Its late at night at the local casino, you feel tired, its raining outside, you play 1/2 NL(or 1/3, 2/5) for 8 hours straight up, luckily it is a winning session, you are 1 BI up, you have just posted the small blind and you say to yourself : "Time to go for sleep, I will just wait until the blinds come to me and then I m gone. 1 BI is fine" You easily fold your 74 for a 4bb raise from the CO and started counting your chips visually or by playing with each tile to count more or less where you are.
You fold the BTN, you fold the CO, you are relaxed and waiting for UTG to say the magic words "Cash Out Please"
You are on the hijack you get 3 limpers ahead of you, you look down and you see AKo

Its the time of the day when the Monsters Under The Bed start climbing on you, allover your chips, the felt, the dealer, you feel it, the bad beat is coming, you will not be able to avoid it, its still raining outside, its a long way back, especially after a losing session, you think, you wait, you play with your chips, you are saying goodbye to them.......... and then.... you limp

Welcome to the Stories From the Last Orbit

Just a few minutes ago I read this post http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17.../#post45673127

and I thought it would be cool to share our stories from the last orbit.
Silly things we have made, hero calls, coolers crazy bluffs, pussy folds etc

And I will start with mine:

Setting

Local casino, Tuesday night, 5.30am. Poker tables are closing at 5.45.
2 1/2NL tables remaining. One is 5 handed and the other 8 handed.

I am sitting on the 5 handed table since 8.00 pm. I am having a winning session (around 1 1/2 BI) and the play is quite boring and nobody including me is willing to take too many risks. on the table its me (late 30s white guy, an guy on his 70s+ on my direct left that can barely see his cards, another guy at his late 30s, a complete fish on his 50s and another guy on his 30s that came from the another table that broke up 20 minutes ago with a stack of around 1000 in front of him.

The fish decides to leave and grandpa says that he does not want to play 4handed so he leaves. The guy with the 1000 that just came to the table keeps on proposing to make a draw for the two seats on the other table for the last hands of the night. I did n't mind not playing but at the end we make the draw and I draw a King and take his spot since he draw a 9 I think and the other guy and ace.

So I take my chips, a beer to relax and sit down at the other table where everybody is also tired. from the stacks sizes and the faces I get that chips where flying around all night at this table. I am UTG+2 when dealer announces last three hands of the night. I fold and take a zip of my beer. Somebody is getting AA and is stacking off some other guy. I take another zip. I fold UTG+1 and I am relaxed. On UTG I check my chips and I have 4 1euro chips left. So I decided to straddle :-) After all its the last hand of the night, we all going to limp somebody is going to bet 30 on the 40euro pot and will take it down.

everybody limps until a guy in MP makes it 12. One call, BTN calls (the guy that was stacked off by AA earlier), blinds fold, I look down and I see two black Aces!!

I must be happy right? I am about to do the best +EV move somebody can do preflop, reraise with AA on the straddle after a raise and two calls, when the BTN is tilted and is the last hand of the night.
This should be a scene from Rounders right?

I am checking the stack size of the initial raiser, when the Monsters Under the Bed start climbing on me. They are moving my chips towards this guy, I am sure he will not believe that I have a legit hand. He is going to crack my aces for sure. The MUB that cracks your AA vs AK with running straight cards is smiling at me. The other MUB that cracks your AA with a three to a flush board is laughing at me

I just want these 48 euros in the pot, nothing else. I just want to go home.

I gather my strength, I am sure I will lose and I raise to 60. Limpers fold, the initial raiser, that is a little bit drunk, thinks for 3 seconds and calls, BTN snap folds. He has around 280 behind.
On the Flop:
9K6

Both MUBs are laughing, they are both on board.
pot: 156 (I think)
I am pissed. I am just awaiting my fate. Everybody will talk about this hand when we are done and they will tell me that I should n't have played AA so aggressively
I bet 100
He thinks....... he calls.
Turn Q

All the MUBs are dancing on the table. Especially the "you must have KQ"one makes a lot of noise. The "you must have a set" MUB is going to the bathroom but all the rest are there.
Suddenly I hear all the 2+2 ers shout at me: Just shove ******

I snap shove, he snap calls ...

River K
I almost threw up. You have AK right???? I ask. It looks like he slowrolls me.
He turns AJ for a missed flush draw.

