Is it bad etiquette to ask if a game is going to break?
Hi all,
I was playing plo tonight and it was getting late and a few games were getting short-handed and normally one or more
games break and consolidate so the remaining games are full ring. Our table was contemplating breaking but another table was even shorter-handed than ours. I walked over to that table and asked the players there if they were considering breaking and if so we had a few seats open. The dealer there chastised me for suggesting the game break and said it was bad etiquette. This was news to me. Is the dealer right? If so, why?
Thanks,
DT
It sounds like he wasn't taking care of the dealer even with all the super fish handing him money.
DT, I think the problem here is that you ask about etiquette, but whom should be the recipient of said etiquette?
1. You don't owe the dealer any etiquette in this instance because you are trying to make your own table better and probably your own action better. You are more of a customer than he is. Dealers often feel an inappropriate level of entitlement.
2. You certainly don't owe another professional (or wannabe) poker player any etiquette, because if you can improve your action by ruining theirs (or mine), then by all means you should. They are no more of a customer than you are. Pros almost always feel an inappropriate level of entitlement.
3. You definitely don't owe the house any etiquette because they are simply fleecing you any way they possibly can, and you are the customer in this dynamic. The house is the house so they're entitled to do whatever they want in this situation.
So who does that leave? EVERYONE ELSE. And if you can get those people to a better table because it's more full, then it's great etiquette to them.
Now if you're ruining my action am I going to complain and try to stop it? Sure. If I'm a dealer and you're costing me money am I going to snap at you a little bit? Maybe. But too bad. You've done nothing wrong. If I can ever ruin your action and profit from it, I promise you I will. And I hope you would do the same to me.
