Amusing one from my 25c/50c home game last week. Don't want to hear how badly I played this hand but me and the V have a TON of history (I am seen as a super LAG, they are pretty much all not-thinking so they always assume I'm bluffing even in spots like this where I simply cannot be).

2 limps, I overlimp 89, 3 more limps, SB folds V in BB checks.

Stacks are ~$130 effective.

Flop is 289

BB leads $3, one flat, I make it $13, folds round to V in BB who flats.

Turn is Q

BB checks, I bet $22, he snap calls.

River is 7

BB checks, I just overshove for $96, he says "you have to have a bricked draw I call"

He has 92o, I scoop.

The next day he proceeds to lay into me for the shove saying I got lucky he had his exact hand, nothing else can call etc, only a bricked flush draw can bet that much.

Obviously this is where having a LAGgy rep can pay off, but we are friends so I go through the theory behind why I can never ever be bluffing here (I guess I can be semi-bluffing the flop with like Q10cc or something but definitely don't take this line after the flop).



The next home game this hand happens:

One limper, I raise button to $1.75 with 68, same V makes it $5.50 from BB, both of us flat.

Flop is 579

DING.

V leads $11, limper makes it $23, I again overshove for $100 total, BB snaps, MP raise/folds.

He shows QQ no diamond and is drawing dead by the turn.

The next day I get a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE email berating the shove again saying that line makes no sense and I got lucky he had an overpair etc.

This time I don't tell him why I can never be bluffing here.

Thing is he's actually probably a bit better than me at that home game because he's good vs all the awful players with a ton of history, but I have little doubt he is at best a breakeven player at 1-2 in a casino

Saw 2 people manage to get in 100bb preflop with 8 10hh vs KJo 3 weeks ago too, that was amusing (probably a correct call off from the KJo too in the end).

Okay so i'll try to recap a hand that was played a year or two ago... but it was so funny that i should remember the better part of it.


So we are sitting in our monthly 25c/50c NLHE Homegame and we already played for a few hours... people are starting to gamble and some are pretty drunk already, everything is business as usual

Then this hand happened:

Before cards are dealt out, UTG player (funny dude, little drunk, bought in for 100bb, is down to 60bb, slighty on tilt maybe) says he won't look at his cards next hand and will shove in the dark. Everyone laughes a little until the Player on the BTN (bought in for 200bb already, down to 50bb, tilted, battled with UTG Player a lot before) says: "well okay, if you go all in blind, i will call blind."
So no one takes it serious, everyone laughes again, cards were dealt out and UTG Player really shoves blind fold, fold, fold and BTN Player calls the All-In blind And i swear that both players haven't looked at their hands yet.
The Blinds fold obv. and the Flop comes down (don't remember the suits, but they doesn't matter here anyways):

Flop: 3 K 6

Now the discussion starts if one of the All-In Players should show his hand now or at the end of the hand, or one card now and the other at the end and so on and so forth...
Obv. the most people in the homegame are drunk and loud and everyone is screaming his opinion... you can imagine the scence i guess^^
So after some time both agree to turn their hand face up at the end of the hand, card by card. So the deal they negotiated was: BTN player 1st card, UTG Player 1st Card, BTN Player 2nd card, UTG 2nd card... Everyone agreed that this is going to be the way of the most exitement and so it should be...

Turn: 2

Obv. in the mean time everyone is screaming what people may have and started betting on the result...

River: J


So the Board was: 3 K 6 2 J

Okay, now the time has come and everyone screamed for the BTN Player to turn one card face up...
The BTN Player turned over the A. Everyone was screaming and laughing on the UTG player now because obv. now the BTN is a favorite to win the hand, because UTG has to make at least a pair to win... athmosphere gets heated and louder as UTG player turns over his first card: the K.
Now you can imagine the athmosphere here...everyone is screaming and pointing at the BTN player
So now everyone starts "calculating" and screaming some things like: "hahaha now you have to have a King here...".... and after some time someone less drunk screams: "noo wait, he could have Aces as well... hahahahaaaa".... lot of fun^^

Now the BTN player is really frustrated and turns over his card, sliding it over the table in disappointment, because he obv. knows, he will lose the hand almost for sure... and it is: the A

And then the same goes over again, everyone laughs, screams, tells the remaining outs of the UTG player to hit 2pair or trips....

