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, [...]
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 [...]
No Dessert for me
Yesterday I planned to enter the 7 pm Railbirds.com ranking event on LuvinPoker.com. To that end, I took a nap just before the tourney to assure that I would be at my best. Of course, I had failed to let Diane know of my plans so when I woke up 30 minutes prior to the [...]
Father’s Day Poker
Diane and I have been going to The Poker Room in NH. Check out their FaceBook page by clicking this link. Diane’s account of our Father’s Day outing is slightly different than mine. See it at MomPopPow.com later today. Our results in the prior visits were not too good. We lost half or more of [...]
Post #blackfriday actions
I am currently trying to cash out of all but two sites and so far only PokerStars has settled with me. I am waiting for Bodog, DoylesRoom and TruePoker to “show me the money!”. I cannot request funds from Poker Host and Carbon Poker because I am below the minimums that they allow for withdrawals. [...]
Online Poker is just about gone for US based players
No surprise if you are an online poker player, but our options of playing online have effectively been taken away from us. The UIGEA law enacted in 2006 made it illegal for banks and financial institutions to transfer funds to and from online Poker sites. On April 15, 2011, the DOJ used that law and stopped all [...]
Two’s and Ten’s
I don’t often talk about bad beats but sometime you just can’t help yourself. While traveling from Fremont to Amesbury, I discussed the hand with Diane. She videotaped the following: What was your worst experience?
