Ask me about hustling dummies at the pool table and other forms of gambling.

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let it mellow: Jun 1, 2000; Dinosaur Gum

Midjack posted:

Dealing seconds is what makes the really distinctive noise because you're pulling the card sandwiched between two cards instead of off a single one. I don't believe bottom dealing will make a noise at all any different than top dealing. Any weird deals look at the dealer's hands, the motion is what gives it away more than anything else.

That is accurate - one of my best friends from college had a brother who was an accomplished mechanic, and I had him teach me the mechanic tricks so I know what to watch for. Mechanic dealing is awkward, but is usually hidden by the general magician sleight of hand - it helps if you are very charismatic (which this guy was), practiced (ditto), and just generally smooth (ditto again), but if you have it shown to you, it is detectable... As long as you look at the hands only.

Proving it is a different story from seeing it, though. That's why we always have the guy in the big position (even in a dealers choice game where there may be no big) make the cards in the hand prior to his small position and hand them directly to the next game's CO to cut prior to the deal. CO then cuts, puts the top on the table in front of dealer and hands him the bottom. That pretty much prevents all the bullshit.

And jase1 is dead on about cash game banker etiquette. That's the only way to do it.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2012 04:48

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 19:35

let it mellow: Jun 1, 2000; Dinosaur Gum

Amalek posted:

I read the entire thread!

Drinking beer while reading, very entertaining, thank again!

Some things pop out as clearly something that should have been avoided.

For example Jessica. You really just hooked up with some chick that did coke and who was willing to admit it up front? "oh just get me coke and you get sex lolz" Then you let her into your home, unsupervised with her cokehead freinds, with cash layin around? A coke head, a female coke head? How is that like not a rule now to avoid coke heads regardless of sex?

Reading on my phone and getting excited about possible jase1 updates.

Get to your post and some things could clearly have been avoided.

For example, drunk posting. And admitting to it.

You really drink beer and then decide to post? "lolz let me drunk post and brag about it for epeen". Then you unleash a shitpost, bashing on an awesome thread, with your cheetos stained fingers spraying dust everywher, wheezing heavily as you unsheath your pockmarked chrome wit? A drunk post? how is that not a rule now to not drunk post?

# ¿ Jul 18, 2012 22:44

let it mellow: Jun 1, 2000; Dinosaur Gum

Just posting to say your stories own and you own. I get happy whenever I see new posts in this thread.

# ¿ Feb 22, 2013 23:01

let it mellow: Jun 1, 2000; Dinosaur Gum

Doctor Malaver posted:

So what's the point of sandbagging, what do they gain by doing it?

Its like sandbagging in anything with a handicap, golf, bowling, whatever. If you get a handicap at a lower skill level than you actually have, you will either gain an advantage over an equally skilled (and honestly rated) opponent, get an additional advantage over a higher skilled (and honestly rated) opponent or get a lower disadvantage against a lesser skilled (do I need to say it again) opponent.

# ¿ Feb 24, 2013 00:51

let it mellow: Jun 1, 2000; Dinosaur Gum

Jase1 owns and gently caress a bunch of 4 bet +ev poo poo. We can read that in 2+2 if it was remotely interesting. But it isn't, and jase's stories are.

E: Oh my that was a :sperg: above me

let it mellow fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Aug 14, 2013

# ¿ Aug 14, 2013 04:40

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