I was playing at Motor City at the 1/2 NLHE table, and a guy I know to be a loose player raises it to 10 in middle position. 3 other people call in front of him, and I'm on button. So I decide to call his bet with a KTo. Flop comes up a 3-6-10 with the 3, 10 being of clubs. About $40 in the pot at this point. Everyone checks around to me. I have top pair with a good kicker, so I bet $30. Everyone folds except for the guy behind me, who goes all-in for about $120. This brings the post to $190.

I was thinking about folding, but then I thought for a second. The guy didn't cold-call so I didn't put him on a AT. He was a decent player so I didn't put him on some junk like 10-3 or 6-3. If he had trips, he would have slow-played it and merely called. There's a flush draw possibility, but like I said he's a decent player, so I don't think he would shove all-in on me on a flush draw when he knows me to be a tight player. My King was clubs as well, so if it went runner-runner clubs I had the second nut flush.

After taking a few minutes to think, I come to the conclusion that I have him beat and he probably has something like Q-10. I call his push. Ends up he actually was on a flush draw for the clubs. He missed and I won the pot.

I thought it was one of my more intelligent poker moments because I felt like I took advantage of all the information known to me to rationally deduce I had the best hand, and I was correct.

I'm glad you won the hand, but where's the part about you actually hearing something at the table?

Life is cyclical. Given enough time, a lot of loony fantasies and beliefs will temporarily become true. I know one guy who has been buying up silver and gold for the majority of my life thinking the world was coming to an end. He looked like a real moron when prices kept going lower. But, the last few years prices have spiked and now he thinks he's a genius and is predicting the end of the world soon and is buying up weapons and preparing for the zombie apocalypse.

"That seat unlucky! Hoing hoing no luck for da tree seat! Dat why I chase you with flushy drawz, 'cause you unlucky in da tree seat!"

old asian lady at Lucky Chances:

"I love poker; since I switched from pai gao (the dark side), I'm losing much slower now."

>true.

Have been told by a Regular that I should not raise with hands like AKsuited - ATsuited because I want to see the Flop-Turn-River and make a Royal flush for the Monte-Carlo(capped @ $1,000) and I am ruining the tables chances for a bad-beat by raising.

LAdy calls $400 preflop shove with 44 after raising to $10, when flopped a 4 and cracks AA shes asked"why did you call so much with just 44" she replies"well i had a pair of 4s and the chances of me hitting a 4 are the same as if i had KK hitting a king, and im sure as hell not folding KK Pre."

So then your thinking was pretty far off. Even more so when you consider that you posted this in a thread about things you've heard at the table.

Plagiarist.

to be honest... I am not sure I have ever heard anything really intelligent at a live table before.

One time this dude was like "You know what? I think I'll have another beer."

And I was like: "That's a great idea, I'll have another one too."

True story.

I believe it and that is some smart thinking right there.

obv the bottom of his range. will we see posts like this the next 5 times you call with naked TP and get shown JJ or QQ?

edit: not to mention the sets that crai instead of c/c or c-bet to shut out _flush draws_ esp. if his read on table is that he's guaranteed to get a bet by checking

I thought the point of this thread was to tell stories about intelligent things heard at the poker table, not plagiarized stories and examples of horrible poker thinking...

You were on the button. But everyone folds except for the guy behind you. how does that work?