This is a made up example, but I hate when a scenario like this happens.

UTG raises, UTG+1 reraises (AA) BIG, BUT (bad player) calls.... UTG folds.

Flop comes KcTc9h...
UTG+1 bets large, BUT min-raises.... UTG+1 calls to see the next action
Turn comes KcTc9h 3s
UTG+1 bets out to charge a possible draw or even can check here.... BUT overshoves the pot.

UTG+1 struggles with a decision and folds thinking "ok Im beat". BUT shows K8o and says "wheh! I didnt want you to draw out on me"

UTG+1 rips his hair out

I call it "getting under leveled", "getting under-thunk", or for some of you more colorful speakers "getting out dumbed"

In my early days this was the most frustrating thing for me at the casino.

I usually get 200 bb in those spots and they have k10

Maybe not the best thread for this, but wanted to tell someone!

4 limp to the flop, no betting to the river, I bet my bottom pair (33) mainly to not have to show the **** I'm playing. One caller (DB), sure I'm beat but just flip my cards over - he throws his cards face down on table, assume he was calling with Ace high, dealer gives me the pot.

After dealer has started shufflling, DB starts moaning that he had 44 and won the hand. Everyones puzzled - he says he meant to flip his cards over but threw them wrong. He moans about it for 10 minutes, then comes out with this gem: "Its not my fault I can't throw my cards face-up on the table."

So whose fault is it - mine?

We are playing 5 handed at 1/2. one villain (1) is fairly tight and moderatly aggressive but plays relativly straightforward (stack=$300), the other (2) is a huge fish who is playing like every hand and raising/reraising alot pre (stack=$2000)
V1 raises HJ to $10, 2 calls, V2 reraises BB to $20, V1 reraises to $60, V2 reraises to $110, V1 ships, V2 instacalls
V1 has AKo, V2 has ATo
V2 says after the hand: "I put him on queens or better after he made it $60 but I have alot of money so I thought I would gamble"
not the most absurd thinking but definatly amusing

"when dealt AA in a 10 handed game, the chances you will when at showdown are EXACTLY 10%"

Good example! Why you just don't stand up if you think you're having a bad night? And if you decide to play better reload, so l/c with 99 makes a least a little bit more sense... oh, just see, do you mean, something else was absurd?!

This is wonderful. Best post ITT in a long time.
I hope you asked the speaker for some other pearls of poker wisdom? If not, please do (and share them).

I was playing low stakes limit hold'em 9 handed at a local brick and mortar with the aces cracked 100 dollar promotion, and woke up with aces under the gun. I open raised preflop, and got 2 callers. The flop came Q 9 5 rainbow, giving me an overpair on a bone dry flop. The lone little blind that called preflop checked, I bet, the player in position called, and the player in the blind folded. The turn came a 9, putting a flush draw on the board. I bet, and the late position player called. Strangely, on this street, I could feel the player who folded the flop becoming uncomfortable and fidgeting in their seat. The river came a blank, and I fired again, and got called by K Q on the end for a worse 2 pair.
When I tabled my hand on the end, it caused the small blind to go into an absolute frenzy. He started berating me about my "idiotic play", how I should have let him see the turn, which would have given him trips. Then, I would have been given the 100 dollars for aces cracked, and he could have taken the pot. I explained to him my reasoning in the hand, that I was charging inferior hands to draw, and getting value on my strong made hand which was more likely to hold up and take the pot than get cracked, so passively rooting for my aces to get cracked would not be in my best interests in the vast majority of circumstances, as I would lose value on my hand when they weren't cracked. He insisted on interrupting me while I tried to calmly talk him down, and he kept arguing and spouting nonsense at me.
I got the best revenge a few hands later when he tried to "crack" my nines full with a flush draw that he completed on the river

stop educating the fish and trying to write like someone who can.

WP, sir.

Classic!

yah, I'm aware it was ******ed to try to explain my reasoning in the hand. I probably should have just laughed at him, or apologized disingenously or something.

