merkong
Full House
So, I’ll briefly outline a situation involving a home game regular caught stealing a $5 chip out of a pot won by the player sitting to his immediate right.
A larger pot involving our games host and another player had just ended with the non-host being the winner. There were two $5 chips in the pot. As the winning player raked the pot towards him, a very drunk player (to his immediate right) reached about 5 inches toward the winner and very slyly scooped one of the $5 chips.
The host happened to glance at the exact right moment and watched the event from the initial move of the villains hand, thru the scooping and cupping of the chip, all the way to the eyes of the villain and the host locking in contact. The look on the villains face was that of “utter terror.”
Before the host could say anything, the winner in the hand noticed and verbalized “I’m missing a cherrybomb” (terminology for a red $5 in this game) and the host (who was dealing) and as he redirected his attention to the next deck said without looking up “Yes, it was accidentally scooped by “so and so.” The host was clearly mortified and did not want to create a scene that would have obviously invoked emphatic objection by the villain and undoubtedly signaled the beginning of the end of the night. The villain refuted, “No, this was mine.” but immediately gave up that line and tossed the chip to the winner. The matter is being deliberated at the moment and in real time with an inner circle of players from the game.
The host knows exactly what he saw. The villain was exceedingly intoxicated this night, had a dust up earlier with another players fiancé, and has a rather colorful past, past of petty indiscretions. He is an overall good guy but the house needs to make a decision on this persons fate. The villain was a no-call, no-show for the next nights game (we play every Friday and Saturday night) after texting he was “running late” and has been ghosting the winner (a close friend of his) and the host. The villain was also staked a $20 by both the host and the winner before his indiscretion and still didn’t show up or follow up call.
I won’t bias the thread by reporting our options and where we’re at in this process and am simply trying to solicit input and conversation.
I think we know what needs to be done but any and all input, including how different thread participants would execute their decision is appreciated.
Thanks and be well.
Ken
A larger pot involving our games host and another player had just ended with the non-host being the winner. There were two $5 chips in the pot. As the winning player raked the pot towards him, a very drunk player (to his immediate right) reached about 5 inches toward the winner and very slyly scooped one of the $5 chips.
The host happened to glance at the exact right moment and watched the event from the initial move of the villains hand, thru the scooping and cupping of the chip, all the way to the eyes of the villain and the host locking in contact. The look on the villains face was that of “utter terror.”
Before the host could say anything, the winner in the hand noticed and verbalized “I’m missing a cherrybomb” (terminology for a red $5 in this game) and the host (who was dealing) and as he redirected his attention to the next deck said without looking up “Yes, it was accidentally scooped by “so and so.” The host was clearly mortified and did not want to create a scene that would have obviously invoked emphatic objection by the villain and undoubtedly signaled the beginning of the end of the night. The villain refuted, “No, this was mine.” but immediately gave up that line and tossed the chip to the winner. The matter is being deliberated at the moment and in real time with an inner circle of players from the game.
The host knows exactly what he saw. The villain was exceedingly intoxicated this night, had a dust up earlier with another players fiancé, and has a rather colorful past, past of petty indiscretions. He is an overall good guy but the house needs to make a decision on this persons fate. The villain was a no-call, no-show for the next nights game (we play every Friday and Saturday night) after texting he was “running late” and has been ghosting the winner (a close friend of his) and the host. The villain was also staked a $20 by both the host and the winner before his indiscretion and still didn’t show up or follow up call.
I won’t bias the thread by reporting our options and where we’re at in this process and am simply trying to solicit input and conversation.
I think we know what needs to be done but any and all input, including how different thread participants would execute their decision is appreciated.
Thanks and be well.
Ken