And i swear this is the truth: UTG Player turns over his 2nd card and it is the K....


So what happens is, both players went all in blind w. KK vs. AA without knowing it until the river... UTG with KK is drunk and gambling, BTN with AA is 150bb down and steaming... KK beats AA

best hand i have ever seen and probably best hand i will ever see as well.


This homegame is running for 7 years now^^ there were some really cool hands i might write down some time soon as well.


best regards and much success at the tables everybody!

And go visit my blog in the house of blogs section.

Lol that's pretty cool if true^^

Great story.

i swear the hand before is a true story... still have to laugh out loud when i think about it


okay then, here is another hand i remember from our monthly home game. It's from the very beginning...around 6 years ago i guess.

We were all beginners at that point, no one played online and no one had a clue obv.

I cant' remember the details obv. but it went like that:

I fold, MP Player one to my left raises and i look at his hand (a thing we did a lot in the early time, so that you know and "play" his hand instead of just waiting and having no clue whats going on^^). So he has JT and raises. Only the Button calls.

The Flop comes down 937

MP checks, BTN checks (as i said, we had noo clue at all).

Turn doesn't matter (it was no heart), lets say: 2

MP bets (finally^^), BTN calls.

River is the 8

Now MP bets again, not very big actually. I remember the Pot was around 20-25bb max. at the end of the hand.
Button thinks about it for a little while and calls...

Now MP is very happy, turns over the Str8Flush and smiles. And now Button said something like "hmm, damn" (not too disappointed) and flips over 56 for the lower straight flush...

The thing was, that we had played so few hands, that we had absolutely no clue what just happened and how tiny the chances are... BTN just thought something like "well, my hearts are not that high, so i call".

Some of us (like me at that time) would get it a little bit more and screamed and laughed at the BTN Player for loosing with a Str8Flush, even though he made the right move by not raising the hand

Up to today, after 7 years of live poker and some hands online i've never seen someone loose a str8flush again
So pretty funny in the hindsight^^

greetz

If we are going back to n00b mistakes I assume everyone has experienced the "High-Low" straight variety (QKA23, KA234, etc.) being presented at showdown by some first timer who is utterly shocked to learn that for some reason his hand doesn't qualify as a straight and all he has is Ace high.

We had this happen not long ago. A player asked if that was a straight, before he played his hand. The thing was, he's been playing with us for over 20 years! Getting old sucks.

Home game tournament, a couple of limps in EP and on the BTN and the BB checks his option.

Flop: A 4 3

First limper overbets 2x pot. Second limper shoves slightly more, folds to BB who then shoves double the prior bet. First limper, who had the others covered, calls.

First limper shows AT, no heart ()
Second limper shows Q8.
BB shows J6.

General comments about unlucky BB is to have gotten overflushed after the others limped. But then...

Turn is 5
River is 2.

Table erupts to see a straight flush on the board. And then everyone realizes it's not a chop and BB scoops the pot. The 902:1 odds against a suck out aren't quite the worst odds the BB can have and still be drawing live (the dead cards help him ever so slightly), but it's pretty close.

One of the bull**** games we play in my homegame is called 3-13. Aces are 1 or 11, face cards half a point, everything else is face value. Clubs and Spades are worth ZERO. Object is to get to three or thirteen. First card face down, all others face up. Getting a red Ace deuce scoops the pot, ties (2 v. 4 for example) go to the "under". Three freezes and done

draw my first three cards all black, so still sitting with zero. Get and Ace of hearts on the next card against two player going "high", and an obvious 2 or 3 who froze from the deal, and cannot take any more cards. Five more black cards with max. betting from the only other "low" when I hit my 2 of Diamonds to scoop.

I still don't understand how this hand happened, but it did. It's a home game but we're all regulars at the local casino, granted this is at a bar one of them owns and we've all had a few drinks.

I'm in SB look down at J10dd, it's a 1/2 game and it's been raised to 12, two callers, I flat call.

Flop is KQ8ss, I check, MP original raiser bets 20, he's raised to 100 by CO, Button goes all in for 106, MP would be all in if he calls, I've got about 700 in front of me, CO has about 1600 in front of him. I fold, MP folds, CO begrudgingly calls the extra 6 bucks.

CO laughs and tables a 72 Button tables a 92!

I mean WTF!!!?!

Turn 7

River 9

Table erupts in laughter

lmao too funny

that's better than stu ungars T high