Board is AQ73J. BB has J7. Button has AJ.

Checked around on the flop. On the turn it's checked to button who bets, BB min check/raises, button calls. River goes check check.

They have a little chat after the hand:

BB: I was pretty sure my 7's were ahead, but the Jack on the river scared me because now you could have a bigger 2 pair.

Button: I put you on AK, but I didn't want to bet the river because that J is a scary card for me.

Card dead hero's head explodes.

This is one of the best I've read in this thread in a while.

A+

Thanks

I understand variance and all, but having a breakeven day and watching both of those guys walk away up like $400 just annoys me.

Just keep reminding yourself that if the donks never won they wouldn't come back.

I always try to look at myself as if I were a slot machine. I have to pay off every once in awhile in order to keep getting paid.

I have a nitty image and have K8o OTB (1/2 with a straadle out), i raise to $35 after a 4 limps including the CO (just to mix it up), BB calls, and everyone else folds. I end up winning to the hand and not showing. The CO tells me he saw my cards (and tells me what i had so he is not lying), he said he also had K8o that hand but it was not worth $35 to him. I mean wtf, if he sees me raising with K8o how can he possibly fold K8o.

I play a 1/2 or 2/4 at the local casino in my area. I limped in with A, 10 of spades from way out of position, and the button limps as well as the blinds. Flop comes and I flopped the nut flush. I bet the pot all folds but the button. Turn comes (x) and i bet the pot button calls. River comes (Ah) and i bet pot again the guy shoves i call. he flips trip aces and i win the pot of about 500$. After the hand the guy starts yelling at me calling me a fish for limping with "Ace Rag from out of position". Later he buys back in and from out of position he limps in plays the hand to showdown and turns over Ace 6 offsuit losing to this other guys set, and i started laughing my ass off then proceed to call him a hypocrite and an *******. Now he wont ever play at the same table as me! Hilarious!

This hand tonight at 1-2 NL: it is heads-up on flop of QJT all hearts. $27 in pot, Hero leads out for $25 and Villian folds.

Hero shows Kh9c and says, "I didn't like all those hearts out there." He was dead serious.

Sweet. Hopefully you drive all the fish my way.

short stack (35) raises to 10 preflop in a 1-2 game, our hero calls. Flop came K X X, the short stack goes all in, our hero thinks for a bit and calls, shows KJo, short stack has AA..

when asked why he called the shove on the flop, he said "well, I put him on 2 hands, AA or AK, so I called right?"

$70 Short stack makes it $5 pre from the CO. I call KTs from the button. Both blinds call.

Flop comes T53r. He bets $15 into 20, I call, blinds fold.

Turn is a 3. Villain bets $25, leaving about $25 behind. Hero shoves for his last $25.

Villain tanks FOREVER, says "you must have the 3 and just hit on me." Asks me if I'll show, etc.

Eventually, villain folds ATo face up.

Hero annoyingly congratulates villain on his fold, since I clearly had 55 and i didn't get his last $25. (hehe)

Playing live $2/$4 Limit at my local B & M. The guy to my right limps UTG and gets a hoard of callers. The board is 3 disconnected rainbow cards. He bets and gets two callers. The run is a rag. He bets and gets 1 caller. The river is another rag...no straight or flush possible. The UTG guy bets again and gets raised by an older Asian guy who's been playing any two cards much of the day. The UTG guy calls and flips over his pocket A's. the old Asian guy flips over 8 4 off suit for 2 pair! I asked the UTG guy to my right why he didn't raise preflop. He tells me that he read a poker book on Limit Hold'em and it says to NEVER raise preflop. Of course, I had to inquire which poker book he read, but he couldn't remember.

The whole poker book thing is hilarious, but at 2/4 limit this probably goes exactly the same way whether he raises or not.

Basically just caused him to lose value though lol.

Don't know why but they gave me a good laugh