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[David_Nicoson]

I played in Atlantic City for the first time last weekend. I sat
down in the 9 seat at a Bally's table. The button progressed to the 8
seat. After that hand, the player in the 10 seat left. I plopped the
button on the empty 10 seat. Then the player in the 8 seat took the
button back and guarded it carefully. "OK, whatever. I don't want
any trouble," I thought to myself.

Then the same thing happened at Harrah's, so I'm starting to catch on
that this is normal. Does anywhere else in the world let a player keep
the button in this situation? Is there a name for this, or should I
just call it the AC button movement?

It wouldn't usually matter, but in this case I'd get a hand and act
last under normal procedure but not in AC. I think.

[Nikki_N]

I played in Atlantic City for the first time last weekend. I sat
down in the 9 seat at a Bally's table. The button progressed to the 8
seat. After that hand, the player in the 10 seat left. I plopped the
button on the empty 10 seat. Then the player in the 8 seat took the
button back and guarded it carefully. "OK, whatever. I don't want
any trouble," I thought to myself.

Then the same thing happened at Harrah's, so I'm starting to catch on
that this is normal. Does anywhere else in the world let a player keep
the button in this situation? Is there a name for this, or should I
just call it the AC button movement?

It wouldn't usually matter, but in this case I'd get a hand and act
last under normal procedure but not in AC. I think.

When it happened at Ballys, I thought that dude was just a jerk who didn't know what was going on with the button.

I got the button twice at Harrahs. That was pretty cool.

[jdavidfix]

Is Ballys' pokerroom still horrendous?

[David_Nicoson]

Is Ballys' pokerroom still horrendous?

*shrug*

I thought it was OK. A bit smokey

[TeeSludge]

If I am understanding the way you are explaining it, then yes that is typical. The button must always be in front of a player active in the hand and a new player can not come in on the button.

Now if you go to Caesar's, they have some insanely weird blind situations where there are like two big blinds and all this other crazy stuff. Most of the floorpeople/dealers have no idea what they are doing.


I used to play at Bally's all the time because it had the best/loosest action in the city. For some reason the action got killed when they decided to switch the 1/3 NL game to a 1/2 NL game. I remember I had a few weeks in a row about 6 months ago where every single day I doubled up my starting stack by having someone all-in drawing dead on the turn or flop. It was sick.