I am gathering my chips, I am smiling, I put you on a flush draw I tell him, I drive back home, I am Phil Ivey

In before lock!

Probably better for brick and mortar

Great idea through!

pretty standard imo. c/f the turn is a big leak.

Well, no one has posted in our official BBV thread in forever. I'm willing to let this stay open for a bit and see how it goes. LLSNL is primarily a strat forum, rather than a story forum, though. If this gets dumb or troll infested, I'll lock it up.

The Dreaded Drive Home Alright I'll play. $2/5 casino been playing for hours, pretty card. dead for the last hour or so, getting tired and the only thing that has stopped me from leaving already, is some friendly small talk, but mostly the pure dread of the thought of the drive home. I had a pretty decent session and i tell myself "Last Orbit, leaving before the bb."

So here we are, UTG, cards about to come out and im racking up the ~1750 chips in front of me leaving all on the table but a rack full. For some reason i feed myself this psychological B.S. that if i wait till i get both cards to look, I'll get a better hand. (I know, this is what being card dead does). So ofc after playing 2 hands in the last hour i look down at QQ UTG.

Table is pretty well stacked, V1 and v2 have 1200/1500. I make it 25, UTG +1 flats, fold to HJ who makes it $100. I will note, this guy has not played a hand for about as long as i have. I think, i say you know what, **** it, I'm going home, i fold, but i stay to watch the flop.

Why? Because i knew what was coming. UtG +1 calls as the flop comes out a Q high rainbow. If that wasn't enough to make me sick, UTG +1 check raises the HJ bet from 125 to 275. HJ tanks and calls. Turn comes a K, they both check? The river is a blank and UTG fires 425, HJ tanks for literally 5 minutes. I picked up my chips which i had neatly racked in two racks and turned to the cage when i heard, "I Call."

I snapped my head around to see the cards revealed, HJ had AA, meanwhile UTG just flatted both of us with KK, turning the nuts! I told them i folded QQ, they both said i was full of ****, i just smiled and said, "Whatever, I'm going home,"clutching my bigger chips in my hand, i knocked on the table twice, "close one." Made the dreaded drive home, all of a sudden not so bad.

I saw the most brutal last orbit about 5 years ago in a 5-100 spread limit game. Mind you, in spread limit the max bet is $100.

V1 is a young 20-something kid, he bought into the game for $100 and is literally racking up $1200. He tells the table, "Man, this is the most I've ever won..." and he is all smiles. He gets all $1200 in the racks when the dealer deals him that last hand. 5 limpers to him, he raises to $50 which is a ridiculously large raise for this game, V2 player to his immediate left calls, V2 has $400-ish behind.

Flop($130) A 4 8
V1 bets $100, V2 raises to $200, V1 clicks it back to $300, V2 goes all-in for remaining $100-ish, V1 calls

Turn/River($800+) 9 / T
V1 tables AA
V2 tables AK
BOOM!!!

just like that V1 takes a $400 hit and is now down to $800-ish.

Very next hand, 3 limpers to V, he raises to $50, same villain on his immediate left calls, heads up.

Flop($120) K 3 7
V1 bets $100, V2 raises to $200, V1 max raises to $300, V2 max raises to $400, V1 maxes it to $500, V2 maxes it to $600, V1 maxes it to $700, V2 goes all-in for $800-ish and V1 goes all-in to call...

Turn/River ($1600) 8 / J
V1 turns over KK
V2 turns over AK
BOOM

Literally, two consecutive hands V1 flops top set gets it all-in and loses to AK flush vs the exact same villain ...

He had his chips in the rack and was literally on his way out when the dealer dealt him that "last hand". the look on his face was one of complete and utter disbelief and shock. We were all looking at each other like, "Did that s**t really just happen ". That was the most brutal last orbit I have ever seen...


As a result of this (and a similar scenario happening to me one year later), I do not play "last hands" or "Last orbits". Once I mentally decide I'm done with a session, I'm done. Even if I'm on the button, I don't care, once I put a single chip in the rack, I refuse to even look at my cards and I GTFO the table as if it has radioactive herpes that cause cancer.

^^ supposed to be a Q on flop? He had Kh in his hand, plus woulda been a set?

slight typo which I corrected, mind you this happened years ago.

