Standards
Travelling across the UK and visiting many poker rooms, it has come to my attention that as in any business there are good and bad staff. It is a personal bugbear to myself of chatty dealers.
It is nice to be on friendly on terms with dealers and to chat with them off the table, but I would prefer it if they didn’t chat to me whilst I am playing. In some respects when they do this I feel uncomfortable as at best other players are ignored, at it’s worst though is the slowing down of play as the dealers finish a sentence, even a conversation before moving on.
The other problems that I can see is that some dealers pitch and not very professionally, I much prefer dealers to slide the cards to me as there is no chance of other players seeing what cards have been dealt to me.
Collecting the chips in before the action has finished is also infuriating as I know as a player it is my responsibility to follow the action. If I turn to a waitress to order a drink it is impossible for me to know where the betting starts and if anything changes when the dealer comes to me.
Imagine my delight when Dusk Till Dawn opened, a poker players paradise!! All seemed good and well and any players disrupting the game were asked to leave, everything ran smoothly with no complaints.
I would just like to ask readers that play there if they feel the same as me now, as it looks like D2D has regressed to the old days of casino poker standards. Dealers chat constantly, bad dealing, cutting the deck with 2 hands, collecting chips in with action still taking place and loud aggressive customers that seem to get preferential treatment.
Dik9 have a word please!
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[...] DanM wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptTravelling across the UK and visiting many poker rooms, it has come to my attention that as in any business there are good and bad staff. It is a personal. [...]
I agree. I still think DTD is head and shoulders above anywhere else, but I must admit that the last time I was there, most of the dealers were excellent but some were miserable and some were far too cocky, you could see them pulling faces in certain spots , almost passing judgement on peoples play; I also heard a couple making sarcastic comments when players made errors etc.
I know what you mean about the regulars too, I could tell one or two, just by the way they acted.