This happens to me a lot in my local casinos. Lots of old guys think that poker is a "macho" game and instant bets should be made to scare the opponent.

I have tried many times to explain to them that I need time to think my move but they dont seem to understand and insinst that my delay should be considered a "check".

Really annoying...

"i prefer ace king to aces....... you have more outs!"

woudnt beleived it i hadnt heard it myself

Interesting, because I've had the opposite problem with old people - they take FOREVER to evaluate every decision. There's nothing wrong with taking your time to break down the progression when you're facing a big bet on the turn or river, and I'm certainly not suggesting you don't think through every move no matter how small, but to some of these old guys, the decision to call from the SB with J7o facing a $20 bet (I play 2/5) requires 2 minutes of analysis, and then it takes another 3 minutes to check when the board comes KTT, and then 4 minutes to fold facing a c-bet and a call.

Heard this over the weekend. "I'd rather have top two pair than bottom set," says the guy who got it aiotf drawing to 4 outs. And hitting one on the river.

From Doyle?

Heard a guy justify checking down top pair to the river when there was a flush draw-

"They always chase so I don't bet, that way if it hits I get off cheap and if it doesn't I can bet"

Sounds like a winning system!

I suppose we are playing with different kinds of old men ...

Playing 1-2 at the Tampa hard rock when it was 100 max on all nl games. Anyways I'm sitting on 300 and raise on the button with jj the bb goes all in for 45 so it folds around and I call. He unfortunately has aces but I flopped a Jack to win. He stands up and says are u kidding ur a joke I'm like it was unlucky but I wasn't folding for 45. He replies any real player knows when someone raises to 40 or 50 pre flop that jj are never good. He obv just didn't get it and I just shut my mouth from then on since he was the pro and I was the luckbox

well you did make a pretty fishy call

Did I really? Perhaps u would fold there?

I had a bizarre one a few days ago in a $1/2 NL game involving some random calling station who has been playing any two cards all night and had stacked half the table at least once.

There is $500 in the pot at the river and we are heads up. I have JT on a KJJT2 board with 3 's showing. I know I'm good so I go all in for $1000 and he has me covered. It made sense at the time because his history meant he was calling with AQ, any J, the flush and maybe even lighter.

He thinks for about 30 seconds and then open folds KK -

When asked by the disbelieving table why, his logic was

WTF teach me

Playing at a home game 2 weeks ago one of my not close anymore friends' drops this gem. He just started Poker about a month and a half ago and with big ass ego, he thinks he can go toe to toe with the rest of us on Poker knowledge now. Anyways this guy is a calling station and doesn't know much about Poker except what the hand rankings are but don't tell him that. I have AK off and he has 89 suited. Preflop I raised to 3 times the big blind everyone folds except knucklehead and another friend.

Flop shows Q, 10, 9 rainbow. At this point I'm short stacked and push all in for about $1425. Friend folds and knucklehead does his little Hollywooding then asks me "how much is that?" He had been pissing me off all game so I told him there's 6 chips there ain't that hard. Four black ($100), a yellow ($1000) and a green ($25). He asks again and I'm getting pissed because he's been calling me all day with garbage. Everyone at the table tells him the amount and since he's "priced in" (the new term he learned) for $600 measly chips and he has about $4000 or so he finally says he has to call. We flip and the the turn and river didn't produce the Jack I was looking for. He starts screaming yes and grabs at the chips cause his 9's paired. I just said the hell with it and got up and went to get something to eat.

Here's the punchline. He says if a Jack had of came, which he was waiting for too, I would've lost anyways cause he'd have a straight. I snapped hard and said how the would you have won? I had a King high straight and Broadway both better than a Queen high. He tries arguing but some of the people at the table straighten him out and he just mumbles then shrugs.

I was my local casino and this guys starts telling the table how he folded pocket AA preflop on a 2/5 live game. he said he raised to $50 from EP and someone flatted and LP raises to $200 so he folded.

His reasoning cux it was his first hand of the night and he didnt feel like being down $500 on his first 30 seconds. I was like LoL inside me the whole night even today i am still LoL inside me.

That isn't really LoL, is it?

Oh my God so so this.

And if you check-raise you are some sort of satanist.

On more than one occasion I've won an all-in preflop with AK vs 55 or something like that and the 55 guy said I was "lucky that I hit my two outer."

That thinking isnt absurd at all? Obviously the guy is playing to have fun and wasnt willing to risk so much just when he got there. Obviously he made the incorrect POKER decision but he had a justification for it that was sensible.

Obviously he shouldnt be playing in the game if he isnt comfortable getting it in in that spot but that isnt a great example of "absurd" thinking

I miss TS

Great story, you got OWNED hardcore there.

It sounds pretty absurd to me to play 2/5 if you're not willing to lose a 100 BB buy-in with the best possible starting hand in a fantastic preflop situation, where he can shove and he isn't even really overbetting.

It would have made more sense to just open shove for $500 if he was going to fold if there was significant action back to him and then lose $50. It would have also made more sense to simply fold his AA preflop. DUCY?

Tonight I hit won about 5/6 all-ins on the flop with flush draws/open enders/both.

Villain then puts $35k of his $40k stack in before the river and hits a gut-shot on the river, then checks/calls his last 5k on the river and shows the straight.

The guy in all seriousness

"See, when you dont get lucky, you've got no chance against me"

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Like I said he shouldnt play in the game, but once he has been dealt in the hand its too late for that. If the $500 is all his money and he isnt willing to lose it he made a reasonable decision at the time.

But whatever, yes him foldign is stupid I was just being a nit.

This reminded me of one of my few live experiences last week..

Pub league for free, (Excuse to go the pub) anyway, game breaks of and we begin a cash game, (Only about £10-£30 each 50p/1 blinds.

1st hand, i raise KQ, K XX flop I get it allin he flips Kings, I said NH sir etc (These guys are pub regs laughin at me for saying sorry - Villain had KK flopped nuts)

Later v same guy, JJ flop J 10 K , bet turn J river A there was like £36 in pot, he had 2.50 behind on river, put him allin.

All the regs got annoyed with me because i "Shouldnt have bet" I knew i couldnt lose! lol

WTF

Last night I was hitting on the waitress in a low-toned voice. My neighbor said afteward "try not to be so creepy when talking to women."

Who says you can't get good advice at the table?