So instead of posting limelight stories one by one, I figured I'd start a thread for everyone to post their stories about wierd rules they've encountered along the way, too.
At the limelight:
So the the button had just passed me - I was on the button on the hand that just completed and I did not receive cards yet - and I changed seats. The seat I moved to was about to be UTG when this hand was dealt, so I told the dealer, "I'll wait 4 hands" since that would put me at the same position relative to the button as I was when I left.
He was so confused. He replied "You can post now, or wait till the big blind and post that, but you can't wait for the button to pass. That's not fair." What the hell? We called the floor over - some dinosaur of a guy - who enforced the dealer's call.
From Robert's rules, chapter 4:
14. In all multiple-blind games, a player who changes seats will be dealt in on the first available hand in the same relative position. Example: If you move two active positions away from the big blind, you must wait two hands before being dealt in again. If you move closer to the big blind, you can be dealt in without any penalty. If you do not wish to wait and have not yet missed a blind, then you can post an amount equal to the big blind and receive a hand. (Exception: At lowball you must kill the pot, wait for the same relative position , or wait for the big blind ; see “Section 11 – Lowball,” rule #7.)
Edit: I forgot to mention, the players didn't agree or disagree, other than one guy who said I was "mathematically correct on this round but it doesn't work on other rounds", whatever the hell that means. Then the dealer began to lecture me about how "no clubs do it that way, listen to us we know what we're doing" etc etc. I replied, well, Capitol does it that way, Cache Creek does it that way, the Commerce does it that way... And some punk-ass WSOP wanna-be piped up, "we'll you're here now, aren't you". Bitches.
At the limelight:
So the the button had just passed me - I was on the button on the hand that just completed and I did not receive cards yet - and I changed seats. The seat I moved to was about to be UTG when this hand was dealt, so I told the dealer, "I'll wait 4 hands" since that would put me at the same position relative to the button as I was when I left.
He was so confused. He replied "You can post now, or wait till the big blind and post that, but you can't wait for the button to pass. That's not fair." What the hell? We called the floor over - some dinosaur of a guy - who enforced the dealer's call.
From Robert's rules, chapter 4:
14. In all multiple-blind games, a player who changes seats will be dealt in on the first available hand in the same relative position. Example: If you move two active positions away from the big blind, you must wait two hands before being dealt in again. If you move closer to the big blind, you can be dealt in without any penalty. If you do not wish to wait and have not yet missed a blind, then you can post an amount equal to the big blind and receive a hand. (Exception: At lowball you must kill the pot, wait for the same relative position , or wait for the big blind ; see “Section 11 – Lowball,” rule #7.)
Edit: I forgot to mention, the players didn't agree or disagree, other than one guy who said I was "mathematically correct on this round but it doesn't work on other rounds", whatever the hell that means. Then the dealer began to lecture me about how "no clubs do it that way, listen to us we know what we're doing" etc etc. I replied, well, Capitol does it that way, Cache Creek does it that way, the Commerce does it that way... And some punk-ass WSOP wanna-be piped up, "we'll you're here now, aren't you". Bitches.