In a million years I would never see a poker hand like I did tonight.....

So I'm playing Poker at Dania Jai-Alai in Florida. Hold' Em with a $2 max bet. I know, I know, no member of this site in good standing should be caught dead in such a low roller waste of time game.

I don't like the boats. I don't like having to be out till 1 AM whether I like it or not. So I was winning early tonight, then losing for so long I had to buy more chips.

All of the players in this game, they came and went, but ALL of them make Party Poker players seem like genuises. I mean, its simply a matter of getting ANY legit hand after the river and you win. Guys will play their dealt pair of sixes all the way even with a Q, A, 10 on the board. Even if the Q, A, 10 also make flush possibilities. Even if the betting is capped with raisers. I cannot emphasize how bad the other players are any further, lets just agree they are beyond atrocious.

So real late tonight this happens. I am dealt A, Q of spades. There was some kind of misdeal though where one guy only got one card. The florrman is called over. He says some crazy stuff about how only certain positions cause a misdeal and this guy can play with one card. So I raise and there are callers. The guy PLAYING ONE CARD re-raises me, then re-raises me again capping the betting before the flop.

How the floorman can be this incompetant I do not understand. We have a clear misdeal yet we are playing on. Flop comes with a king, queen and one other small card. I have a pair of queens and continue to bet and raise one card as he is very, very drunk and I think he is out of it. On the river an ace hits, giving me two pair. So I cap the betting with him and he turns over his ONE card, a king. He made a pair of Kings on the flop and my pair of aces beat him on the river. There were two other drunks capping the betting with me all the way to the end on this I guess cause they thought it was funny. I was never afraid of there hands.

I won a very large pot versus someone playing with ONE down card in Texas Hold'em ( And the other two callers).


I was and am simply shocked that this hand was allowed to progress to the end.


I sucked out on ole' one card too. I thought he was betting in some kind of bizarre beer induced frenzy, but he actually hit a pair of kings on the flop.

here are some photos of the average Florida poker players;

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here is what Mr. Smith did to these drunks late at night= :smashf:

Funny story. I will never forget how after grudgingly agree to the allow the $2 max bets on the poker games Jeb Bush's spokesperson kept referring to the games as "high stakes poker games". He said it like 5 times in a maybe 3 minute speech. "Gov. Bush disagrees with Florida having high stakes poker games, but its the will of the legislature" or "people could lose $200 a night in these high stakes poker games". Hilarious, but upon hearing how nuts the players are, maybe the games are sort of high stakes if you run badly.

wildbill,

it is not just Florida, it is truly frightening how clueless people in state governments all over the USA are that have gaming regulations thrust upon them when their voters legalize any form of gambling.

but Florida, they deserve to be ridiculed. I have been continuously entertained by the newspaper stories regarding how to handle legalized slot machines in Broward county ( Ft. Lauderdale area). Voters voted them in, Jeb Bush does not want them so he does nothing about creating rules for them ( As in, how many a place can have, how much taxes the state will collect, denominations, etc.)

The local Indian casinos now also have a green light to install regular slot machines but also are waiting for regulation that never comes from Tallahassee. State officials still want to outlaw all gaming and just force people to play the lottery.

They have ridiculous small pots at a game ( poker) that is entertaing and very slow yet allow slot machines ( highly addictive) that will suck away money quickly with no entertainment factor at all. Poker will be kept at silly small levels but slots will come in and be allowed to suck in dollars exponentially faster.

And I read an article in the editorials recently from a paper that said that the argument in Tallahassee is whether to tax slots at 55% or 70%. the 55% rate was called " casino friendly". 55% is friendly?

in the category of things I have not seen before and may not again, twice one of the guys I was playing against gave the WHOLE pot he won as a tip to the dealer. All of it.

He also bought 2 rounds of drinks for the whole table.

I'm playing with some shitty players right now and losing money so go figure...poker i guess!! gotta like the fact the guy bought 2 rounds of drinks!!:drink: :drink:

just got 4 aces...wow.. only won 12 bucks off it though!

the floorman was obviously an IDIOT but its the players fault for not folding he was the bigger of the IDIOTS...This is what I mean when I say its like taking cady from a baby at these lower limit tables.. people are CLUELESS

he deserved to lose since he had no clue what he was doing IMO

sad stuff

Mr. Smith said:

wildbill,

it is not just Florida, it is truly frightening how clueless people in state governments all over the USA are that have gaming regulations thrust upon them when their voters legalize any form of gambling.

but Florida, they deserve to be ridiculed. I have been continuously entertained by the newspaper stories regarding how to handle legalized slot machines in Broward county ( Ft. Lauderdale area). Voters voted them in, Jeb Bush does not want them so he does nothing about creating rules for them ( As in, how many a place can have, how much taxes the state will collect, denominations, etc.)

The local Indian casinos now also have a green light to install regular slot machines but also are waiting for regulation that never comes from Tallahassee. State officials still want to outlaw all gaming and just force people to play the lottery.

They have ridiculous small pots at a game ( poker) that is entertaing and very slow yet allow slot machines ( highly addictive) that will suck away money quickly with no entertainment factor at all. Poker will be kept at silly small levels but slots will come in and be allowed to suck in dollars exponentially faster.

And I read an article in the editorials recently from a paper that said that the argument in Tallahassee is whether to tax slots at 55% or 70%. the 55% rate was called " casino friendly". 55% is friendly?

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Mr. Smith, welcome to my world. I have to work with these people every day in governments that believe they can tax gambling at any rate they feel like it because it clears their conscience for allowing it in the first place. Believe me Jeb Bush and just about every lawmaker hates allowing the Seminoles to have the Class II slots they have, but they can't do a damn thing about it because the Feds gave tribes the right to do so with no interference because the tribes are essentially treated as if they were another state themselves. The next governor though probably will blow things wide open and pretty much call for slots in most of the state, but as you point out they will say something like "we don't want Las Vegas here" and try to limit or ban any other sort of gambling. They will get away with it because the operators only care about slots, everything else is just gravy.