This is how it is at Caesar's in Windsor, Canada. As full of 10s, 3 aces on board does NOT negate it.

The day before I was there a dealer said somebody folded JJ on an AA3A3 board. Unless his opponent had A2/A3 he either wins the pot or the bad beat, right?

Lol, Canada.

Had a guy with K-K get run down by a lone A on the flop. Guy mucks to a raise and then says "those Aces, the always come when you have Kings." This was LOL enough, but he goes on about how "like 80% of the time" an A flops when someone has Kings.

Others tried telling him it was nowhere near that high but he was adamant. At one point, he asked the other players what the real percentage was then. When correctly told it is around 20% depending, he looked legitimately shocked and went off about "no way! It's maybe 70%; MAYBE!"

Nobody could convince the guy about math. After a few minutes everyone just gave up and let him believe whatever he wanted.

I was playing 1/2 at golden nugget in vegas a couple weeks ago. One guy bet flop and turn only to be called by my wife. Pretty obvious she was looking for a diamond for the flush, which came on the river. He bets something like $50 into about a $100 pot on river, she shoves for about another $50, he folds, mocking her for calling the bets (she shows A2d and there were 2 diamonds on flop including a 3 and 4). She shows the nuts. The ridiculous thing (besides how bad my wife played it) was later when I'm telling him she had a pretty solid hand etc... He said she should have only called his river bet (with the nuts) so she would have information on him.

65$ buy in tourny early stagei have 99 and the board is q hi on the turn, I believe he has pretty much ak so I bet pot, and calls and binks an a on the river. He checks I chec behind and he says, "I was going to trap you if you bet" I laugh and say well I was ahead til the river. Andhe replies I was over 50% to hit on the river. I look at him for a second and say oh yeah, I forgot. Lol

New shortstack nit record in a tourney last weekend....Saw an old guy limp/fold preflop utg to leave himself with a third of a big blind. Don't know what his thinking was, but I'm pretty sure it was absurd.

His thinking is actually quite common at this buy-in level. It also actually works sometimes, at least enough to re-enforce his incorrect belief. Just today a player was complaining to me about an almost identical situation through being checked-to on the river after the A hit on the river (although he also bet the turn). Instead of checking behind he bet out and then called a 1.5xPot bet. Obviously, he lost to the paired A.

One of the things I have noted playing tourneys at this level is that the frequency of players calling down with just an A trying to hit it is very high. For instance, I went out of a tournament today when I made a 2xPot shove with TPMK (I was, obviously, short stacked and had been checked to by a couple of people). I got called by A-high, no kicker (below all 3 flop cards). He hit the A on the turn. Frustrating result, but a typical, very profitable for me, call at this level. Unfortunately, I didn't get any comment from him, let alone a good one. He just sat there nodding his head with a silly smile. I just said "Nice hand. Good game guys. See you tomorrow."

Impressive, but not a record. I've seen a limp-fold (also UTG) to a 1.1xBB shove (that's 1.1xBB total, not additional) from the BB (everyone else, including the SB, had folded around to the BB). The fold left the woman with 0.2xBB which she, of course, lost in the next hand. There were a few people at the table with their mouths hanging open at that one. I'm sure someone has an experience that can top this.

I haven't seen any limp-folding to leave a micro-stack quite as bad as described above, but I did see an old lady call a 3xBB raise with her 4BB stack and then fold pre-flop when someone else shoved.

QQ or KK... but yeah...

wow that´s a level

Reg in 1/2 NLHE home game I was lucky enough to be invited to, explaining that A8 was a better hand than AQ because "you can make medium and high straights, where AQ can only make high straights" Same victim later said, "poker is strictly a feel game, when you are you playing well you can feel what is coming on the flop, turn & river and know which cards to play" Three buyins later he "felt" his way out the door. I hope I'm invited back!!

I saw this once in the dark days of limit poker. A guy straddles, the person to his left raises, it is called all the way back around and the straddler folds.

I guess putting two bets in dark is OK, but that third one? Heck no!

don't know much plo, but why not call and see flop?

Eh, it's 1/3 of his stack and he's going to be left in a bad position on the flop pretty often, the board won't look good a lot of the time.

He would still hit it. AAAQQ/KK > AAAJJ

This. If they were deeper, you could certainly call and try to spike/bluff him off scary boards (if you know he has AA).

FWIW, it's $35 to call, which is less than 1/4 of his $150 stack, vs a $65 pot. IMO, this is a definite call in PLO, even if he knows the other guy has AA (maybe especially if he knows). But neither calling nor folding is even close to absurd here.

This one isnt so bad because the jackpots do havr a better chance when its short handed

When I play at a casino without a bad beat jackpot. Idiots complain that there isn't one and that they want one...

I agree.

doesn't the rainbow nature of his hand also play into this? If he knows it will end up being for his stack against someone he respects as playing good hands, calling to see the flop is not bad but also not an absolute either. He did get that 150 left over up to 1200 in the end, so I would say it was a cautious but somewhat understandable lay down. He clearly must have got it in later with a better situation.

I was playing in a tournament last night and a loose passive calling station made it 300 to go (50/100) and I had A-K. I shoved for about 2400 and he called. He showed A-9. After he caught a nine on the river to bust me out, the guy next to me said, "You overplayed your A-K just a little bit, didn't you?"

First tournament I ever played I was down to 3bb in the sb and folded around to to me. I limp/folded J7. Absurd thinking: I thought I was good.

Yes, but while I don't think a fold here preflop is awful, I still think that he should want to see the flop here. He has a pretty good idea of what the other guy has, the other guy has no real idea of what OP has, and it will only "end up being for his stack" later if he hits the flop and/or wants it to be.
BTW, I think that what actually happened on later hands probably isn't too relevant to how he should have played this one (unless he thought the table presented a lot of really easy targets). He might have gotten it in better later, or he might have just run into some luck -- it's PLO, after all.
Also, if he can't rebuy beyond the remaining $150, this also argues in favor of folding (although I'd then question the shortstack wisdom of raising preflop with a hand I wasn't willing to shove with, or at least call a reraise with.)(I'd also question playing PLO with only one buyin!)
But my point was that I don't think that either calling or folding here is "absurd" (certainly not by comparision to a lot of what we all hear at the table, or read ITT).

This is kinda weird but the odds this guy gave are soooo absurd I felt like I had to share...

Guy asks the dealer, "What if the bad beat were to happen at the exact same second, at two different tables, at the exact same time."

Dealer explains that the one where the river card was dealt first would win.

I say "Why are you filling your head with such improbable theories, the sun will consume the Earth before 2 bad beats hits at the exact same time, in the same poker room"

Guy says... "Yea the odds of that happening are probably like a thousand to one"

I died... the odds have got to be at least a trillion, trillion trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, quadrillion to one.

The minute you say that, though, someone will chime in with a story about how he was playing at some casino and actually saw the bad beat hit simultaneously at two tables.