Most absurd poker "thinking" you have heard in a live game? - Page 123 - Poker Card Room

starvingwriter82 · 04-04-2011, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by halftilt

It is entirely possible to like money but to like having a good time more than you like money.

I'd love to see a "how far would a drunk have to go to push you off a good table?" thread.

westhoff · 04-05-2011, 12:08 AM

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Originally Posted by llDayo

$50+12 buy in at Trop in AC on the 31st. I was getting shortstacked having won 2 whole pots the entire time so with blind at 300-600 and two limpers I shoved 7k into the pot from the SB with JJ. Everyone folds. The very next hand there is a min raiser pre and a called. I shove again, this time with AQss. Original min raiser calls (now has over half his stack in the pot) and shows down 10 6dd. His reponse to someone asking why he called with ten high: "He shoved the previous hand so I thought he was bluffing."

??

I've seen this one a few times. "I thought he was bluffing!" Me, "but your hand doesn't beat his bluff". *blank stare*

reaper6788 · 04-05-2011, 12:24 AM

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Originally Posted by westhoff

I've seen this one a few times. "I thought he was bluffing!" Me, "but your hand doesn't beat his bluff". *blank stare*

saw this in a home game, on a pretty dry board my buddy calls the neighborhood LAG on the river with 8hi. He shows, LAG shows Qhi and I ask "what were you doing?!" he says "i thought he was bluffing." The LAG laughs and says "well... I thought I was

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KingLeonidas · 04-05-2011, 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by demere

Statements like "I thought that since there were two queens on the flop that meant my opponent was less likely to have a queen, so my pocket 10s were good." What appears on the flop has absolutely no relation to what your opponent was dealt before the flop, so unless there are four queens on board, your opponent is just as likely to have a queen in his hand as if there were none on the flop.

this statement is actually wrong. sorry.

KingLeonidas · 04-05-2011, 12:56 AM

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Originally Posted by ackid

I was in a home game last week and one of the players proudly announced that he folded AA preflop in a tournament because 3 other players were all in before the flop.

When I asked him why he did this he said " I dont have the time to explain it right now, but it was the correct play".

depending on the circumstances, he may be right. Strange but true. If on bubble, or bigger payout spot he is right. AA vs 3 others is like 43%. Would you like to miss being in the Nov 9 at 43% ?

reaper6788 · 04-05-2011, 01:42 AM

Ya ICM can show that there are situations in tournaments where you would want to fold AA. Although the chance of quadrupling up may give you such a greater chance at going deeper that it is worth the initial risk... I don't know ICM very well at all but I just know that there are times where there are huge disincentives to get in a confrontation.

ZOMG_RIGGED! · 04-05-2011, 05:27 AM

the best part of this thread is that roughly half the posts here actually belong, not because of the others players but because the posters thinking is borderline retarded itself

bacats32 · 04-05-2011, 08:45 AM

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Originally Posted by KingLeonidas

depending on the circumstances, he may be right. Strange but true. If on bubble, or bigger payout spot he is right. AA vs 3 others is like 43%. Would you like to miss being in the Nov 9 at 43% ?

Uhm, unless this is a satellite, what tournament would you want to fold a 43% hand winner for a chance to quadruple up? Seems like excellent odds to me.

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Originally Posted by ZOMG_RIGGED!

the best part of this thread is that roughly half the posts here actually belong, not because of the others players but because the posters thinking is borderline retarded itself

+1

llDayo · 04-05-2011, 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by westhoff

I've seen this one a few times. "I thought he was bluffing!" Me, "but your hand doesn't beat his bluff". *blank stare*

The worst part (well, technically the best since it keeps the fish thinking this way) is that the board ended up being 9 high, with him having a straight. Seems like the correct move to me!

BrocksfavWhiteboy · 04-05-2011, 01:15 PM

Totally drunk guy with a ton of chips limps in the SB no one else had BB is like you sure you dont want to chop drunk guy says no lets play but lets check it down BB looks at him and is like umm ok they check the turn and in the dark the SB blurts out Im all in BB looks at his hand he'd rivered a flush says ok call drunk guy rivered the nuts and screams in the dudes ear NUTS the BB nose literally started to bleed all over the table