Douchebags
Tuesday, April 21, 2009   

Douchebags. 

Hoodie-wearing, sunglass-sporting, iPod-listening, fratboy-raising, "OMFGYO MY AQ-SOOOOOTED JUST GOR CRACKED! FARK!" poker table...

(wait for it)

...douchebags.

Photographed in their natural casino habitat.

Look like anyone you know?

:-)


Posted by James Devlin   31 comment(s)

Lol.

Lololol.

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

TOUCHE, MAESTRO. TOU-FUCKING-CHE.

Anonymous on 4/21/2009 6:05 PM (323 days ago)

You're fearless, if a little bit of an asshole.

Anonymous on 4/21/2009 6:11 PM (323 days ago)

I don't see an Unsubscribe button. I looked, but I didn't see one. Oh well. Guess I'll just have to stay subscribed.

Ed K. on 4/21/2009 6:37 PM (323 days ago)

I never ever comment on blogs but this made me chuckle.

xkcd3 on 4/21/2009 7:21 PM (323 days ago)

yeah, this is pretty much everyone that plays poker these days. "hey, i'm intimidating and i have a hoodie, therefore i must be good at poker"

Anonymous on 4/21/2009 8:52 PM (323 days ago)

Not in frame: guy wearing sunglasses in $100 tournament / 1/2 cash game, and guy berating player for being stupid after stacking off with one pair.

KW on 4/21/2009 9:50 PM (323 days ago)

I was with you all the way to the backwards ball-cap. I think that's a stretch to immediately classify said player as a douchebag.

Wearing a ball-cap backward is just a person's style, whether they are playing poker or not. No one's style has any value beyond the satisfaction it gives a person for wearing what they think looks good, so I don't see how that classifies one as a douchebag.

Disclaimer: I have worn a ball-cap backwards a time or two. ;)

PRD on 4/21/2009 10:11 PM (323 days ago)

I think you pic is funny , but usualy douchebag's use "chip guards"

Anonymous on 4/22/2009 1:43 AM (322 days ago)

>I was with you all the way to the backwards ball-cap. I think that's a stretch to immediately classify said player as a douchebag.

What backwards baseball cap?

James Devlin on 4/22/2009 3:41 AM (322 days ago)

The images on the blog version vs. feed version are different:

www.codingthewheel.com/image.axd
www.codingthewheel.com/image.axd

One has the baseball cap as a criteria.

Anonymous on 4/22/2009 4:16 AM (322 days ago)

I particularly enjoy urban dictionary's 3rd (and most fitting) definition of the term..

A person with a shitty personality that needs to "take themself the fuck down" or "go home and get their fucking shine box." A douchebag usually assumes the form of a hair-gelling pretty-boy but can also be described as an overzealous, pompous, or vexatious asshole that can't play poker for shit.

lovely stuff.

gazzaaa87 on 4/22/2009 5:06 AM (322 days ago)

Came for the poker botting, stay for the lulz. Keep up the good work Smile

Cody Brocious on 4/22/2009 7:12 AM (322 days ago)

U just saved my day. - TY TY TY.

Anonymous on 4/22/2009 7:19 AM (322 days ago)

Maybe I should post it in this latest article then:

Which sites allow bots to be played on? Reputable I mean. Should I think "second biggest pokersite on the net" for instance? Since nothing is in their terms.

About the above:

I really like it Smile. Al though I wear a hoodie, sunglasses AND cappie... and I actually win Smile. Don't have the guard though. So this may be what's missing. Now I finally know what I'll ask for my birthday, this year. Thanks James! Smile

Nick... on 4/22/2009 7:32 AM (322 days ago)

Oh... and don't forget the IPod. Do not forget about the IPod. This is very important. I just listen on my MP3!

Nick... on 4/22/2009 7:33 AM (322 days ago)

LOLS judging people by how they look, that's what non-douchebags do!

Anonymous on 4/22/2009 9:07 AM (322 days ago)

Nice pic!

I have to admit, I don't use a chip-guard most of the time. I've met plenty of people who were otherwise okay and could be forgiven one of James Delvin's Poker Douchebag Traits(R). I think it really takes multiple traits and multiple occurrences to seal the deal.

Whatever. . . good stuff!

