When people voluntarily tell you their hand before showdown.

When people feel they are way behind and call anyway.

When people say things like "can't bluff me" after making a terrible call.

I had all of these happen in a single hand a while ago. I 3-bet some fish preflop IP and barelled a wet board with a combo draw. Board was TJ4ss and I had KQss. I bet flop, he called. He was a short stack so I ended up betting pot on a blank turn to put him all in. He says "COME ON 4" then calls. The river is an offsuit 2 and he scoops the pot, then gets this look on his face that says "wow I'm so good at poker" and turns to me and says "can't bluff me". I guess he was right, you really can't bluff someone who thinks they're drawing to maybe 2 outs and still calls.

When you try to bluff a fish or station.

When you call down to the river and fold to an expected bet that effectively puts you all in.

When you keep talking/joking/laughing with players to your right and left Jesus seat.

Its so fun when the true fish thinks he is the shark.... Scoops but he had maybe 2 outs......lol.

I am going to frame this one.

hahahaha that one is pretty golden..
wow people actually think like this?!?!

I really do not see the problem with people buying in with 20s. I know at most 1/2 games in casinos Ive played at 90% of players buy in with 20's.
is it more of a Canadian thing to use twenties?

Most atms not in casinos are dispensing in 20s if you take less than 500. Most 1/2 players are bringing less than 500 so it's not a huge indicator

I don't see why it matters this debate of buying in with 20s vs 100s, I care more about HOW MUCH they are buying in for.

That being said I only keep Franklins in my BR.

...when you whisper to me, "what's a wrap?"

I think if you posted in this thread...=

When u wear sunglasses

it kind of blows my mind that this thread has 200 posts and no one has yet said "when you quote rounders"

When you use quotes to explain when someone quotes something from Rounders

I don't know if maybe there's a sign by the cage imploring players to refrain from quoting it, or somewhere else, because the dealers quote it more where I play than even the fish.

If I have to hear "Pay the myan his myonies..." while shipping a pot one more time...

Not naming names though.

...when you are all in, and in that 1/2 second interval between acknowledging you've been called all in and then tabling your cards, you declare your hand with its douchey nickname.
"I call"
"ahh...the good ol' computer hand!"

It's a Belgian game of chance, often played in the early 20th Century by European royalty. The poker phrase, "but I was suited" derives from it.

it could be true u moron, not every has a hand sample of 500k hands when playing live

When you straddle

when you think only fish straddle.

If there's a button straddle I tend to assume someone is a fish if they aren't using it.... but even with a regular utg straddle theres plenty of good reasons to do it.
It might surprise you to learn that being a dealer and being a fish are not mutually exclusive states.

u mad bro?

The point isnt whether its true... the point is that youre supposed to be dealt 72 a little more than 2.5 times as frequently as you are dealt aces. Thus, complaining that you see seven deuce twice as frequently as aces would actually be complaining that you are either receiving aces too frequently, or 72 not frequently enough.

I played omaha online for several years before i had my first BM experience. At the time (the early 2000s), there was not a ton of poker literature around, especially regarding omaha....

The first time i ever read the term "wrap" i brain farted and thought it said "warp".... there was probably about 2 years there before i realized my error, and by that time, it was thoroughly stuck in my head as a "warp" straight draw. TBH, even though i know enough to call it by the correct term, i still think of them as warp draws.

Typically, when you cash out at a casino poker room(at least here in the US), they will give you all big bills. Hence, regular patrons of the cardroom always have a lot of hunnie bears to buy in with. At least here if a guy only has small bills he is probably not a cardroom reg, and thus he is more likely to be a fish.

when you raise, and the BB looks at his cards, thinks forever, then folds and shows you one ace... esp true in tournaments... its like theyre saying "u better watch out next time i might have another one"

You've probably been watching too much Star Trek.

Which probably means you're like Riker ("I see your 500 ... and raise you 50!") and you're probably a fish.

The jig is up. First losing session in 15 at MCC. Man I forgot what losing a BI feels like.

Actually I get it, the buying in 20s thing. Because the other day I bought in to a game for the first time in a very long time using 20s. And the reason I did this was because I had lost the couple buy-ins I keep in $100s in my wallet in a game the other night. So I had to go to the ATM to bring money to this game.

When you play and win at live poker all the time you end up keeping a big number of $100s in your wallet because you're always cashing out for $100s. When you're buying in for $20s as a reg it generally means you blew your stoploss in the last session, which could possibly mean you're carrying in residual tilt. But I came up 3 buyins profit that session, so whatever.

One thing I noticed in live poker is that when the rainbow $100s came out, the really good players all started buying in with rainbow $100s really fast to every session, because when you went to the cage they'd pay you with the rainbows. So if you won that first night they started doing it, you'd still have them the next night and be buying in with them probably. You could tell when other players were running bad too when they would suddenly switch to rainbows instead of regular $100s or vis-versa, when they'd switch to rainbows to regular $100s meaning they were now stuck from where they were at when the rainbows came into play.