3 table live tournament (low buy in, for fun mostly). A table breaks and the players go to the 2 remainings, it takes like 5 minutes when 1 guy see the 2 tables with 8 players on each. The guy is a well known maniac, he has like 6k having played his usual game and ran good on the first table.

Everyone asks him to go to the other table ! I just shut my mouth since he loves to bore people and sits here anyway. People asks him to play "real poker" as he raises the first 3 hands to 400, 1000 and 1200. Blinds are 20-40. Then this hand occurs.

I'm on the SB and limp against his BB w/ A6o, knowing that he'll raise any 2 anyway and stack off. He makes it 1000 and I shove for 500 more and he calls with K7 and hits. Then I'm berated by a guy for "having played that awfully, I should have waited for a big hand and now he has even more chips to bully us with". I just said I wanted a seat in the cash game starting with the others eliminated.

Later in the tournament, the guy who berated me is the chipleader on the final table. He calls all in 5 handed the second biggest stacks for 10BB on his 15BB stack with 8Ts on the button. Blinds fold (they have like 2 and 3 blinds) and he says, "the hand plays well on the button, plus I need chips to bully the shortstacks later". After he chops with the 5th guy during heads up having a 4:1 chiplead (even chop, not equity), he comes to me to teach me some poker and how patience is important.

It has always been and always will be the most absurd thing I hear. "I had to play it, its my favourite hand."

I seen this one last week playing live 1/2.

$25 in the pot, the river puts a broadway no flush on the board. 2 players left in the pot. Player #1 bets pot, player #2 says " ok im all in" with a small giggle knowing the board is the nuts. Player #1 looks at his friend across the table and says " dude you got my back?" Meaning he wants his friend to spot him if he losses this pot. Instantly player #2 says, " You can't ask anyone for advice during the hand"

The entire table now realized this was not a level by player #1. Player #1 goes in the tank for a seriously long time, then folds !! OMG !!

The best part is that no one berated the bad player making him leave. Noone said a thing, letting play go on and needless to say this guy went broke soon there after.

If i hadn't seen it I don't think id have believed it.

This happens online, too. Somewhat similarly, I was just at a table where two people kept raising each other when it was rather obvious they both had the nut straight. After they split, PokerTracker's little popup revealed they'd each lost money (net) to the rake for being idiots. Kudos to your table for not saying a damn thing to him, that's how it should be.

I have been in many hands where it is "obvious" we both have the nut straight but the other guy actually has two pair. I don't care about losing .50 to the rake, the numerous times where the other player has no idea what is happening easily make up for it.

Agreed, but why do it when the board makes the nuts? This happened to me last night too online and the idiot continued to bet on the river when the A made rainbow broadway. We both lost money because of the bonehead bet. Anyway, sorry for the thread high jack. Back to live poker...

From three posts before yours: $25 in the pot, the river puts a broadway no flush on the board. 2 players left in the pot. Player #1 bets pot, player #2 says " ok im all in" with a small giggle knowing the board is the nuts. Player #1 looks at his friend across the table and says " dude you got my back?" Meaning he wants his friend to spot him if he losses this pot. Instantly player #2 says, " You can't ask anyone for advice during the hand"

The entire table now realized this was not a level by player #1. Player #1 goes in the tank for a seriously long time, then folds !!

"I know I'm beat, but I call"
"Sorry"
"Goodluck"

Draw to a draw, one of my favorites.

KJS

That PLO post sounds suspiciously like the guy on the "draw" doesn't know he can only use 2 cards and thought that he was playing his 9QK and only needed the J. Great player to make a mental note: "does not even know the rules of the game he is playing".

AK is just a drawing Hand I never Raise with it

probably the dumbest thing I ever heard in a poker table

A hand from yesterday evening:
2/4 NLHE in French small casino. a raiser preflop ($20) and 3 callers, so pot is $80. Flop comes 2-J-9, 2 hearts. 1 check and initial raiser checks. Player 1 (let's give them numbers) goes all-in for about $250. Player 2 thinks for a moment and calls. Player 3 calls immediately. Player 4 (the initial raiser) folds.

Their hands and comments (paraphrasing):
- Player 1 had AQ and said: 'I had to go all-in because of the flush draw'
- Player 2 had KT and said: 'I played the hand correctly, was just unlucky'
- Player 3 had A7s and said: 'I knew you (player 1) had nothing so I called'
- Player 4 had 77 and said 'Ah, I should have called; I knew you had nothing'

Both the turn and the river were blanks, so Player 1 won the pot of about $800 with his ace-high.

I immediately get up to buy in for another $300 so I have a $450 stack.

"I hate Aces. I'd rather have Deuces, then I know when I'm beat."

5 way AI preflop....

