Incident 1: Just cover the cards. Same thing happened to me in a tournament where I finished 3 spots out of the money...and that hand would have garenteed me a triple up too.

Incidents 2&3: I probably wouldn't tip them for a while. This kind of shit pisses me off to the nth degree. In both incidents, I am calling the floorperson over and gettng everything straightened out without even talking to the dealer. For the dealer to take the word of one player over another's is idiotic. I'm the only one I trust to be paying attention to the action when I am involved...I rarely trust the dealers anymore. Too many mistakes. It's all about bringing th floor over as an impartial judge IMO. It's their job, make them work for it.

And if they come over and get everything straightened out, give them a tip before you leave...trust me, this always gives you the benefit of the doubt when it comes to anything they have to put a decision to.

About the second 2 situations, I'd have called a floor over immediately.


I'm pretty careful about things I do in live games so I haven't had any problems quite like this yet. But the worst dealer bad beat I ever had was against a young asian woman playing 4/8 in Tunica. I had AK and the board was AJxxx, she had been check calling me the whole hand. On the river when she called I announced my hand, "Ace king", and turned it over. She kinda squirmed for a few seconds then slid her hand toward the dealer. A few seconds later she told the dealer to look at her cards, which he did. He then saw that she had two pair (Jacks and like 8's, I think, on the river) and declared her the winner.

I dunno if that was bad dealer play or not, but I was kinda pissy since it was like a combination of a slow roll and a hand that should have been mucked winning my pot. I just sat around feeling pissy for a while.