.

It's not even your fault though tbh, confirmation bias can be a powerful thing, that is hard for the human brain to recognize/combat, even amongst highly intelligent people. It's why you'll often see even lawyers/doctors/etc falling into that line of thinking at the tables in Vegas.

Just force yourself to take a step back at regular intervals and remind yourself of the severe lack of logic/rationality behind these types of gambling superstitions/gambling fallacies. Even take a notebook with you and record the results of every hand/bet you make over a significant sample size if you have to, so that you can stop and look over it and remind yourself that the perceived superstitious shit was really just a result of confirmation bias, and that in the long run, the actual results were in line with normal mathematical expectation of the longterm -EV per bet of the game you were playing, and that the results were not, in fact, swayed as a result of supernatural shit to any mathematically significant extent whatsoever in the long run.

the punk rocker looking guy who min buys, tanks on every decision when it looks like they don't even know action is on themselves, then call down with 4th pair and show it when someone shows a hand that crushes them

it's laughable and annoying at the same time. prolly cuz i'm never on the receiving end of the charity

My role in life is to be the buzzkill/debbie downer of -EV gambling.

It is my destiny imo.

It stems from my hatred of those casino managers/owners/investors/mafia/etc guys that walk around looking all sleezy/casino-ish with their hair slicked all the way from the front of the hairline perfectly backwards down to the base of their neck with the thick gel-grooves at flawlessly equidistant 3.5 millimeter horizontal intervals that go up to all the random fathers gambling away their kids' college funds and put their hand on the fathers' shoulders reassuringly to make friendly small talk and ask if they are going to the big show later that night, and how their comp'd room is treating them.

Fuck those guys.

edit: Just to clarify btw, my beef with those guys isn't even that they are gobbling up money from the avg american masses who don't comprehend basic probability mathematics, rather, I simply can't stand the way they look. They always wear the same excruciatingly sleazy looking suits/neckties/hairdos/body language/mannerisms, and I literally just get pissed off for some reason when I see them walking around on the floor.

 

Originally Posted by Skyroller

Here's a craps story:

My friend was betting this table pretty hard and doing well because the shooter was running white hot. All of a sudden his girlfriend comes up to him and says "Ooh can I roll?" He says sure have at it.

My friend immediately removes all odds, pretty much every bet the stick will let him pick up. She of course immediately sevens-out, and the table turns on my friend as if him picking up his bet was the mush.

Hot shooters get thrown some greens or a black from me typically.

If he does this I'm stiffing him. Man. GFs are the rake.

 

Originally Posted by time4badbeat

Most tilt inducing behavior is the guy at the poker table who goes to showdown and then holds his hand for 2 minutes while staring down at the board. You lost now muck your fucking hand

OMFG YESSSSSSSSSS.

I forgot about those fuckers. Like seriously wtf do they think they are doing. Do they actually think everyone else at the table is thinking like "Oh, if that guy mucks his hand in a reasonable/non assholish amount of time, it means he's a total dork cuz his hand must've been ridiculously weak given that he mucked it in a timely manner, but, if I instead take an eternity to muck my hand now that the hand is over and everyone is staring at my stalling ass, they'll all think how I must be an awesome poker player who had a great hand but just got unlucky, and thus deserves immense respexxxx..." loooooool. And it's like, don't even TRY to act like you're just spending a little extra time to try to "memorize the hand for later". No you aren't, you're just a sore loser and are refusing to muck the hand cuz you idiotically think maybe if you just hold onto it long enough it'll delay the agony of defeat or some retarded shit like that.

The next time someone starts doing that repeatedly, someone should just walk up to them and violently grab their cards out of their hand and throw it into the muck and be like "THERE. Not so fucking hard, was it assholeeeeeeeeeeee"

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Originally Posted by Waldo38

My most tilting is Crown Casino in Melbourne Australia, they thought they werent raping people enough so they changed the Rules of Black Jack, now if the Dealer gets 22 its a push lol no matter what you have, and if you get a 22 you bust.

They have changed that rule on mosts of the low stakes tables. so rigged. Their arguement is that they pay you out straight away when you get 21 so it evens it up lol.

So rigged, never playing black jack there again.

What the fuck

 

Originally Posted by Popperhead

What the fuck

This. Holy shit.

The Parx Poker Blog Douchebag.....who also plays at harrahs AC and the Borgata. Hes a fold nothing retard thats obviously staked and then fucking crys if you make a questionable call.

People that tell me i'm the worst thing theyve ever smelled.

People that ask me..."Hey are you readzie from pocketfives???"

Observers have been mentioned but the one that sticks out is the FUCKING GIRLFRIEND THAT DIDNT KNOW HER BOYFRIEND WOULD BE BUSY ALL DAY

When people act like they have a losing hand in poker then show a monster right as the dealer is about to push the chips to the loser. Even worse when the idiot with the monster acts like he had no idea he was clearly good.

When the dealer taps the table right in front of me and informs me it is my turn every single time it's my action even though it's clear I am not a clueless dolt and am not slowing the game down.

When dealers and players dont understand the difference between a minraise and a potsized raise.

When people slam the table if they fold 27 and the board comes A22 or some other bullshit

People who crowd roulette and craps tables when they're not playing

Casinos that don't have actual ATMs....all they have are these bullshit "casino cash" machines which print out a ticket then you have to go to the cash cage and wait in line for 20 minutes before getting your money + a bullshit service charge

Casinos that charge $ for booze

Ok..I will flip it around....

My friends and I used to do this "annoying" shenanigan.

We'd be playing low limit BJ and at anytime someone would hit a BJ we would all start acting crazy like someone hit a jackpot or something....then people would come over...

"what happened...whats going on..etc..etc."

"My buddy just hit a blackjack!!!!!!!"

fkn drunk idiots.

 

Originally Posted by Shaaarrrp

When people slam the table if they fold 27 and the board comes A22 or some other bullshit

Casinos that charge $ for booze

+3.50