Kyle on 4/22/2009 10:43 AM (322 days ago)

JAMES,

LOOKS LIKE A SIDELINE FOR YOU COULD BE SELLING DOUCHEBAG APPARATUS! LOL.
REALLY ENJOY THIS ALTHOUGH STILL DO NOT HAVE A WORKING POKERBOT.

JAMES on 4/22/2009 4:54 PM (322 days ago)

@JAMES- It appears your caps lock key is broken. I would recommend getting a new keyboard and ditching the hoodie.

I think I've played these losers before.

FupDuckTV on 4/22/2009 4:58 PM (322 days ago)

lol, you seem to have offended some of your reader-base that obviously fit the criteria from the pic. i enjoyed it.

on a more serious note, james, keep up the great writing. love your posts.

plunge on 4/23/2009 3:04 AM (321 days ago)

Lol. This is my new poker anthem. "Douchebags"... perfect word

Anonymous on 4/23/2009 6:25 AM (321 days ago)

I dont use a chip guard. Should I? What is the reason for them.

JB on 4/24/2009 7:17 AM (320 days ago)

JB - yes, man! Absolutely! Not having a chip guard doesn't make you a "douchebag" but there are a couple very good reasons to always protect your cards with a chip or a memento of some kind.

- Dealers do a lot of scooping of chips and mucked cards. In the heat of the action, after a long night, a dealer can make a mistake and accidentally scoop a live hand into the muck. I've done this as a dealer and I've had it done to me as a player. It happens. Setting a chip on top of your cards mostly prevents it.

- When a player mucks his cards a little too forcefully, they can skim across the felt, hitting a player's live cards. If you don't have a chip guard, there's a chance your hand will be declared dead. What if one of his cards slices your two cards perfectly, so that you've got three hole cards? Whose to say which two were yours? You? But how can the other players trust that? So they generally will declare the hand dead if there's any question. Again, a nice heavy coin or a chip can prevent this.

James Devlin on 4/24/2009 8:18 AM (320 days ago)

More importantly, what are you doing taking photos at the table?

Anonymous on 4/24/2009 10:11 AM (320 days ago)

Looks like you took this picture in one of my local casinos. Just lost $500 to this kind of dweeb. Kid chased me with a 3-outer, hit on the river after putting all his money in. That'll teach you to be into me, he says. I'll go toe to toe with you, he says. While raking in my chips. Douchebag. Didn't have the heart to tell the kid he's a lost cause. Didn't have the heart to tell him I'm nailing his girlfriend.

Beer Me on 4/26/2009 8:46 AM (318 days ago)

@Anonymous: Why does it matter? Did I miss something, or do poker players have NO reasonable expectation of privacy in a public casino where they're being video-taped 24/7 anyway?

JeremyX on 4/26/2009 2:25 PM (318 days ago)

I've gotta say we don't get this sort of stereotype of poker players in the UK. Sometimes we get the occasional excentric wearing upside sunglasses and backwards caps ... these guys tend to bust out early.

Poker Forum on 4/26/2009 5:44 PM (318 days ago)

James you are right they are douchebags. Complain to the dealer that the player's music is disturbing you.

Leon on 4/27/2009 10:03 AM (317 days ago)

@JeremyX

(I was the original poster of that message)

No, it isn't a privacy thing.. It's a cheating thing. Generally taking photos at most casino table games is frowned upon. It's easy to cheat in blackjack if you have been taking photo's of the table every hand and sending them to a computer which counts cards.

Now I'm pretty sure it's not worth the effort, but you could use a camera to take a photo of your own cards and send them to friends who happens to sit on the same table.

The point is, taking photos, even using a cell phone at a table is frowned upon.

Anonymous on 4/30/2009 3:56 AM (314 days ago)

@Anonymous that makes sense.... I haven't played too much live poker (stick to the online) but yeah. Prolly would bother me, too. So the question for James is what gives, man? Did you wear a hidden camera or did you get permission or what? And where was this picture taken?

(I'm hanging out on this page for a while. Massive influx of angry geek types in your latest.)

JeremyX on 5/1/2009 3:03 AM (313 days ago)

Found another blog on building a poker bot - not as good as this one for sure

http://aaapoker.org/

Terry Smith on 5/24/2009 10:49 AM (290 days ago)

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