My Worst Live Poker Experience

Back again with a story from a local casino in Greece.

One night around a week ago, I decided to go to play a live game at a local casino in my town with some friends for fun. The stakes was 2/2€ 10 max table. That was a bad move in relation to my bankroll which is allowing me to play only up to nl25.

I used money for the buy in, from my life's bankroll and not from my poker bankroll because I was considering my move as an game for entertaining. I know that my approach was bad and my move was a mistake. What matters is to learn from our mistakes.

There was one full table, and around 5 players in waiting list. After a while we agreed to open a table and play 6max for some time. I considered all players as weak because they joined the table with 50 big blinds stack. I was the only one with 100 big blinds +. After around 30 minutes the first table broke and 4 players joined my table and 10 max game was started. I played around 60 hands with good decisions on average and one or two small mistakes. I finished with a loss of 15 big blinds but that was not the point.

The point is one hand that left me with my mouth open. No, it's not a bad beat or a bad play or something like that. It was one mistake that dealer did. Watch out carefully:

During a hand, there are two players on the river. The first player bets around 20€. The second player raises all-in and he has bigger stack than the first one. The first player calls around 50€ more and the chips didn't joined the pot! Both players kept the chips in front of them. They opened their cards, second player won the hand, the first player dropped his chips to the middle, and the first one took his bet to his stack! After that, the dealer counted the pot to take the rake without the second players bet! That was so silly and bad mistake from an unexperienced dealer which took my attention! Unbelievable mistake.