Unhygienic and dirty people at the tables?

I'll move if the situation is bad. However, I'm pretty tolerant so it has to be really bad. While I've read that a player was DQed in a WSOP event, not much is going to be done normally.

It has gotten extremely bad at some tables over the years.

If I was in your situation and somebody was clearly sick and the chips were likely carrying disease, I would probably change tables (in a cash game) or if it was late in the evening I would likely just leave. That hasn't happened to me in the way you are describing.

I did get Covid in Las Vegas in the fall in 2021 but it was not specifically somebody at my table. It was likely because the rooms were not ventilated well and there were a lot of people playing in the tournaments I played in. It could have been at some WSOP events or at other casinos I played at.

When I feel sick now and am congested I will wear a mask when I play to reduce the spread of germs I am breathing. It hasn't happened much but when it does happen that is what I do. Or I just don't play which has happened a couple of times in Las Vegas (including the Covid thing)

The biggest problem I have had at a table has been somebody smelling really bad. At one table at the Borgota nobody would sit next to the guy but I could smell him from across the table. Ultimately the Floor required the player take a shower. Which he did and he came back to his same seat about 20 minutes later. A similar thing happened at Foxwoods except the player didn't take a shower. He ultimately just left. Another time it was a player who had been playing for a week in the same seat at the same table (20/40 LHE). He was a Russian sailor and was on leave. I did sit next to him once and the smell wasn't awful. Nobody wanted to make him leave because he was asleep a lot of the time and wasn't dealt hands until he was the BB at which point the dealer would wake him and he would play every single BB hand sometimes without looking at his cards!

One time it happened at Foxwoods and I decided to leave the table and go to bed. When I took my shirt off I realized I was the player who was smelling bad. It was surprising because I shower (and shave) every time I go to the casino and I put on deodorant under my arms. And I wasn't sweating over a particular hand. Fortunately it was a cash game and I left...

The worst thing that I have heard of didn't happen at my table. It happened two tables away in a cash game. A guy decided not to go to the bathroom in the middle of a big hand and ended up pooping in his pants. He tried to pretend it didn't happen but the Floor was called over and had him removed from the room.

I've gotten sick many times as a direct result of being seated next to someone who was clearly so sick they shouldn't have been there. Oftentimes they were using poor hygiene practices on top of that. In a cash game you can get up and move, but in a tournament you're assigned a seat and there's not much you can do short of forfeiting your buyin and leaving. At WSOP I spent like five straight days in my room because I got extremely sick from someone I was seated next to and didn't want to expose anyone else.

I also once witnessed two people almost get into a fistfight over this issue. They weren't even on the same table. The sick guy turned his head to the side without covering his mouth and coughed directly towards a nearby table. A guy that got coughed on spoke up and asked him not to cough on him.

A few minutes later the sick guy coughed in his direction again. I don't think he was doing it deliberately to piss the guy off, but was just inconsiderate and likely thinks nothing of coughing directly on people.

Anyway the guy that got coughed on flipped out and called the floor. The floor didn't really do anything, and after he left the two guys were talking shit back and forth. Eventually they both stood up and acted like they were going to fight before casino employees diffused the situation.

I personally don't play in casinos but my friend always has stories to tell when he has been playing, non-stop farting, belching, horrible BO and as mentioned coughing and sneezing without covering their faces, it is almost as if some people transform into apes when at a poker table. Maybe someone will take it to the next level and throw **** across the table at someone to replicate the throwable version online.

As a dealer it is the worst when you sit at a table and d one of the players (usually seat one, five, or nine) has terrible breath. Breath that could remove paint. Just absolutely horrible, meat and onions rotting in the teeth covered up by foreign cigarettes type of breath.

Unfortunately these people always seem to be the outgoing, gregarious type with big laughs to constantly blow it right in your face. Brutal.

I have had a player talking under their breath to themselves while think about a hand and then actively and loudly exhale right in my face and I literally flinched away the smell was so bad. It wasn't a conscious act, my body just reacted and twisted away from a horrible smell. The player immediately understood what happened and was immensely embarrassed because the whole table saw my reaction and knew why. I felt a little bad for embarrassing him, but I also felt like he got what he deserved for going out in public with breath like that.

Others shouldn't have to suffer because people don't practice basic hygiene. And I am not just talking about having onions on your sandwich at lunch so your breath is slightly strong. We are talking rotting food that is weeks old.

Oh man, that must’ve been rough for you

Sorry but couldnt avoid laughing at this ��

I'd recommend washing your hands before touching your mouth or anything like that after being at a poker table.

The chips, cards, felt, money...etc..will be crawling with filth.

You should wash your hands before going to the bathroom at the poker room.

If only we could make one of the prizes a can of shower gel

In all my years of playing, I've never seen anything too gross. A weird woman who used to brush her hair at the table, a few dirty guys, and a few coughing/sneezing and not caring, but nothing worse. I touch the chips and cards only with my left hand -- drink, fork, itch, whatever, only with the right. And I wash my hands every time I leave the table.

If someone really disgusting were sitting next to me, I'd definitely try to change tables!

Was in Tulsa about 10 years ago and got sat next to a guy in a wheelchair.
Kinda smelled like someone farted when I sat down, I didn't think too much about it.
Except the smell never went away.

I look down at the wheelchair and realize he has a colostomy bag hanging on the side of his chair.

As soon as a seat opened on the other side of the table I took it.

There is a slight difference between unhygienic/dirty people and people in wheelchairs, but thanks for sharing.