In fact, I have two brothers who play at Charles Town: Jeff and John. It was John who told me this story. I'm sure we've met there. I usually have an Aero Medevac ball cap on and I play there a lot.

I've been lucky and unlucky enough to play with Villain like this twice.

First time I doubled through the guy, who literally had nothing.

Second time, £1/£2 blinds, dealers choice game, most of the time playing PLO, with a little NLHE but whatever.

Guy sits down and pulls out 2 stacks of £100 chips, around £2000. Table had no buyin cap, most players sitting with £200-300. The Villain in question proceeds to lose the whole lot one hand after another, effectively doubles up everyone at the table, including me. The guy is raising blind, reraising blind etc, basically a total maniac. We can't believe our luck, we are all just sitting waiting for reasonably strong hands to take the free money. No one is re raising the guy pre flop no matter how strong, especially the Omaha hands. No one has played a hand against anyone other than this maniac since he sat down, except for when he goes for a smoke/toilet break.

He rebuys for the same amount ish again, around £1500+, and my patience pays off finally(or so I thought). I'm sitting with around £400.

PLO,five players go to flop, I have AAQ3 with Ad Qd. Flop is a DREAM, Ax Jd 5d. Maniac Villain does one of his insta blind Pot bets, and I reraise the max, and he picks up his cards, has a long drunken look at the board, and back to his cards and eventually calls. At this point I'm literally praying for a brick, fearing that he will hit a straight. I get my wish and a 6x lands. So I still hold the nuts, with a nut flush draw, I get the rest of my stack in (around £200).

This is the part where the thread title comes into effect.

Villain again drunkenly looks at his cards, looks at the board, cards board cards then calls. He shows up with J 9 7 6 for two pair with the J 6, at first I let out a sigh of immense relief thinking him dead, then just as the dealer flips the 8 over on the river I realise he just caught a dirty gutter ball.

Pot was around £850 ($1300 ish)

Biggest pot I ever played and sickest beat I ever took.

CLIFFS: Drunken SUPER maniac throws away thousands of £ with crazy play, doubles everyone up and I end up being "that guy" that he lucks out on for a £850 pot.

@bellagio saw back to back drink spills on my table, no cup holders, drunken idiot set a chain of drink spills off, then donked off 2k, re-bought twice then nearly started crying, hero to zero fast.

I did something similar once.

I was SB and in the 10th seat. The table folded around to me and for some reason I did not look to the other side of the dealer at the 1st seat where the BB was taking a piss break. I folded to an empty seat.

jesus christ I could never live that one down.

Cliff: stupidest $3k+ pot I have ever seen in $2/5.

I came across this gem at casino del sol in Tucson Arizona the other day:

$2/5 game. A is a nut job young kid who is doing all sorts of goofy stuffs like raise in the dark pre, and bet very little on the flop. The table is loving it. He however is on a heater and sat on about $1700. He also seems to have some kind of muscle disorder and moved chips in a very clumsy way. And he seems to have a hard time understanding what the dealer or other players are talking about. B is a regular sitting on about $1600.

B raised to $25 from UTG+1, A called from the BB.

Flop: K96r

A lead for $20, B made it $100 straight. Without missing a beat, A announced, "I'm all in."

Now in Arizona there is a cap bet of $500, which means you can only bet or raise $500 at a time, though you can raise $500 back and forth on the same street if you want. So A's raise is to $600, $500 more.

Dealer quickly pointed it out to the players that the bet is $600, which I am sure A failed to comprehend (for reasons that will be obvious soon). B thought it over and announce call.

Turn is another 6, completing the rainbow. A, thinking they are all in, rolled over his card, K2o for top pair.

Dealer again quickly point out that the action is not over, that they have about $1000 left in play. After some explanation, A finally caught up with the situations, and quickly announce, well among other things, "I am all in." while everyone on the table knows exactly what he had.

Again his declaration is only for $500, B quickly raised all in for a shade under $1000, and A quickly called.

