-Your words- "I have no patience for drunken players or slow playing so if it were only up to me, I would not let him play."
Dave, if I understand, this game is in YOUR house. So, I think it is well within your rights as a host to not invite the guy out.
Anyone that doesn't like it doesn't belong in your home either.
Sounds to me that you are already providing a great atmosphere and game to all those that show up. If banning the one hammered guy helps you enjoy your own game, then do it.
when this happens in a cash game, it sucks but i guess you always have the option of moving to another table or cashing out. when it happens in a tourney, you are screwed.
last night at the local donkfest i noted 1 guy at another table being quite boistrous. sounded like he was completely hammered but having a good time.
sure enough, down to the final 2 tables and i get moved to his. it was incredibly painful. he must have taken about 2 minutes each time it was his turn since he just had to play every hand, especially if it had a '2' in it. the average stack size was likely less than 20BBs, maybe even 15. blind levels are 20 minutes.
he couldn't tell the denomination of his chips or tell the difference between colours so he had to pick each one up and gaze at it intently then put it down and move to the next one. we urged him to at least announce his move and let someone else gather the chips for him. but noooooooooooo! that didn't seem to register with him. sometimes he'd stop for a bit to talk about one of his ex-wives. he had the clocked called on him a couple times (and yes one of them was me, for the first time EVER) and the TD ended up standing beside him for quite some time to try to keep the game moving. when he won a big pot he just scattered all the chips in front of himself and didn't bother stacking them, which made his future bets even more slow. someone else ended up stacking his chips for him.
somehow he made it to the final table but thankfully for the others there, he busted out quickly. he was a good natured, happy-go-lucky kind of guy but this level of disruption has no place in a tournament. it isn't fair to the other players as the stacks get shorter. one of the wsop circuit final tables took the chip leader off the table for being so disruptive and i'd like to see places do the same, or at least implement some sort of escalating time penalty for slowing the game down excessively.
/rant
I cannot agree with these statements (in bold) more! Well said Greg.
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Dave, if I understand, this game is in YOUR house. So, I think it is well within your rights as a host to not invite the guy out.
Anyone that doesn't like it doesn't belong in your home either.
Sounds to me that you are already providing a great atmosphere and game to all those that show up. If banning the one hammered guy helps you enjoy your own game, then do it.
They'll survive without the one fish.
I cannot agree with these statements (in bold) more! Well said Greg.
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