[OnTheButton]

I've told a few stories about the guy "Doug" at our home game.

Well Doug finally hit the last straw last night. He won't be sitting at our games for a while.

We started playing at about 5:45pm, running a little late from our normal start time of 5pm. Short handed table of 6 players, since several regulars had to cancel at the last minute.

Two of those players are Doug and his new "girlfriend" who he has been teaching how to play.

He yammering at her the whole time about what to do, and snapping back at other players when they are explaining rules, as if it was his house, or he was teaching a class at our table.

When they walked in, his girlfriend announced, I can't stay long. I'm expecting a call and whenI get it, I have to leave.

OK that's cool.

She gets her call at about 7:30 and has to leave.

We are now down to 5 players.

Doug hits a good run of cards (AA, KK, AKs, & KK again in about 8 hands) and triples up his $50 he sat down with. He is the button and as he is shuffling, he says, "I've got to go after this hand."

It is now about 8:15pm.

We all think he's ribbing us. He's got a stupid look on his face, like he just told a bad joke. We chuckle and say, "Oh, shut up and deal you douche."

He deals out the cards, folds his hand, and starts counting up his chips.

We all knit our brows and say, "You are really gonna make a run like that, cash out and leave?"

He says, "Yep, I'm ahead, it's time for me to go. If I stay, you'll just have time to win it back."

I reluctantly cashed him out and informed him that was not cool at all. And that it is common courtesy is to let us know in advance of when you need to leave, like his lady friend did, or to give the players about an hour notice if he forgot to let us know when he arrived.

He says something back like, "Oh, well, sorry."

He cashes out for about $160 and splits. He was playing for just over 2 hours.

I said something to the other players after he is gone, and everyone else is almost speachless. Now it's only 8:30pm and we are down to 4 players.

The rest of the night we are stunned asking each other, "Did he really just do that?"

We are all floored. How totally uncool.

To add to it, just last week, Doug hit a big hand against my wife, who is known to not react well when she gets busted on a trap. She can get emotional, and everyone knows it. She can be a sore loser, but is working on it, and doing better with each game.

Well Doug busts her on a decent sized pot, and when they flip, he wins, he jumps up out of his chair, claps his hands, pumps his fists, and yells, "Oh, yeah! I f**king got you! I put you on that hand! I had you trapped soooo bad, f**k yeah!" As if he just won the WSOP. My wife looks like she is gonna kick him in the gonads, and has to leave the table to cool off.

Sorry Doug, that was the last strike against you.

I'll be calling Doug today and telling him he is not welcome back until I think it's time. He is being taken off the Evite list. He needs time to think about what he did, and we need some games without him. You wanna play like that, there are casinos about another 20 minutes from our house. Just keep driving man, keep driving. This is a friendly small stakes home game.

Has anyone else had to actually remove a regular player from their games like this? Or worse, has anyone ever actually had to ask a player to leave during a game?

Vent here with me brothers and sisters, I'm still stunned over this one.

[smoore]

I will miss the Doug stories but I don't imagine you'll miss Doug much.

What a d-bag.

[gagners]

Absolutely. Good for you.

We had a guy that my Dad grew up with (whom he doesn't really like anymore) who invites himself to our weekly game at random. He always gets trashed, get's overly loud and rude, gets pissed when he busts out (most times with pocket 2's or middle pair/no kicker) and storms out. Well, the last time he came, he was sitting next to me and I made a PF raise. In our game, since there's no dedicated dealer, we make our own change, when it must be made, on the table. We announce what we're doing ("I'm raising to 150", put in 2x$100 chips, taking one of his $50s that's out as a blind or whatever, "so I'm pulling $50 back"). everyone understands and it's in clear view.

Well, I start doing this and he slaps the back of my hand and tells me "not to touch his f@#$ing chips". So everyone told him to relax, and I told him to never lay his hands on me again. He threatened me and asked me if I thought I could "take him". So I stood up, fully prepared to throw down with my dad's childhood friend (haha), and he stands up, well... kinda. He was so trashed that he fell out of his chair and hit his head on the floor. My dad starts yelling at him for threatening his son. I pick him up by the shirt and belt and toss him outside...

Last time he came to our game. So yeah, we've had to do that...

[Quads]

I wouldn't even waste the effort in the phone call to tell him you dropped him from your list.

Everyone loves a nice run of cards. But to hit and run like that is not cool.

I've had it happen to me as well I cash them out, tell them the same thing you did, "they, this is not too cool, remember poker etiquette, etc. etc. etc." and wish them luck in finding a new game, here's your cash, there's the door.

I've also had to walk people out of a game as well. Marking cards, acting like an ass, insulting players, etc. They as well, dropped from the invite list and never to be seen again.

I don't agree with the philosophy of dropping someone for an amount of time or until things cool down. If I drop someone, they are gone. There are always new players to fill their seats.

[gagners]

Originally Posted by Quads

Everyone loves a nice run of cards. But to hit and run like that is not cool.

Word. Only place for that is at a casino. (even then I fold for about 15-20 minutes so it's not obvious)

[bigjohn]

It sounds like he will not be missed

[whataboutj]

Luckily we have never had to deal with that situation before - we usually play with a good group of close friends . That sux that you had to deal with it, but in the end it will be good for your game. It sounds like he has been a D-bag for awhile. I agre with what Quads said - don't invite him back EVER

[OnTheButton]

Originally Posted by Quads

I wouldn't even waste the effort in the phone call to tell him you dropped him from your list.

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I don't agree with the philosophy of dropping someone for an amount of time or until things cool down. If I drop someone, they are gone. There are always new players to fill their seats.

I'm going to call him. It is "my way" to let someone know why action is being taken against them.

And as far as his suspension goes it is IMO "until further notice" which to me means an indeterminate amount of time, and if we should ever allow him to "plead his case" he must convince the entire player base that he will change is behavior from here on out. He is a long time friend of one of my wife's best friends, so a permanent ban is probably not going to be the case.

[indypoker]

We have a guy that does the "jumping out of the seat, twirl, fist-pumping yes!" anytime he is ahead, sucks out, etc. This happens about 10 times a night.

There have been regular players that request that he not be invited so far, but we have not kicked him out yet. A few more games of this and he may get dropped from the list.

The funny thing is that he tries to have about one game a month on his own, and no one from the group attends. Maybe one day he will get a clue.

[tmpa2001]

I agree that one should give a little bit of a warning if they are planning on leaving (A HOME GAME), but one hour is excessive. 30 min should be enough.

But on the other hand, would you have been pissed if instead he had lost everything and then said i am leaving (without a warning).

I guess it boils down to are you there to make money or socialize with friends.

If you are there to make money, the reality of the matter is that you can and should leave whenever you want. The only way to make money in poker is to know when to quit.

my two cents.