I previously posted about a game last Sat. night at Hollywood Park where I split the pot with another player when the dealer had screwed up and mucked her hand. I was hoping for some karma points out of that but looks like the karma-gods got the last laugh.
I’m at the Bicycle Casino Friday night playing $2/$4. I had gone down to see a buddy play in a tournament (he got paid going out in 18th out of a field of 175) so I didn’t sit down for my first hand until well after 10:30. Somehwere around 4am I get K9 in the hole. Flop gives me middle pair, nines. I bet and get three callers. Turn comes another nine so I’m trying to keep the fireworks going off in my head from showing. Guy to my right checks, I do a quick glance at my pocket cards, reach for my chips and start to bet. The two players to my left checked out of turn and when I start to throw out my bet they claim that I checked. Actually only the guy to my immediate left says I checked. The other guy said he wasn’t paying attention but the guy to his right checked so he checked too. The player to my immediate left was playing out of turn all night. Several previous dealers had to push his money back out of the pot because he had thrown in his bet with three or four other players still left to act. Anyway, the guy to my right says that I didn’t check, another player who isn’t in the hand says that I didn’t check and everybody else sits there and looks dumb. . . including the dealer.
FLOORMAN!!
The floorman comes over and in his two second understanding of the situtation decides that the turn should have never been dealt and starts to muck it. WAIT! The turn was already dealt! This is a dispute on whether or not I can bet or if I checked! Finally after hearing the same story from everyone at the table except for the part about whether or not I had checked he finally gets it and using his King Solomon like wisdom pulls my bet out of the pot and says that I can’t bet. River brings a third nine on the board and gives me quad nines. I bet, everyone folds. I looked at the guy to my immediate left and as I flip up the fourth nine I said, “You should take the $4 you saved and buy yourself something nice with it. You earned it.”
I’ll get you, you karma-gods!!!!