MEA1: its a rebuy, do u know that?
MEA1: u dont want me to play 95?
MEA1: ffs u make urself stupid
Floch76: ^^

If I heard this I'd probably piss myself, I was told "I always see the turn, no matter what the price" yesterday

Bluffing with the best hand.--- so the set up is i am on tilt i have 120$ at a 1/2 table and i am in the straddle. (4 dollars under the gun) to my surprise everyone calls , now there is 40 bucks in the pot and i don't think anyone has a hand , i look down and i have 5 6 off , i decide that 160 looks way better than 116 so i go all in to take the pot down . i it all going according to plan they all topple like dominoes , down to the last man the big blind oops i forgot about him , i had him pegged as a calling station too.. but even he cant call this much without a hand , he could be trapping . he is too late to trap.. could he? damn he is really thinking about this after what feels like a year of decision making he finally weighs his pot odds and tries to look into the future to see if he wins then he judges that it is correct to call , oh well , i proudly show my 6 high , to my amazement he looks at my cards and i swear to god it was as if he saw a ghost . his face was priceless ...to him i just turned over the worst possible cards for his hand.. then the look made sense .. he turned over his hand 3 4 off suit ... i am not kidding 3-4 off suit ! he spent 3 minutes thinking and decided to call and he was surprised that my hand was better than his. what was he hoping i turned over ? he had exactly one hand in the deck beat and i guess his read was wrong..

It's possible. I've had players call me down because they thought I was making a move, with hands as small as 75o. Or they called my all-in on a Axx flop with KQ because they didn't think I had an Ace (which was true, but my pocket pair still beat them).

Their motivation:
- They've already invested in the hand so they're committed
- It a matter of principle, not money (for some players $160 isn't much anyway)

So playin last week in a pub league tourney and some idiot claims its impossible to bluff on the internet as they always call. The guy only plays play money and thinks its the same for real money. The guy is a fish and regularly bluffs at every spot he can and is usually caught out 95% of the time lol

Local pubpoker tournament

Super donk goes allin preflop with KQ
BB calls for not much more with A6

Ace hits the flop and Super donk is out. Superdonk asks another player (who was considering calling) what they folded. He says A7. He turns to the lady in the Big Blind and says "hmm you got lucky there hitting that Ace...you only had two outs."

Played this hand last week at my local casino, 1/2 NHL

I had AKs on the button, a few limpers and I raised to $16. BB re-raise to $40. All fold and I called (this was about the 3rd time he did this to my raise and I decided to call him with something decent.)
Flop A A 7
BB checks, I check

Turn A A 7 4
BB bets, I call

River A A 7 10
BB bets, I raise all-in, BB calls.

BB shows A-J so I win.

The local nit (not the BB) berates me for playing so badly. He said I should have bet the flop and take it down because the board can pair and it would be a chop or a J can appear and I would lose.
The guy has serious poker paranoia.

Maybe 5 years ago and I just recalled this.

Pub poker, I have KK, board is:

Q, 7,7,10, 5 rainbow

HU and other player calls my all in, she has mne coverd.

I show K,K

She shows A,Q for lower two pair.

I reach for the pot and her boyfiend says

"Wait, Janie has Q's and 7's.

I pointed out that I had K's and 7's

"Yes, but Janie has an Ace!" tapping the Ace she showed.

I looked at him closely to see if he was kidding but he remained serious until the TD came over and explained kickers only count in tie hands.

Janie told her BF I won the hand but he glared at me until busting out a few hands later.

u get points for extra clarity

I thought he had Kings FTW

While this is lol thinking when it's usually said (low stakes, can't be more than 100bb deep (if that)), this does have some merit in thinking if a player is really bad postflop and is playing super deep 200+BB and can't fold overpairs.

OK. Very short re-hash. Last night at local casino I had sat down about 10 minutes before and am not in the hand. 1/2 NL. Six limpers, SB completes, BB checks. Long story short, board ends up J948K. Flop was rainbow but turn was a 2nd heart.

Flop, SB bets 4, all call.
Turn, SB bets 4, all call.
River, SB bets 4, BB and two others call.

SB shows QJ
BB shows AA
Others muck.

While the BB was looking mighty proud of his play and scooping in his giant pile of chips, the guy to his immediate left, in all seriousness, said "nice hand, well played". "Thank you", replied the BB "that's how I always play aces". "Yep", said the guy to his left, "there's only two ways to play aces. Either AIPF or exactly like you played them"

Not being able to resist and trying to keep a straight face, I said "I might have thought about raising at some point, but then again, I don't play poker much and I usually go home broke when I do. Well played sir". To which he replied "you definitely don't want to raise. If I would have raised, some of those callers might have folded." Not being foolish enough to argue with this obviously sound logic, I simply said "good point, I hadn't thought about that".

Needless to say, it turned out to be a pretty profitable night, at least as far as 1/2 goes.