thats not hollywooding thats slowrolling you dick

borgata 5/10
really passive player
would do things like this

call a raise w 77
flop 10 6 8 call 150
turn 2 call 300
river 9 check behind heads up in position

we played about 20 hots hu ansd i won like 18 of them, including sucking out his aa w kk

3 limpers he limps w kk i raise to 70 w aq
everyone folds he just calls
flop 223
he checks i bet 110 he lifts up his cards high off the table i can see kk and in my head im like oh **** well this hands over
he then mucks them face up

this. WTF @ Hollywooding an all-in call?

Most absurd poker "thinking" is when someone slowrolls and then posts about it in a poker forum to brag claiming it is "Hollywooding"

sounds like he has an accurate handle picked out at least.

WOW! calm down people, i didnt think, call a time out, and go for a cigarette before i made the call it was merely a scan of the board to see what could have beat me! if id have said he flipped over pocket aces for quads you all would have been like "yeah obviously he had aces" and as i said i was hoping he didnt have something like A2 which also would have won

Playing a small stakes home tourney. We started inviting this guy to the game who was a real whack job, but hey whacky money is good money. Anyway he wins a hand holding something like 9-4 offsuit after it was 3 bet pre flop. Needless to say the flop goes.. 9-9-x. Of course he ends up winning the pot at the showdown. Someone asked him what he was thinking calling with that hand...he says, "I haven't seen a 9 on the board in awhile, I figured it was due to hit"

You can see how that, doesn't look like this:
One is called slow-rolling, the other is called thinking about the hand. You also said, "I tank" which implies slightly more than a quick scan of the board. Perfectly reasonable given the hand. Get your story straight. Or just remove words like "tank" and "hollywooding" from your poker lexicon as they are not only overused and bad English, you also don't seem to know what they mean.

Playing later stage of tourney. One player goes all in and is called.

Player 1 flips over 22
Player 2 says "I've got overs"

rofl @ hollywooding shodown

I would not have said "I have the nuts" here, but I'd be pretty confident in my hand if you tank-called the river. Mostly because I don't expect douchebags to slow-roll full houses like that.

Last weekend in $1-3 ($300 Max) No Limit game a guy at the table who actually played ok, straightforward ABC, and was a winning player told a guy next to him that the only time he would ever in his life fold AA preflop was if it was "against a couple of all ins and they had him covered. Cause that is too much to risk."

Had someone ask if TT beats T5 on a AQJKx board since TT has two tens.

Had someone think on a As-js-6s-x-x board if Guy A has 2s 5s and Guy B has Ks 7s it's a chop since they both have ace high flush. Another person corrected them by saying guy A wins since his flush goes from the Ace all the way down to the 2....

he didnt slow roll it... Slow rolling is taking forever to reveal obvious winning hand (at showdown). He thought about call (with non nuts) then called. Opponent misdeclared hand stating that he/she had the nuts at showdown when only having top pair

I don't know about adding anything but I fell in love with you after this post. If you carry the analogy farther, when given the chance to switch doors, you should (in the absence of some tell). There was a 1/3 chance that your original door you chose had the grand prize behind it and a 1/2 chance that the grand prize is behind the other door. In the same way, knowing that there are two queens on the flop means that you now know that of the 48 remaining cards unknown to you, two in your opponents hand, only two are queens. Exactly because the flopped cards cannot change the odds of being delt queens, you now know that there were only two queens that could have been dealt to your opponent out of the 48 cards whose position in the deck you cannot know.

Of course given the fact that it's a face card, of the 20 cards not folded preflop, odds are someone has it.

Onthe end, true odds are he either has it or he doesn't.

You are wrong about the contestants probabity changing and so are the majority of people calling others idiots on here. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty...edirected=true

Thankyou TS2, this thread was about the most ridiculous thing youve heard at showdown and due to my 'hollywooding' quote ive been labelled a slowroller! Anyway, i dont believe anybody on here can say theyve never slowrolled anybody. its like the best thing ever getting your opponents hopes up just to smash them lol

I see this almost every time I play. Some guy open raised to $80 with QQ, everyone folds, he shows. I politely called him out and said "you won 3 bucks with queens" and he says "i'd rather win small than lose big"

Guy likes to call pf sometimes before the cards are even dealt. After watching a hand where he went check-check-check and showdowns a winner:

Guy: "See? When I do this I always being dealt good cards!!"

Me: "What is this supposed to mean? Are you magic?"

Guy: "Yes."

wow.

Ok buzzkillington

A new player I hadn't seen before played 72s utg+2 and won on a 2 4 5 6 3 board. Fine.

Later I raised one limper with 98o from the button. I 3-barreled my busted str8 draw and lost to the sb. The new player who was not in the 98 hand whispered to the winner said "they weren't even suited."

I glowered. I said to him Yeah I really need to pay more attention

+1 with buzzkillington.

You can try to make these guys better players OR you can just let them be and enjoy the ride. Your choice.

I had this happen to me during a drunken low stakes game for a bachelors party a few years ago. My bud called me all the way to the river in a hand and he showed nothing and then screamed at me "I thought you were bluffing, so I called." He wouldn't understand the fact that even if he felt I was bluffing , if he was calling for a showdown his cards actually had to win the hand. He would then do this any other time we played and it always made me laugh.

I thought oh it's just a home game low stakes friendly game, thought maybe he was being a jackass once the cold drinks were flowing. But over the years I saw this happen at 1/2 nl at various casinos and was just absolutely amazed. I guess there is a play that I was never explained called the Bluff Call? Don't get me wrong calling with a weak pair or ace high on a player that you know is making a stone cold bluff happens in poker. But calling any and every bet , even going broke with 7 high yelling, I thought you were bluffing just amazes me.

65 vs 64 on a A 2 3 9 J board.

I saw a bet and a call on the river. It was a couple years ago at 1/2