When a player rolls their eyes …
Since I started dealing poker at The Poker Room NH in Hampton Falls I have met hundreds of poker players. Some of them I have met on my days off when I play poker, and others when I am dealing poker. Like all people, some days I am better at what I do than others. [...]
Controlling the action – a poker dealer duty
One of the most important tasks that a poker dealer has is to do, is to control the action at the table. Right before everyone is dealt cards, I, the dealer, might have to ask for the small and big blinds to be posted as well as for the antes. After the cards are dealt, [...]
An uneventful evening
For the past four months I have been working regularly on Friday’s and Saturday’s from 3:00 pm on, at The Poker Room NH in Hampton Falls NH. My first time dealing poker as a professional started on January 3, 2012, this year. I am probably their least experienced and least capable dealer but I am trying to [...]
Bad Santa
Dealing poker at our local poker room, The Poker Room NH, can become very interesting at times. I work two days a week, Friday and Saturday, and I get to see many people coming to play at our tables. I deal at the tournament tables and also at the cash Limit Hold’Em tables. The cost to play [...]
Being consistent … not
One of the things that makes for being a great dealer is consistency. There are at least 42 steps to each hand that a poker dealer deals. There is the shuffle, shuffle, riffle, shuffle. Making sure the blinds are posted. Dealing out the first hand. Collecting the bets. Burning a card. Dealing the flop. Collecting [...]
Dealing poker is different than playing …
I have been working as a poker dealer at a local poker room, The Poker Room NH, at least two days a week, since January 3rd 2012. I also play at the same room, “The Poker Room NH” on my days off, schedule permitting. My dealing skills are improving, albeit slowly, but I am getting [...]
Day 1 as a poker dealer is in the books
First day as a Professional poker dealer is complete. I worked for a total of six hours at “The Poker Room NH” on Tuesday, January 3. Right after I checked in, I was assigned to deal at a Limit Holdem 2/4 table (2/4 means that the bets start at $2 for the first and second [...]
Starting a different path – 2012
Last year I had my worst losing year on record in online poker. My live game is a lot more profitable. I am going to stick with live brick and mortar poker until there are more weaker players online. In fact, I will try to wait until online poker is legal in the US. By [...]
Making poker decisions – revisited
In many of my previous posts, I discuss how important it is to try making the best decisions possible in playing each hand of poker. What I may not have mentioned is that you also need to be able to emotionally detach yourself from the hands being played and playing optimally. Sadly emotions still gets in the [...]
Winning a Railbirds ranking tourney on LuvinPoker.com
Before Black Friday, which was when the DOJ shut off access to PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com and UB.com, I used to play micro stakes cash games like No Limit Holdem or Pot Limit Ohama, etc. Some of the time that I played in events sponsored by the Twitter Poker Tour (no longer active, sadly) or by RailBirds.com. The good [...]
