I-Pods and their like!!! - should be banned!
Good point - I agree.
i aggree, when they are listening to music every few minutes they have to be reminded it their turn to act, "who bet, what was the raise", annoying
- and they don"t realise that the sound very often escapes from their ear-things, so other people have to listen to their hissing "music". At least you can change seat if some earphone victim sits beside you on public transport, but you can"t do that at a poker table
- and they look ridiculous, especially when combined with sunglasses and a cap or hoodie - lol!
- and they look even more ridiculous when they bet and then pretend they can"t hear you and self-consiously nod along to their music as if they have no interest in whether you are going to call or not - lol again
- and they isolate the user from the social interaction, which is a big part of APAT and other poker tournaments
- and they inevitably make the user less aware of the game. Anyone who doubts the potentially disastrous consequences should ask Andy Price, who went from almost chip-leader to almost out in one hand in the APAT Welsh Open 2008, solely as a result of using an I-Pod. I sat beside him all day and he had played really well to build a big stack. In one of the final hands of the day at 1am, he said raise and tried to min-raise from 3k to 6k with 66, having not heard a previous all-in for 28k. He was made to double the all-in raise, but was then called by KK, which held up and took the lot.
http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=1021.315My main objection is having to listen to the junk coming out from them, which is pretty inconsiderate of the user. The only intelligent use of headphones is the people who have them switched off so they are actually listening to what is going on while pretending not to.