It was top set both times vs AKs with the AK flopping TPTK both times on a FD board.... other cards are made up since they don't really matter and I can't remember exact cards. But in each case, the flush card hit on the river... literally the sickest thing I've ever seen in terms of last orbit or last hand...

Similar to DGI - saying you'll have a "one last" of almost anything is like flipping a doomswitch.

I've dislocated my shoulder saying I'll take one last attempt at a trick (snow skiing), and I've both stacked a player and been stacked with chips in rack ready to go.

We always had a rule, "Never call last run." You always get hurt. I have since just started leaving whenever I'm, "done".

We also need to know what happened to you DGI

100% agree with "no lasties". When you mentally check out, it's time to physically check out. When it happens, tell the dealer on the very next hand (regardless of your position) not to deal you in, and rack up. If he forgets and deals you in by mistake, just say, "Fold" without looking at-- or hell, even touching-- the cards.

Biggest pot I've ever seen at 1/3 NL came in a "last hand".

VillainA had sat down a little over an hour ago and got smacked in the face with the deck, running his $300 BI up to $1700. But apparently it was time for him to go, so he racked up 3.5 racks worth of reds and declared "last hand" UTG. He looks down at JJ and raises.

VillainB had been there all night and had VillainA slightly covered. He was literally falling asleep at the table but woke up momentarily out of his daze to 3bet his AA.

VillainC hadn't been there long and was playing a relatively "shortstack" of "only" $300. He cold 4bets his KK.

VillainA (JJ) 5bets to put VillainC all-in. VillainB trickily flats. VillainC puts the remainder of his chips in.

T high flop.

VillainA and VillainB get their remaining chips in on the flop, and VillainB's AA holds up.

A ~$3700 pot at 1/3 NL (max BI $300), with VillainA pushing all $1700 of his chips over to VillainB on his "last hand".

*Or something like that. I actually orginally wrote this up in the Chat Thread slightly differently, but it was still $1700 down the tubes with chips in rack, lolz.

GdroolG

oh im so good at these:

1/3 short handed 5 am i have about 225 BIs, been playing at a table of regulars all day and clawed my way up by out aggressing every table captain that came through:
effective stacks 125BBs 4 handed:
i see AsKc UTG and make it 12
BU makes it 30 SB flats, BB folds i flat.

Flop: (93) 2s 3s 5c
I check, Bu bets 50, SB flats, i tank and that voice in my head says "he's folding everything but KK/AA here, you should definitely shove, scoop, show em Ahi and walk out the door!"

BU range is like TT+/AK, AQ pre and maybe a little tighter at cbet, SB has decent pair+draw like 56 or 66 here

So i shove, button is just shook, visibly upset, "i just dont know if i can fold this" tanks some more looks very upset but finally calls. SB folds

turn river 5x 3x, bu shows AA
oh well :/

To dgi's post, most thinking regs knows a thinking player aint gonna gamble on last orbits unless with a nutty hand.

What i normally do is when im in last orbit regardless i limp or just call even with aces and keeps the post small as much as possible. I fold tptk against any aggression unless im losing a and tilting.

I was playing with these two young Hawaiian brothers. Both were super nice, really fun guys. They had been in Vegas for two weeks and were just hours away from catching their flight home.

Brother #1 kept saying how close he was to being even for the two week trip. His only goal was to get even. He gambled for two weeks at blackjack, craps, roulette, and poker and he was very close to even.

He was exactly $7 down for his trip when everyone left our table at 4am. I didn't rack up my chips. Neither did he. I knew he wanted to get that $7 to complete his perfect vacation. I knew his intention was to play one small hand, win it, and then rack up.

I really didn't care. It was all in good fun and I would have been happy for him if he took $10 from me. He really was a good guy and we had been drinking together all night.

First hand we played head's up, I raised A2s on the button. He 3-bet me. I called.

Flop was AA5. He bet. I raised. He went all-in for about $600. I completely tanked. He was more nervous than I had ever seen any poker player in my entire life.

I was torn, on one hand, this guy hadn't bluffed the entire night and there's no way my hand could possibly be good. On the other hand, he clearly did not want me to call. I've never witnessed such obvious tells in my life. I wound up calling. He showed JJ and the board bricked out.

Going for that last $7 cost him about $700 just minutes before he had to leave to catch his plane. He literally had tears in his eyes. Oh, well.