Texas Casino Change and a Gross Slowroll

Did you know that the largest casino in terms of gaming square footage between Las Vegas and Atlantic City is in Thackerville, Oklahoma. Just 65 miles north of Dallas-Fort Worth lies Winstar World Casino, a gigantic slot palace, with a large poker room and some raked black jack tables. Winstar is also home to the River Tournament now aligned with Greg Raymer. Last year they had a $600,000 overlay in a $3,000,000 guaranteed event. I would assume this was the largest overlay in the US.

Anyway, due to a former dating relationship, I have been keeping myself out of Winstar and going to another Oklahoma casino for over 2.5 years. Seems the ex girlfriend is a big time regular and I took the high road by going somewhere else. Trying to be civil with this person but we just can not communicate on the same page. Well, finally enough is enough and I have decided to start playing again at Winstar when I am in Texas. Principally the reason is distance and action. This place has plenty of action with games 24/7 and is only a one hour drive from my home.

Last night I experienced what I though was one of the worst slow rolls, lack of etiquette that has been dealt to me in a long time. I was in a very nitty 1/2 game where the standard raise was about $7 and a big rise was anything over $15 or so. I am in the BB and looked down at two black aces. Action is folded to the button who makes it $7, SB calls and I pop it to $30, both players call fairly quickly. Flop is QJ9 two hearts which is not the best flop for aces with all the draws out there. SB bets $30 and I decide to push for my remaining $190 or so. Button thinks for a bit and pushes his $225 stack in. SB tank for a bit and folds. So here were are, two of us all in no more action, roughly $450 in the pot.

As soon as he calls I flip my cards and say what you got, guy does not reply, nor does he flip his cards. I start asking him to flip his cards he doesn't, Turn is a J, making my hand Aces and Jacks, tell him again to flip his cards, he wont. River is a queen and he explodes, fist pumps, yells etc, still not flipping his cards. At this point I have had enough and start yelling at the guy that he has slow rolled me, he just stares. Finally, dealer says sir show your cards, he flips AQ for the runner runner queens over jacks boat.

I understand that policies from casino to casino differ on when to flip cards in an all in situation in a cash game. I always flip immediately because obviously I want to know where I stand and I think its the courteous thing to do. Why the gamenship and lack of courtesy, the hand is over at this point. I just don't get it.

Oh well that's poker, and thankfully the casino had a $100 aces cracked promotion that I didn't even know about.