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Bobby's Breakroom - for gaming employee chatter + YTF appreciation. See restrictions in Post #1

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QuadstrikerOP
14yr ago

***Moderator Breakroom Thread Posting Guidelines Update 1/4/25***

In June 2019, crowd-favorite poster and story-teller extraordinaire youtalkfunny (aka YTF) passed away unexpectedly. At the request of the thread and forum regulars, this thread was renamed in his memory. (Further info on YTF to be added.)

This Breakroom thread is unlike other threads in CCP. It has been specifically restricted to allow current and former poker room employees to have a place to vent or discuss work-related things amongst other employees. It is the virtual equivalent to a real employee breakroom. Because of that, it is exclusively for the use of poker room employees, home game dealers (when appropriate), and those seeking advice on cardroom employment only. It is not a place for non-employees to argue with dealers or floors about their rulings, insert themselves into employee-to-employee discussions, ask general questions of dealers or cardroom employees, or target or attack any decisions discussed.

Posts which violate these restrictions may be moved or removed with no prior notice. Repeat violations may be handled more robustly. If anyone sees a post from someone which you do not think belongs in this thread, please use the post report functionality to report it and the mods will take a look when time allows. If you respond to it, that just makes our lives more difficult, and makes it harder to remove later if substantial dialog has already occurred.

Non-poker room employees are welcome to read the thread and get a peek into what goes on in a poker room breakroom. But please be cognizant of the purpose of the thread, and do not post in the thread. If you feel a topic is worth discussing in the open forum, then you can start a new thread on the topic there.

If you have any questions as to the appropriateness of a post for this thread, please check with a moderator prior to posting.

[Jan 2025 update to adjust posting rules to limit solely to employees, dealers, and prospective employees in search of advice.]
[July 2019 update: renamed in honor of YTF]

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OP follows. Note that the restrictions on this thread have been further refined, and the rules above supercede anything posted below.

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Welcome to the Breakroom!

What is this thread?

The goal of this thread is to give industry employees a place to chat it up about anything and everything work related. Something funny happen at work tonight? Did that Dual Rate finally let you EO? Did you stack that chump at the weekly dealer game? It's all about building community here and getting to know each other. Got something you want to say that might not be worthy of it's own thread? Shout it out here.

Of course, anyone is welcome to post here, whether you are a gaming employee or not, but I wanted to try to build a lowish content thread of chatter for all the cool cats here I've met.

**********UPDATE re scope and purpose of this thread**********

by Quadstriker k

PSA: The issue of what should be posted here was discussed with the moderators prior to creation.

These comments are not directed at any one person.

In general, it was not created to be a place for non-gaming employees to come and poll the dealers whenever they have a question about poker. There is a whole forum dedicated to those types of threads. It may get a bit lax from time to time, but we didn't want this thread to devolve into the tedious rules discussion on basic items that we've all

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AvatarNYCNative
7mo ago

Fun times at the casino last week!

Some kid sat down at the $1/3 game in Philadelphia Eagles gear. Now, I live in Philly so this doesn't phase me, but it does set the mood for what is to some.

Second hand he gets his whole $200ish stack in on a flop of AT3 rainbow. The runout goes 5-5 and he disgustedly turns over A3 which, now counterfeited, loses to AK.

Immediately he is mumbling and grumbling and rebuys. Still in the same down he gets it all in on the flop against someone who turns over a flopped top set when the runout finishes. He doesn't show but mumbles about how many outs he missed.

He buys into the tournament and I don't see him there, though he was done before it went to the final table so he didn't cash.

I run into him again at another $1/3 game and the second I sit down he is bitching about me loud enough for me to hear. He then commences to fold every hand directly in front of him while in the seven-seat (we are 8-handed) meaning I have to lean all the way over to him to retrieve his cards. It was so obvious and petty that someone else at the table, when he stepped away, was incredulous, saying "He's really doing that to you?"

Whatever. It's a minor inconvenience and it slows me down but whatever.

Not long afterwards I push back into the same table and he is there and he is *still* doing this. Now I am irritated and two can play that game so I start short-arming him, putting his cards in the middle of the table and making him reach for them. After I do this a couple of times he seems to get the hint and starts folding like a normal person.

I was glad it ended there, but I had one more bullet in my chamber if he kept it up, and I was definitely going to fire it if I had to:

You know how when someone new to poker is at the table you will let the dealer pushing in know so they can treat them with kid gloves and not assume they are versed in things? Well, I was going to whisper loud enough that he could hear to the new dealer that the guy in the 7-seat had never played before and to be gentle with him.

I am very confident that, had I done this, he would have protested about how he has played the game before.

At which point I would, with mock sincerity, apologize profusely.

"I'm sorry," I would tell him. "When you went on monkey tilt for two hours because you took a bad beat I assumed you had to be new at this."

JZ44
26d ago

Hi everyone, It's been years since I've logged into 2p2, and I've never been an employee, but I used to lurk here quite a bit, and when I logged back in today and saw this section renamed for Bobby / YTF it brought a smile to my face, so I wanted to say something about it.

I'm in MN and used to play at CP with him quite a bit. While I didn't know him as well as I did some of the other dealers who were there at the time, I felt a little like I did because of this and his weight loss journey thread. I will say too, he was just as much of a one of a kind guy at the table as he was around here (which was awesome as long as you were on his good side), and I still consider the highlight of my poker "career" to be reading one of his stories and realizing it was about me! Thankfully it was a good / funny story.

Anyway carry on, I just saw the name and wanted to mention it.

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AvatarReducto
1mo ago

We had a regular at my old job who kept being told by doctors he had 3 months to live. When I first dealt to him he'd been hearing this for several years. His cancer never got better, it just progressed much slower than expected. At some point he just hit the F- it button and decided to make the most of the situation. Any night he had enough energy to go out it was gambling, hookers, blow, and booze.

He was a fun guy, great tipper, and gave lots of action at the table. He also loved to talk about his situation so I knew more about it than I wanted to. All the new organs his cancer spread to, all the different treatments. He just needed to hang out and vent.

It was a weird mix of feeling really sorry for someone but also happy that he's getting a little more time to have some fun.

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