Well, it’s not a huge faux pas in itself, but when combined with any of the other Classic Douche Identifiers*, it can be.
*A list that begins and ends with popped collars, with shirts unbuttoned to reveal one’s girlishly hairless chest somewhere in the middle.
What about the autonomic facial reactions we have to stimuli. Like pupils dilating, for example. Should the skill of reading microexpressions be disallowed? Or should we just keep letting people wear hats and glasses?
We were inside a casino (which is dim so no bright light sensitivity issues) and they were not prescription.
And it’s not as if I just abruptly walked away, I was like “Okay, going over here now, bye.”
It’s rude and annoying to wear sunglasses (unless they are prescription or you have a sensitivity or [insert other entirely irrelevant exception here]) when you’re having a conversation with somebody and, if that somebody is me, that conversation will be short-lived unless you are otherwise fantastically engaging or I am required to talk to you for whatever reason.
And people on drugs who don’t want people to know they’re on drugs.
Yeah…we couldn’t figure it out…
For crying out loud, Shades and Cap Dude is a fucking ATM most of the time. Adjust for their playing style and yeah, I love those guys at my table.
And they play the $1-$2 NL games, not $3-$6 limit. It’s like removing the daily withdrawal limit on the ATM.
Why the fuck would someone take part in an entertainment they find boring? 
Are they being forced to play poker at gunpoint? Threatened with moving the mother-in-law in?
I was wondering when someone would call him on his use of boring. I think what he meant to say is that poker has a lot of boring parts. Heck, if you’re any good, you probably aren’t actually playing most of the time, if my observation of Texas Hold-em on TV is any indication.
Plus, really, for some people, the only exciting thing about poker is the winning, not the game itself.
Poker is fun, but a good player will still be folding something like 70% of the time preflop (using Texas Hold’Em as an example.) While you should be paying attention and trying to learn about your opponents, a number of hands still see minimal action. Either everyone folds preflop or it quickly ends on one of the streets. Maybe two players check it all the way down. Those are boring to watch, you don’t learn too much about the other players, and they still chew up a minute or two. Most people in our weekly online game are either chatting, listening to music, or watching TV while waiting.
The dealer is just another player. In a casino, you’ve got the large-and-in-charge dealer that works there. They have the ability to smack you down like a judge in a courtroom. In free, come-play-and-oh-by-the-way-order-food-and-drinks promotional poker in the back of a bar, the deal rotates through the players. So he doesn’t really have any authority to speak of, and normal social rules apply.
Sweet! I’ve got a reputation. Sorry I’m not jumping on the bandwagon and pitting everything I hear about on the DailyKos, birthers, truthers, and Prop 8 supporters. Kinda gets old, y’know? I figured someone would disagree with the OP. If I knew it was going to be an agree-fest, I wouldn’t have posted it. Oh well.
Yes, that. It’s long stretches of boredom punctuated by brief periods of terror, anguish, confusion and joy.
Kind of like fishing, only without the naps.
Also, you probably can’t eat the pot.
Re: electronic devices at the table – I think a bigger concern is the potential for collusion by sharing info via text or phone. That’s why you can use a device for listening to music while in a hand but you’re not allowed to text or phone, even if it’s the same device.
Yeah! That makes it really hard to stay awake, let alone concentrate.
Although I’m sure at that point everyone would love to have you at their table.
$5 says Dio now appears within ten posts to insist that marijuana has no cognitive effects.
The Dio Show is currently playing Great Debates so he might be too busy.
I wear sunglasses indoors when I have a migraine because lights make my eyes/head hurt more. If people want to think I’m either blind or an asshole that’s their problem.
It depends, if you’re playing at a casino or something then yeah you’re not really as interested in having fun as you are in making money.
In my home game with 6 guys the action half the people in the pot are bluffing and the other half are pulling an inside straight. Whoever folds has to get up and get the beer. Whoever folds has to go answer the door when the pizza guy shows up (we pay him out of the pot that is on the table) and we are all so hammered at the end of the night that the dealer flops 4 cards and noone notices.
I’ve got to tell you, in my area, I’ve seen fewer low class degenerate groups of people than pub poker players. If you are at a bar or restaurant, you can tell them as they walk in—the men have bad facial hair, are usually wearing hoodies, and look like they haven’t bathed for a day or so, look like poor mans versions of Eminem crewcuts and all, and may even have an arrest record.
The women all have long greasy hair, fake personalities, and often look like they’ve been gangbanged at the local truck stop at least once in their lives.
One night, me and my wife were at a bar during pub poker night, and enjoying a post dinner cocktail, when a couple of pub poker players took a break from their game of phony poker, and lit up, and basically wafted enough smoke in our faces to open an Ozone hole over the Antarctic. I had to move down one seat, it was so bad. Another time, as my wife and I were having dinner next to a poker table, one of the players rudely put his glass of beer on our table.
I guess these nights bring in a bar tab-----I say “I guess” because I sat down for three pub poker nights in my lifetime, and all three times most of the freeloaders were ordering sodas, if anything, during the competition.
To me Pub Poker Night=Loser Night. The fact that some douchebag would show up trying to look like one of the guys on ESPN does not surprise me in the least.
As my friend once said, unless you are putting money on the line, it’s not real poker.