Recently I've been encountering some sick hands on Lock and from what I heard from people like Nutz or Mac ridiculous plays have somewhat become the norm.

So I've set myself a new filter in HoldemManager called "Lock Comical" to tag hilarious plays and ridiculous calls. I tag them with comical cause they don't even qualify as suckouts or "bad calls". Please don't confuse this thread with the "the great online poker is rigged" thread.

Let's see what we can come up with and please add a quick intro about the hand. Guess I'll start.

$15 / 750 GTD Deepstack - 8 before the money.
Pretty decent tournament for the most of it and all of a sudden the guy to my right wakes up and decides to start min-raising every other hand and stabbing at the blinds. He's in the SB again, comes out for a min-raise so I jam.

Dealer: Seat 9
Seat 1: Player2 (10.643 in chips)
Seat 2: HammerMan72 (10.050 in chips)
Seat 3: syzygy69 (6.936 in chips)
Seat 4: briancpettis (21.672 in chips)
Seat 7: Finn Dog (9.574 in chips)
Seat 8: Mr. Tommy (15.792 in chips)
Seat 9: KAINULAINEN (2.134 in chips)
Player2: posts ante of 60

HammerMan72: posts ante of 60
syzygy69: posts ante of 60
briancpettis: posts ante of 60
Finn Dog: posts ante of 60
Mr. Tommy: posts ante of 60
KAINULAINEN: posts ante of 60

Player2: posts small blind 300
HammerMan72: posts big blind 600
Dealt to HammerMan72 [8d,Kc]
syzygy69: folds
briancpettis: folds
Finn Dog: folds
Mr. Tommy: folds
KAINULAINEN: folds
Player2: raises to 1.200
HammerMan72: is all in 9.390

....villain tanks for about 5 seconds and Player2: calls 8.790

Oh that's nothing...hahaha. I could tell you some stories. It's actually gotten to the point for me that I actually hope to be behind when all-in pre-flop. The amount of sick beats I've seen in the past two weeks playing hyper-turbo SNG's and regular tournaments are indeed comical. Any time I see AK or AQ, or any ace against an ace with a weaker kicker, I just wait for it, and sure enough...more often than not lately, the weaker kicker hits.

Variance...gotta love it. Revolution's version sure gives the term "roller coaster" a new name. I'll have to do some screen grabs or something...if nothing else, it is some light entertainment.

This **** happens on every site and every poker room in the world (probably), not exclusive to lock poker..

I'm aware of that but this thread is exclusive to Lock poker and it's NOT part of the great "online poker is rigged" talk but just for fun and to post some "comical hands" since I have no other word for those.

Where the heck do those people take the equity from to make that call. Sure wasn't the table image and he sure still had enough chips behind him to make an easy fold there.

Yeah pure entertainment. we got enough serious threads in this sub-forum. Some of those plays just make me laugh and the wife goes like "how can you laugh about this. That guy just busted you"

Me: "I don't know what else to do but laugh when I see this."

^^ For sure. It's part of the game. But for some reason, it does seem to happen with more comical timing on Revolution than other skins/networks I've played. To be sure, my volume isn't quite the levels of a lot of folks on 2+2. But I can't tell you how many times I'll get railed on the bubble from weaker aces...you just got to laugh to keep from crying.

Ever seen the action on the play money tables?? Coincidence??

That's really the only reason I play on Lock. I don't go out, I work in my studio/room all day...so when I want a little slapstick, I just pull up the ol' Lock box. Run to the P2P thread if I'm out, toss down $20 or less, grab a handful of play money and roll the dice. Cheaper than a date, or going out to eat. Sad it's got to this point, but you can't really take much seriously here right now. I mean, for serious players, you either wait for a cashout that might come in a couple 3 months, or might not - or, trade your winnings off at a 60% loss.

Anywho...

There's so much hilarity here I don't even need to touch it.

If you use any sort of tracker (HM2 / PT4) set a new tag for those hands and share some. I'd love to see them.

I love this one with the guy coming over the top on the flop.