B rolled over AA, and I really really wish a K peeled on the river. That would be the appropriate ending to this epic stupid hand. But it wasn't meant to be.

I went on a cruise this week and one night while at sea enough people showed up to play $1/2 NL cash game while I was there. This is on a electronic poker Pro table.

We are playing 4 handed when an older gentleman joins the table. Has a hard time getting started but we help him and he starts playing, buys in for $100.00. We are about 5 hands in and I notice that he has been calling every flop, turn and river bet. No big pots only small bets so far. So I am in SB it's limped to me and I have 34s, so I complete.

Don't remember the cards, but I have a flush draw. so I bet out. older guy calls every one else folds. Brick the turn and from what I have seen he is not going to fold, so I check, then the pot slides to me. He folded, it surprised me and I thought that was weird.

So about two more hands and there is a pretty big bet on the flop this time. The old guy is tanking and he looks nervous, and he finally ask, how do I see my cards?

He played about 7 or 8 eight hands without looking at his hold cards.

Lol

Motor City Casino in Detroit at a 1/2NL table. Super nitty guy sitting on my right with shorts that are too short (barf). He has like $32 sitting infront of him and hasn't played one hand in the 1.5 hrs ive been at the table. He finally makes a move and raises to $16 preflop after two limpers get in the hand. The button, two to my left, reraises to $40ish. Folts to shorty shorts which tanks for like 3 min to fold and keep his remaining $16. Mr. unfashionalbe tables QQ, button says nice fold and flips over KK.

Shorty shorts immediately requests a table change and takes his $16 to another table.

In this whole story, I might tag THIS as the dumbest play. Telling the fish that he screwed up was really dumb. When you embarrass the fish, they often leave rather than try to get even, and if they do stay, they try extra hard to play tight and correct poker so they don't get embarrassed again.

Years ago at Wynn I snagged a $300 pot when my Broadway got rivered by the board double-pairing. Something like KQTQT. I shutdown and just tabled my AJ, the other player showed a T and mucked. He even lectured me on how badly I played by failing to bet the river. Nobody at the table ever said a word to this guy, a true maniac, who was sitting on $1400 in a NL1/3 game. We all understood he was just fooling around having fun using a poker table to get his gambling fix instead of blackjack, and to call him out for showing a boat and folding would likely have sent him packing.

As he's lecturing me with, "you didn't play that well--you should have bet the river--you have to bet your own hand, sir, I'm not going to bet your monsters for you", I just smiled and thanked him and watched 9 people at the table turn blue trying not to LOL. When the guy stepped away from the table to go down the hall to pee everybody about exploded with commentary about it. Somebody said "we should tell him what he did and really tilt him!" He about got garroted right there by the entire table.

Don't...tap...the...tank.

I didn't say anything until after the word was out. I guess the others at the table couldn't contain themselves anymore. I agree with you and the guy did leave shortly thereafter. I wasn't happy about it, but at least they kept their mouth shut until he mucked his hand.

Playing a cash game ($5/10) at Hard Rock Tampa. Drunk guy playing every hand. Long story short the pot is 3 handed on the river with a 4 card spade flush on the board. The drunk guy was down to 1 $5 chip as he called a $350 bet on the turn and now has exactly $5 left in front of him on the river. The pot at this point is a little over $1500. I had a set and check. Player 2 Bets like $750 on the river and the drunk guy tables his hand which was 2s2c and mucks for $5! I also fold as I have no spades and player 2 shows 2 red kings and scoops the pot with no flush. Even after the hand was over the drunk guy still didn't realize he just folded the best hand for $5

I highlighted the actually dumbest play part of your story

This is the "Dumbest Plays" Thread, "Dumbest Rulings" is down the street.

A few weeks ago I played with a russian woman at ceasars AC who literally raised every hand pf for 12 hours straight. 2 old men almost came to blows because one was trying to get her to leave our game and play 2/5

Watchu talking bout shorshi? His runner runner straight draw was monster.