$2,000 GTD Deepstack T12922699

Seat 1: HammerMan72 (6.085 in chips)
Seat 2: Bojan1983 (2.608 in chips)
Seat 3: akumu5K (1.456 in chips)
Seat 4: KiNgOfJiNyX (11.045 in chips)
Seat 5: 82DonkSlayer (15.601 in chips)
Seat 7: Brohype (5.305 in chips)
Seat 8: pierre58 (7.110 in chips)
Seat 9: Player2 (7.074 in chips)
Seat 10: alex10d (4.771 in chips)

HammerMan72: posts ante of 20
Bojan1983: posts ante of 20
akumu5K: posts ante of 20
KiNgOfJiNyX: posts ante of 20
82DonkSlayer: posts ante of 20
Brohype: posts ante of 20
pierre58: posts ante of 20
Player2: posts ante of 20
alex10d: posts ante of 20

pierre58: posts small blind 100
Player2: posts big blind 200
Dealt to HammerMan72 [Ad,Qd]
alex10d: folds
HammerMan72: raises to 600
Bojan1983: folds
akumu5K: folds
KiNgOfJiNyX: folds
82DonkSlayer: folds
Brohype: folds
pierre58: folds
Player2: calls 400

*** FLOP *** [Jh,Qs,3h]
Player2: checks
HammerMan72: bets 925
Player2: is all in 6.454
HammerMan72: is all in 4.540
Player2: returns uncalled bet 989

HammerMan72: shows [Ad Qd]
Player2: shows [Th Ts]

^^ Those aren't all that bad. A turned 10 for trips isn't all that uncommon. Let's see some of those runner runner straights beating flopped sets. You know, 58 calling your AA down on a A-4-K flop and hitting 2 and 3 for teh nutz.

:P

I'll have a nice sample size by the weekend. Meanwhile share your very own comical hands and please, no bad beat stories

I'll have to keep track...just was the beneficiary of two bead beats on a $7 HU turbo...haha. Gotta love it.

LOL, you stole my post.

This was on Merge, but I had a guy call my 4bet OTT with K high no draw on an A high draw heavy board (don't remember the specifics). This was deep in the $35K for about 45bbs lol. I looked at my buddy like "wtf just happened?" His only reply was "Christmas bro, Christmas." and then passed me the bong.

Somewhat related, but not really...goes to what I've been doing lately for "entertainment".



Those last 75 games or so have been in the past couple three weeks. That is the definition of a man without a plan...lol. Flatlining on my graph!

EDIT: I should have highlighted the relevant portion there - I meant to show the flatline after having played a ton of SNG's lately mostly for fun (where some of the beats I've talked about with Hammer came into play). I know I haven't played thousands of games...so I don't get the "lol", but...all good.

That isn't even slightly related to this thread subject. And lol at breaking even for 100 games. Break even for a few thousand and report back.

Worst thread ever.

+1, give it the trainwreck badge just like I just earned the last few days.

No tell me this hand ain't comical. I love watching those plays

Hand#3355E26505000001 - DoubleUp NLH 10-max - $10 T14836997 -- TICKETCASH -- $10 + $0,6 -- 10 Max -- Table 1 -- 0/15/30 NL Hold'em -- 2013.06.12 - 16:03:54
Dealer: Seat 1
Seat 1: -arees (1.500 in chips)
Seat 2: str33twise (1.500 in chips)
Seat 3: joonkim (1.500 in chips)
Seat 4: RandyM84 (1.500 in chips)
Seat 5: MetallBender (1.500 in chips)
Seat 6: itswhatever1 (1.500 in chips)
Seat 7: LEGO26 (1.500 in chips)
Seat 8: HammerMan72 (1.500 in chips)
Seat 9: VladK. (1.500 in chips)
Seat 10: QuanDaDon1 (1.500 in chips)

str33twise: posts small blind 15
joonkim: posts big blind 30
Dealt to HammerMan72 [6s,3h]
RandyM84: folds
MetallBender: folds
itswhatever1: folds
LEGO26: folds
HammerMan72: folds
VladK.: folds
QuanDaDon1: folds

-arees: calls 30
str33twise: raises to 120
joonkim: folds

-arees: raises to 255
str33twise: calls 135

*** FLOP *** [9s,4c,Kh]
str33twise: bets 270
-arees: raises to 540
str33twise: is all in 975
-arees: is all in 705
-arees: shows [Ah As]
str33twise: shows [Kd 3d]

Exactly. Some players are probably by now treating their Lock dollars as nothing but play money.

+2

+9

POTY!!!!

smoke more blunts you'll forget these hands.

best 9th post ever :

That's pretty funny in its own right.

*marches back to HU hyper turbos*

and dont come back. your style of over exaggerated writing is tilting.